Archive for the ‘IVF#1’ Category
Egg Retrieval Day!
Posted by: Paige on: May 22, 2008
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6:15AM – Just getting ready to leave to go to the clinic. I got maybe 5 minutes of sleep last night. I tried not to be nervous but failed miserably. DH bought me a gift yesterday to help make the hour drive to the clinic less stressful: the Monster Ballads CD. [...]
CD #14: He/She and Pro-?
Posted by: Paige on: May 21, 2008
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Wow, today I don’t have to do anything infertility related. No shots. No bloodwork. No ultrasound. Nothing.
I think I’ll take the opportunity to talk about some unrelated or marginally related things that have been on my mind lately.
First, completely unrelated to infertility: I love Hillary Clinton. I really wanted her to be our next president. [...]
CD #13: The Harvest Moon
Posted by: Paige on: May 20, 2008
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The moon is full tonight and tonight I do my trigger HCG shot at 9PM. Perfect time for an early spring harvest don’t you think?
My ovaries look spectacular like bubbling balls of follicles. I’m so proud of them! Here is an example of an ultrasound of a superovulated ovary. The black [...]
CD #11: Dreaming of HPT
Posted by: Paige on: May 19, 2008
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Sooo, today I started thinking about home pregnancy tests (HPT). I’m on a great message board for IF called Hannah’s Prayer. Lots of the ladies there are POAS addicts (POAS = Pee On A Stick, aka take a HPT). They start POAS as soon as their Embryo Transfer so they can see the HCG shot [...]
CD #10: *insert witty post title here*
Posted by: Paige on: May 17, 2008
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It is a cruel fact of reality that 6AM comes at the same time every day even on the weekends. I let DH sleep since he has a harder time getting back to sleep if he wakes up (I could sleep anytime anywhere) and stabbed myself with 20 Lupron and 100 Follistim.
There are [...]
CD #9: Little Follies, Big E2
Posted by: Paige on: May 16, 2008
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/Sigh
I know you aren’t supposed to compare your progress on stims to the progress of others and that I should trust my doctors on my protocol but it is so hard sometimes. I had monitoring this morning and all my follicles are under 10mm still which didn’t really bother me because I want them to [...]
CD #8: Mittelschmerz and Pedicures
Posted by: Paige on: May 15, 2008
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Ok, I’m feeling it now. My ovaries are so sore. I always thought I was lucky that I have mittelschmerz and know when I ovulate but it also means I can feel my ovaries all the time. Now they are kind of pulsating with a throbbing ache. It isn’t unbearable but it is unpleasant. I [...]
CD #7: The Law of Infertility
Posted by: Paige on: May 14, 2008
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I am mentally compiling a list of “Laws of Infertility” that I will one day write down here. But, today I learned an important one:
“Thou shalt trust thy Follistim pen!”
I went in for ultrasound and bloodwork this morning and everything looks fine. My follies are still small but I have 6 measurable ones on the [...]
CD #6: Follistim Follies
Posted by: Paige on: May 13, 2008
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No not THAT kind of follies, as in follicles, actual follies as in “it would be folly to make a woman on Follistim angry.”
This morning I took my 3rd 225 unit dose of Follistim out of the Follistim Pen with a vial of 600 units. Ok, let’s do the math: 225 + 225 + 225 [...]
CD #6: part 2
Posted by: Paige on: May 13, 2008
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Oh NO!!!! I got panicky about that extra 75 dose this morning and I called my clinic. They want me to come in tomorrow to make sure everything is ok. OMG, I’m so worried that I messed everything up! They did tell me to just do my regular dose tonight and tomorrow. What is the [...]
