Fertility Land

Thursday I had another saline sonohystogram done, but this time we added a "bubble test," more medically termed the FemVue.  This FemVue was a totally new thing to me, not something I even knew existed.

For the sono they use saline to fill your uterus & essentially stretch it all out, so you can see it 3D via ultrasound.  The saline also spills out through your tubes.  The sono found that my uterus still looks snazzy.  No polyps.  Still slightly T shaped (not that uterine shape was something that was going to change), but all within the normal bounds.  Like last time, the procedure was slightly uncomfortable, but nothing 800mg of Motrin couldn't handle.

For the bubble part of it, they inject air, hence the bubbles & you can see bubbles going out the end of your tubes to your ovaries.  Literally looked like blowing on a straw in a cup full of milk.  And yes, we saw all the bubbles, on both sides.  So I do not fall into the 1% of people with blockage post c/section, and my tubes are clear.

I was prepared for the bubble test being much more painful.  The HSG I had done to check my tubes in January 2009 was about enough to make me pass out.  Honestly, I have yet to experience anything more physically painful.  Part of why I started with the OB vs going back to the RE was to hopefully avoid repeating it.  But you know what, this was easy peasy.  Didn't feel a darn thing.

So we just chalk up that fluid in my uterus found last medicated cycle in November as a less than typical response to being on Femara.  Overall in the business of fertility, I am usually less than typical, so I guess thats a reasonable answer.

She said, "On paper, you look like you should be pregnant.  Everything looks great & you stimulate great."  But she also said, "But on paper, from you cycle in 2009 I would have never guessed you would have end up with triplets either."

Its funny to go there & meet different nurses.  They hear me talk to Dr. Barton (who has more or less taken over as our primary contact there) & our discussion turns to concerns of stimulating more than 2 follicles & they get a goofy look on their face.  Then Dr. Barton stops, turns to them & says "she has triplets," and this big "Ahh ha" moment happens.  I'm apparently quite the odd duck there with my concerns of stimulating more than 2 follicles.

So what does all this mean.  Nothing really, other than now that we know for sure my tubes are open, next month will not be filled with hyperstimulation & follistim.  But I will re-enter the world of Clomid.  Which, strangely, I have never done with the RE & never done with a close following or IUI.  I do remember the Clomid hot flashes being horrendous, so there's that I get to "look forward to."  But that was also prior to enduring things like Mag, c/section recovery, the list goes on, so hopefully the side effects of Clomid won't seem as life altering as I remember them.

But here we go, onward to late- February!!