Cancelled

1 follicle on the left at 11mm and all four on the left had withered to sizes that would never mature and be retrievable. I’ll get the blood work today. I have a consult next Monday to look at the intrauterine fibroids. Dr. R now thinks that it might even be an encapsulated pocket of [...]

Posted on | May 17, 2011

Stim Day 7

I’m onto stim day #7 and have an u/s appointment to see if my three measly follicles have grown in number. The aching in my ovaries is totally unwarranted given the small potatoes of this cycle. Days 1-6 I did 750iu of gonal-f a day. Just madness when you think of how much gonal-f that [...]

Posted on | May 16, 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

Fibroid Hell

Last Friday I did an U/s with Dr. R. He did a transverse scan and noticed something odd. He said that I either had a tumor in my uterus or that my lining was growing “funny”. I went in for my SHG yesterday and, as suspected, Dr. R found a 2cm fibroid in my uterine [...]

Posted on | May 6, 2011

Still thinking about gestational surrogacy

I saw Dr. R in person for the first time yesterday morning. He’s an interesting one. He also wonders about Dr. B’s protocol but said that he seems to be women knocked up (but didn’t seem to certain on the data). He said he’s willing to do the “Hail Mary” of IVF cycles with me, [...]

Posted on | April 30, 2011

First try at Mayan Abdominal Massage

I’m not sure which of the local practitioners are the best to go to for Mayan Abdominal Massage but I used their website to hone in on a few ladies. I was told to focus on those that did the advanced training. I picked one in NYC and another that listed an office close to [...]

Posted on | April 28, 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

Detachment

I have six BCPs remaining after this morning’s dose, which means that I’ll be starting lupron within the next six days. A bit nerve wracking because not only is this cycle not yet approved by my insurance, but I don’t even have my lupron ordered!! The IVF protocol was sent over to Dr. R’s office [...]

Posted on | April 23, 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

CD5: Decisions have been made

Had a quick consult on the phone with my immunologist, who freaked out that Dr. Czech was thinking of going after only one egg. Thank god. I was the only one freaking out about this and I couldn’t understand WHY. He offered to do my IVF “and” my immune work together for about $9500. He’s [...]

Posted on | April 10, 2011