Today was my first monitoring appointment at the new RE office. The tech scanned me faster than it took me to de-pants and get on the table. I heard her say, "Lets measure the smaller ones first" she listed two 7's and a 5 then pulled out the wand and said the office would call when the bloodwork came in. I was totally confused at how she could be done so fast. At any rate, my bloodwork came back with an e2 of 553 and an LH of 4.1. Looks like my lining has gone down a bit now its at a 5.3 with a triple stripe. Not bad....although I'm a little concerned about the e2 being so high so quickly but the amount of Follistim I'm on nightly its probably ok. I'm not going to worry....Screw worrying I hate worrying. Worrying sucks. I'm just going to focus on being awesome at being infertile since that is what I do best. They're keeping my Follistim the same but increased my low dose HCG to 10units and I'll have to go back Thursday morning for repeats.
An interesting factoid is that even though my amount of medications has decreased my number of injections are about the same. Tonight I took 5....FIVE!!! Two Follistim shots (thanks to the dosage), low dose HCG, Lovenox and Ganirelix. Oh yeah the Ganirelix....
Tonight starts my Ganirelix as well.....something else I'm not worrying about. Sure the one and only time I've used this drug was my one and only cancelled cycle but I'm leaving this in the able hands of the professional here. He tells me to take it...I'm taking it.
And yes, I'm buying Purex :)
Based on previous cycles, I'm anticipating an ER date of either Tuesday or Wednesday. Neither of these dates Jim can go with me since he's working days for a coworker. We've been scrambling to fill in the pieces of this puzzle but I think we've got it worked out.
First glitch was the juice. Ya know....the genetic material.....the DNA....the good stuff. Well, if he's not at the ER how exactly is an egg going to be fertilized. Especially after all that fighting about ICSI, lol. We had frozen a sample at the previous RE's clinic just by chance and thank goodness because it only cost us $300 as opposed to the $700 they would have charged us at this new place. So Friday I've arranged everything for pickup and transport and tank rentals the works....and I'm sending Jim on a mission to transport the spermies :) The funny part about this though was that my previous RE required a consent form to be sent to them before preparing the specimen. No problem except that I realized after printing that it had to be notorized. In big bold letters on the top it says "Transport of Frozen Sperm". We had two options....either I could take it to work signed and hope my coworked the notary would sign off on it, but then have a person I see daily know my business OR Jim could take it to the currency exchange where a stranger would know his business. We opted for the coworker....as it turns out the person I thought was the notary wasn't and it happened to be my coworker who already knows about our upcoming cycle so it wasn't quite as weird as I thought. Phew. That is done and taken care of so now I'm just relaxing.
Speaking of relaxing its time for bed for me. Getting up at 4:30am for monitoring appointments makes a girl tired!!
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