I can’t say that I am super surprised. They say “at my age” you’ll have less eggs than someone that is say, 28. Diminished ovarian reserve; a fancy way of saying you don’t have a lot of eggs left. All I hear is all the times I heard “your biological clock is ticking”. Why is fertility so weird? So biased? Yes, I said biased. A man can have children well into his 80’s, do you ever hear diminished sperm reserve?
My doctor said this was to be expected and while it is low it isn’t “very low” and we will just order more Menopur. What is Menopur you ask? Oh, so glad you asked. It is one of the injections I will be using to “stimulate follicles and stimulate ovulation”. Basically trying to put as many eggs in one basket as we can. Added hormones and added cost. We ordered my medications for “stim week” today for a grand total of $3818.89. This of course was before we have to order more Menopur.
I worry, I’ve questioned if we should do this. What if we go through all of this and we get nothing. No eggs fertilize and turn into a 5 day blastocyst? Then we have gone through all this trouble, all this money, all this time and hope to come out with nothing to show for it. Then my sweet husband looks at me and says “then we have done it together, you’re my teammate and we will get through it together.” That’s all we can do is try, pray, hope we can get 1 good blastocyst, just one… two would be AMAZING. Meds will be here in exactly 7 days and in exactly 14 days we go to the doctor to learn how and when to inject them. If we could do this on faith my husband would get us through on his own. I just wish I had his optimism.
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