TTC check in 7/18

[JustJudy]

It's Monday again!

[JustJudy]

I'm heading in for monitoring apt #2 and will update when it's over.


ETA: It went well! I'll be going in every day from now until retrieval. I'm hoping that it is Friday since J is off that day so we could do a relaxing day together. Shit is getting real!

[rikkiandjulie]

Yayayay!

[dannigirl]

Had my day 5 stim blood work and ultrasound.
I was giving the cetrotide but told to hold off on taking it u less I get a call. No call so far....

I still had the 7 follicles on the left and 5 on the right. They weren't measuring all that big from what I figured.. Most on the right side were 5mm with a 6mm in there. Left side had mostly 6mm with a 7mm and an 8mm.
The Dr didn't seem too worried and I head back Wednesday at 8am for the next monitoring.

I am so afraid that something will happen and this cycle will be cancelled. With the amount of work it took to get the time off to be here for the monitoring.. I know it will be even harder to get additional time off if it's needed.

[dannigirl]

Jul 18, 2016 9:55:38 GMT -5 JustJudy said:

I'm heading in for monitoring apt #2 and will update when it's over.


ETA: It went well! I'll be going in every day from now until retrieval. I'm hoping that it is Friday since J is off that day so we could do a relaxing day together. Shit is getting real!

That's super exciting!!

[JustJudy]

Jul 18, 2016 14:19:05 GMT -5 dannigirl said:

Had my day 5 stim blood work and ultrasound.
I was giving the cetrotide but told to hold off on taking it u less I get a call. No call so far....

I still had the 7 follicles on the left and 5 on the right. They weren't measuring all that big from what I figured.. Most on the right side were 5mm with a 6mm in there. Left side had mostly 6mm with a 7mm and an 8mm.
The Dr didn't seem too worried and I head back Wednesday at 8am for the next monitoring.

I am so afraid that something will happen and this cycle will be cancelled. With the amount of work it took to get the time off to be here for the monitoring.. I know it will be even harder to get additional time off if it's needed.

This numbers sound great for day 5! I'm sending lots of positive vibes your way that everything keeps going well.

[dannigirl]

@justjudy, thank you!!

How are things going with you? Any side effects?
How did today go?

My injections are starting to sting now..
I googled about injecting into fatty tissue last night... lol
I still have a pouch from Baby Girl I haven't gotten rid of and that's the area I was told to inject, so I was all worried that the meds wouldn't get through it all... Hahaha
Turns out, it's all good... 😛

[dannigirl]

Why can't I tag people?! How do I tag and get the names to show in blue?? I thought it was the # before the name, then I tried the @, but that's didn't work either... Ugh

[JustJudy]

Jul 19, 2016 10:46:49 GMT -5 dannigirl said:

Why can't I tag people?! How do I tag and get the names to show in blue?? I thought it was the # before the name, then I tried the @, but that's didn't work either... Ugh

It's my fault, my tag is feedyourhead but I changed my name. Sorry!

Things are going great! I start ganirelix tonight to keep from ovulating my bigger follicle. Today's measurements were:
R
17,13,13,15,14,19,20
L
18,14,14,14,13,16,16,15,

Retrieval is happening Friday or Saturday for sure.

[dannigirl]

JustJudy, let's see if that works... lol

Those are awesome numbers!
What day are you with your stims?

[dannigirl]

It worked!!! I put feedyourhead and it defulted to JustJudy.. Too funny.

[JustJudy]

Technology is so weird sometimes dannigirl.

I'm on day 9, it definitely feels different than even yesterday. The bloat/awareness of my ovaries is much more intense than before. With my IUI injectable cycle I only had 4 follicles growing so I'm sure it's just going to get more uncomfortable the next few days.

[rosesquared]

Hi Everyone,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to introduce myself to this board, however, it seems to be the best place without creating a whole new thread!

My name is Kim, I'm 32, and I've been happily married for 2 years. My wife (38) and I began talking about starting a family over a year ago but the timeline was delayed first due to graduate school, then I traveled to Panama and Colombia (zika), and now I am FINALLY about to be at day 1 of our first round of trying! Hence, why I'm finally getting active on TCF because my brain is on overload with thoughts/emotions/etc.

I also learned this last month through testing, that I'm not ovulating normally, so we will be doing our first IUI with femara and early monitoring. This was quite a blow to learn as we had been going along thinking everything was ok, only to learn that I may in fact have an issue with fertility.

I have serious "babies on the brain" syndrome right now and hope to find a place to chat with like minded folks going through the same or similar process. (All while I will still be in graduate school for another year...) Thank you all for being here!

