And We Made It!

The lower dose of Gonal-f last night seems to have helped my nausea for the time being so I finally managed to get a good night sleep on the couch last night, I actually needed my alarm to get up for b/w and u/s this morning. The u/s showed A LOT going on. I have about 18 follicles that look ready. I still have a lot (like more than 15) under 10 mm which makes me nervous but I can't worry about that right now. I asked what the egg retreival will be like with so many follicles and the nurse said I will definitely be more uncomfortable then someone who only has 5 or 6 because for each follicle they have to stick a needle through your vagina and aspirate it, no matter how big or small. They will use an ultrasound to guide the needle to get to the ovary and follicles. Then, the fluid in the follicles is aspirated through the needle and the eggs detach from the follicle wall and are sucked out of the ovary. GROSS! So, 30+ sticks will probably lead to a lot of pain. But, I would rather be prepared for it. The one good thing the nurse said is that the follicles in each of my ovaries are clustered, rather than spread out, so they may be able to go through the same "hole" again and again for multiple follicles. When I left this morning, the nurse gave me a 90% chance of triggering tonight (oh thank god!) 

And...after spending most of the morning cleaning and running errands, I finally got the phone call...
I am triggering tonight at 7:30 pm.  My egg retrieval is scheduled for 7:30 am Tuesday morning.  If everything goes well, we will transfer one beautiful embryo Friday morning. 

I nervously asked her about my estradiol and it came back at 3,400 which I was pretty pleased with given all the activity I have; we seem to have avoided any huge jumps in the levels and its been a nice and steady increase (aside from the first few days.)

They are still concerned about me hyperstimulating so they had orginally mentioned putting me on cabergoline .5 mg, BUT after mentioning to the nurse that I take Bromocriptine 1.25 mg every night (to keep my prolactin levels low) they called me and said I am already covered and there is no need for the .5 cabergoline.  The Bromocriptine serves the same purpose as the cabergoline.  That made me feel better, because I already have that drug in my system and hated to add another in there too.  So, tonight is my last injection!!!!  AND WE MADE IT!!!!