I am in love

I stopped taking my post-surgical darvocet yesterday so that I could make the 80 mile drive to Marlton, New Jersey. There was a horrible downpour on the way there that made me thankful that I didn’t take my meds. I wound up there an hour early anyways which was good as they had a bunch [...]

Posted on | July 15, 2010

CD10: Itchy Arms and Follicles

Today’s U/S showed 4 follies on the left, 2 on the right. TWO ON THE RIGHT! This means that my formerly dead right ovary has finally gotten a bit of life back in it. The right side has one follie at 15mm…the rest are hovering around 10. I am starting ganirelex tonight because of the [...]

Posted on | March 16, 2010

CD9 Interlude: A Call for your "Just Adopt" stories

Last week while I was in California, my elderly mother took me to drinks at her friend Claire’s house. On the way she tells me, “Please don’t mention to Claire you’re adopted. I don’t want to have to answer questions about it to her”. I have never met this Claire person in my life, but [...]

Posted on | March 14, 2010

CD8: Damn the FSH! We’ve Got Follicles!

My site was down for a few days, but I’m finally back online. So where are we? Yesterday:IntralipidsBaseline U/S and bloodworkDay 5 of Femara Today: Stim day 4 (450 Gonal-F/night) We did our first monitoring U/S yesterday and despite my FSH being in the stratosphere, I have follicles. 6 or 7 of them! Dr. Italian [...]

Posted on | March 13, 2010

CD1: The LIT Laboratory is Back in Session

AF arrived today. A new cycle begins. My reproductive immunologist’s office said that LIT might have helped save my blast from imminent “death by uterus.” (My saying, not theirs). OMFG. I hate hindsight. I told them I’m using anon DS and don’t know his tissue type but they said to just use my boyfriend’s WBCs [...]

Posted on | March 7, 2010

The Day After Heartbreak

My site has been down for a few days so beta day came and went without a post. Since my last post on Sunday, any indication that I was pregnant disappeared with those stabbing cramps I hate late on Friday night. Swollen and tender breasts? Gone. Crampy uterus? Gone. Quantitative bHCG: 3 It’s clear as [...]

Posted on | March 3, 2010

CD4 – Do It Yourself LIT

Tired of flying to Mexico and doing that border crossing? Ever wanted to do your own LIT? Now you can. $350 includes: 2 centrifuges (you could resell on ebay when you’re done or donate to a science class and take a tax break) Centrifuge Tubes (for the last spin to get the pellet) 3ml Herparin [...]

Posted on | March 30, 2009

My LIT AdventureA Confession

If you’ve been following my blog for the last 8 or so months, you might remember a post about my rants on LIT* and how the F*D*A has banned it in this country. Well, let me restate that. They’ve banned it as far as my doctors are concerned. No medical facility, physician, laboratory or the [...]

Posted on | June 28, 2007