Introduction

Well we are having TWINS! I thought it would be good to start a blog to journey this adventure. I only wish I had started it sooner. So I'll try to give you a little history on myself.
I'm 28 and my husband is 27. We have been married for a little over a year and a half.

I had always had screwy cycles in high school. When I went off to college and AF completely disappeared, at the time my doctor did what she thought to be best and put me on BCP. Fast forward to July of '06. I got married so decided to go off BCP. AF never showed in October my OB thought it would be best to go back on the pill since we weren't ready to get pregnant.

Around March of '07, I decided I had had enough of BCP and went back off. In June went back to OB because I still hadn't gotten AF. She gave me provera and referred me to an RE.

The first visit with our RE at the end of July, was promising. They took tons of blood from me and a little from John. She reviewed our history and said that she thought I had PCOS or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. An internal ultrasound was done to confirm in fact I did have PCOS. She described it as a string of pearls around my ovaries. I described it as my ovaries holding my eggs hostage.

The blood work came back fairly normally. I had elevated testosterone and high cholestrol (that's a family curse). I was put on Metformin and of course prenatals. John had a sperm analysis done and everything came back normal actually the nurse told me it was "excellent!"

I had an HSG done to make sure everything was ok with my tubes, thankfully everything came back clear. So our only issue was my PCOS causing me to not ovulate.

Around Mid September I had to take provera to get AF again. I then began clomid, a drug to help the follicles mature for ovulation. I first did 5 days of 100 mg of clomid...the u/s showed no response. I was so disappointed. I actually cried on the way home, I really didn't think it would upset me that much. The doctor prescribed a second round of 5 days at 200 mg of clomid. So again, I went for another u/s and again no response. This news was even more disappointing. The doctor in the office that day briefly discussed my options with me. Saying we could do injectables but that increases the risk of multiples or we could go to IVF.

I scheduled an appointment to come and meet with my doctor and bring John along the next day to discuss our options. We really didn't want to go to IVF because our insurance does not cover it. We decided we would like to try injectables and went in with that in mind for the meeting with my doctor.

After much discussion she decided to do 2 shots of Follistim at 75 iu every other day for 2 days. So just 2 shots in the stomach...I could handle that right. I am no longer afraid of needles because what I've left out of this is the numerous trips to office just to have blood drawn and internal ultra sounds, both of which I've become very accustomed too. Only thing with the injectables our insurance didn't cover it. We got lucky and they had some donated meds so instead of shelling out $600 we got it for free.

So we went home that Friday...I had my first shot that night. John was so great, he gave me the shot because I didn't think I could do it to myself. Then Sunday night I had to get my second shot which again John was great at.

Monday morning,October 15th 2007, I went in for an ultrasound to see if the Follistim had worked. I was soo afraid it was yet again going to be bad news. I had my ultrasound...4 follicles!!!! One at 18 and three at 15! I was to give myself my trigger shot that night to trick my body into ovulating and then have an IUI on Wednesday. That afternoon the doctor called, I was very concerned, hoping it wasn't bad news, he said based on my blood work I needed to have IUI on Tuesday instead.

So again John had to give me a shot, this one was bad...the needle was hard to get it to go in. But I was a trooper and did it.

The next day, October 16th, 2007, we went in the morning and John left his men with the office to be washed. We then went and killed time until our IUI time.

The IUI wasn't bad, a little uncomfortable for about 30 seconds. John had 40 million that got used. Now begins the waiting game to see if it worked.....