It's been almost a month since we learned that our first embryo transfer was not successful. After some time spent in mourning and a much needed break from medication, I called to schedule the obligatory "What happened?" appointment. We went to that appointment this afternoon and sat down with Dr. Magarelli to discuss the last cycle.
Unfortunately, as I had suspected, there were no good answers. It was just one of those things. I hate that. I wish we could simply pin point what went wrong and fix it before moving on. Sadly, these things are not that easy.
The good news is that we have mapped out a plan for moving forward. We are changing a couple of things from last time. First of all, after the estrogen debacle that almost cancelled the transfer last time, we are switching from estrogen patches to injections. Bleh. But, I clearly didn't respond well to the patches last time, so I totally understand and agree with the change. Also, at my request, they are going to follow my natural menstrual cycle instead of manipulating it with birth control. Last time, I ended up having an 11 day cycle before the transfer and I feel like that really threw off my clock. I've always had a pretty regular 28 day cycle and felt really out of whack when it changed so significantly.
As far as a schedule, we are planning to do the embryo transfer in mid-December. That gives me about six weeks for acupuncture and detoxing all of the caffeine and alcohol I introduced into my system last month. Here we go again.
I hate it when there are no answers. I had the same thing happen with my failed FET in September. I was a picture perfect cycle with everything just like they wanted it. And it didn't work. We attempted again this month, but I wrote a whole post on how that went to hell in a hand basket rather quickly. We are now waiting until after the new year so as not to interfere with my daughter's birthday or have a loss of failed cycle around the holidays. We've done the loss thing twice around the holidays and well, I don't want to do that again.
ReplyDeleteWishing you the best of luck...Natural cycles are nice, but unfortunately for me after my first perfect cycle my cycle went all wonky so we'll be doing a little bit of stimulation next time. I hope you are successful this cycle and will be thinking of you! GO acupuncture and detox!
Praying for you Krysta, and Ryan!!
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