Moving onto iron

As of today, I’ve officially been bleeding for two weeks since my hysteroscopy. I emailed Dr. R and he said he’s not worried yet. As long as I’m not filling 4 or 5 pads a day, I’m OK. I only had liners with me so yesterday I went and bought some regular pads so I [...]

Posted on | June 28, 2011

The supplements we take

Found a really cool image today that sorta ties together all the supplements we ingest in our quest to get knocked up. If you click on the image, it will take you to the website of the physician who created it.

Posted on | April 24, 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

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

Beta Burn

Less than 1. Negative was pretty much what I reckoned it would be. I had a (very?) faint positive 9 days past my 3 day transfer (embryo 12 days old on this date). It still shows up on the damned HPT to this day – so it’s real enough – but I still wonder if [...]

Posted on | June 1, 2010

Melatonin and the 2WW

Looks like it is a miracle substance:http://www.biolreprod.org/content/81/3/445.full I’ll be starting my 3mg tonight to help with oxidative stress AND to get a good night’s sleep!

Posted on | May 28, 2010

My Usual Protocol for Diet, Herbs, & Supplements

Pre-ET Feng Shui’d the House 500mg Zithromax starting with stims (this was with Dr. Hungarian) 4 LIT Treatments (still doing these) 17 Weeks of Humira or Enbrel (stopped this) 30g IVIg CD5 of IVF cycle (did this on day 2 or 3 of stims, but only when insurance pays) 30g IVIg 2 days before transfer [...]

Posted on | May 16, 2010