Where to begin! 9/10/10

My husband and I were married February 5, 2010 and decided that we would love to start a family right away. Never in our wildest dreams would we have thought it would have been hard. I remember being told numerous times in high school that all it takes is one time. I swear in Sex Ed I was even told that sharing soap with someone in the shower could possibly get you pregnant so I made sure at the age of sixteen I would go on birth control and stay on it until I was sure I wanted kids.  Fast forward 10 years and I was ready. I went off the Nuva Ring in June and was sure by August I would be pregnant. July came around and I got my period really late and I completely skipped August and got my period sometime in September. My cycles were really weird and I was also losing a lot of hair.  By December I knew something wasn't right and was maybe dealing with some sort of thyroid issue. Hair loss and weight gain...two things a woman does not want to have to deal with.

I scheduled an appt with my physician and she thought it would be wise to do a blood panel. When the results came back my thyroid was fine, but my adrenal glands had shown some very high levels of the DHEA hormone and since we were actively trying to get pregnant she told me to seek a Reproductive Endocrinologist. I have to admit, I had to go home and google what an RE was. For those of you who still don't know it is a doctor who specializes in your hormones. He will be the one who will figure out why I am not getting pregnant and what in my body is causing it. With my high levels of DHEA there were also high levels of testosterone, cortisol etc. His plan of action was to lower all these levels in the next few months and hopefully we would achieve pregnancy. Well, lets skip to six months later shall we...

June had come around and my husband who is serving in the Coast Guard was up for transfer. This would mean putting our doctor visits on hold and transferring to his new unit in NYC. This was good news for us. If you were looking for the best doctor's in the country where would you want to be, in NYC. Two months later and settled in we found a fertility specialist. We discussed our last doctor's plan with us and quickly realized that our last doctor may have been a little behind the times. This doctor was not thrilled with the treatment he had for us and decided to move quickly. He ordered up blood work and scheduled an HSG. The blood work was to show us if we were ovulating and numerous other things I can't remember off the top of my head and the HSG was to let the doctor know if my tubes were open and clear. This would be a quick in and out procedure at the hospital. They basically lay you down on an xray table and inject a dye into your tubes. The dye will either go through your tubes nice and easy or they will show blockages. luckily, the dye went through, but did show some very small narrowing on one side. This didn't seem to alert the doctor and assured us that this wasn't the issue.

After that test, it was obvious Mike would have to do his part. As the good husband he is, he had no problem dropping a sample off at the clinic to be evaluated. A few days later we found out he is not the problem. With that being said, our next cycle was determined. We were going to be trying the infamous "CLOMID." For those of you who are not familiar, Clomid is a pill you take for 5 days and will stimulate ovulation.  Not only will it stimulate ovulation but it will bring out the evil bitch within you.