Okay, I'm going insane.
My DH and I had planned to take a nice vacation this month (we were thinking of going to the carribean) since we're taking a break from treatment so we can finally have a real vacation. But of course that wasn't meant to be.
My work decided that they're switching our insurance in January. Which is actually really good news since the new insurance covers 2 IVFs (although with no more than 2 embryos transfered at one time). So that means we have a little more time before we get to the poor house, right?
But I still had that one IVF cycle left from my old insurance (since we just used one from that insurance). So of course I'm not one to throw $10,000 into the garbage. So there went our break. But it was for a good cause -- for 1 more chance at a baby. So it was worth it, even though I wasn't yet ready to try agin, right?
WRONG!
I went to the RE yesterday, after having taken provera to bring on a period, but for some reason, the provera decided that this would be the perfect time NOT to work. So I bled just enough to make me nidda (yippee -- sarcasm, sarcasm) but not enough to actually get rid of my lining. So my RE said he really thinks I need to take another round of provera, but if I do, we won't be done before January, so I'll lose this cycle. So he said I should just do the cycle anyway even though my lining's thick.
Anyway, after going back and forth about this, we decided I should come in tomorrow in case maybe, by some miracle, my lining disappeared on it's own, even though I did not bleed much more since the last appointment.
But now I don't know what to do. Do I just do a cycle when my body's not really ready to start it, or do I not do it now and lose one of my few IVF cycles that I can do for free. So basically, I ended my break for nothing and lost my long awaited vacation with my hubby for nothing. Isn't this just so my life?
The one time my body doesn't respond to provera is the one time I'm really on a tight deadline to complete this cycle...
Now I have to decide what to do tomorrow... Any advice from any of you out there??
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I'm probably responding too late, but, I would have gone in this morning. There have been at least 3 times when I got ready to start an IVF cycle and they saw that my lining was too thick. I would not bleed at all that day, go back the next day, and it would be fine!
As for starting a cycle, if your lining cooperates, I know it's hard to squeeze one in, but, since it is a free cycle, really, there's nothing to lose, so, I would try to get it in! It's good that your clinic would let you do one. The ones I've worked with all had a lab shutdown the last two weeks of December, so, this would have been too late for me to start.
And, insurance limits you to two embryos? Wow! I never heard that one!!
Insurance plans really suck. I have no prescription plan, and pay over $200 for every drug each month and at least a $52 copay at every appointment with about at least 2 appointments a week. And this insurance plan won't cover IVF at all. I'll therefore have to agree with how bad insurance plans are.
I actually had a new insurance plan option offered this year which was really really cheap a month and I'd save so much money - and it had a prescription plan, but my doctor wasn't on it, and even if he was, it only covered 15 appointments with the same doctor for one year - and I go way more than 15 times! I feel as if I must be dying to be going to the doctor that many times, but 15 is so little compared to how many times I see my doctor!
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