Unexplained Infertility

This is to all of my fertilely-challenged sisters out there struggling with that strong innate desire to have a baby.  Ok, so I have never blogged before but I really wanted to share my experience with other girls who are dealing with infertility.  I have been married since January 2005 and have not been on BC.  We were not technically trying the first year of marriage but we definitely weren't doing anything to prevent pregnancy.  My husband is in the Navy and for the first 3 years he was out to sea a lot and I just assumed the timing was the issue of why we weren't getting pregnant.  Although, even then when he was home for my fertile times I never got pregnant and I did wonder why but didn't put too much thought into it.  Plus, at that time he would have possibly been out to sea throughout any possible pregnancy I could have had which would have been really sad.  So it all worked out then.  But now we have been together every day since March 2008 and have continued to not conceive, even after lots of trying.  We started doing fertility treatments in late summer 2008, got pregnant the first time I used Clomid but it ended quickly at 6 weeks.  The doctor said this was common so we waited the recommended 3 months before trying again.  At that time I took Clomid again without success.  In April 2009 we went through an IUI cycle, where everything looked promising for pregnancy although we did not accomplish pregnancy then either.  We got pretty discouraged and just went back to trying on our own again.  Then in March 2010 we tried Clomid again for the 3rd and final time at a doubled dose.  This also did not work for us.  Each time we had a negative pregnancy test our discouragement compounded.  Finally, we did another IUI in October 2010 which went very well, my eggs matured well and everything looked perfect to the docs again but still, no pregnancy.  This brings us to the present time.  It is recommended to do no more than 3 IUI procedures because the chances go down after no success with 3.  Even though we could do one more IUI, my husband and I have decided to go with IVF as we truly feel that whatever mechanism is not letting us get pregnant naturally may be the same one that is not letting us get pregnant with the IUI.  So far we have the diagnosis of UNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY with the possibility of me having Endometriosis or my husband's sperm lacking the enzyme that helps fertilize the egg.  Either way, we need some help.  IVF answers both those possible issues by bypassing the problems.  This is the reason for this blog, to provide a day by day diary of my IVF experience.  I hope to not only help some other ladies in my same situation but to also give me a reason to stay positive throughout.  I think that blogging will help me to be strong for all of you as I try to set a good example.  I know infertility is a lonely thing to go through since no one can truly understand what you are going through unless they too have experienced it.  This is my attempt at helping somebody out there not feel so alone.  We are planned for IVF to start in Mid-December 2010.