IVF Day 8

IVF Day 8

Another day, another RE appt.

I called my RE at the beginning of the week about getting af and I never did hear back from them. I was not a happy person when I walked into the RE’s office today. At least Dh was there, which made things slightly better. After waiting an hour and 10 minutes to be called back, the first thing a nurse asked was what meds I was taking. I said Lupron and she said, “Your doing 10 units, right?” WHAT? I got upset too easily and huffed, “No one told me to do 10, I was told 20.” Another nurse then explained that because I got af I was to go down to 10 units of Lupron. This is strike number two for this RE’s office. First they failed to tell me to start the Lupron all together and then they fail to tell me to cut the units in half. Because I’ve been doing 20 units the entire time, I barely have any Lupron left. Tricare won’t allow me to get anymore so I had to pay for another bottle out of pocket.

Everything else is still on track with the IVF, despite af. My u/s was very good today. My lining is where it should be and my ovaries are quiet. (Lupron is a drug that is used to shut my ovaries down so they won’t produce any follicles all while sucking all the estrogen out of my body…lovely stuff I must say. It’s actually a lower dose medication that is used to suppress endo.) Anyway, I’m down to 5 units of Lupron for another week and then I start the strong stuff. I then start two injections a day. No one mentioned that to me until today. I was told that I have to do Menopur in my tush and Lupron in my stomach. I always did Menopur in my stomach…a subcutaneous injection…until now. I was told that patients are seeing better, larger follicles when the Menopur is injected into a muscle. LUCKY ME. I am NOT looking forward to it. I thought I had another couple weeks before I started the butt shots. The nurse drew circles on my bum so Dh (or whoever ends up giving them to me) knows where to stick me. The one week countdown has begun…