Fuck.

[semperfiona]

Punctuated. No baby, yet again. And it's being a bitch of a period, too. I've been crampy and nauseated on-and-off since Monday, but nothing showed up until today. Unusual physical reactions, we all got a little bit hopeful. But No. Just my body fucking with me. I never get PMS! But that's gotta be what I've been having.

I've been crabby and assholish to my family, too...pain will do that. But because I "might be pregnant", I haven't been able to take the good stuff (aka blue pills, aka naproxen). Tylenol really doesn't do shit for cramps, but naproxen knocks them into next week. On the other hand, good sex really does help, if one's partner(s) are willing to ignore the crabbiness, take most of the initiative, and get things started.

So I'm disappointed, angry, frustrated...and getting more and more worried about the cost of all this. Each attempt costs about $800, plus $300 or so each month I'm on Clomid whether or not there's an attempt...Why's it have to be so fucking difficult?

All I wanted for Christmas was a baby. No such luck.

On the bright side, I can get drunk on New Year's Eve iffen I want to.

Comments

[scottak.livejournal.com]

"All I wanted for Christmas was a baby. No such luck. "

OH! I think I'm going to cry! I wish there was something I could do...

Hugs and Love!

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

I've often heard that the best remedy for problems with getting pregnant is to relax and not try so hard. Trying seems to do something to the mind and body that hinders getting pregnant. My sister-in-law's sister tried and tried and they were finally told it was never going to happen so they adopted and quit worrying about trying to get pregnant. They stopped worrying and she got pregnant. I've heard of that happening a lot.

It'll happen soon for you I hope. Try talking to tunskit, they had some issues with getting pregnant. She had a lot of miscarriages, too. Could be there's some other problem. A friend of mine said she couldn't get pregnant for years, then they started treating her like she was a diabetic (I think, ask Kit for sure because Kit talked to her about it) and that cleared up everything else. She's now got five kids.

It can be any number of things. I'll be praying it happens for you soon!

[gremlin44.livejournal.com]

Clomid gave me raging PMS. It was vile, vile shit.

After 25 months of trying, I'll try not to yell at the above "relax" comment.

My strong suggestion is acupuncture. I fully believe that is how I finally got pregnant this cycle when nothing else had changed.

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

I've also heard of the Diabetic treatment working. I don't know if it makes you more fertile in that the uteris is more receptive, or if it stimulates ovulations which the clomid is already doing - it might be worth reserching.

[raises hand]

[mtfierce.livejournal.com]

I firmly believe the acupuncture was responsible for my situation, and I didn't have many treatments, and it was a lot more affordable than the noxious Clomid. I do note that my doctors (both Western and Eastern) think that getting a cold at the time of conception only helped. Which was weird, but plausible.

[semperfiona]

Would you happen to know of any acupuncturists in St Louis? I know you used to live around here or have family here, something like that...

Is there a timing thing cyclewise with the treatments like there is with everything else fertility-related?

[gremlin44.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going to any acupuncturists back then.

I did find this:
http://www.acufinder.com/acupuncturists_detail.php?pid=418

I go once a week. If you do IVF, they have you go twice a week. IUIs--once a week.