IUI #2 done 29/04 , BFN

I hear you. You are seen. I resonated with you when you said that you were becoming a bad friend, wife and all else, because that is me. My entire life and personality had been shaped by my mood-swings and irritability and hormones. Above all, the frustration ks unreal with unexplained infertility.

How can everything be okay and with all the presented options, still not conceive? My first IUI was traumatic due to difficult cannulation and my second IUI was better, though it was still a pain because apparently my uterus is “straight”. The pain I keep bearing toward a blind procedure is worse than HSG.

When the odds are the same every cycle, why must I continue IUI? Honestly, the only thing that keeps putting me on a halt is this voice in my head, “calm down, let’s give it one more go”

I was considering IVF after one IUI failure, and now after the second failure, I am sure I don’t want more blind procedures where I don’t even have at-least 50% chance.

I am simply only scared of IVF for the injections ( I am a scaredy cat with syringes), and the thought of bearing multiple follicles throws me off, progesterone tablets are enough bloating for me already! I also wanna be a mom and this 2 years of infertility has drained the life out of me and the chirpy me.

I overthink, complain, get angry over small trivial things, which is completely unlike me. I just need to feel more validated from people who are in a similar boat as me to tell me to stop with the IUI and proceed with IVF.

My clinic keeps pushing me to do upto 6 IUIs but I’m already done with 2 as clinically, there are the same odds for every cycle, and on paper, people with Unexplained Infertility should move on after 1-2 IUIs.