My first IUI cycle just failed. I’m 33F with no known fertility issues. My husband 33M has a varicocele that impacts his numbers. After 11 months of trying on our own, our doctor said IUI would be a great step and his numbers would be good for it.
Although I don’t have any known issues on my end, they put me on letrozole, then pregnyl for a trigger, and progesterone support. When we did the IUI the SA post wash was 3.8 million and the tech who performed the procedure said that’s less than ideal but they still proceeded. The first cycle just failed and they immediately got me going for a second round. I pulled the brakes because so far the process has felt like an IUI mill. I only spoke once with my doctor for our initial meeting appointment. Since then i spoke to various nurses who never seem to be on the same page and when i asked questions I’m told it’s just procedure.
I asked to talk to the doc before starting my next (even though i had to come in yesterday for my first monitoring appointment of the cycle). The doctor’s first availability isn’t until Thursday, but I pestered the nurses enough to at least have the nurse talk with the doc today because they set me up to go ahead and start again with medicine today. So the nurse talked with her and the doc said that because I’ll be traveling at the end of this month (when my cycle ends) she wouldn’t be comfortable doing an IUI in case there’d be an ectopic she’d want to be able to monitor for. And then secondly because of the post wash semen numbers, she said she isn’t sure if IUI is the right path in general.
I’m just so annoyed because if I didn’t keep pestering and pushing them to talk with her they would have just set me right back up to start again this cycle. I already drove in yesterday for my first monitoring appointment for the cycle and for no reason now and I don’t live close either. I’m feeling very frustrated with this process and hopeless. Not sure what to do next.