Michele - sending hugs
#187484 - 06/20/05 12:39 PM
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ecmmbm
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I just want you to know that in my lurking I saw your post about another disappointing cycle. I'm so sorry. I hope you'll keep all your options open, no matter what happens. I don't know how this will make you feel for me to say this, but my best friend back in VA has adopted 2 little girls after years of RE disappointments and they are such a sweet happy family...got them through a home for unwed mothers, as infants, and they are same ages as my younger two... that probably does not make you feel any better right now but there is hope, there are options! I keep praying for you!
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Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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Thanks so much Michelle, I really aprriciate the kind words. I have done a little research into adoption and I'm not sure we can afford it. I've gotten pregnant three times and they can't find anything wrong so I'm hoping with the hormones and things I'm on that its only a matter of time and that it will stick this time. I'm hoping the newer drug femara will have a lot less side effects so I won't have as much depression, which will help a lot! I can't believe how awful the clomid makes me feel! Here's hoping cycle three this time around will be the lucky one!
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Michele, Big hugs from me too! I haven't heard much from you lately and was wondering how you were doing. I'm sorry the Clomid made you feel so bad. So it made you feel depressed? Yuck! I know how that feels! What is this femara you're taking? Is it new? I haven't heard of it.
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Michele
#187519 - 06/20/05 01:49 PM
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I have been off the pill since May of 1988 and have yet to carry a pregnancy to term. I do know how you feel though there weren't as many "procedures" available than there are now in the millenium!
We did adopt...if God leads you to that then do your research. Check with reputable adoption agencies. Anyway, before I cram more info down your throat, let me know if you are interested and I will send you all the info I have.
I know this whole process can be hertbreaking but have hope...you will be a mommy, I just know it.
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
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I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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So sorry Michele. I hate that the clomid made you feel so bad AND didn't help. It's nasty stuff. Since actually getting pregnant wasn't a problem for you before, hopefully you'll conceive soon and make the baby stick with proper hormones. Good luck, we're all rooting for you.
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Amanda
I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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I can most definitely use the hugs!! I am not giving up yet and feel a little better knowing she will probably switch my medication. The clomid, besdies the "usual" side effects of hot flashes, headache and abdominal pain, can also cause severe depression in about 20% of the people. I guess its even worse when you are already prone to depression as I am. I cry ALL the time. I'm in that funk where I haven't felt happy or even laughed since I started it a couple of months ago. I know some of it is just the stress of trying but I KNOW its more than that.
Femara is a newer drug, its really for breast cancer but it works in a similair way as the clomid. Its used off-label a lot for fertility because it doesn't have the depression or the drying properties of clomid. I think I will give this a try for a couple of months and then consider paying for the iui if I'm not pregnant by then. I'll still probably need the hcg injection on CD 14 and I'll still need to use the progesterone after I ovulate but I can handle that!
Thanks for everyones continued support and kind words!
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Re: Poochbelly
#187528 - 06/20/05 02:11 PM
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michele
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I'm so sorry you weren't able to carry a baby either but glad you found a baby through adoption. How long did the whole adoption process take? Did you adopt here in the US or go overseas? I'm really worried about the cost involoved, we do ok but we don't have a lot of money, I'm afraid we won't be able to afford it.
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that explains the difference between clomid and letrozole (femara) if anyone is interested! It IS considered off label for fertility still but LOTs of Re's and some obgyn's will prescribe it! I can't remember who said they have a sister on clomid right now and the sister is having a hard time, this may be something for her to check out and ask about!
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Our daughter took 13 months from our first call to an agency to the time we held her first. Our son took nine months. Both were born right here in Houston and their birthmoms live in the area as well though we don't know them.
It all varies...costs are often sliding scale depending on your income. We took out a loan for my daughter  .
I would recommend adopting through and agency rather than the private adoptions only because of the many adoptees I know whose searches have come to an end because the attorney their adoptive parents used had passed away or something like that. Not to mention the ongoing support you receive if you need it. We have used post-adoption services for my daughter which have been invaluable.
You know Michelle, for me it was all about being a "mommy", not really how I became one. There were years that I longed to know what it was like to feel a baby move inside me (I think I felt that once, not sure) and when I fed my daughter a bottle I wished that I could have breast fed her.
Now that my kids are almost teenagers...I am over longing for the above, I am just happy to have been their mommy.
Let me know if you have any other questions, I am an open book.
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
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