No IUI this time, but hoping for change in the New Year

I realize I haven't updated in a while, so I thought I'd go ahead and get it over with while I'm thinking about it.  At Thanksgiving, I started my first combination round of treatment. That meant that in addition to the Clomid, Estrace, and Metformin I've been taking, I also did Gonal F injections. Ultrasound day came and I didn't get my hopes up at all. As usual, it was easy to see that the meds still aren't working. My ovaries are still not working.

My nurse was super-nice this time and started telling me about all these success stories of former patients who had been struggling like me to get pregnant and just out of the blue, were calling to report they were pregnant. It lifted my spirits a bit and she told me that next round, we'll try Menopur instead to see if I will react to that. I have been asking around and it sounds like it works for a lot of people, so hopefully it will do the trick for me. I am supposed to test after Christmas just to see if I will fall into that group of random success stories, but I don't feel any different at the moment, so I'm sure I'm not pregnant. The day I get a positive pregnancy test, I'll probably fall on the floor in disbelief.

AF has been pretty regular for me since we jump-started it back in September. Hopefully, it will be more of the same this time. I'm really thinking that we'll probably take this next cycle off because I want to focus on the holidays, rather than worry about the cost of ultrasounds and medications. When the new year starts, my flex money starts over and we'll be able to save more money to pay for all this.