Day 1 (02/08/2012)
Had my menses today.
Day 5 (06/08/2012)
Day 14 (15/08/2012)
Day 16 (17/08/2012)
13:30pm: Met Dr and he advised us to wait & hope for the best.
Day 18 (19/08/2012)
Start taking Duphaston (10mg) daily with folic acid.
Day 29 (30/08/2012)
Had my menses today.
Day 5 (06/08/2012)
Dr prescribed me Clomid 50mcg daily for 5 days until 10/08/2012. Dr advised to make a visit for follicle scan on day 14 of the cycle. If everything ok, HCG injection will be given for ovulation induction and IUI will be performed within 36 hours.
Day 14 (15/08/2012)
17:00pm: Dr scanned to check the size of the follicle. I was so worried about the outcome as my previous cycle with HCG Gonal F injection only produced 1 follicle at the right side tube. 'You have 2 follicles at left side measuring 20mm and 1 follicle at right side of the tube measuring 19mm'. I was so happy to hear the good news. Feel so relived! So now wait for 17/08/2012 for IUI. Dr advised to come back about 23:00pm to get HCG injection. So he prescribed HCG injection and Duphaston (10mg) for 30 days supply. After we collected, we get the nurse to store the HCG injection at hospital fridge so that it would be easy for the injection later on. IUI scheduled at 11:00am on 17/08/2012.
23:00pm: Met Dr Angeline for HCG injection. I was worried to see the needle and ask her where she is going to poke and she answered with smile 'Its will be either at your arm or stomach belly'. I told her to inject at the belly since it wont be so painful. She just took few seconds only to get it done. Now I feel bloated and had little bit of pain at the abdominal.
Day 15 (16/08/2012)
My husband took leave for these 2 days to avoid from getting stress from work as the previous cycle failed because he was tied up with work and the timing was crucial for Times SI. So we guess we missed the right time and art of making love is happens naturally and not by fixing a time which make the situation more stress for Men. But ended up he has do settle something in the office today so he dropped me at the shopping mall to kill my time while waits for him to be back. I go around until I get tired end of the day and felt like bloated stomach and feeling like ovulation to be happened anytime soon. But I enjoyed shopping and this time I brought back 2 big begs with smile :) Back to the hotel, I felt white discharge and thought its a sign of ovulation. Dr gave us stress relief book related to IUI to look through. My husband getting anxious to perform semen for IUI procedure the next day as the Dr said 'now its your turn to produce required semen'.
Day 16 (17/08/2012)
11:00am: We choosed to produce the semen in the hotel rather than in the hospital due to the environment and comfort. My husband gets stress and I calm him down by changing his mind towards other stuff and finally he managed to produced the semen in stored in the container given by Dr. He worried about the volume as we cant do anything now and just pray it will be sufficient for the procedure. finger crossed. Then we rushed to hospital to hand over the container with semen for washing.
11:30am: Semen was passed to Dr for washing and he advised us to come back about 12:30pm after lunch. We went to Sugar Bun and ate light lunch.
12:30pm: went back to hospital & waited for Dr.
12:50pm: Dr R with his trainee Dr and nurse surrounded me for the procedure. While Dr was preparing, I was told to lie down. Then I saw Dr brought the catheter with washed semen and he inserted the tentaculum before proceed with catheter. It was feeling so discomfort and I had pain. Then Dr injected the washed semen into uterus. He asked me whether I feel anything? I said I cant feel anything as the pain is unbearable. Then I felt the injection inside which is on my left side. The procedure just took him about 10mins and he asked me to lie down for another 30mins.
13:30pm: Met Dr and he advised us to wait & hope for the best.
Day 18 (19/08/2012)
Start taking Duphaston (10mg) daily with folic acid.
Day 29 (30/08/2012)
Something happened and I get so stressed out the whole day until I got abdominal pain. I was so worried this will jeopardized the treatment but I cant avoid the situation. At this point I know, something went wrong.
Day 34 (04/09/2012)
projected menses day. My cycle is average about 33 days but it get delayed if I am on Duphaston. My stomach bloated and feel drowsy all this 2 weeks period. Breast feels tenderness and soft all of sudden. So I decided to take UPT to find out because some got positive results within 2weeks time. I bought the test at Guardian pharmacy and tested at home and it turn out to be negative. So I thought wait & see for few days and test again as sometimes its too early to detect the HCG in the urine.
Day 36 (06/09/2012)
I get so anxious and worried and keep thinking about the outcome. Did UPT again & negative again. I keep surfing the net for the early pregnancy signs and reading the forums and keep thinking why menses get delayed if the test was negative. So I decided to msg my Dr. He asked me to wait as its still early and asked me to continue Duphaston. I cant sleep the whole night and having discomfort to sleep.
Day 37 (07/09/2012)
Thought will do another round of UPT on Day 39 (09/09/2012) but got my menses today :(
I was not so stressed now at least I know the outcome. The stress of waiting from the day I missed my menses till to date was terrible. Even though I was upset I get my menses but I was relived at least I know the outcome now. I msg my hubby and he called me immediately. So we decided to proceed to the next level, IVF. We msg our Dr to informed the mission was unsuccessful. He felt sorry for us. We would like to thank him and Dr Angeline for the treatment. At least we have tried IUI before moving forward.
In the meantime, we are deciding where to do IVF treatment.
