Hope cycles and Colorado recommendations/prohibitions

It is 6dp5dt and my hope seems to have diminished - am now feeling decidedly unpregnant. No crampiness, and at the moment every other symptom is seemingly potentially medication-related. Sigh. It's almost like a circadian rhythm, this hopefulness/hopelessness cycling upward and downward. When I think of my hope, I visualize Megan's lovely hope-o-meter, with my hope going up and then back down again precipitously. Will and I decided not to test (or at least not to look) until tomorrow morning, just to save ourselves any needless grief. We will use a First Response Early Result Test at that time. Gulp.

In a weird way, I am relieved to know I can still feel hope - even tenuously and intermittently - as the feeling of hope has been in such short supply since our fifth miscarriage. This two week wait is the first time I've really felt that maybe we could succeed, really been able to connect with that inside myself emotionally, rather than in just an intellectual way. I'm glad to know I'm still capable of allowing for the possibility of success. That may not make much sense to those who haven't walked in our shoes, but I guess the many consecutive disappointments have taken their toll.

As promised, here are a few details about my Colorado FET prep and their post-transfer recommendations. These are just some of the things that stick out in my mind since they differ from my prior clinic.

First, I started an anti-inflammatory/anti-allergy cocktail two days before transfer that they've used for some women with recurrent miscarriage. It consists of:

10 mg prednisone once a day

10 mg Claritin once a day

20 mg Pepcid in morning and at night

Also, because they diagnosed me with a blood flow restriction to my uterus, I have been advised to have no caffeine, no chocolate, and not even decaff coffee/tea or cola for the month prior to transfer or after transfer. In addition, they prescribed 2x/week electro acupuncture protocol to increase uterine blood flow.

They have acupuncturists come into the transfer room and do a 25-minute treatment just prior to and just after the transfer (acupuncturists are not allowed to come to my old clinic).

No acupuncture is advised after this, though, not during the 2ww or at any time in pregnancy (except for nausea) - as my nurse has said they have found a slight increase in miscarriage rates.

The Colorado clinic requires 48 hours of bedrest after transfer, which is much different than my old clinic's half hour rest and then back to usual activities.

Those are the major differences that come to mind. Let me know if you had specific other questions and I'll try to respond in the comments section.

If wishing could make pregnancy happen, we would have succeeded so many times over by now.

We'll see what tomorrow brings. Thanks for hanging in there with us as we wait.

Mo

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