I went into my morning monitoring appointment this morning thinking "One more day! One more day!" But as soon as the tech saw my "bubbles" she said she thought they'd tell me I was done. Then Dr. Y came in and said "You're done! Trigger tonight!" So, ok.
They don't do the physical and bloodwork on the day between anymore, so I was going to have Sunday off completely after we did the big shot tonight. They drew the target on my butt for hubby to stick the big HCG shot in and sent me on my way.
Then later this afternoon they called and said due to my bloodwork numbers, they were postponing trigger to tomorrow. I'm a little worried that my bubbles are big and ready to go without my E level being up. Hopefully I don't have a lot of empty bubbles. But then again, we know for sure that it only takes one. Still frustrating.
I'm totally OK with waiting until tomorrow to trigger because that means I can go to work on Monday. Of course I had already emailed my principal to say I would be out and I had already emailed daycare to say that the kid would be there on Monday even though he isn't usually there before the "just kidding" call. Oh well!
So instead of trigger, I did 4 vials of each again tonight and will do my Gan in the morning. And drive to Towson. (And then drive home. And then drive past Towson several hours later to a Father's Day party.) Good thing my right arm didn't bruise this morning so I still have one functional vein left!
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Stims Day 10 and Morning Monitoring
Now we're on every day bloodwork. Luckily my right arm made it through the Mon-Wed-Fri cycle, so I have one good arm going into the weekend. Fingers crossed that I don't have an issue tomorrow. The girl in Towson just isn't as good as the girl at my home office.
I've made some pals along the way this time. A set of girls was on the same schedule as me this week and we've been laughing at our situation all week. Seriously, if you can't roll your eyes at the absurdity of the things we know and have experienced, then you lose your mind. (And sometimes that happens anyway.) Today's conversation was about how crazy the birth control pills make us. And all 3 of us said something along the lines of "Well when I took pills earlier in my life, you know, when I thought I needed them..." but something is different about the ones we take for this. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way! What's also interesting is that we're all doing completely different versions of an IVF cycle. I'm doing what's called the antagonist protocol and doesn't use the medicine Lupron at all. One of them is using Lupron to be suppressed (instead of the BCP) and another one is using Lupron as a trigger shot which is the opposite of being suppressed. We didn't talk about what our actual issues are, but I'm sure that all plays into it.
This morning I had to do the crazy get up at 5:10 and dropoff at daycare schedule. But I'm pretty impressed that I only had to do that twice. I was envisioning doing it all week at one point, so the fact that it was twice was totally bearable. And he got picked up early from daycare because it was the Father's Day "Donuts With Dad" party so I felt a little less guilty for dropping him off so early!
Oh and finally, I realized that last night was day 9 which means I got past the day 9 issue I had last time where the doctor called to see if I had remembered to take my medicine, which I had indeed taken in the car in the city, so yay for that!
I have a 50/50 chance of getting to work on Monday. If I go tomorrow and they say I'm done, then my surgery will be monday. If I get through tomorrow, then I'm clear to finish the year. I did decide to give my principal a heads up just in case, but I'm hoping that I'll be ok. The u/s was showing that I might be ready, but the bloodwork is showing that I'm probably not. (Either that, or that I am, and only half the follicles have viable eggs in them.)
I've made some pals along the way this time. A set of girls was on the same schedule as me this week and we've been laughing at our situation all week. Seriously, if you can't roll your eyes at the absurdity of the things we know and have experienced, then you lose your mind. (And sometimes that happens anyway.) Today's conversation was about how crazy the birth control pills make us. And all 3 of us said something along the lines of "Well when I took pills earlier in my life, you know, when I thought I needed them..." but something is different about the ones we take for this. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way! What's also interesting is that we're all doing completely different versions of an IVF cycle. I'm doing what's called the antagonist protocol and doesn't use the medicine Lupron at all. One of them is using Lupron to be suppressed (instead of the BCP) and another one is using Lupron as a trigger shot which is the opposite of being suppressed. We didn't talk about what our actual issues are, but I'm sure that all plays into it.
This morning I had to do the crazy get up at 5:10 and dropoff at daycare schedule. But I'm pretty impressed that I only had to do that twice. I was envisioning doing it all week at one point, so the fact that it was twice was totally bearable. And he got picked up early from daycare because it was the Father's Day "Donuts With Dad" party so I felt a little less guilty for dropping him off so early!
Oh and finally, I realized that last night was day 9 which means I got past the day 9 issue I had last time where the doctor called to see if I had remembered to take my medicine, which I had indeed taken in the car in the city, so yay for that!
I have a 50/50 chance of getting to work on Monday. If I go tomorrow and they say I'm done, then my surgery will be monday. If I get through tomorrow, then I'm clear to finish the year. I did decide to give my principal a heads up just in case, but I'm hoping that I'll be ok. The u/s was showing that I might be ready, but the bloodwork is showing that I'm probably not. (Either that, or that I am, and only half the follicles have viable eggs in them.)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Stims Day 9
I didn't have to go to monitoring this morning, so I got to sleep in a little. Yay!
Stuck with 4 vials of each and Gan. in the AM.
Stuck with 4 vials of each and Gan. in the AM.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Stims Day 8 And Morning Monitoring
When I had my appointment this morning, the PA who did my u/s guessed I'd be there every day now. But when they called this afternoon they decided to skip tomorrow before going to the every day plan. So one more day for my right arm vein to rest. (My left is still bruised from Saturday last week!)
