I feel like a lot has happened since Mother’s Day. For starters, my body responded poorly to meds this time around (Cycle #30) and it was frustrating. I guess I was just thinking that things were going to go as smoothly as they did the previous cycle but they did the opposite. On my CD8 u/s, I had 5 follies that were around 10-11mm and then on CD10, they were EXACTLY the same. No growth at all. I had to go back in CD12 and only one had grown to 16mm. I had one more u/s on CD14 and finally I had one that was a 22mm. (By the way, I felt like a freakin’ pin cushion with all the b/w I had to do.) My lining stayed exactly at 9mm the entire time. That’s not normal for me. I guess I learned that every cycle is different, no matter if I do the same protocol or not. I did 12 days of Menopur and only got 1 egg out of it. I can’t help but think that I could have done that on my own but I guess this way we know exactly when to bd (bd stands for “baby dancing” i.e. SEX.).

During those all those ultrasounds, I started getting UTI like symptoms (I actually thought I was developing an allergy to the u/s gel). Well, mostly I just felt like I needed to pee all the time. My RE did a culture of my urine and couldn’t find an infection. That was almost 2 weeks ago and I still can’t shake the feelings and it’s getting worse (burning when I go now) when I thought it might have been getting better. I had a kidney stone attack exactly a week ago so it made me think that my bladder issues were caused by my kidneys but I don’t see how this couldn’t be an infection! Since I’m in Minnesota and can’t get to see my regular doc, I’m waiting for the urgent care to open so I can take care of this. The last thing I need is for the infection to travel to my kidneys or something. No thank you.

I can take a pg test in about a week but in all honesty, I think this cycle was a waste of time. Can’t hurt to try I guess.

I’ll let ya’ll know what happens…