Today is day 9 of follistim, and I had an appointment with the RE this morning for an ultrasound and blood work to check my progress. I must admit, I'm more than a little worried. I am in NO way complaining as I know plenty of ladies that have difficulty producing more than 8-10 follies in an IVF cycle, BUT I feel like I have WAY too many follicles growing right now.
On Tuesday I had a total of 34 follicles (eggs)- 19 on the left and 15 on the right. Well after today's visit I have even more measurable (any follicle over 10 mm-12mm is considered "measurable"). So, I have 22 measurable follicles (eggs) on the right and approximately 30 measurable follicles on the left (they literally quit counting and measuring after about 20 on the left side). My lead follicle is at 17 mm, followed by about 6 at 16mm, 10 at 15mm, and the rest between 12mm -15mm. My RE considers a follicle mature and ready for trigger at 18mm, and follicles grow between 1mm-2mm per day.
Although I am thrilled that my body can produce that many eggs, I am terrified for what that means. . . ER is going to be incredibly painful, very high risk for OHSS (and no, they won't trigger me with lupron instead), and I don't know, I'm just a bit scared about it. I mean, I think you really can have too many follies. . .and I'm thinking I am falling into that group right now. Anyone else have this many or close to this many?
I am waiting for a call back from the RE with my blood work results from this morning. They should be paying special attention to my estrogen (e2) level. We are tentatively scheduled to come back into the RE on Sunday morning for repeat u/s and b/w and I suspect we would probably then trigger on Sunday night for a Tuesday AM ER (egg retrieval). . . I will keep you all updated as I learn more!
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Let's get this party started people!
Start the clock! Today is the day I started "stimming" (meaning I started taking the injectible gonadotropin Follistim) to grow piles of eggs that can be retreived and fertilized once mature (probably in the next 10-14 days). This is the first active step in the IVF process! Woo hoo! Once we start stimming, there's no looking back=). I'm kidding of course. . .cycles can still be cancelled, but it's pretty unlikely in my case since I tend to stim so well.
Anyway, it's exciting to be getting started. I go back into the RE's office on Tuesday for an ultrasound and blood work to determine how well we are doing on the Follistim. Hoping for a good report come Tuesday!
Anyway, it's exciting to be getting started. I go back into the RE's office on Tuesday for an ultrasound and blood work to determine how well we are doing on the Follistim. Hoping for a good report come Tuesday!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The "clearing" ultrasound, and hoping for the green light!
Hi all!
I went in to the RE this morning for my "clearing" ultrasound and blood work. The ultrasound looked great, no cysts, my tube looks perfect (I asked specifically about hydrosalpinx), and I have a TON of antral follies to work with this cycle. Woo hoo! It should be a great month to stim!
The only hold up at this point is that my monthly visitor (AF) hasn't come to visit yet. I didn't think that was a requirement for starting stims after coming off of birth control, but apparently it is, because they are not letting me start the Follistim until Thursday. Bummer! That will throw our ER (Egg Retrieval) and ET (Embryo Transfer) schedule off already. I suppose I shouldn't be too upset about that though. I mean, last time it took me about 4 days longer than they thought it would for me to stim, so my calendar was totally out of whack then too. I just remember that I was SO upset. This time I knew going into it that the calendar dates being changed was a distinct possibility. . .I just think I had hoped that no changes would occur at the beginning of the cycle since it will likely occur closer to the end of stimming as well! Oh well - we will deal! At least we are blessed enough to be able to do IVF again. I know several ladies that aren't so lucky and would switch me places in a heartbeat.
So I get to start the Follistim on Thursday night - 175 units. That is a pretty decent amount for me. Maybe they are trying to get a bunch of those antral follies to start growing right away. Hmmm. . .not a bad idea=). I will go back in next Tuesday for a follicle check and blood work to see how my estrogen (E2) and progesterone (p4) levels are. And of course, I will keep you all updated to my status! Hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday!!!
I went in to the RE this morning for my "clearing" ultrasound and blood work. The ultrasound looked great, no cysts, my tube looks perfect (I asked specifically about hydrosalpinx), and I have a TON of antral follies to work with this cycle. Woo hoo! It should be a great month to stim!
The only hold up at this point is that my monthly visitor (AF) hasn't come to visit yet. I didn't think that was a requirement for starting stims after coming off of birth control, but apparently it is, because they are not letting me start the Follistim until Thursday. Bummer! That will throw our ER (Egg Retrieval) and ET (Embryo Transfer) schedule off already. I suppose I shouldn't be too upset about that though. I mean, last time it took me about 4 days longer than they thought it would for me to stim, so my calendar was totally out of whack then too. I just remember that I was SO upset. This time I knew going into it that the calendar dates being changed was a distinct possibility. . .I just think I had hoped that no changes would occur at the beginning of the cycle since it will likely occur closer to the end of stimming as well! Oh well - we will deal! At least we are blessed enough to be able to do IVF again. I know several ladies that aren't so lucky and would switch me places in a heartbeat.
So I get to start the Follistim on Thursday night - 175 units. That is a pretty decent amount for me. Maybe they are trying to get a bunch of those antral follies to start growing right away. Hmmm. . .not a bad idea=). I will go back in next Tuesday for a follicle check and blood work to see how my estrogen (E2) and progesterone (p4) levels are. And of course, I will keep you all updated to my status! Hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday!!!
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