My first post!!!

Welcome!!  My name is Mindy and I am creating this blog to help me cope with my husband and I's diagnosis of infertility.  I am in some way comforted by watching people on YouTube talk about life with infertility, so I thought that I would make a blog and that could be my way to reach out to the infertility community.

A little bit about myself:  Well, my name is Mindy and my husband and I will be married for 6 years in May.  We were actually introduced to each other through my family on July 4, 2000, and have pretty much been together since.  We have an awesome cat named Mace Windu (Macey for short) who thinks that he is everyone's best friend.  My husband and I are also crazy about Disney (we are annual pass holders and also are Disney Vacation Club members).  We go to Disney whenever we can, we just love everything about it!! 

We were diagnosed with infertility during the summer of 2008, after not getting pregnant after being off the birth control pill for a year.  After many tests we got the diagnosis of Azoospermia.  My husband then began taking a suplement called Proxeed Plus along with Clomid to see if that would improve our situation.  After taking the medicines and a few surgeries that the urologist recommended we still had no improvement.  Shortly after this we had to move to a different state for a job change and therefore had to find a new urologist. After going over my husband's medical history the new urologist immediately referred us to our fertility specialist.

Our first appointment with Dr. Brown (our fertility specialist) was during the summer of 2010.  He went over all of our medical history and told us what we would have to do to get pregnant (in short IUI).  He also gave me forms for a bunch of tests that I needed to have done before we could proceed any further.  After I had taken all of the blood and other medical tests we were ready to begin.

In September we went in for our first appointment after having completed all of the tests and found out that I had a "monster cyst" according to Dr. Brown and couldn't go ahead with treatment that month.  I was sad, but Dr. Brown gave us birth control pills with the hope that they would help shed the cyst when I got my period.  Well, it worked because when we came back in October the cyst was gone and we proceeded with the treatment.  I ended up taking Femara pills and also Gonal-F shots and eventually an Ovidrel trigger shot to have my first IUI on October 30th.  I got my evil period (AF) the day before the 2 week wait was over.  I was very sad.

My husband and I talked and figured out that we needed to find out a new way to pay for fertility treatments because they aren't covered by our insurance at all and we couldn't afford to pay out of pocket anymore.  So, my husband talked to the people at his job and ended up signing up for a flexible spending account that we could use for infertility.  But, we had to wait until the new year for it to be in effect so we had to wait a few months.  I got my AF while we were at Disney in the beginning of January for my husband's first 1/2 marathon so we had to wait another month!!!

Finally, my AF came back the very end of January, so we went back to Dr. Brown and went through the whole Femara pills, Gonal-F shots and eventually the Ovidrel trigger shot to have our second IUI on February 16th.  I was very excited during my two week wait for this IUI, because my AF was late so I was getting very excited.  When my 2 week wait was over, I took the test and I got a BIG FAT NEGATIVE (BFN).  I ended up getting my AF the next day :( She ended up being 5 days late!!!

We went back to Dr. Brown on March 4th and found out that I once again have a "monster cyst" so I am again on birth control this month hoping that the cyst will be shed like it was before.

Now everyone is up to speed with what is going on with our infertility journey.  I plan on keeping everyone up to date with what is happening with me and our journey to get our BIG FAT POSITIVE (BFP)!!