I'm at the point in this lovely process where I'm completely and utterly bloated to the max every night and my ovaries pinch and ache pretty much all day every day. Good times all around. Took my last stim combo shot and Ganirelix injection (which was insanely painful for whatever reason) tonight. Now we wait to see what the blood work and u/s show tomorrow...My current thoughts: "Am I going to have any mature follicles?" For the first time ever, I'm uncertain of that.
Tuesday Potential Stim Day 11:
U/S this morning showed 7 OK follicles. Six are between 15-16mm and one is like a 12mm. My lining is PERFECTLY gorgeous at 15mm (one of the best I've ever had and it doesn't even matter!). In my opinion they are still too small for trigger tonight. I asked my nurse if I can continue stimming but that I was out of meds. She thought for sure Birmingham would agree to let me stim longer and gave me enough meds for tonight to tide me over until some can be overnighted to me. My goodness they are slow growing but I am so incredibly thankful that they had some extra meds to help me out. While the thought of doing more stims isn't appealing I really think I need them to mature these eggs.
Waiting on the call from Birmingham to learn my estrogen level and what to do next...
Well, got the call from Birmingham and she had no idea I wanted to do extra stims and still wanted me to trigger tonight. I asked to talk directly to my RE (which is the first time I've had any contact with her during this cycle). According to my RE and the clinic "protocol", if there's at least 4 follicles that hit 14mm, they trigger. So much for individual case by case basis doc. She agreed to let me stim one more night and trigger tomorrow night. Her words to me were, "I can't let you stim 2 or 3 more days because I can't justify asking my staff to come in over the weekend for a retrieval with such a low chance of pregnancy." I kid you not. She told me that not once, but twice in our three min conversation. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I really hope she's not the one doing my retrieval on Friday. I think I'll just go cry over here in the corner...
Estrogen: 1341
Progesterone: .8 (was .4 on Sunday)
Wednesday Stim Day 12:
After no one called me back to tell me what to do this morning, I called the Montgomery clinic and they said I should go ahead and come in for more bloodwork and u/s. They had no appts available but they thought they could squeeze me in. I'm glad they did. U/s today showed good improvement! 7 were between 17-20mm with another couple close behind. I talked with the nurse practitioner (who I really like by the way) and told her what my RE said to me yesterday about not justifying bringing staff in on the weekend for me. She was appalled. I also mentioned that no one was calling me to tell me when to take my antibiotic and how long DH is supposed to abstain for retrieval. The NP thought if given another night or two of stim meds, those other follicles could catch up. Yeah, well, I guess it doesn't matter because I don't have any meds since they wouldn't call any in for me yesterday because apparently I don't fit their ideal patient model.
All the nurse said when she called me tonight was:
Take 15,000 units of HCG tonight at 8:30. Be here at the clinic at 7:30 Friday morning.
Estrogen: 1600
Progesterone: .7
This has been my least favorite experience of any IVF I've done. I'll update again after Friday.
Love to you all!
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