Aftermath

I’m still not quite right from an emotional standpoint after this cycle. I vacillate between feeling numb, angry, and extremely sad. It took so much out of me to do this cycle. I was on freaking BCPs for 5 weeks before this cycle…I could have cycled within a cycle for how long it took to [...]

Posted on | December 14, 2009

Crash and BurnWith Added Paranormal Kids Flava?

Retrieval was today. 4 follicles. 1 immature follicle retrieved. I have nothing. NOTHING! Nothing to fertilize. How can this be? I had a 18mm follicle two days ago. There is nothing about that follicle that could remotely be considered “immature”. How could this cycle have gone so wrong? I just don’t understand it. The only [...]

Posted on | December 12, 2009

Trigger Day

Yesterday’s E2 = 750 Wow, nearly doubled. Lab error or what? Hmm… There are four follicles. One’s ready to go at 18, the other three are all under 15. I forget the values but there’s a chance that two MIGHT be big enough at trigger. I sorta doubt the 4th will make it at all. [...]

Posted on | December 11, 2009

Stim Day 8

Just got yesterday’s lab tests: Prolactin: 11.4 (down from 14 in October)E2: 397 I don’t remember how to calculate E2. This seems low to me though. :( Did one shot of ganirelex last night and another this AM per instructions. Still feeling laden with my swelling ovaries, but less so than yesterday. I so bet [...]

Posted on | December 8, 2009

Stim Day 7Cycle Going Bad

Today was my first monitoring U/S with Dr. Italian. The results were dismal. One large 18mm follicle on the left side, two or three smaller (12mm, 9mm, etc). And NOTHING on the right side save for a few endometriomas. It’s bad. Real bad. It’s my fucking age and it’s also the endometriomas. But it might [...]

Posted on | December 8, 2009

Stim Day 6

I read a few sources online that say that taking resveratrol and anticoagulants (NSAIDs and maybe things like lovenox, arixtra, etc) can increase the chance for bleeding. I believe it. I’m taking 250mg a day of reservatrol and 40mg of lovenox, and unlike previous cycles, I am bruising more than usual. Tomorrow is my first [...]

Posted on | December 6, 2009

Stim Day 5Feeling the Pain

Today’s stim day 5 and my ovaries are aching and feeling laden. I’m still not convinced that 600iu of gonal-f a day is going to have me ready to trigger when I go in for my first monitoring u/s on Monday afternoon. I told the doc that 600iu was a lot for me and he [...]

Posted on | December 6, 2009

Birthday Eve

AF is taking her time showing up in full force and I am quite happy about this. I was worried that Dr. Italian was going to be doing my baseline way too early and he was right: there’s enough hormone in my body to trick things for a while. Today’s my last day at 44 [...]

Posted on | November 29, 2009

Ironies and Iron Levels

So I’ve been on BCPs since my last hysteroscopy, roughly five weeks according to my pill packs. I’ve bled the entire time without cease…and yesterday was my last BCP. Ironically, I stopped bleeding on the last day of my BCPs…and now I can look forward to….more bleeding as my AF starts. Oy. On iron levels, [...]

Posted on | November 28, 2009

Iron Infusion #4

Fourth iron infusion today. Nothing remarkable happened…just a bit of burning in my right hand where the iron was being dripped into. I’m not feeling hugely energetic or anything. I wonder how long it will be until I can feel some of the side effects of the iron infusion? I’m still bleeding quite a bit [...]

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