-Kim

[JustJudy]

Welcome rosesquared! Isn't it the worst to find out you have fertility issues?
For my wife and I, we knew she would have trouble bc she has endometriosis but I look great on paper and yet here we are two years later doing IVF.

I wish you all the best and definitely hang out here all you want.

[rikkiandjulie]

Yay! rosesquared! So happy to have new faces.

Fertility issues are the worst, but the good news is that most can be overcome.

My personal journey was short, but my wife's journey was long an unsuccessful. But don't lose hope you'll get there

[rosesquared]

Thanks JustJudy and rikkiandjulie!! JustJudy I also looked great on paper at first, which is why we thought there were no issues, but then we did a mock IUI monitoring this month and saw that my follicles weren't getting big enough.

I'm so happy to have a place to chat about everything. It's just crazy how different this process can be for everyone and I'm a total planner, which makes it even more challenging. Good luck to all of you going through this right now too!

[dannigirl]

Welcome rosesquared!!!

It's been two years this month that we have been trying to have a live birth. It's one crazy process. We ended up with secondary infertility after we lost our baby girl, so I hope you have better luck doing IUI's.
One of the main thing that sucks is that your life turns into two week increments..

I started Cetrotide injections this morning. Still on the same dosage for the Menopur and Gonal F. The RE said she expects retrieval early next week. Likely Monday or Tuesday. I go back in Friday for another ultrasound and blood.

The meds are starting to sting. And the Cetrotide itched like crazy after. So excited about taking that Med... Yay... Argh.

[rosesquared]

dannigirl - Thanks for the welcome! Sorry you've had such a tough 2 years. Fingers super crossed you get a good result soon! :-)

[wittyandwaiting]

Hi rosesquared!

Welcome!!! I'm not sure if everybody reads this thread so feel free to make a thread to introduce yourself if you'd like. There's lots of TTC experience on this board.

Good luck on your TTC journey, hopefully it's a short one.

[JustJudy]

dannigirl, I feel you so much. My stomach is pretty bruised. I'm running out of places to stick myself where it doesn't hurt. Only a few more nights though!

[dannigirl]

I'm not doing too bad for surface bruising, so I'm likely injecting over previous sites, which is probably why it's starting to sting so bad.
Are you for sure going on Friday?! That's so exciting!

[JustJudy]

Retrieval is going to be Saturday. I'm so nervous and excited I can hardly stand it.

[dannigirl]

Yay!!!! That's exciting! Two days away!!
I'm super nervous about my day. Right now, I'm more nervous about the pain. When it comes time, I know more things will start making me nervous..

[dannigirl]

Headed to the RE this morning for another scan and more blood work.

I am so done with all these meds.. They sting, and I'm feeling so uncomfortable by the end of the days so much bloat and it almost feels like my ovaries are pulsing. Weirdest feeling ever.

[JustJudy]

Yes! It's so weird, I told J it's like I can actually feel the follicles growing.

[dannigirl]

I need to trust my Dr.. I need to trust my Dr...

I feel like my follicles are not where they should be, but my Dr is super happy and said Tuesday will likely be retrieval day.

From the sounds of things I'm down to 9 follicles. They are now only counting 2 on my left side. But there is still 7 on my right.
Two days ago I swear the other Dr counted an 18mm follicle, but today I didn't hear her say 18mm... The largest I heard her say was 16mm.

But again, she was really happy with the progress.. So I don't know what to think... Need to stay positive...

[JustJudy]

That happened to me too! I had a 20 on Tuesday but on Wednesday the biggest he measured was 19. Then yesterday there was a 24. I'm thinking he's mostly just trying to get an overall picture. I'm trying to trust him.

[dannigirl]

Yeah.. I've had a different Dr the last two ultrasounds and today was my normal Dr. So I'm sure they measure just a little different.
The main thing that bugs me is that it seems like I'm down from 12 follicles to 9... Ugh

[dannigirl]

Well cr@p...
So last night I don't know what I was thinking, but I dialed my Gonal F pen to 250 and injected. I'm taking 225. I didn't notice till I went to write it down and then I saw my previous injection notes.
At first I thought it was fine cause the pen only has two doses, but then I remembered the overfill!
I hope this doesn't cause any issues since I'm likely doing retrieval on Tuesday. 😖

[JustJudy]

Don't stress! I would let your doc know, but honestly I don't think it will be a problem. Since Gonal is just the FSH and not also LH like Menopur I would assume a little extra won't hurt.