IUI attempts in Lincoln

After trying to conceive naturally wasn't resulting in two pink lines, our OB suggested we try a common medication called Clomid.  We started in January 2013 and would take progesterone for 10 days to start my cycle then day 5-9 would take Clomid 50mg pill every day, after going in for two ultrasounds we found that none of my follicles were large enough to do anything with. So we stopped and cancelled this cycle.

The average woman in an average cycle will produce 1-2 mature follicles/eggs that are 18-30mm in diameter.  Although PCOS women have many follicles they are usually are very immature and even if they are released would not be large enough to be inseminated.

Knowing that I didn't respond well to the 50mg of Clomid we tried another round of Clomid in February this time bumping it up to 100-150mg.  Sadly, after two ultrasounds to measure my growing follicles, the largest one we had was 13mm, not big enough to do anything with.  We sat down with Dr. Friesen our wonderful OB that said he thought we might be to the point of needing injections to help stimulate my ovaries into producing mature follicles.  His hunch at that time was that we were going to need to do Invitro Fertilization (IVF) which at that point I was completely against and was hoping and praying we wouldn't have to go that far.  Not that IVF is against my beliefs, religion or I wouldn't do it, it just sounded so scary.  It sounded so expensive and it sounded so final.

Dr. Friesen encouraged us to make an appointment with a Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE) who is a specialist of conceiving one could say.  Thankfully a co-worker of mine had encouraged me a few weeks earlier to contact and get on the long schedule for a primary appointment with Dr. Maud Doherty a RE at Methodist Women's Hospital in Omaha.  After we had Dr. Friesen's blessing to go to Omaha we called weekly to see if there were any canceled appointments that we could snag so that we could get in and start the process earlier.  Much to our surprise we were able to get our first appointment with Dr. Maud on February 20, 2013.