Final Monitoring Appointment

I had my last ultrasound this morning. I had 8 follicles left and 16 on the right. My retrieval is set for 8:45am on Monday. My estrogen was still higher than they like, so they dropped my follistim to 75iu for the last injection tonight. Tomorrow night Craig will have to give me a shot in my hip to trigger the follicles to mature.

The dr is expecting to get a large number of eggs, so right now they are planning on doing the embryo transfer on Saturday.

2nd Monitoring Appointment

The injections continue to go well. I'm still very nauseous. I'm told that's because my estrogen levels are rising because of all the follicles I have. Unfortunately, that's also a sign that I'm sensitive to estrogen changes. Which means I have a good chance of being very sick during pregnancy due to constantly changing estrogen levels. Lucky me! At least that will be forgotten once I'm holding our little miracle in my arms.

At my ultrasound this morning the dr measured 8 follicles on the left and 8 on the right. There were more on the right, but he only measured the largest ones. My estrogen levels came back even higher today, so they have me lowering my dosage to 150iu tonight and tomorrow night. I will go back for another check on Friday.

1st Monitoring

The injections have been going well. I've been taking 225iu of Follistim every night. Craig didn't want to watch at first. He was doing the dishes while I gave myself the injection. He's feeling more comfortable now. Which is a huge relief to me because he will have to give me shots of progesterone in the rear after the retrieval.

I can tell that the hormones are starting to effect me. I've been pretty nauseous and my brain isn't working as clearly as it normally does. Of course, I could just chalk it up to being blond. Ha. Ha. Ha.

I had my first monitoring ultrasound and blood check done today. My estrogen levels were a little high, but not enough to cause any alarm. So my dosage will stay the same tonight and tomorrow, but the dr. wants me to go back in on Wednesday for another ultrasound.

I have 6 follicles on the left and 16 on the right. Just to give you an idea of how cloudy my brain has been, I didn't even realize that have 6 on one side and 16 on the other meant that I had 22 follicles until a friend pointed it out to me! (Thanks Kelly!!)

Baseline Ultrasound

I had a doctor's appointment this morning for a baseline ultrasound. Much to my surprise I had to have blood drawn today, too! I knew I'd have to have this done at my next appointment, but I didn't realize it started today!

Everything checked out to be normal, so I will start my injections tonight! Here we go!!