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[enigo]

DH is only on
New Chapter Men
L-carnitine 2000 mg
zinc 50 mg
Vit E 1000 iu


Thing is, the first two he has to take 4 a day of and he just can't seem to do it. He takes them maybe once a week. I could care less what he takes once I'm pregnant again I'm going to have to sit him down and tell him we're gonna go whole hog this next cycle. No slacking!!

[Jane]

Dh takes l-arginine, and occasionally a multi or a Vitamin c gummy bear.
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[rcr]

It could be a coincidence, but DH was only taking fertilaid for men, Maca, and a multivitamin until two months ago, and then I added all the other stuff, and then I got pregnant.

[sweetest77]

Enigo, RCR, and Apricot - I'm impressed that you can get your DHs to take all those supps. Our VR doc recommended a bunch of supps but my DH is very forgetful and when reminded insists they give him a stomach ache... Men! He will take a multi when I remind him but only with some grumbling!

My Update: My second RE visit went much better than the first. DH's SA came back fine, so now we have our 4th reassurance that the VR worked... Once again we seem to have confirmation that I'm the one who is broken

Had another ultrasound and my uterus and ovaries look great I'm starting 100mg of Clomid tonight. I've done 3 cycles of clomid but only at 50mg and my O was pretty intense, so this should be interesting. RE said he hopes the higher dose will help with my progesterone and spotting... Going in next Friday for monitoring...

Now I just need to get my hands on some Clomid! I drove all the way to the AF Base so I could get my RX for free, forgetting that they close on Friday's before long weekends, ugh. Then went to Safeway, waited 30 minutes to be told they only have 5 pills in stock. I need to go to Target this afternoon so I'm going to try there next, wish me luck!

[enigo]

No no we have those supplements, but DH is the same as yours. He forgets. Hmmm...Maybe I should try wrapping the vitamins in a piece of bacon. He likes bacon.

[BelovedK]

Originally Posted by enigo

m...Maybe I should try wrapping the vitamins in a piece of bacon. He likes bacon.

[Jane]

Inserted into a piece of cheese works for dogs.

[Tara2]

Well I'm a dunce and still can't figure out the multiquote.

But enigo and Apricot- on DH supps in cheese/bacon.

rcr- I have heard good things about most of the cocktail your DH takes. My DH takes exactly jack squat diddly right now. Once I bought him Fertilaid. He does have multis and C which he doesn't take. We have purified fish oil. Must get him back on manvites..

maerynpearl- aw hon. Your body's not broken. It DOES know how to do its thang. I don't blame you for feeling like that though. I remember feeling exactly that when DS went overdates by 10 days. It was forever. Everyone else in my BG was popping like corn, and there I sat. And prodromal is really hard. I've been there. Hang in there. It won't be much longer, promise!

And for the record, nobody else here's body's broken either! Though it must seem like that sometimes...

AFM For some reason being visited bad by the green eyed monster of BFPs. Since it's only our 8th cycle with awesome timing and our 12th month of this go round, with secondary infertility MFI why should I be jealous? I can't help it. I roamed one too many boards and saw peoples lovely BFPs and just. feel. so. !@#$%^ jealous! Agh, stop me.

[enigo]

... I was just thinking (again) today.... I mean why? BD was timed perfectly for the past 4 cycles. What do I need to change? Is it just luck?

[miriam_bat_avraham]

Sweetest-- good luck with your SA follow up appt. We'll be having ours soon, if the damn doctor's office ever calls us back to schedule... grrr...

Mahna-- I feel like adjusting temps is so frowned upon, but I've gotten to know my cycles well enough now that I know the difference (after some experimentation) between different waking times, so I can adjust accordingly. It makes life so much easier without FF confusing me with wrong crosshairs and such!

Kinza-- I'm sorry, hun. I was really pulling for you.

Maeryn-- I appreciate the group hug, and send back in return peaceful birth vibes for you

AFM... CD 16? or 17? I don't remember. It's all on FF. I'm at EWCM and coming around to O time... and we'll be at my parents' place all weekend. Hmm. Whoops. Well, eff it, I'm not letting TTC control my life any more than it does. What does one extra month matter anyways? It's already been nearly two years. The PLAN was to try tonight, and then tomorrow before we leave, and then Monday night when we get back, but someone is falling asleep on the couch and completely disinterested. I try to find sensitive ways to say "Hun, you're not doing me a favor, I'm also not in the mood and a 10-min quickie for timing purposes is not super romantic and doesn't really do anything for me. This is for us to have a baby. Let's just get through it and then go to sleep, k?" but it's like I'm bugging him to give me something. Grr. Grumpy about that. But whatever. He'll owe me in the morning for sure

[Taxlady]

I agree.. NOBODY is broken.

I also get the "green" looking at BFP's all over the place. Aren't we allowed to? - I mean it happens to me all the time. I'm still joyous and hopeful too when I see them. But recently, I was in the grocery store where there was a mom and a grandmom with two children under 5. The mom was totally exasperated as one was crying in the cart and the other all over the place. So exasperation is understandable. But the mom was being sooo mean to them and saying mean things about them to the grandmom. I was jealous and judgmental of the mom - when I have our baby I want to remember how frustrating it was to finally conceive him/her and try to remember that when I get exasperated.

[sweetest77]

bacon and cheese! Yep that would probably do the trick with my DH too.

Miriam - you missed my update... SA came back fine. Are you guys waiting for results or just to do the test? Our SA's have always been collected at home and dropped off at the lab/Dr's office...we never had to wait for an appt.

Enigo - I know... we have had perfect timing for over a year, every flipping cycle! It is so frustrating.

