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Shea and Melissa- Thanks for y'alls support and understanding that it can be hard no matter how long you've been trying. I think for me it's hard because even though I haven't been "trying" for that long, I was diagnosed with hormonal problems last summer. I stopped getting regular periods and started lactating then. I thought maybe I had accidentally gotten pregnant and was actually so happy, just to be crushed to find out I wasn't pregnant and that it was my hormones and that I may have some trouble when I decided I wanted to TTC. Then I started ttc and went months without ovulating or menstruating. I felt prepubescent again, minus my lactating! I started my ttc journey knowing fertility wouldn't be easy for me (or at least as easy as it is for others). And then after I was told I may never be able to carry a baby to term (Praise God that was a misdiagnosis) that was when it really hit me and hurt me. So even though now I know I can and will get pregnant somehow and that I haven't been trying for that long yet, I've emotionally lived through the possibility of infertility, and I still know now that my hormonal problems may make it more difficult than others.

The two weeks that I wasn't sure if I would ever be able to have a healthy pregnancy changed me so much (it was in those weeks that I created this thread). In many ways, I feel like those two weeks aged me twenty years. I think I will actually be a better mother now for that. I will also be way more sensitive to others around me, especially couples who don't have children because I may never know if they are ttc and having difficulty.

I wish more people were understanding and sympathetic to our struggles.

I love all of you ladies!!!!

Aisha-are you on any meds for the prolactin?

temp dropped again, now below coverline... af will probably be here later today.

Joy- Oh no hun! I know I can't say anything to make you feel better right now, but please know I'll be thinking about you and praying for you!

Melissa- No. It isn't high enough and the meds for it are really tough! I've tried some herbals and they haven't helped. But I did O easily on clomid without any real side effects, so that seemed to do the trick! I just need to wait to start my next cycle with that.

Joy, we will be cycle buddies this time around. big hugs.

Aisha, I'm starting clomid this cycle too, just to give myself a boost to hopefully help out DH's swimmers.

It scares me a little, because I don't want to hyperstimulate.

Aisha, it doesn't matter how long you have been trying. Being told that it may never happen for you is devastating and it changes your outlook on life drastically. It makes you question your goals and you self worth. I have only been trying for about 6 months, but I am aware that there is about a 30% chance that it won't happen for me because of PCOS. I am so glad to hear that you had a misdiagnosis, but what you have gone through in the mean time was one of the hardest thing that most women will ever experience and it is irritating that anyone would try to down play that just because they have been on this roller coaster longer. It is painful regardless of how long it has been going on.

Some good news for you guys. no i'm not pregnant but I finally got in for the hsg test next thursday.. can't believe how excited i am bout getting dye shoved into my uterus,BUT finally something is happening.....

That is awesome news!!

Take some painkillers before you go in. Good luck! I hope it shows clear tubes!

Aroma- Yay for progress!!!!! Maybe this will do the trick!

aromatherapy: Good Luck! I am going tomorrow for hsg and I will tell you how it goes!