I am an Infertile.

There I said it. I am an infertile. I have admitted I have a problem, so when does the healing begin?

I have PCOS and I have had it for a very long time. When I was a teenager I remember reading an artical in Seventeen magazine about PCOS and I remember thinking "well, I don't have that," sure I had/have very irregular periods (I should say non-existant) but at the time I didn't have any of the other symptoms that appeared later on in early adulthood such as the hairiness and the weight gain. I did have a little bit of fuzz on my upper lip but my mom always told me it was because I am Italian.

Little known to me, from the time I hit puberty at age 13 (on Thanksgiving!) the PCOS has been wreeking havok on my ovaries. The last time I remember having a natural, non medicly induced period I was 14.

My husband and I started dating in November of 2007 a year to the day we were engaged. Then in April of 2009 we started trying for a baby! In July of 2009 we got married. We had a beautiful outdoor ceremony. The weather was just perfect. Everything was just as perfect as it could be.A perfect start to a perfect marriage. A perfect marriage pact with challenges that would tear an imperfect marriage appart.

After a year of trying for a baby (ttc) I decided to see my general practitioner (gp). She said that she suspected I have pcos and gave me metformin. She told me to come back in a year if I wasn't pregnant. She didn't even do any testing. A year later when we hit our two year mark I started to go into a depression. I just couldn't believe that I wasn't pregnant yet. I hadn't even had a period in years. So I made an appointment with an obgyn at a different clinic. I saw her in May of 2011. She did alot of testing. She did an ultrasound and a lot of blood tests. So I was finally diagnosed with PCOS in May of 2011 after ttc for 2 years and 1 month.

The blood tests came back that I also had hypothyroidism and after four months of treatment my thyroid levels were fine and my gp finally gave me Clomid. I showed no responce to the 50mg of Clomid so she refered me to a reproductive endocrinologist (RE).

They did a lot more tests. My husband's semen analysis (SA) came back with great results. My RE decided to put me on 100mg of clomid. I showed no response. So she gave me 2.5mg of Femera. Once again no response. So she gave me 10mg of Tomoxifen. No response.

Next Step: Injectables In January

We Could have continued with Injectables this cycle but we are going to Arizona for four days in December and it would interfer with the monitering of this cycle. We are guessing that it will cost about $2000 for that cycle so we are just going to have to cash in my husbands retirement savings to pay for it. He has just over $2000 so I hope that it will be enough money.

Well that brings us up to speed. Have a great day.