I love my RE!

Even though it's been nearly 2 years since I was at the RE's office, it was like I never left.  The same warm, familiar faces excitedly greeted me.  When I was sitting in the waiting room, one of the medical assistants walked by and recognized me.  She was the one who did 90% of my blood draws and cried with me when I would break down getting my betas (waiting to hit 0) during the chemical pregnancy.  She hugged me and wanted to see pics of Maddie.  When the RE came out, she also hugged me and asked all about Maddie.

As we started the consult she asked when I wanted to get started because we would just induce a period since we know I'm not going to ovulate on my own.  I love that about her.  No beating around the bush bullshit about trying on our own a little longer.  She obviously wants to re-do a bunch of bloodwork and a semen analysis for S.  And the dreaded HSG.  Sigh.  I was pretty sure I'd have to do it, and it makes sense, but I had such a bad experience last time.  She calmed my fears some by explaining how they do it is different than most radiology places.  For one, they don't use that damn balloon or teneculum.  Thank God.  She also said if I got someone to drive me, she'd prescribe me a valium :)  She rocks!

She also found out that we are completely out of pocket this time, so instead of doing all injectibles, she suggested we do clomid and injectibles to save some money.  She said the chances of getting pregnant are the same no matter which we do.  And I can vouch for that since I got pregnant with both of those protocols the first time.  So the plan right now is to get some bloodwork done, SA for S, get me back on metformin, and then when I am ready (prob the 1st of the year) induce a period so we can schedule the HSG.  I'm not sure if we would do meds the same cycle or not.

I am so excited to be doing this again, but slightly terrified that we won't be as lucky as we were last time.  Will do my best to stay positive!