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We have been trying to conceive for six months now. I have been using OPKs and timing intercourse the whole time, as well as using mucinex and preseed consistently, to no avail. My cervical mucus at the time of ovulation is thick, like a glob of rubber cement. My cycle is otherwise normal, my weight is healthy, etc. My lungs are really good…my issues are mostly GI and sinus stuff. CF doc is good with a pregnancy.
I am late 20’s, so no one seems concerned about this length of time. I know 6 months is very, so in some ways my brain tells me to suck it up and keep trying. I am not yet upset that it hasn’t happened. Six months is normal, and I know it. I think if I didn’t have CF, I’d be optimistic. However, knowing that with CF it is likely that I’ll have problems, I am now pretty discouraged. I feel like if it was going to happen on its own, it would have within 6 months. I think “there must be an issue, right?” I have (maybe irrationally) convinced myself that the fact that we have not succeeded within six months means it won’t happen anytime in the near future. And that possibility has me quite upset.
We are seeing a reproductive endocrinologist – mostly initiated to get some genetic testing and stuff done upfront (all good). He says he’ll be as aggressive as we want him to be, but that he doesn’t yet want to do anything unless we WANT him to. My thought is…if it hasn’t happened in six months, shouldn’t we go ahead and do something? Is there any chance it will still happen on its own? Has anyone here (with female with CF) NOT succeeded for six months or more and then succeeded without any changes? (and remember, I have been using mucinex and preseed, timing intercourse, lying down elevated after intercourse, etc. etc. already for six months).
I feel isolated and deficient. All of my friends have kids or are expecting, so we seem to get baby shower and kid birthday party invitations weekly. Or the dreaded FB pregnancy announcement with the cheesy picture revealing the surprise. Watching my husband look wistfully at kids has about tipped me over the edge. Five babies got baptized the other day at church…I cried and had to walk out. Seriously, that is embarrassing, and very much unlike me! I am honestly having more trouble emotionally with this than I have anything else with CF. I feel silly admitting that after only six months. I know people reading this are probably rolling their eyes after trying for years, thinking I should get a grip. But I think I have always accepted that I have CF and the disease stuff will happen, yet held out hope that fertility would be normal?
I am late 20’s, so no one seems concerned about this length of time. I know 6 months is very, so in some ways my brain tells me to suck it up and keep trying. I am not yet upset that it hasn’t happened. Six months is normal, and I know it. I think if I didn’t have CF, I’d be optimistic. However, knowing that with CF it is likely that I’ll have problems, I am now pretty discouraged. I feel like if it was going to happen on its own, it would have within 6 months. I think “there must be an issue, right?” I have (maybe irrationally) convinced myself that the fact that we have not succeeded within six months means it won’t happen anytime in the near future. And that possibility has me quite upset.
We are seeing a reproductive endocrinologist – mostly initiated to get some genetic testing and stuff done upfront (all good). He says he’ll be as aggressive as we want him to be, but that he doesn’t yet want to do anything unless we WANT him to. My thought is…if it hasn’t happened in six months, shouldn’t we go ahead and do something? Is there any chance it will still happen on its own? Has anyone here (with female with CF) NOT succeeded for six months or more and then succeeded without any changes? (and remember, I have been using mucinex and preseed, timing intercourse, lying down elevated after intercourse, etc. etc. already for six months).
I feel isolated and deficient. All of my friends have kids or are expecting, so we seem to get baby shower and kid birthday party invitations weekly. Or the dreaded FB pregnancy announcement with the cheesy picture revealing the surprise. Watching my husband look wistfully at kids has about tipped me over the edge. Five babies got baptized the other day at church…I cried and had to walk out. Seriously, that is embarrassing, and very much unlike me! I am honestly having more trouble emotionally with this than I have anything else with CF. I feel silly admitting that after only six months. I know people reading this are probably rolling their eyes after trying for years, thinking I should get a grip. But I think I have always accepted that I have CF and the disease stuff will happen, yet held out hope that fertility would be normal?