High Progesterone

So I went in to get my progesterone checked today. I was doing three a day of the old, gelcap, messy vaginal suppositories (no one ever said making a baby was a fun time .... wait ... anyway) but only doing one per day of the new tablet vaginal suppositories because it was new. I was sure, sure, sure they would say to at least up it to 2. My progesterone levels always come back as point something, like .7 or such, super low. I kept waiting and waiting for a call. (Btw if they change your meds or anything of note, they usually call you back, if it's just results, they call and leave a message on your voicemail, but it's voicemail you call in to if that makes sense). No call.

Urgh doctor's office - don't make me move to Ohio. So I called my voicemail and lo and behold, a message! My progesterone was 41 so no need to change my meds. (My insulin was fine too, so I'm staying strong at 4 Metformin per day. This is a lot for someone who chokes at the THOUGHT of pill taking). Color me flabbergasted. Now I know my body isn't producing all this progesterone on its own, after all I'm still taking the medicine. But SOMETHING is going on and I'm going to assume it's positive until I am told otherwise. Pregnancy test at the doctor's office next Tuesday: the countdown begins. (Oh and meanwhile my inlaws and their entire family are coming for fake Christmas/New Years - OH JOY!)

Waiting!

I can't believe I haven't updated since early December. In my defense, my story just feels very boring lately and not worthy of blogging. (Medicine, waiting, blah, blah, blah.) We changed my medicine back to follistim again and I started a new cycle in early December after the blood test confirmed that I was not pregnant. We went to Ohio to visit my parents and coordinating monitoring in another state was a HOLY NIGHTMARE OMG, but we got it worked out and had the monitoring and the IUI for this time there - the IUI on Christmas Eve, my birthday. Hopefully that's lucky for us. Now we're back home and preparing for his whole family to come spend New Year's/Fake Christmas with us and I've got to get ready for a new semester.

My husband's sperm got EXCELLENT rating for this IUI (like eleven times the baseline quality they require - ELEVEN TIMES). So either that last test was a fluke or those fertility blend vitamins work really, really well. Also, I switched from progesterone suppository gelcaps which get icky and gross to progesterone suppository tablets which are so far okay but I am not entirely sure how I feel about them. Aren't the details of my medical life endlessly enthralling? I thought so. :-)

Confirmed Again

I am not pregnant.

Spotting

I'm getting a little breakthrough type spotting, very faint, but I know what it is. And I know what it tends to herald - the beginning of the end of this cycle. So much for lucky #7, how does anyone feel about lucky #8?