Night before transfer

I phoned the embryology clinic this afternoon an hour and a half too late to catch the embryologist. My bad. She (Polish nurse) did tell me to call between 11 & 1, but I screwed up. Note: My doctor is in northern NJ but he does his retrievals in NYC at a clinic that does [...]

Posted on | September 4, 2011

CD5: All the usual suspects

It’s CD5 of my 3rd attempt at my 10th IVF cycle. If that’s not a mouthful. Oy. The usual suspects for this cycle: Estrogen, 2mg, twice a day since CD2 Neupogen (G-CSF), 27 units once a day (I started earlier than I was supposed to by about a week – figure I need the help [...]

Posted on | August 21, 2011

Stim Day 1: Return of the Human Pincushion

I’ve done 3.5 weeks of BCPs, overlapped with 3 days of lupron…then a handful of days of “just lupron” while I waited for AF to show up and do her thing. Thus arriving, here were are on CD3 which is now stim day 1. This heralds the reappearance of the slew of IVF paraphernalia on [...]

Posted on | May 10, 2011

Chaotic Cycle

Today I went to Dr. R’s office for the first time. He’s still out on vacation until Thursday and so my appointment was with his N.P. I have to be honest about my reaction when I first stepped in their office. I was horrified. Simply horrified. The office seemed spartan, unprofessional, and the front desk [...]

Posted on | April 26, 2011

Worrying

I’m feeling rather anxious about this Dr. B and what he is doing for the $1250 that I paid him last week. He’s vacillated on a number of details so far: Changed his mind about billing my insurance as “out of network” and not billing me for any outstanding balance. Added in a $1250 monitoring [...]

Posted on | April 19, 2011

CD11: Immunology Results Are In

I finally had my in person meeting with Dr. Braverman yesterday to go over the results from my immune tests that he ran. A few surprising things: My NK cells are at 28% killing power. This is about 50% higher than they’ve ever been over the last 5 or 6 years. For the first time [...]

Posted on | February 26, 2011

CD8 – Another wonky cycle

I’m at least 6 days away from ovulation, but from the onslaught of FCM I can tell that this cycle is off to another weird start. The pain from the cyst is also a bit more intense today, so I’m wondering what is going on. I have an appointment with Dr. R to onboard with [...]

Posted on | February 23, 2011

CD7 of the wait

It’s Monday and lots of folks were lucky to get the day off. I, however, did not. Bah. Instead, I worked from home as best I could with the BF’s two boys here. Both sick, the youngest up three times in the middle of the night barfing his poor little heart out. I don’t know [...]

Posted on | February 22, 2011

Appointment with the New Reproductive Immunologist

OK Roccie, this post is for you m’dear. :-) I took a few weeks off for Christmas, a few weeks from everything. I was shocked that I resisted firing up the VPN for my work laptop a single time, barely looked at my crackberry, and tried best I could to not freak out that I [...]

Posted on | January 3, 2011

G-CSF: The Last Frontier?

I’m more than intrigued by all the latest hoopla over this stuff called G-CSF (granulocyte colony stimulating factor) which is sold under a number of brand names: Neupogen, Filgrastim, Neulasta, Lanogrostim, Granocyte, and a few others I am sure. Oddly, Dr. B calls it C-GSF on his website. LOL. I guess even doctors get their [...]

Posted on | December 12, 2010