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So Den and I are discussing future plans. In a previous post Freyja<\/a> brought up that we may not need IVF, knowing what our issues are…. and my mind has been pondering the same thing.<\/p>\n

We did IVF because we didn’t know what the issue was, and nothing else had worked. It turned out to be not just a treatment but also very educational: we learned that my problem is my egg maturity. I make a TON of eggs on very little medication – on low doses of clomid I made 4 eggs each cycle, and on relatively low doses of follistim (150iu) during IVF I made 24 eggs – however most of those eggs were either dead or immature. ICSI didn’t help raise the odds at all, because duh, you need mature eggs for ICSI.<\/p>\n

So the question becomes: is there a way to help my eggs mature WITHOUT doing IVF? I think there should be. I don’t know what drugs are best, or even what drugs are available really…. I’m going to have to do more research on that. But really when you think about our issues, what we need to do is give my eggs a boost with some sort of medication. The sperm isn’t the issue, and the fertilization isn’t the issue (which we know from IVF). Timed intercourse should be fine.<\/p>\n

I pulled out our new insurance’s coverage booklet to take a look. I hadn’t taken much of a look at it besides confirming that it covers no IVF at all. But it DOES cover “diagnosis and treatment of infertility” – as long as it’s not any form of ART (including IUI and IVF). $30 co-pay per visit. So I says HMMMM. That sounds suspiciously like they would cover visits to the RE for consults, ultrasound monitoring…. it *may* even cover medication for timed intercourse cycles. Though the medication part is iffy, because they only cover meds ordered through their approved pharmacies, and you can’t order this shit from your local pharmacy. So we may have to pay out of pocket for the very expensive medications – but hell that’s a lot cheaper than an IVF cycle. And we can go have a consult to find out what our options are without worrying about paying for the consult, just a co-pay.<\/p>\n

We’re not sure when we’ll want to go back. Probably about 6 months. We’ll try on our own until then and hope that we get lucky. I really want to let my body at least have a chance.<\/p>\n

So there’s our plan. It is subject to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Den and I are discussing future plans. In a previous post Freyja brought up that we may not need IVF, knowing what our issues are…. and my mind has been pondering the same thing. We did IVF because we didn’t know what the issue was, and nothing else had worked. It turned out to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,69],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ivf-3","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}