To IVF or not to IVF? That is the question.

So, we went to the fertility doctor this morning. All went fine, I think it freaked Jason out a bit because he has never been in any place like that before. When we first walked in they put us in an exam room and he was kind of spooked by the exam chair and stirrups and all but I told him not to worry...lol. When the doctor was ready he took us into his office so that help Jason relax a little. The plan right now is to take the Provera to get me on regular periods again for the next 3 months and then in January we will start all the fun injections and stuff.

Here is the issue. When we got there the receptionist had me fill out all the paperwork and stuff again since it had been a while since I had been in. When she ran my insurance benefits it said we had IVF coverage. Well I have been down this road before. At the beginning of this year when my boss started trying to have a baby she was told the same thing, knowing that I would be interested in that info she told me about it. I called the insurance company to confirm and was told that they do not cover it. Now, I know they renegotiate our health benefits every year so its possible something could have changed. I spoke to my HR rep once I got to work and she called our insurance rep and the rep says that she does not know for sure if its covered or not, everything she is looking at leads her to believe its not but she is going to do some more checking and let me know.

So now I am not sure what the plan is. If its not covered we have a couple of options. We could give IUI another shot or my thoughts are that we do IVF, pay the deductible up front, and then let the doctor's office submit the claim to the insurance company and see if they will pay it. If they pay it, that is fabulous, if they don't then we can arrange to pay the doctor's office in payments. I could handle payments. I just can handle $8000 in one chunk. I have 3 more months to decide. IVF has a way higher success rate than IUI but IUI is way cheaper so it will definitely take some thought.

For those unfamiliar with all this IUI and IVF talk. IUI stands for Intra-Uterine Insemination, this is where they inject the sperm directly into the uterus so it doesn't have to survive the "swim" as long and you have a better chance of 1 sperm finding the egg since there are more of them. IVF is In-vitro fertilization, this is where they will do an egg retrieval from me, and then they inject the sperm directly into the egg in a petri dish and then place the egg in my uterus and hope it attaches itself. Its not exactly that simple but I don't know all the specifics yet so that is the gist of it.

That's all for today!

Here we go again!

So we are going next Wednesday to the fertility doctor. We want to try again after the first of the year so we want to get an action plan kind of laid out so that if there is anything we need to do now we can go ahead and get started. Its taken some time but I think I am ready for this again. Its emotionally draining but I have had a good amount of time off from it and maybe this time we will have success! I will keep this updated as much as possible as soon as there is something to report.

FINGERS CROSSED! Any prayers are much appreciated!