So, so much has happened in my life in the last month or two. So much. We sold our condo, bought a new (old) house, and moved. I do not recommend moving to anyone. I had forgotten how much work it is! Glad to be done with that!
Despite the busyness, nothing is happening in my uterus quite yet.
Now that the septum is out and I'm primed for baby-making, I am pretty ready to get this show on the road! We decided to wait until January to start IVF even though I am chomping at the bit. There are several reasons that all make perfect sense, so now we wait.
I am not one to be easily stressed and usually am quite a calm person, but the house sale and buying process had me beyond stressed and completely emotionally and physically exhausted. Not conducive to starting IVF and stressing my body even more.
Additionally, after looking into my Husband's insurance plans, it looks like there might be a slight chance that some of the IVF and/or the medications will be covered after I am added to his plan in January. I wish that they could guarantee coverage of some sort, but no details can be disclosed until I'm on the plan and they can review our charts. Humph. So we're sucking up the high insurance premiums to add me to his plan and hoping that it all pays off. Any coverage is better than the zero infertility coverage of my plan, so feeling very blessed to have it! So January it is.
And...let's not forget that I am hoping beyond hope that now that this uterine septum business is cleared up that we will naturally conceive. Ha.
I know it is such a long shot, but hope is a powerful, powerful thing. It creeps in there when you least expect it and really makes itself at home.
I just wish I could stop this symptom-spotting stuff---it's driving. Me. Crazy!
I am not tracking my ovulation or temping, but I did pay pretty close attention to my cervical mucus which points to ovulation early on day 12 or so. Then a few days later I had a one time spot with wiping. If the dates weren't so wonky I would be convinced that it was implantation bleeding. Since then I have been a whack job. When it comes down to it, I have absolutely no symptoms...but it sure doesn't stop me from searching for them! Ay!
One more cycle and we'll be starting the prep! I'm cautiously excited, ready to start but nervous at the same time. It has been almost exactly one year since we enrolled in the IUI study and since I've had this much excitement and hope. 13 has always been my lucky number, so lucky 2013 it is!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, Emily. I hope this is your lucky month as well. We are starting our IVF next month. Hope you don't need it. It feels overwhelming!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving!!! I will be excited to cheer you on during your IVF cycle but still hope that you don't need it! Awesome news about the potential to have more coverage. Wishing you all the best!
ReplyDeleteWe have been in our condo for 5 years and I know the time is soon coming for a house ahhh!! At least it's done though :). Hope you don't have to make the move to ivf but if you do, you will get through it !! Hope you get a Christmas miracle in the next month..,
ReplyDeleteSounds like there is a lot going on in your life.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I thought of while reading your blog has to do with the insurance piece. Always have the pharmacy you use for your IVF meds call your insurance company to see if they will cover the meds. We used Freedom First and they were wonderful. It turns out that even though my insurance company (a major one) said they didn't cover IVF meds they actually did but at a co-pay of $200, which, as you know isn't big at all when you're talking about thousands of dollars in meds. I found this out by chance on my fourth cycle because the woman at FF just called them 'to double check'. For some reaons when I called they kept telling me they didn't cover anything but when the Rx was called in they did.
Also, if they do offer a co-pay like this then it might be that you only pay one co-pay no matter how much of the medicine you order. If that's the case then have your RE call in a huge rx of it - enough to get you through at least an entire cycle. My Re would only call in a little at a time because the goal was never for me to have extra because of how expensive it was.
Good luck!