STORY TIME!! YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS!

Sooooo… to start out the story, my husband and I have been TTC for 6 years with ZERO success. That being said, I had a check up one year into marriage and all was normal and I was still young and just waiting on the right timing. Three years into marriage we both went in and everything was completely normal for me and we were told his sperm count was low but nothing crazy… fast forward a year and a half, I go into my primary care because I am falling asleep at work and sleeping over 18 hours a day.

According to my primary care doctor, I had post menopausal progesterone levels and she put me on 100mg of progesterone a day. DAILY. I have been taking it for a year and a half. In that time, I go to the ob/gyn and I am told I am not ovulating. So I go on Clomid and begin ovulating. No success after four rounds so my ob/gyn recommends me to a fertility clinic.

OK, HERE IS WHERE IT GETS CRAZY!

I was told that the progesterone capsule I was taking was acting as HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL. There is NO SUCH THING AS POST MENOPAUSAL PROGESTERONE. I HAVE BEEN CRYING EVERY MONTH BECAUSE IM NOT GETTING PREGNANT WHEN I HAVE BEEN ON BIRTH CONTROL!!! My primary care doctor knew I was trying to conceive AND specializes in HORMONES. How could she possibly think to put me on progesterone daily???

Also, my husband’s sperm count is 5.2 million per mL which is EXTREMELY LOW.

Moral of the story: DON’T TRUST ANY DOCTORS IN YOUR SMALL TOWN. Go to the nearest big city! They will get you properly taken care of.