My Injectable Medications

I received my new drugs in the mail today. I thought some of you might be curious as to what these injectable medications look like so I decided to post a picture. Never would I have thought I'd be excited about giving myself injections. :)

Finallyyyyyyyy... :D

Today I went to the RE for my baseline appointment. My ultrasound showed that after last month and the birth control pills I'm completely cyst free! WOOHOO! This means we can finally resume treatment. Even better, my doctor agreed to let me go ahead and do the Clomid+injects/hCG/IUI this cycle. This was the best news I could have hoped for today and I am so excited. :D I'm currently on cycle day 3. I will be taking 100mgs of Clomid on cycle days 3-7. Following the Clomid, I will give myself a subcutaneous injection of 75ius of Repronex on days 7, 9 and 11. On CD 12 (June 2), I'll return to the doctor's office for another ultrasound and more blood work which will tell us how many follicles I have and how mature they are. I'll explain the rest of what we'll be doing after my CD 12 appointment.

Just Pondering...

I'm thinking about requesting to skip the Clomid/hCG/IUI next month and go straight to Clomid+Injects/hCG/IUI which we were going to do the second month if Clomid/hCG/IUI doesn't work. Ever since I was given our plan, I've only seen the Clomid/hCG/IUI as a step we would have to take only in order to get to something that would actually work for us. I'm just not very optimistic about it at all. The cost of Clomid/hCG/IUI is $800 and the cost of Clomid+Injects/hCG/IUI is $1,000, with much better odds at achieving pregnancy. I'd rather just spend $200 more and have better odds right away, than waste an entire $800 and another cycle on something my gut is telling me won't work for us anyway...