Start Date: Friday, July 13th
Needle count: 34
Blood draws: 11
Ultrasounds: 6
Jule 13: b/w confirmed ovulation
- start 10 units of Lupron @ 7:45 pm to catch up
July 15: 10 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
- did shot at hotel in NY
- accupuncture appt.
- injection site bled, pretty sure I took some skin off when I pulled the needle out, oops!
- feel like crap, lethargic, gross, not myself
- starting to wonder what my stomach is going to look like after about 30 more injections! I am sure I will be able to play a crazy game of connect the dots!
July 20: 10 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
July 21: 10 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
July 22: 10 units of Lupron @ 8:00 am
July 23: 10 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
- accupuncture appt. @ 12:30
- stomach is starting to be consistently sore from all the shots
July 24: 10 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
- period finally arrived around 4 pm
- woke up around 4 am with awful cramps from my period (hopefully it's the last time for a while)
- Baseline appt. @ 7 am (b/w and u/s)
- Cleared of any cysts and lining looks nice and thin, go ahead to begin Gonal f tomorrow night
Begin Stimulating Drugs (2 shots a day)
July 27: 5 units of Lupron @ 7:45 am
- 112.5 iu Gonal f @ 6:30 pm
- 112.5 iu Gonal f @ 6:15 pm
July 29: 5 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
- 112.5 iu Gonal f @ 6:45 pm
- 5 units of Lupron @ 6:30 am
- accupuncture @ 1:15
- had to drop Gonal f to 75 iu (estradiol came back at 340)
- 75 iu Gonal f @ 6:00 pm
- 5 units of Lupron @ 6:30 am
- estradiol came back at 540...still rising, but a little slower, continue Gonal f at same dose
- 75 iu Gonal f @ 6:30
- 5 units of Lupron @ 6:30 am
- 75 iu Gonal f @ 7 pm
- 5 units of Lupron @ 6:45 am
- 3 follicles measuring greater than 12 mm and LOTS of smaller ones
- estradiol came back at 1,100
- continue Gonal f 75 iu @ 6:45 pm
- 5 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
- 8 follicles measuring greater than 12 mm and LOTS of smller ones
- accupuncture @ 9:30 am (YAY!)
- estradiol came back at 1,580
- continue Gonal f 75 iu @ 7pm
- 5 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
- estradiol came back at 2,695, take lowest dose of Gonal-f (37.5)
- Gonal f @ 7:30 pm
- 5 units of Lupron @ 7:30 am
- estradiol came back @ 3,500
- Trigger shot @ 7:30 pm EXACTLY
August 7: Egg Retrieval @ 7:30 am (GET THESE THINGS OUT OF ME!!)
- retrieved 19 eggs, everything went well
- stitched up my cervix to make transfer easier on Friday
- 10 eggs have fertilized (6 the conventional way, and only 4 w/ ICSI)
- spoke w/ embryologist (embryos have continued to divide into 2-cell and 4-cell, and 2 more eggs fertilized over night!!!)
- Of the 12 fertilized eggs, most have stopped growing
- Transferred two 7-cell embryos
- Not sure any will make it to freeze
- Work up in the middle of the night with major cramping, doubled over in pain, spend rest of night between bathroom and couch
- Starting to feel better finally
- Feel great, bloating is still there but no longer uncomfortable, haven't felt this good since before starting Lupron
- tested trigger shot out of my system
- found out one of our embryos made it to freeze
- I blogged about feeling nothing. In fact I blogged about feeling great. But, that night I went to bed telling P that I knew there was going to be a second line the next morning.
- I woke up in the middle of the night screaming at P something about my eggs (I was having a nightmare obviously) I kept saying I forgot to take my medicine for 3 days, what is going to happen to my eggs! He did eventually calm me down and get me back into bed. (I swear I have PTSD from all the injections)
- There it was...a second line
- I ran into the other bathroom where P was showering and showed it to him, it was the first time I saw his eyes light up in a very long time
- Throughout the day I felt pretty crummy, in the way that I had earlier in the week: Bloating was now uncomfortable, it hurt a little to go to the bathroom, just a real heaviness down there along with a little cramping!
- Was exhausted around 3 pm and laid on the couch for a few hours
- Had to get up twice in the middle of the night go to the bathroom
- Woke up in the middle of the night feeling dizzy after going to the bathroom, decide to spend the rest of the night on the couch
- There was still a second line, but it was the same shade as yesterday's
- Uncomfortable, feels like my ovaries have swelled again, very bloated by the end of the day
- Continue to be very dizzy when I get up after sitting for a while
August 19: 9dp3dt
- Extremely bloated/swollen and uncomfortable (mild case of OHSS?)
- Dizzy and lightheaded
- Exhausted, spent most of the day in bed
- Still peeing regularly and no weight gain (both good things)
- More importantly, got another positive...this one was even a little darker!
- put a call into my clinic, beta isn't until Wednesday, but want to know what is going on with my stomach, talked to nurse who was reassured that I was still peeing and not gaining any weight, told to continue to monitor everything
- nurse told me because I had 19 eggs and such elevated estrogen levels that my follicles are most likely filling back up with fluid/blood because I AM PREGNANT!!!!
- can take anywhere from a few days to entire first trimester for severe bloating to go down before my body reabsorbs the fluid as it is supposed to
- besides feeling extremely bloated, am doing much better than yesterday
- Woke up at 2am with massive cramping (felt like period was coming)
- Night sweats
- Stomach is still huge, hope it goes down in the next few weeks before the real baby weight begins!
- Besides that, no real symptoms (wondering if the Bromocriptine I am still on is keeping some of it in check, if I get a positive Beta, I will most likely discontinue it)
- Beta # 1: 202
- Beta #2: 360 (78% increase)
- Beta #3: 3,817
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