Infertility

About three months after we were married, we decided it was time to start a family. Every month around "that time" we would hold our breath and say a prayer. After a year of all negatives and starting to feel a little lost and starting the emotional roller coaster, we went to the doctor who put me on Provera and Metformin. After another year of no success, I went to see another doctor to get another opinion because they were just giving me medication and we wanted to move forward.
When we want something, we stick with it and work hard for it.
So a friend recomended this next doctor. In our first visit, he did more for us and gave us a TON more information than my old doctor had that whole year. YAY!! He drew some blood and did some other tests and the results came back that I have PCOS and there looked to be some issues with my uterus. So from there he recomeded we try Clomid. Oh. My. Gosh. We don't like that stuff at our house. The side effects were crazy. I got sooo HOT I would have the windows open, and this was in the middle of winter. I could see faces in rocks and other objects, and nothing sounded good to eat, and the list goes on and on. But anyway, that medication didn't work either.THEN after he did everything he could think of he decided to send me to a infertility specialist.
So last January we started seeing my current doctor, and he wanted me to try Femara, Letrozal and Metformin. That was a way better med cocktail than Clomid on its own any day. He then would check with an ultrasound to see how my cysts were doing every visit. With PCOS, the cysts that grow on your ovaries can either shrink or get really big. Luckily mine are very small if not gone.  I also have an issue with ovulating as well. We found out that I had never ovulated.
 So we scheduled an HSG test (its more of a procedure, really) at the hospital where they were able to unblock one of my fallopian tubes, but the other one, as hard as he tried to push the dye through, wouldn't unblock. So now I am able to ovulate half the time. But the way your ovaries are set up it doesn't switch back and forth every other month. So we really don't know when I ovulate unless I test for it. I also have some scar tissue from an infection I had. (I promise I am clean, everyone gets an infection at least once in their life) I have a spot of something on the outside of my unblocked tube that makes it hard for things to come in and out. We've also been trying IUIs and I'm looking at yet another doctor that I've heard is really successful with IVF.

Now with Mr. Dave... some of his "little guys" are slow and misshapen, so the doctor perscribed him a supplement that helps with that.
I so wish I had his issue. He gets it so easy.

So basically, it is REALLY hard for us to have kids and we REALLY want a family. It is so important to us, and this is one big reason why we are looking at adoption.