My Uterus Hates Me: CD1 Arrives

So I’ve been wondering when AF is going to start being that I had my last PIO on Friday morning. AP said that hers came 4 days after her last PIO shot. Mine followed suit for last night at 11:30pm AF came to visit. And with a vengeance. My uterus must really hate me: this [...]

Posted on | February 22, 2006

HCG #2….IVF#1 Comes to a Screeching Halt

I went and visited my OB, Dr. G to get some feedback on things. I wanted to see what she thought about my having reconstructive surgery on my tubes, to see what she thought about Dr. Z doing a day 10 HCG, and whether adding LH to my next cycle would result in improved egg [...]

Posted on | February 18, 2006

Crash and Burn: On the Fringes of the Bell Curve

The call about my beta never came yesterday. I had to, in fact, call THEM at Dr. Z’s because my results were sitting around waiting for him to review them, THEN he would have to confer with the nurses, THEN they would call me. But by 3:30PM, I had it with waiting. I was a [...]

Posted on | February 16, 2006

Beta Day

The nurse at Dr. W’s phoned about an hour ago. (Dr. W is the urologist I saw last Friday when I was sure I was having another bout of UTI). The urine culture came back and it was totally negative. Not a thing grew in there. Wow. So the wild cramping I had on Wednesday [...]

Posted on | February 15, 2006

PIO Haiku .:. Valentine’s Day

PIO Haiku needle slides in fastrelax my butt, bite on handdot of blood leaks out Happy Valentine’s Day to the man I love: the man that puts 25 gauge needles into my hip each morning, loaded with 50mg/ml of progesterone in ethyl oleate. It must be love, because although he nearly faints at the sight [...]

Posted on | February 14, 2006

Dr. Gian-what’s-his-face

Called my mom this morning. They’ve got 20 inches of snow and F (her husband) was setting off, in snowshoes, to get the snow blower I can only assume from a neighbor. Out here on the west coast it’s gorgeous. Warm, birds chirping in the garden, weather atypical for February..what a contrast. So I called [...]

Posted on | February 12, 2006

6DP3DT: Peek-a-Boo Cramps

So I was all in a panic over my bizarre cramps that I had going on yesterday. They were so disturbing I went to see Dr. W…and as you know, they found nada in my pee sample. Just normal things floating around here and there (mucus is normal? blech!). I was pretty conviced, by the [...]

Posted on | February 12, 2006

4DP3DT: Off to Provide a Pee Sample

I could barely sleep last night due to the cramping feeling that I had been hoping was the sign of impending implantation. About 12:30am I made my trip to the bathroom, did the progesterone suppository thing, and lay down to crash for the night. J was still out in the garage making noise. Then he [...]

Posted on | February 10, 2006

3DP3DT: I Dream of Implantation Cramps

You could set your clock on this one. Right on time, precisely within the statistically average of 6.6 and 7.4 days post IVF transfer, I started to cramp. Right in the middle of my uterus. And just a tiny bit. So small it could even be in my head. It started last night while I [...]

Posted on | February 9, 2006

Woops. Missed the Soy Phytoestrogens

Interesting study. I missed this one when prepping for IVF. I had also read that the genestein (sp?) in soy reduced fertility in both men and women, so an isolated compound would be indicated. More Help with Fertility By Kimberly Beauchamp, ND Healthnotes Newswire (January 20, 2005)—Infertile women may improve their chances of becoming pregnant [...]

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