The good, the bad, the weird... LONG

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The good, the bad, the weird... LONG

I saw Dr. Rosenfeld yesterday at NSUH.

Since our initial consult he had DH do another SA. DH did the first one at RSofNY.

Well, bad news. The doc doesn't like his count of 17 million. He considers anything under 60 million, combined with my issue, a problem for IUI.

I am soooooooo P I S S E D at RSofNY. We went there for 7 months and DH produced 4 samples the highest count being 38 million and the lowest being 15 million and NOONE there ever said anything to us about a low sperm count for our situation.

Whatever the issues was it was always... "Oh, just be patient. Oh, no evertying looks great" Chat Icon
I was so angry that I wasted 7 months of my life at that place. Yes, I know some women have gotten pregnant there but, honestly, every woman I've known got preggos in the first couple of months and responded to their "general" treatment that they give EVERYONE. There is no individualized care at all.
I should have known when I once overheard a patient giving her D.O.B. to one of the nurses and she was 50 years old Chat Icon How dare they just take some people's money. I'm sorry I am so angry but it is so upsetting to know I was wasting PRECIOUS time

The good news...
He said because we both have issues he'll try an IUI this cycle (because it's too late to start the IVF drugs) and if that doesn't work we are straight onto IVF. Most likely, that's the only way it could happen.

He did a sonogram and I HAVE AN EGG!!!! I've been on the Metformin for about two weeks now. I still have a build up of Clomid in my system so who knows what really worked? We should be going in for an IUI in the next few days.

If the IUI doesn't work, being a teacher, I really only have the summer to do IVF this so I really hope the either the IUI works or the first try at IVF.

After I told DH all of this he was not his normal self. Usuallly, he is so optimistic and is a goof-ball. He was so unbelievably quiet, no jokes, nothing. All he said to me was "It's so hard knowing that your body isn't doing what it just naturally is supposed to do." Of course I said, yes, unfortunately now you know how I have felt all this time.

Reality finally hit him. Chances are it would NEVER happen for us w/o any intervention and it looks like now IVF is our only hope as I'm in the 35 plus age bracket.

On the weird note: DH's hippy flower-child aunt calls us right after we talk about it. She made him swear he wouldn't tell me but I overheard. She's quite intuitive and said she "just knows" I'll be pregnant this month... she "just knows". She's been right about stuff in the past so Chat Icon

Please pray that the IUI is tomorrow or Sunday. It won't look good if I miss Monday after having a week and a half off from school. I also have no sub plans prepared.

That's it. Sorry so long but I know there are a lot of lurkers on here who benefit from the details.

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Posted 4/21/06 10:20 AM