TaxLady and Tara - about the BFP jealousy... I can so relate. But it is very situational for me. Just found out my BF from college is pregnant (with IVF) with her first, (she is 39 like me) and I am thrilled for her! A few months ago we got an e-mail from some acquaintances announcing their 3rd and I was in tears. For me it's is hard for people having the baby I can't seem to have (#3) also this couple was pregnant with #2 at the same time as we were. It never upsets me when someone is pg with their first, or when I know they struggled to get there, so I feel like my jealousy is at least rational even if it's not very charitable

AFM - finally got my Clomid Rx filled. OMG who knew it would be so difficult to fill a legal Rx. So I headed out to Target (after failing at the Base Pharmacy and Safeway) and they were closed for lunch. I hung around and shopped for a while and when I got back there must have been 15 people in line.

Soooo... I headed out to CVS. After the lady entered in all my info she said her system was telling her it was too soon for a refill (ummm, it's a brand new Rx). She started to call my insurance Co when I remembered that Safeway had already tried to fill it and probably forgot to take it out of their system. Sure enough... I'm now boycotting Safeway! 5 minutes later I had my Rx in my hands, I love CVS although I can't believe how expensive their OPKs are, wow!

Hope you are all having a good weekend!

[Jane]

Dude. I am surprised. I o'ed and we did it yesterday. I guess I'm in the 2ww again. Just not expecting that.
I supposed I should ask to be moved from BFP back to the list.

TTC since December 2008. 3 miscarriages, one ectopic.
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[miriam_bat_avraham]

Sweetest-- whoops, sorry! Dh did the SA already, but at the office because we live about 30 min away. We're just waiting on results. We need to have that general "you did all the testing we asked for, so let's figure out our next steps now" appointment anyways. I want to ask if they think I might have a uterine lining issue because even with long cycles, my AFs are super light.

Apricot-- wow, it's great that your cycle is normalizing. You're supposedly more fertile after a loss, right? I really hope this pans out for you; you've been through enough.



Afm-- decided that my parents' beach house is a good place to TTC hey, why not? I woke up with a low temp and EWCM, no reason to waste that! We are becoming skilled in the art of Ninja BD

[enigo]

Originally Posted by miriam_bat_avraham

Sweetest-- whoops, sorry! Dh did the SA already, but at the office because we live about 30 min away. We're just waiting on results. We need to have that general "you did all the testing we asked for, so let's figure out our next steps now" appointment anyways. I want to ask if they think I might have a uterine lining issue because even with long cycles, my AFs are super light.

When my cycles were super long, AF was very light too. Seems it might have been some sort of slight hormonal imbalance for me. Now that the acupuncture has normalized them, the bleeding is normal again too. Interestingly I had gotten used to one day of barely there periods.
Now they seem to drag on forever at 3-4 days.

[Code Name Mama]

I can always tell what point in my cycle I'm at by how many times I obsessively look at FF throughout the day. Because by clicking on it over and over, I might make my DPO (and temp) increase.



How's everyone's weekend? Doing anything fun? I am procrastinating - I'm supposed to turn in an article this week, but I'm just not motivated to start.

[Jane]

Waiting on a baby. Her mama is in labor-ish.
Yesterday was my wedding anniversary.
My dh got me a really pretty spinning whorl necklace. If you look at it just right, it totally looks like some dude is getting blowed. And some eagles are cheering on!!
I totally told my friend he gave me a first prize medallion. My husband is mortified. He just got it b/c I like native american craft work. Now he cannot un-see the BJ and I keep laughing like Beevis.

[Code Name Mama]

Originally Posted by Apricot

Waiting on a baby. Her mama is in labor-ish.
Yesterday was my wedding anniversary.
My dh got me a really pretty spinning whorl necklace. If you look at it just right, it totally looks like some dude is getting blowed. And some eagles are cheering on!!
I totally told my friend he gave me a first prize medallion. My husband is mortified. He just got it b/c I like native american craft work. Now he cannot un-see the BJ and I keep laughing like Beevis.

Subliminal messages maybe?

[Kinza]

Originally Posted by Apricot

Waiting on a baby. Her mama is in labor-ish.
Yesterday was my wedding anniversary.
My dh got me a really pretty spinning whorl necklace. If you look at it just right, it totally looks like some dude is getting blowed. And some eagles are cheering on!!
I totally told my friend he gave me a first prize medallion. My husband is mortified. He just got it b/c I like native american craft work. Now he cannot un-see the BJ and I keep laughing like Beevis.

LOL! I needed that

[luminesce]

I've been lurking here for a little while. DH and I have been married for umpteen years, spent MANY years not really trying to prevent pregnancy and about three years REALLY TTC #1. We finally succeeded on the cycle we decided to get help. I had a big hormonal work-up done, DH had a sperm analysis done ... and I was sitting in the doctor's office 4 DPO and pregnant. A total shock and . Now DS is 3, I'm 37, DH is 39 and we're TTC #2.

I have a history of irregular and annovulatory cycles. They regulated themselves for the most part when I fixed my severe Vitamin D deficiency. If only I'd known I was deficient before... My cycles still vary (30-40 days, usually) but I do appear to at least be regularly ovulating.

I'm on CD#1 today. I had a 16 day LP this time (average for me is 14-15) and felt some ovarian pain - dunno what was up with that. Maybe a small cyst or a missed chemical, though I doubt the chemical 'cause I POAS enough that I should have caught it.

We've been trying for four cycles now. The first was a bust - got a bad UTI when we started trying and we didn't do too well with second two cycles (avoiding the UTI again!) But I think we're now in the groove. I was hoping things would be easier this time but the reality is setting in.

I'm going to do an FSH test this week - it was in the FRER box!

Not sure how often I'll get to post here (life is crazy) but thought I'd join. I'm trying not to be bitter but the journey has definitely been challenging.