No AI this month

Monday’s appointment seemed to be upon us more quickly this month. It was day 15 of my cycle. We had to wait longer than usual. I was planning to try and ask about our next step and if we should get a referral for a consultation with a fertility clinic that performs more advance procedures. Well, all that fell to the wayside. I think my doctor subconsciously knows when I want to ask questions or change something because when I have wanted talk about it he ends up changing things up a little which makes me want to wait and see what this will do. So anyway, once I got into the room and he started the sonogram, he said my endometrium looked good. When he moved on to look at the follicles, he did not see any. He suspected that I had already ovulated and that we would be unable to conduct artificial insemination because it is not usually successful after ovulation.

The result of this is that another medication was added for next month. When I start my Day 1, I will start taking a low dose of decodran (spelling?) at night through day 17. If I remember/heard correctly, he explained that you get estrogen from both the adrenal glad and your ovaries. The light steroid will suppress the release from the adrenal glad so I will only use the estrogen from my ovaries to develop a follicle. He stated that it would produce a healthier follicle and has been shown to have a 50% pregnancy rate. With this added to the routine, I decided to hold off on the referral conversation.

I guess it will be interesting to see how this works and I sre hope it’s a low enough dose not to effect me like when you get the shot when your sick. I guess it could be interesting. We will just have to wait and see.