Month 20- Ending of October 2012 Starting IVF,Talk to a friend's friend who did ivf with my Dr, Birth control pills, I order all the ivf meds

I am going into this very scared, and not knowing anything of what to really expect. All I can think about is having over stimulated ovaries that could burst, being sick, having like 10 frozen babies lost in time, my husband getting sick of me being sick and moody... Lots of scary thoughts and no one to talk to. I have googled " ivf experience" and " ivf review" and no one is telling what happened to them, what meds were the worst, or tips on how to work through it. =/

A friend of mine had a friend that used my same fertility dr, and she gave me her info so I called and had a talk with her. She made me feel so much better! She said she wished she would have moved right to IVF and not waited so long, and that it was really no big deal, and it goes by fast. They put 2 embryos in her , and one took. She now has a beautiful daughter as the result. She also had a polyp, and had my same surgery. So this makes me so happy to hear. She also said her friend just had twins, and used our dr too.

So on 10/23 they had Brandon, and I come in for some testing, and to talk -

Me- Hormone panel, Hiv, hepatitis
Brandon- Semen analysis (61 million everything looking great with it) Hepatitis, and Hiv
All ended up coming back great with both of our tests except my prolactin was a bit high. It was 32 and they want it under 30. So I retested like 4 days later and it was 29.

At this appointment on 10/23 we also went over everything regarding our med dates and retrieval / transfer dates. Also we had to take a packet that we had to sign in front of a notary, and bring back regarding our frozen embryos. If I die he gets them, If He dies I get them, If we both die they destroy them, If we get divorced I get them. So strange to think about those things..

 

On 10/23 they also had me start birth control Orthonovum. My pharmacist gave me the generic necon 1/35
Which I have to say made me feel like CRAP! I called the nurse 3 days in and asked her if I could go back to that other one I was on before surgery because I feel sad, nauseous, angry, anxiety, super negative thinking. She said "I'm so sorry honey, I hear from a lot of women it does that. It's gonna take a couple weeks for your body to get used to it, but I'm sorry you have to stay on it" UHHHH!!! THIS SUCKS!!!

The drug company called me and told me my meds would be $5,400.00!! IM SORRY WHAT?!
I was on the phone talking to them, and I said " My fertility dr's office said it's paid for through the end of the year" In walks my husband and says " No they just said the procedure not the meds" I was like uhh you hush! I was not to thrilled about this.. The lady said she will have their insurance specialist call our insurance company and see what she can do. So they call me back the next day and tell me that they can get them down to $2,300.00. I was like ok thats better but it's still not free like I thought it would be so I am disappointed. She told me there was a note on my file that said something about a specialty pharmacy. So she sent my perscription over to them, and they called to tell me that they can fill the entire thing for $216.00!!
I had her read everything to me, and it was all correct except she said  the word "enema" in there, and I asked her why I would have one of those. She said some dr's do them so the patient does not have a bowel movement during the retrieval. Sick!! Ok I guess I'll try and do it =(
I paid for the meds, and felt so proud of myself for not settling on paying thousands.
Also as a side note I found out after.. My friend told me she used to work for a pharmaceutical company and if people said the words" I can't afford the meds" she would send them for free because it was part of their protocol to get rid of a certain percent because they had so much medication. So for sure try to work with the drug company and try different ones. Mine came from a company that contracted through Walgreen's