There isn't much to report - the RE said we should wait 2 months to retest my husband, so we're continuing the male fertility supplement and we've added acupuncture and a Chinese herbal prescription. We're hoping that when he is retested, we'll be able to find out if any of these things have been helping him and if not, stop them and save some money.
On my end, I'm continuing acupuncture. Jill, our acupuncturist, had me take a week and a half off (mostly to save money) and when I went back last week, it hurt! Every point that is associated with stress or worry was painful plus, AF was back to sneaking in the back door again. Jill and I decided that skipping weeks was not a good idea for me.
Since it's mostly male infertility we're dealing with, we're not too hopeful about the acupuncture and we're thinking ahead to the next step. I'm ready to go for IVF. Since the RE thinks we are good candidates and since I won't need some of the really painful hip injections following the transfer, I think I can get up my nerve to give myself SC injections. After all, as a vet tech I used to give them to dogs and cats all the time, I should be able to handle this! My husband just has a few philosophical/moral concerns, the biggest being that all the embryos that are created end up "in a woman" (as he puts it), either me or adopted out. I think we both know that will not be a problem, but we'll both feel better hearing it from the doctor. And then we both wonder, once we harvest (what a weird term for that!), fertilize, and transfer some of the embryos, will I have to go through the same set of drugs and injections before transferring more when we want more children, or can we just cut to the transfer?
But for now, we sit and wait and think and pray.
