Part Deux: First Stim Monitoring Appt. Day 4.5

So I had my first monitoring appointment today. It wasn't awesome (IMO) and it wasn't terrible. I had 3 follicles on the right (2 are 7mm, 1 is 11.7mm) and 5 follicles on the left, (all measuring 10mm) so a so-so start in my book. I go back Saturday for another ultrasound and blood work. I believe today they will increase my Follistim dosage to 225IU (or 3 vials) and keeping my Repronex at 150IU (or 2 vials). I would be surprised if they increased my repronex.. So that's where I am at right now.. Since I am donating half the eggs this cycle, I DEFINITELY need more follicles to show their faces than what is currently showing up on the ultrasound.. The tech said it's still early so anything can happen.. There were some smaller ones at 3-5mm but who knows if they are going to catch up or not (I think they can, but hey what do I know?) Don't have the results of my blood work back yet, I am sure that will be more telling.. I am thinking I am going to stim probably 14 days this go round instead of the usual 11. That works for me, I want them to get as many as they can to give both of us a real shot at some decent embryos and a BABY! Will edit later after I have my bloodwork results in..

OK wonder of wonders, I got the call about 30 minutes ago and the nurse said "You are doing really well!" SO I guess I don't know jack apparently! I'll take what I can get. So my E@ (estrogen level) is 184 and meds stay the same until Saturday and then possibly going up then so this dose must be working for me so far.. I am just praying this continue along nicely and maybe we get another good bunch of follicles to jump start. Til next time (Saturday)

IVF Cycle Chronicles Stimulation Phase: Part Deux

Started stims today! Not without some DRAMA, of course (cmon now, y'all know that's par for the course with me at this point!) Clinic never called me to give me my instructions on dosage. I call and leave a message to which I get no reply and then of course they are gone.. Call them yesterday and the nurse I need is off weekends (AGAIN OF COURSE!) long story short, after me raising my voice and getting them to call her at home she says my results of bloodwork didnt come in thats why she didnt call (why she didnt call the other clinic or ME before she left is BEYOND ME) but after more back and forth she finally tells me my dosage.. I have an appt. there tomorrow and I will be speaking with someone about this nonsense tomorrow.. ANYWHO, so we made it to our hotel and it's nice but the room is small and they already pissed me off by "charging" me $140 for incidentals (WTF!) that is for a week, "in case" I decide to charge something to my room, whatever! I am speaking to the manager about this tomorrow, she didn't even tell me she was CHARGING ME she said she needed it on file.. Yeah won't be staying here again and my REVIEW is gonna be AWESOME (insert sarcasm here)

OK back to the stim saga.. So I feel like crap already! Of course this is probably mostly from the Lupron still.. Can't imagine how I am going to feel in a few days! But of course I will let you know.. That's all for now, Later!

The Day From Hell

Too much has happened today.. I feel like I aged TEN years in this one day.. I have so many balls up in the air there is NO WAY I can keep them all going for much longer. It seems like every time we take 2 steps forward towards retrieval the bitchifer nurse comes up with some lame reason to hold us up! She ALMOST had us, but NOPE team BADASS pulled out the win!! After this is all over I will explain everything that has transpired over this last few days but I just can't even do it right now.. So on to my appointment tomorrow and then ROADTRIP! So pray all things are good tomorrow with my blood work so i can hit the road.. OH and Lupron still SUX! Headaches are coming every day now (but thankfully mostly towards dinner time and the end of the day) and my stomach has now started to sting from all the shots, it stings all the time.. That's the down side to losing some of that belly fat, less cushion for the drugs to simmer into! That and the fact that I am like an old man always pulling up my damn pants from showing my plumbers crack.. That is all

Lupron Day 8 Take Deux

Had my monitoring appointment this morning! Not many antral follicles seen this time (not sure why they are counting them now that I have been on Lupron for 8 days!) but bloodwork "looked good" Go again Friday for bloodwork only (YAY!) then head out of town! I start stims Sunday and the dose is going to be "higher than last time" I wish they would tell me what higher than last time means! I guess I find out Friday what doses I will be on or I will be just making it up myself,LOL! 2 and 2 sounds good to me, HA! On the headache front, yesterdays was a doozy, but hopefully they start going away because I am OVER them already, UGH! Right now I am working on my last minute packing and cleaning of my house. I have all my healthy snacks packed, so atleast I will be able to keep my good eating habits going! So that's about it for now, until Friday!

Another Baby Step Closer

So the Psych Eval reports have been officially sent to the RE's office! We are deemed sane. (I have NO IDEA HOW, haha!) and that was the last of the "red tape" that was needed to move forward. Still waiting on feedback for a date for J & E to have their testing done.. On the Lupron front, it's day 4 and I am having weird side effects. Constantly thirsty (so constantly peeing, UGH!) the errant BOOB PAIN from last cycle is back and incredible sleepiness! I have had a few headaches, but I am getting good at heading them off at the pass, so nothing major yet with those knock wood! So that's about it for an update, I go Monday for monitoring so I will update then unless something cool or funny or ridiculous happens that I JUST HAVE to share (knowing me any of those could happen!) Until then!