The Long Story

I'll try not to make it too long though!  In April 2009 I "pulled the goalie" and stopped birth control.  Being the control freak/pefectionist that I am I also started temping to make sure that I was ovulating.  Thanks to lurking around TTC message boards I was armed with all the knowledge I thought I needed to get pregnant.  I gave myself  a cushion to adjust to being off birth control and figured I'd be pregnant by December/January.  Ha!  Well I ended up pregnant in December but 2010!

The first cycle was normalish, a little long at 45 days but showed I ovulated.  Yay me.  Then evidently all hell broke loose in my body.  I didn't have a normal cycle again.  I ended up taking Provera two times to induce a period and was referred to a specialist (RE) in December 2009.  Our appointment was the day before my husband's 30th birthday and even though he never said anything, I know thats not quite how he expected his bday weekend to go.

So they took some bloodwork and we sat down to talk to the doctor.  He was very nice and went through the testing we needed to have done, the first steps to take and then said ok let's do an ultrasound.  A whaaat now???  I was not prepared for the vag cam that day!  I got over it and right away he says "Ok, see these black spots?"  "Yes" "Looks like polycystic ovary syndrome and over here you have a cyst that we have to watch." 
Commence freakout.
I stayed pretty calm in the office but as soon as we got to the car, I poured over the pamphlets he gave us and freaked out, basically.  My husband was much calmer and said well now we know and we can do something about it.  Which was true but didn't help!

So fast forward to Feb 2010, had laproscopic surgery to remove the cyst.  Then started clomid April 2010.  Clomid again May and June.  All 3 cycles I ovulated (yay) and did IUI but no baby (boo).  Then we switched to injectable meds plus IUI.  I didn't respond well to the injectables and ended up on progesterone suppositories since my 7dpo progesterone levels were soooo low.  Like wouldn't think I ovulated except for the fact that I used an hcg trigger low.  Tried that 2 cycles.

Went to try for the third and final cycle before IVF and I had a huge cyst leftover from the prior cycle so they told me to wait a cycle.  Commence freakout again.