Day 1 of our first IUI cycle arrived early August and it was with great excitement we rang the nurses at the clinic to inform them and receive instructions on taking the serophene from Days 2-6. I was a little anxious as to the side affects of the serophene, but apart from a few hot flushes there wasn’t much else to write home about. Come Day 12 I could feel my ovaries – especially the right. Our scan showed 3 mature follicles and several smaller immature follicles on the right ovary. The Dr gave us the news that we could not proceed with the IUI this month due to the risk of triplets. With “cycle cancelled” stamped on our notes we were sent away with instructions to wait for day 1 of our next cycle and follow the same game plan. Whilst we understood we were disappointed with our false start. Since when did being an over achiever go against you?
We questioned the whole process for a few days:
Why do we need the drug stimulation – surely it’s quite clear my ovaries work well enough on their own. Wont the stimulated cycle waste another month of our all to precious time. In the end these people are experts in their field and you have to trust in them and their processes. The clinic wont alter medication/doseage based on one cycle as the over/under stimulation may be a one off. Our bodies can respond differently each cycle. We were told that if the ovaries were over stimulated in 2 consecutive cycles that they would cease the tablets and allow me to harvest my follicles naturally.
With our frustrations worked through, we were somewhat philosophical and positive in that too many follicles was probably better than none. We successfully put the rest of the cycle out of our heads and busied ourselves with work and socialising. Kylie was busy with basketball refereeing and there were several social gatherings that made the second half of the month wizz by.
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