IComLeavWe

It's the first day of IComLeavWe and my first time participating! I guess I should do a little intro post so you all are familiar with our story.

I'm Amanda and my DH is Zach. We'll be celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary in June. We've been together for a total of 7 years.

I suspected that I had PCOS near the beginning of 2008 but met some resistance from my ex-OB about testing. I told her I was worried about having PCOS and it's affect on my having successful pregnancies. She looked at me and flat out said, "You need to lose weight before you even consider having a baby." At this point I was running every day before my wedding and just barely seeing the scale move. I thought nothing of it really.

July of 2008: I saw a new OB and discussed PCOS. They agreed it was a possibility but said I needed to be off birth control for 3 months before blood tests. We didn't feel ready to have a baby so we decided to wait. In October, I started having random dizzy spells and quit birth control thinking that it was because of the new pills I'd started. My OB did some blood work and we found out I was hypothyroid. This really wasn't a surprise since my mom is hypothyroid as well.

In January of 2009, I got my PCOS blood work and a week later I was told I did indeed have PCOS. I saw an RE in March of 2009 but ultimately wasn't comfortable with her. I did one round of Clomid with my OB in June of 2009. I used OPK's and thought I'd ovulated but my CD21 blood work came back that I didn't. We were really disappointed.

I made an appointment with my current RE and began seeing them in July of 2009. We did 3 additional cycles of Clomid + Ovidrel + TI. On the last cycle in November, we got pregnant, only to find out it was a chemical pregnancy, and miscarry at 5 weeks. We were sad but moved on rather quickly.

We did an Femara + Ovidrel + IUI in December with no success. I had an HSG in January that showed that both tubes were open but the right tube was a little slow, according to my OB.

At the end of February we started Femara + Follistim + Ovidrel + IUI. We got pregnant and had outrageously awesome beta's. At our 6 week ultrasound we found out that the pregnancy was ectopic and I lost my left tube.

Since then, we've been working on healing, physically and emotionally. Up next for us is a repeat HSG next month and then the decision to continue with IUI or IVF.

Thanks for stopping by!