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

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 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

CD6Day After Surgery: Ranting About The East Coast

The doc wasn’t able to do the sclerotherapy procedure on my right ovary as they weren’t able to get the medication that they use in time. Apparently, the compounding pharmacy in St. Louis that packages the medication that I needed failed to renew their NY state licensing in time and so they’re out of commission [...]

Posted on | October 30, 2009