Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Day 5 of stims

Thank the lord above, I am feeling quite a bit better. The headache is still lingering most of the time but has lessened considerably and I feel mostly like a human again.  I really hope that continues and think it may since it sounds like these were Lupron headaches and I'm currently taking half the dose I was before.  

I've now gone through a full vial of Lupron (280iu) and am on to my second. I'm also starting in on my 3rd Gonal-F pen tonight (300iu each), and have just about filled up one of the two biohazard disposal containers they sent me.  That's a lot of shots. When I first started with the shots a little over 2 weeks ago I remember writing that I was so focused on them and hoped I'd get to a point where giving myself the shots was just a tiny blip during the day. It reached tiny blip status about a week ago. Now it feels like nothing, just another routine thing I do, just another cross off my IVF calendar as I work my way towards the end of next week. I'm more than halfway through now :-)

Tomorrow morning is my first monitoring appointment!  The nurse told me they usually just do B/W on CD7 and then based on the results would likely bring me back in the next morning for a U/S, but since I have a 1.5 hr drive she said we'll just go ahead and do both B/W and U/S tomorrow to save me a trip. Yay! I can't wait to see if the stims are making a difference and if things are moving along as they should.  I have not had the best results from ultrasounds (read: my ovaries have never ONCE reacted the way they should to meds so every single U/S has been a disappointment) so this would be a whole new world for me if I find that my ovaries are actually acting like normal functioning organs!  FX!


5 comments:

  1. I am so happy to hear the headache has let up a little, fx that trend continues for you!! I really hope your appt goes well tomorrow and your ovaries are behaving themselves!! Good luck, I'll be thinking about you! <3

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  2. Wow! Halfway through - yay!! I'm so glad to hear that you're feeling a little bit better too. I hope that you get great news at your appointment tomorrow!!

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  3. I'm soooooo excited for you!! Good luck at your monitoring appointment tomorrow! Fingers, toes, everything is crossed!!

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  4. Glad to hear you're feeling better! Hope all goes well tomorrow, I will be thinking of you.

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  5. can't wait to hear how it goes tomorrow...I hope your ovaries are responding & you get good news! :) Glad that headache is going away!!

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