I am however bumping up to 4 vials of each at night and keeping the Gan. in the AM.
Today was the hardest morning monitoring ever. I got up at 5:10 to get myself ready. (Hubby got up with his first alarm instead of hitting the snooze alarm so that he'd be sure to be out of the shower by then.) I showered, dried my hair, did my bag and the baby's cups of milk and packed the car. Then at 6:05 I took my Ganerelix. Finally I woke the baby up and dressed him and carried him right to the car. We left just after 6:10 and got to daycare at 6:20. I dropped him off in the early room, went to his real room and put everything away and filled out his paper. Left around 6:30 and got to the doctor's office just before 6:45. I was 2nd in line, so I got my bloodwork right at 7 and then my u/s around 7:10 and was on the road around 7:25 so I got to work around 8:10 I think. Whew. So by the time I got to work, I had been up for 3 hours already!! And then I had a whole day of work! Back when my carpool met at my house, sometimes I was only up for an hour between open eyes and opening the door at work. This is hard, but we chose a daycare that opened super early for when we needed it, so sometimes this happens.
I am however bumping up to 4 vials of each at night and keeping the Gan. in the AM.
Today was the hardest morning monitoring ever. I got up at 5:10 to get myself ready. (Hubby got up with his first alarm instead of hitting the snooze alarm so that he'd be sure to be out of the shower by then.) I showered, dried my hair, did my bag and the baby's cups of milk and packed the car. Then at 6:05 I took my Ganerelix. Finally I woke the baby up and dressed him and carried him right to the car. We left just after 6:10 and got to daycare at 6:20. I dropped him off in the early room, went to his real room and put everything away and filled out his paper. Left around 6:30 and got to the doctor's office just before 6:45. I was 2nd in line, so I got my bloodwork right at 7 and then my u/s around 7:10 and was on the road around 7:25 so I got to work around 8:10 I think. Whew. So by the time I got to work, I had been up for 3 hours already!! And then I had a whole day of work! Back when my carpool met at my house, sometimes I was only up for an hour between open eyes and opening the door at work. This is hard, but we chose a daycare that opened super early for when we needed it, so sometimes this happens.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Stims Day 7
3 Bravelle, 4 Menopur, 2 cc saline (2 shots) this evening plus Ganerelix in the morning.
The Ganerelix is so much easier - it comes preloaded in the syringe. Just pop it out and pop it in. It burns a little more than the other medicines afterwards, but it's glass instead of plastic so it pushes easier and the bigger needle gets the medicine in faster. I just like it better in general.
No blood work this morning, yay!
The Ganerelix is so much easier - it comes preloaded in the syringe. Just pop it out and pop it in. It burns a little more than the other medicines afterwards, but it's glass instead of plastic so it pushes easier and the bigger needle gets the medicine in faster. I just like it better in general.
No blood work this morning, yay!
Monday, June 9, 2014
Stims, Day 6 and Morning Monitoring
Back to the right arm this morning for my monitoring appointment. The bruise is finally gone from last week, but hopefully my left arm bruise gets better soon because I can't be working with one arm! I'm 2 for 2 in bruising with the girl at the Towson office. She is not my arms' friend.
They think they saw either 10 or 11 follicles growing this morning.
Tonight I'm doing 3 of each with 2 shots total.
Tomorrow morning I'm adding ganarelix and bumping the Menopur up to 4 instead of 3. (That would have to be 2 shots since I'm going to be at 7 vials, but I"m already there anyway.)
Update:
I had an unfortunate incident with a knife while making dinner last night. A bandaid protected the awful flap I made on my hand for the day, but I went and bought some liquid bandage today because I think it's going to take awhile to heal. If you would have asked me which I would prefer to do - give myself a shot or paint liquid bandage on my hand, I obviously would have NOT picked the shot. And I would have been WRONG. That stuff STINGS! I think it will help in the long run because the bandaids drove me nuts today, but it made me literally LOL that it hurt so darn much after I did my 2 shots. ;)
They think they saw either 10 or 11 follicles growing this morning.
Tonight I'm doing 3 of each with 2 shots total.
Tomorrow morning I'm adding ganarelix and bumping the Menopur up to 4 instead of 3. (That would have to be 2 shots since I'm going to be at 7 vials, but I"m already there anyway.)
Update:
I had an unfortunate incident with a knife while making dinner last night. A bandaid protected the awful flap I made on my hand for the day, but I went and bought some liquid bandage today because I think it's going to take awhile to heal. If you would have asked me which I would prefer to do - give myself a shot or paint liquid bandage on my hand, I obviously would have NOT picked the shot. And I would have been WRONG. That stuff STINGS! I think it will help in the long run because the bandaids drove me nuts today, but it made me literally LOL that it hurt so darn much after I did my 2 shots. ;)
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Stims, Day 5
Still 3 of each tonight. They did call early this morning to let me know that I could do all 6 in one shot, but it is easier to mix if you do two. So I did two again.
That's right people. I'm the person who takes two shots instead of one because it makes the mixing easier.
WHO HAVE I BECOME?!?!!
That's right people. I'm the person who takes two shots instead of one because it makes the mixing easier.
WHO HAVE I BECOME?!?!!
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