We went to our follow up appointment at the clinic after my laparoscopy, to discuss our next move with the doctor. She has decided to take me off the Clomid (after 3 cycles) and move me on to Ovulation Induction instead. Because I have acidic cervical mucus (CM), she thinks that OI will improve it enough to stop annihilating the sperm and let them through to find the egg. The treatment timetable, starting next Saturday, is as follows:

1. Day 19 of current cycle: start Norethisterone tablets to induce a period and end the cycle approx. 1 week later.
2. Day 21 of current cycle: start 'down regulating' using nasal spray Buserelin. This suppresses my own hormones and puts me in a sort of menopause in preparation for the follicle stimulation hormone (FSH) drugs.
3. Day 14 of Buserelin: go in for a blood test to check oestrogen levels are down and that the spray has been successful.
4. Day 18 of Buserelin: Start self-administering FSH injections.
5. Day 25 of Buserelin: Blood test and scan to check follicle growth. Post-coital test to check sperm survival in CM.
6. Repeat scans every few days to follow follicle growth. Once follicles (max. 3) are ready, an HCG injection will be given to trigger ovulation.
7. Hubby and I go home and get down to it over the following 3 evenings.
8. Use progesterone pessaries for 14 days and wait.

…and hopefully find out we are pregnant at the end of it! If not, we do it all again. We are going to have 3 cycles of this (depending on the response of my CM) however if my CM is still a problem then we have to wait for IUI, which is basically the same up to point 6, as we would then have insemination to flush hubby's sperm directly into the uterus and up the tubes, therefore bypassing the evil mucus.

Quite excited and scared at the same time. This is going to be our best shot so far and I don't want to get my hopes up in case it all goes wrong. I just hope my CM improves, lets the boys through and finds an egg. A tall order for my body, but who knows? We might just get lucky this time.