5th Time's the Charm

I had my consult appt with my new RE a couple days ago.  I really like her!  Too bad I probably won't get to work exclusively with her as there are two other RE's with her.  I now have an infertility plan so I'm happy.  She's having me do MORE tests (I'm not so thrilled about that) including a Clomid challenge (I'll take 100 mg of Clomid on CD 5-9 and do blood work on CD 3 and CD 10 which should show my egg reserve numbers), standard blood work that needs to be updated every year (TSH, Thyroid, and Prolactin) and DH has to do another semen analysis (and boy is he excited to do that again...NOT). 

We talked about why I haven't been able to get pregnant since Skittle and we both agreed that another laparoscopy with a hysteroscopy is necessary. I'm scheduled for surgery on Jan 28.  That will be my 5th surgery for infertility.  I was able to conceive Skittle after the last time I had that surgery so I'm hoping the same will be true this time. 

I had my 495th (only a slight exaggeration) vaginal u/s and it showed that the fluid (which she called blood) around my ovaries is back with a vengeance.  The fluid indicated endo last time and that's what she suspects is the case this time.  She explained to me that the endo diet is great for controlling my endo symptoms but not curing the endo itself.

I was officially placed on the August IVF list!  I did mention that we're moving in June and she said that she'll place a big circle around my name with a note to move me to the April group if a spot becomes available.  We also decided that I'll do IUI's with injections until we either do IVF (in April) or until we move in June.  The IUI's will only give me a 15-18% of conceiving per cycle but that's much better than my less than 5% I currently have. 

The waiting begins again.

I just thought I'd throw in some random Skittle pictures from November too...