First Fertility Clinic Visit!

Well, we just came back from our first official fertility clinic visit!  Actually it was yesterday, but we decided to make a "weekend" out of it and spent 2 nights in the city.  See, we actually live 3 hours away from the city with the clinic.  So, up until this point, I have only seen my MD and Gynecologist doctor (not sure what the abbreviation is for that).  Part of me regrets that I didn't go to a fertility clinic earlier.  I guess I really did not know what my options were.  And in the past 5 years we have moved to 3 different cities.  I started my IF journey in a city where the doctor told us we had to be "trying" for a year before we could be seen (even though we had been trying for a year at that point).  We moved shortly after and I started blood work and saw a ND but was never referred to anything more.  It wasn't until we moved to this city a year ago that I found out about my options and finally got the referrals going.  So... that brings us to now.

The visit was good, I guess.  I think it was pretty much what I expected.  DH and I were both quite nervous going in, and we had to wait over a half hour (doctor was late), which didn't help.  On top of that (which I found out afterwards), while we were in the waiting room a couple came out who DH knows.  I had seen him put his head down and I thought, "wow, he must just be really embarrassed by this" but I found out later that he knew the guy and didn't want to have awkward small talk.  The thing is, they are from the same city as us... crazy hey?  When we arrived there was a single girl in the waiting room and she saw the doctor first and came out with packages in her arms and was brought to the "other" side of the clinic (where they do procedures I think).  While we were there another older single lady came in, and then a couple with a little boy.  It was a really small waiting room and so we were just quiet and waited.  Finally it was our time to go in! 

The doctor was nice.  He was clearly a doctor and just cut to the chase, but he was nice.  He did a full medical history of me and then looked at all our labs.  Then he wanted to do an exam on me.  I decided to leave DH behind (with his approval) because I knew the Dr. would be looking "down there" and that DH would be VERY uncomfortable with it, haha.  So the Dr. examined me, and then did an internal ultrasound (which was a little weird and a bit painful when he pushed to the sides, but kind of cool because I got to see my uterus and ovaries and he could tell the ovary that I had just ovulated from).  He said that my uterine lining was perfect for where I was at in my cycle.  And then he did a tummy ultrasound too.  And that was it for the exam.

Back in his office, we started to discuss options.  He told us that we, "should have been pregnant by now" and that he had no idea why it wasn't working.  We talked about all the stages that go into conceiving and how something was going wrong somewhere along the line.  He said that my last FSH test was in the normal range, but slightly low so he wants me to test that again.  Then we talked about IUI.  With people like us, they like to do 3 tries at IUI before doing IVF.  Since we haven't conceived in 5 years our chances are lower, but it could be the solution.  He gave DH some blood tests to do too.  Then we got the instructions... start taking clomid on day 3, go for bloodwork on day 3, go back on day 12 and get bloodwork done and call them that afternoon to see what the results are... and then once ovulation hits, get our butts back to the city for the IUI.  Crazy!  We could start this month and since I'm on day 23, that could be VERY SOON!  DH is worried because we don't know exactly what day we'd have to go back to the city, and there are some days he has to be at work.  That is the suckiest part of things.  I'd like to try this month.  If we did conceive, it just might be on DH's 30th birthday and that would mean we would be PG for CHRISTMAS!  How incredible would that be?  But I can't get ahead of myself here... we haven't even decided for sure that this is what we would like to do...  And there is only a small chance it might work...  And maybe now is not the best time... 

Anyways, I'd love to write more but I have to go to a BD party tonight and just got back and have not unpacked and am really tired and need to change and get myself in order for the night...