First IUI-- piece of CAKE!

Literally!!  A piece of CAKE!  I was shocked at how easy/fast the procedure was.  If you haven't had one before or don't know anything about it, I'll explain:

I'll start at the beginning of my journey--

• Period starts, day 1 of the cycle
• Medications
• Days 3-7 letrozole 5mg (helps ovulation)
• Every day 1500mg of metformin (Glucophage)
• Day 10 of my cycle I had an HSG done.  This is where they insert a catheter into your cervix and insert dye into your uterus to check for blockages in the fallopian tubes and uterine abnormalities.  Mine showed a slight problem with my uterus that may require surgery to fix, but Dr. M assured me we could try this cycle with IUI, but if I have another miscarriage we will have to revisit the surgery option.  By the way, this procedure hurts like HELL and was certainly NOT a piece of cake! 
• Day 12- Midcycle ultrasound.  This checks for follicle size.  Generally a lot of people will trigger this day, but my follicles weren't big enough to do this yet.
• Day 16- We rechecked my follicles and I had one that was big enough to use.  We had hoped for more follicles, but one is truly all you need.  We decided that I would trigger my follicle to release on this day.  So, I had to check an ovulation kit at 5pm, if it was positive, I would give myself the trigger and do the IUI the next day, if it was negative I would do the trigger at 10pm and do the IUI two days later.  I ended up triggering at 10pm.
• Day 18-  IUI time!  We had to be there at 8am to drop off a semen sample--after dropping the sample off we had to wait 1 hour for them to prepare the specimen for use.  During this prep they do something called washing.  Washing the sperm, gets rid of all the "bad" sperm and leaves the good ones.  When we first found out one of our problems, we didn't think that we would even be able to use IUI, but today was an amazing day.  His counts were super great--compared to what they were when we first found out.  Now comes the "fun" part.  After they prepare the specimen it's GO time-- the place a speculum in and prep the cervix, they then place a catheter and slowly push in the sperm sample.  After the sample has been placed, I had to sit for 15 minutes and then I got to leave. 

I would repeat this process, because it was so easy.  Now I pray I don't have to, but if necessary, I would.  Now I get to use progesterone suppositories for the next 2 weeks & if I'm pregnant the next 10 weeks.  So if I seem a bit "hormonal", just give me some CAKE!