FSH & the next step

Well good news, Mark got the Go ahead from his Dr. So he is good to go with the IVF. I went in the other day and had more Blood taken to test my FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone) Your FSH level is the Main Hormone involved in producing Mature healthy egg's. My level was a 3.5 and they said it was a good level and that my Ovaries will respond well to the Stimulation injections they are going to put me on. 

They told me to start the Birth Control they prescribed to me. Birth Control i know! You are probably asking why birth control when i cant get pregnant as it is, Well the reason the prescribe birth control is to suppress my body from ovulating naturally. IVF is planned to the hour so the Birth Control puts everything on hold until i start Injections.

Acupuncture

After our failed 6 month attempt on Clomid, Our next step was heavier fertility drugs. I knew their had to be one more shot before having to inject my body with all of the intense hormones, I had heard about Acupuncture and infertility but never thought twice about going to it until my friend Kacey had mentioned that she had gone and it worked for her. She recommended me to a Dr. in Santa Monica that she went too. I made an appointment and went to see her, She talked to me and told me about all sorts of interesting things about your body. How your spleen, Kidney and liver are all big factors in your reproductive system. I wasn't so sure about it, It all sounded like a bunch of Hocus Pocus but i went along with it, I mean at that point why not! Acupuncture ended up being AMAZING i went from not ovulating on my own to ovulating, Feeling so much better and healthier, Sleeping better and feeling better overall.

  When Dr. Kolb told us that we had to go forward with IVF for a baby i immediately cancelled my appointments after i silently freaked out about how much the IVF was going to cost us i didn't want to add another cost of Acupuncture along with it. Since i am a nut on the computer and Google i thought why not look up Acupuncture and IVF and well it turns out that while going through Acupuncture and IVF increases your success rate, So after mark and i talked about it (and i was secretly obsessed with it) we decided that if we are going to spend this much money for it might as well make my body as healthy as we possibly can for the IVF. So today i started with a new Acupuncturist in La Canada (I was sad to leave my old Dr but glad that we didn't have to make that hour drive in traffic once a week) I had my first appointment with her today and she is AMAZING i have high hopes with her. I am going to continue going once a week until i start with the Injections than she wants to see me twice a week until the Egg Retrieval. Than the day of the Egg transfer i will have a 25 minute session with her before the transfer and she will come to the Dr's office with us and do another 25 minute session immediately following the transfer while i am laying in the Dr's office to calm my uterus and accept the Egg. Who knows if it will help but at this point why not!