i've got bad plumbing

the frantic (in)fertility odyssey of a woman of 47 to get knocked up

CD14: Retrieval Tomorrow

Can’t believe I am here again on the eve of yet another retrieval. My doctor was on vacation for essentially ALL of my cycle and monitored me from afar. This isn’t so odd, I guess, but it is a bit disconcerting. The nurse practitioner that did my US’s thought I had as many as 5 [...]

Posted on | August 31, 2011

6DT3DT: Trigger Gone & Thoughts on Co-Q10

Today was the first day that my HPTs showed absolutely nothing in the test area, meaning that my level of b-HCG is finally below the 20mIU threshold. So now the real testing can begin. My beta is on June 1, thirteen days after transfer. A full week from today. It seems like a long wait. [...]

Posted on | May 26, 2010

New Blog Home and Well Into IVF #8

I hope that I haven’t lost many of you. Blogger decided to do away with their FTP support on May 1 and I was too buried at my new job to move my blog. I was at www.kurvy.com/badplumbing and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to get it to a subdomain on [...]

Posted on | May 14, 2010

CD11: Triggering Tonight!

I went in for my 2nd monitoring U/S today and my follicles are at 20, 19, 17, and 13. He was a bit taken aback at how fast I progressed. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary either. I took ALL my ganirelex, didn’t add in more Gonal-F. So, amazingly, despite all of that, [...]

Posted on | March 18, 2010

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