We Have A Plan

We finally have a set plan for what comes next in our infertility journey. Today was the day that we met with Dr. Foulk again. As always, Dr. Foulk was throwing humor into everything which was nice. He really is such a great doctor to work with.

Right now we have 2 options left. We can either do option #1, then if that doesn't work proceed with option #2, or we can just jump to option #2 and skip a step.

Option #1:

Try 3 more IUIs but with a different medicines. Instead of taking Clomid I would use Femara, FSH injections, and the HCG trigger shot. (cost $4500)

Option #2:

Invitro-fertilization (cost $15K-$20K)

There are pros and cons with each option. Since I did get pregnant with the first IUI there is always a chance it will happen again with IUI treatment. However the concern is that the pregnancy I had was another ectopic so my body didn't hold the pregnancy. There is a chance it also wasn't though, there is no way of telling. The only reason that the IUIs wouldn't work is if there were problems with my tubes that can't be detected. IUIs are also cheaper than IVF. The pro of IVF is that it would bypass the tubes. However it is a LOT more expensive.

After discussing it all with Dr. Foulk, he highly suggested starting with option #1. It doesn't cost as much, it still has a good chance of working from the things that we know for sure are going on, and less invasive. If it works that would be amazing and if not then at least we tried and will know for sure that IVF is the best option. If we jump to IVF we might always wonder if it would have worked going the other route. He did say we could jump to IVF though if that is the route we felt we needed to go.

We really trust Dr. Foulk's opinion and after discussing it further we have decided to go with option #1. We don't know exactly when this will all occur but we do know that is the direction we are working towards right now. We will start the next IUI treatment as soon as we have everything saved up, at least that is the plan right now. We are hopeful and excited having another plan in place. Now on to saving up and making it all happen.