Another Dr. appoint has passed and we were finally given the OK to begin the In Vitro treatments next week! He went over all the hairy details with us and is pretty confident that it will happen for us. Good news is that no genetic disorders were found in our blood and Mario's sperm did penetrate the hamster egg. Dr. Werlin also expressed to us how happy he is that we chose IVF because he says that Mario's sperm was not top notch. He is pretty confident that the sperm issue is our underlying problem. He said if that really is all it is then we will br pregnant very soon. Mario has had a varicoceole in his left testicle ever since he worked in the furniture shop. He remembers a pop when he lifted a heavy piece of furniture. From that point on he has always had discomfort. Now they say men can still get women pregant with varicoceole's but it is also a common cause of infertility! Veins basically pushed into the sack and heat up the testicle and cause the sperm damage because they need to stay cool. Dr. Werlin said his swimmers are slow but when put with an egg they could break through and fertilize! We are hoping that I don't have any problems either but you never know. From basic tests it all looks great but we could start the process and find other problems. We are praying that there are no other causes of infertility going on. Dr. Werlin said he is going to manually inject Mario's sperm right into my eggs just in case.
So as soon as I start my period which should be about Wed. I will go into his office for an ultrasound and they will start me on birth control pills for two weeks. This is so that the Dr. can keep me from ovulating on my own. Then about 5 days later I will go in for a procedure where they flush my uterine cavity to check for polyps. I have had something similar and it is uncomfortable so I am not looking forward to it. On the socond week of birth control they will give my a medication called Lupron which will stimulate my ovaries to make as many eggs as possible. I will inject this into my stomach every day for about 10 days. They will monitor me by blood and ultrasound every other day to make sure I am stable. Then along with that drug I will start injecting another drug also to stimulate my brain to release certain hormones. Once they see that I have multiple follicles on both ovaries that are close to being mature. I will give myself another shot to stimulate me to ovulate. We will go in to his office where I will be put to sleep and they will extract my eggs from me in hopes that they are as mature as they think and that I have at least 10 to 20. After that Mario will give them his sperm and they will join the two in an incubator and wait for them to divide. A couple of days later either 3 or 5 depending on how they divide into embryos. If they put the embryos in me at day 3 then the embryos will be less divided so they will put 3 in. If they choose to put them in me on day 5 then the embryos will be divided quite a bit so they will put 2 in me. Then I go home and be on bed rest for 12 days until we go in for a pregnancy test. While on bed rest I will start injecting Progesterone in oil intramuscular in order to help the embryos to implant. These are the shots everyone dreads but by that time hopefully I won't care. This whole process can take 6 to 8 weeks so hopefully I will know around or shortly after my birthday. I might be spending it in bed waiting but I know it will be worth it.
So we are very excited and nervous all at the same time. We are getting the fortune together so we can make payment when I go in next week. I can't express how meaningful it has been to us to have such wonderful caring friends. Each and every day we receive messages of love and encouragement from our bestest friends. It really makes us realize who our true friends are and we literally feel their love like they were with us this whole time!! It definitly makes something that is scary feel like no big deal when you have support.
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