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It must be very hard to go through infertility treatments
and not to be able to trust the 'lack of period' as meaning
you are pregnant.
My wife and I also went through years of various treatments.
But each month her period would come, and we would mourn
the death of our dream.
We did the GIFT treatment twice, where her eggs are removed from
the ovaries and fertilized in a dish and then placed back in
the ends of the fallopian tubes. The second time we did that,
we went in for a blood test that showed she was pregnant. We
were overjoyed for a few days. And then her period started just
like 'normal'.
The test measures the existance of certain hormones. I suspect these
can result from the fertilization of the egg and sperm. We assumed
in my wife's case that the fertilized egg had not attached to the
uterine wall and her pregnancy did not 'take'. These pregnancy
tests are VERY sensitive, and probably over the years she would have
measured 'positive' many times. But she was never really pregnant.
Years later my wife got pregnant when we were not doing any
medical interventions at all. We had by then adopted 3 kids, and this
was quite a shock. Since then we have carefully used birth control,
perhaps quite unnecessarily. Its all quite a mystery.
bob
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Hi Chan,
I too took fertility drugs, Pergonal, and experienced a - + -.
Yes, it was extremely disheartening. In my case I had a
negative home pregnancy test, followed by a faintly positive one
a couple days later. A few days after that I had a positive blood
test and really believed I was pregnant. Unfortunately, about a week
later I had another blood test and it showed that I was NOT pregnant.
It was just a case of fertilization without implantation as mentioned
in .1.
However, I successfully (almost too successfully, see 455) became
pregnant with the help of Pergonal immediately following that
experience and have a wonderful 21 month year old son. I attempted
one more cycle last year and now have a set of 6 month old twins,
a boy and a girl. So, despite having no monthly cycles (without drugs)
for the past 6 years, I was able to have a beautiful, at times
crazy, family.
Good Luck,
Nancy
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