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

CD2: Vacillating about cycling

AF came early again – a 25 day cycle. Since I had the whopper 6cm cyst late this last January, my cycles haven’t been normal. As the 6cm cyst withered on the right, a +2cm cyst on the left had developed. Today was my first ultrasound since visiting my fabulous U/S man in NJ. So, [...]

Posted on | April 8, 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

2010 raises its head once again

So I thought that the year of the rabbit was supposed to be in full swing by now, but apparently we’re a little behind in my world. After my last odd AF, chock full of crimson FCM and ovarian pain…I noticed that the pain lessened a bit but never really went away. I also started [...]

Posted on | February 12, 2011

California Trip

I sorta drop off when I go home for a visit. There’s so much to do, people to see, restaurants to visit, etc. This trip was no different. On landing in LA I immediately got my fix of carne asada tacos with guacamole. I didn’t eat on the plane so I was starved and I’m [...]

Posted on | January 16, 2011

5DP3DT IVF9: Musings on Progesterone

Progesterone used to make me feel intense uterine cramps, make breasts hurt, and just cause me a lot of physical discomfort. Most of my cycles, I was on 200mg/day and maybe even 100mg/day on one cycle. All these symptoms on 100-200mg/day. In this cycle I’m on 800mg/day of P4 supplements. And I feel … well [...]

Posted on | November 13, 2010

CD11: White Knuckle Cycle

Remember how I told the nurse that I didn’t need to come in the very next day for bloods and US because I was only at 15mm? This was two days ago, right? Two days ago that follicle was at 15mm. And we know that follicles grow basically 2mm/day. So said 15mm follicle should be [...]

Posted on | November 4, 2010

CD8: Bats in the Bellfry

We went out to a Halloween party last night and got home way too late (3AM) – but the cats don’t care about my schedule or how much sleep “I” got the night before and were crawling all over me meowing to high hell for breakfast at 10:15AM. They woke me at 10:05 or so [...]

Posted on | October 31, 2010

Embryos: Day 3Enbrel Anyone?

Still no word from Dr. Italian on how my 3 day old embryos are doing. I sent him an email a few hours to inquire, but nothing. I know he’s not at work today, so I hope that it’s because he’s busy and not for other reasons. On another note: if any of you ladies [...]

Posted on | February 20, 2010 keep looking »