I would often stay up late at night and wonder what was wrong with me. Why wasn't I getting pregnant. Why was this so hard. Everyone around me was getting pregnant left and right and I couldn't. My mom had both my sister and I without any problems. My sister just picked a time and date and got pregnant according to her schedule. Me, not so much. Talk about being frustrated. The more frustrated I became the harder is seemed.

Advice was given to me all the time. Don't stress. Relax. Go on a vacation. Get drunk. Oh ok, that's right...I forgot to get drunk in order to get pregnant. Not going to work for me. My poor husband had to listen me complain day in and day out. I was so hard on myself and he couldn't help me. He tried but nothing helped. I just couldn't get pregnant.

I have a history of Endometriosis and was put on birth control many moons ago after having a laporoscopy. I was filled with polyps and cysts. My ovaries were painful to the touch. When I met my husband I had a feeling we were going to have trouble getting pregnant so I threw away my birth control pills. I figured if it happened, great. After a few years of marriage I started getting concerned.

I wasn't getting pregnant, not that we were really trying but no "oops" were happening either. I found that to be strange. It was at this point my husband and I made the decision to start "trying"/ Here we go. This should be easy right? Both my mom and sister were as I like to call them "Fertile Mertile". So piece of cake for my family to get pregnant. Well, after a few months we noticed nothing happening. After a year we really started to worry.

I went to my Gynecologist at that time and he put me on a medication called Chlomid. He told me to come back when I was pregnant. That was it. I was to take this from days 5 - 9 of my menstrual cycle. This was supposed to help me become a little more fertile, kinda get things going. But after a few months on this medication nothing happened. You are only allowed to be on this for a certain amount of months and we were done.

No more chlomid. I decided not to go back to this particular doctor and went to see a fertility specialist. I heard the wait time to get an appointment was ridiculous so I figured I would call early and get in. To my surprise I got right in. Great!.. This is the beginning of my road to fertility. Well, not so much.

First you are sent for a million tests. They were uncomfortable and very invasive. When my results started

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