I'm so sorry to hear about your frustrating news... Try to keep your head up - dreams can come true when you least expect it! Lots & lots of baby dust to you!

Keep your chin up. I know that you will get your BFP. Sending you TONSSSS of baby dust.

Shorty I'm so sorry about your diagnosis. Are they going to put you on clomid for your IUI? Hang in there girl, your hormone treatment will help stabilize your levels.
Now that you know what was preventing you, it's a step in the right direction for treatment and your road to being a mommy. It will happen for you, keep with it.
PM me if you have any questions re: IUI or IVF.
Take care

Shorty, what exactly is the low ovarian function? How did they test and diagnose that? Also is there any symptoms for having the autoimmune disease?

Im sorry that you are going through all this, but just remember, like Cheryl was saying - at least they have figured out what is going on and why you haven't gotten pregnant yet.

You will get through this, you are a very strong woman...It WILL happen for you guys

***(((HUGS)))***

Im so sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Like Cheryl and Heather said, at least it is a step in the right direction. I will pray for you a speedy BFP! Lots of baby dust!
((hugs))

Sorry to hear that you are going through this I don't really think that anything any of us say can make this easier for you. But please know that we are all here for you. Like Cheryl I too have experience with the whole IUI and IVF procedures so feel free to PM me anytime

I'm not sure whether or not this could be an option for you but have you considered using a donor egg? I donated my eggs for my aunt and it really was an amazing experience for both of us. I am sure that you already know all of your options but I just thought that I would run it by you.

Again remember that this will happen for you...probably when your least expecting it. ((HUGS TO YOU))

Thanks for all the supportive thoughts.



I meant ovarian reserve. It means that my body has to try harder to ovulate each month because I've started to run short on eggs. They diagnosed it with a blood test and a vaginal ultrasound on cd 3. The ultrasound showed that I had three follicles developing on each ovary. Normal is at least five. The blood test measured my FSH within the normal range but toward the high end.

The autoimmune disease could have symptoms, but they may be too subtle to notice. The symptoms could be similar to hypothyroid but are not likely to be as severe. Pretty much anything that would be a symptom is either something that I've had for a long time or that could also be explained by age.




Yes, I'll be on clomid and then get FSH and HCG injections. The injections will not be as often as for IVF, but it still helps encourage multiple eggs.

[quote = "Shanyan"] I'm not sure whether or not this could be an option for you but have you considered using a donor egg? [/quote]

There was a pamphlet at the RE and my dh rejected the idea immediately. I thought that was an interesting reaction from someone who wants to adopt a child some day.

That is quite interesting. See my aunts odds with IVF using her own eggs was only like 40% but with her using my eggs it jumped up to 70-80% so that's a pretty drastic difference. So she did think about it for a while and the reason she decided to go ahead with using mine was because she just wanted a baby...plain and simple. She thought about adoption but she wanted to experience being pregnant. Not to mention the fact that sometimes the adoption process can take a long time. Also she knew that if she was pregnant with this baby regardless of who's eggs she came from she would bond with this child just as if it were from her own DNA.

She now has a beautiful baby girl named Shalyn and there isn't a day that goes by that she doesn't thank god for her miracle.

I do know that Egg donation isn't for everyone but it really is a wonderful thing. Has your dh told you why he is against it?

No. We really didn't talk about it much.

My issue with IVF isn't the quality of my eggs, which the doctor said is likely to be good, but it is that I might not have enough eggs to make IVF worthwhile. He said that there is a 27% chance that they would cancel the cycle or switch to IUI because they couldn't retrieve enough eggs. My probability of success after the egg retrieval is normal.

The doctor that my aunt had said that not only would she probably not produce many eggs but he said that there was no way of knowing what her egg quality was like unless he take one and look at it under a microscope. So she didn't want to take that chance. That's where I came in

Now if your dh changed his mind about using donor eggs how would you feel about it? Did your doctor say that fertility drugs wouldn't even help you produce more eggs?

The fertility drugs will help me produce more eggs, but I think it is limited by the number of follicles at any one time. If I consistently have six at the start of a cycle, then I'm probably limited to six in a cycle. I guess the issue is that they don't know how many of those six will react to the drugs. I should have asked how many they need for IVF. I understand that it is not worthwhile if there is only one or two eggs ready, but what about four or five?

As for the donor egg, I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get there. I've thought very little about it. Having a baby with my dh's genes would be so wonderful, but I don't know if I'd get an anonymous donor or ask a family member. No one in my family knows yet that we are having trouble ttc.

When I donated my eggs I only produced about 5 or 6 myself and they didn't have any problem with that. They fertilized them all and they took the two strongest and used those for the procedure and then two ended up not making it and than my aunt still has one that is frozen.

I don't think that Cheryl produced much more than that either. Maybe a couple more. So it could still be an option for you.

I really do hope that things work out for you. I wish that women didn't ever have to go through this.