So I had egg retrieval yesterday and I So feel it :(
I'm really sore and bloated worried about hyperstimulation but trying to rest and get plenty of liquids in.
I had a lot of pain last night and didn't sleep a part of the night due to that and anxiety.
Today we got the call all 9 fertilized.
Still need to make the decision to go to blastocyst or not.
We must make that decision tomorrow,
Its hard to know whats best but we can only make one choice and theres no going back.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Egg Retrieval Tomorrow
I'm absolutely terrified Egg retrieval is tomorrow.
I'm not scared of the pain I'm scared of the results, how many eggs will there be? how many will fertilize?
My E2 number is a lot lower than I expected makes me nervous, but it's all out of my hands now,
I can't make this any different than it is,
God please let this be our time guide me through this safely.
Now I'm just paranoid like
Am I in enough pain to have as many eggs as I have,or why am'nt I more bloated?
Crazy I Know I think my over medicated brain is irrational.
I am praying this will work out 6 and a half years has been such a long time, and We've been through a lot,
emergency surgeries on both Dh and me (at different times)
Radical lifestyle changes, planned surgery, ectopic pregnancy and 5 failed iui's
I've prayed and cried for this miracle for so long,
makes me wonder will my prayers ever be answered?are they meant to be?
I hope so, We both really do.
I'm not scared of the pain I'm scared of the results, how many eggs will there be? how many will fertilize?
My E2 number is a lot lower than I expected makes me nervous, but it's all out of my hands now,
I can't make this any different than it is,
God please let this be our time guide me through this safely.
Now I'm just paranoid like
Am I in enough pain to have as many eggs as I have,or why am'nt I more bloated?
Crazy I Know I think my over medicated brain is irrational.
I am praying this will work out 6 and a half years has been such a long time, and We've been through a lot,
emergency surgeries on both Dh and me (at different times)
Radical lifestyle changes, planned surgery, ectopic pregnancy and 5 failed iui's
I've prayed and cried for this miracle for so long,
makes me wonder will my prayers ever be answered?are they meant to be?
I hope so, We both really do.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Waiting for retrieval time seems like forever away
Well I had my appointment yesterday
I now have 24 follicles ranging from 7mm to 18mm a lot of them are over 11mm so thats good.
There are nine on my left ovary and 15 on my right.
My puregon dosage is now 100iu per day every day until Wednesday
On thursday I have my blood test in the morning,
ultrasound in the evening and if my blood results are not too high and my follicles have grown enough,
We will trigger so that could be on thursday evening or on friday depending how it all goes.
If my estradiol is too high then we have to stop everything and wait for it to go down.
Anyone whose reading this please pray for me that this won't happen as I'm scared what will happen to my follies if their left hanging.
I'm really anxious but trying to stay calm,
its just we've come so far and pumped my body full of these meds and I want to get my chance to do this, to make it to transfer (hoping for blastocyst) and then hopefully BFP after that.
I now have 24 follicles ranging from 7mm to 18mm a lot of them are over 11mm so thats good.
There are nine on my left ovary and 15 on my right.
My puregon dosage is now 100iu per day every day until Wednesday
On thursday I have my blood test in the morning,
ultrasound in the evening and if my blood results are not too high and my follicles have grown enough,
We will trigger so that could be on thursday evening or on friday depending how it all goes.
If my estradiol is too high then we have to stop everything and wait for it to go down.
Anyone whose reading this please pray for me that this won't happen as I'm scared what will happen to my follies if their left hanging.
I'm really anxious but trying to stay calm,
its just we've come so far and pumped my body full of these meds and I want to get my chance to do this, to make it to transfer (hoping for blastocyst) and then hopefully BFP after that.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
First ultrasound during stims
So yesterday I had my first follicle check cd6.
I have about 15 follicles mostly on my right ovary and only 3 or four on the left, the biggest is measuring 10mm so still a while to go
my meds are reduced to 100iu one day,150iu the next.
I was on 150iu every day for the first 3 days of stims.
I've had massive headaches from day one of the puregon but they come and go and I felt twinges in my ovaries from the day after the first shot.
I'm drinking so much water plus 1 protein drink per day.
I'm really nervous I'll get a lot of eggs but the quality will be poor, I've been preparing for months to prevent this with wheatgrass,nuts,seeds and protein supplements but you can never tell what will happen until it does.
I'm not feeling really well on these meds it seems to be getting harder but my doc checked my over and I'm still ok to go ahead its just the side effects are wreaking havoc on my body but it'll all be worth it if I get a positive end result. Thats what I'm really praying for thats what all of us out there battling infertility are praying and dreaming for and I really hope its true that 2010 is our year.
Babydust to everyone reading this who needs it.
I have about 15 follicles mostly on my right ovary and only 3 or four on the left, the biggest is measuring 10mm so still a while to go
my meds are reduced to 100iu one day,150iu the next.
I was on 150iu every day for the first 3 days of stims.
I've had massive headaches from day one of the puregon but they come and go and I felt twinges in my ovaries from the day after the first shot.
I'm drinking so much water plus 1 protein drink per day.
I'm really nervous I'll get a lot of eggs but the quality will be poor, I've been preparing for months to prevent this with wheatgrass,nuts,seeds and protein supplements but you can never tell what will happen until it does.
I'm not feeling really well on these meds it seems to be getting harder but my doc checked my over and I'm still ok to go ahead its just the side effects are wreaking havoc on my body but it'll all be worth it if I get a positive end result. Thats what I'm really praying for thats what all of us out there battling infertility are praying and dreaming for and I really hope its true that 2010 is our year.
Babydust to everyone reading this who needs it.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
IVF THE BEGINING OF A NEW JOURNEY
Monday 17th I had my cd2 scan the cyst is gone :)
Tuesday 18th (my moms birthday) I started my first puregon(Follistim)injection at 10pm that night at 150iu's dosage.
Wednesday I already feel alot of twinges in both my ovaries could be because of the cyst that burst or the meds starting to react even though its very early.
My first follicle check is tomorrow friday the 21st of may at 8.30pm.
Then we'll see how I'm responding will my dose go up or down or just stay the same.
Excited but nervous, today thursday morning I felt very nausous and couldn't stand up for longer than 20 mins with out feeling something in my ovaries this is all so different to me.
I have headaches on and off since the first injection and also feel emotional at times.
I'm eating 1 egg every day and drinking my protein drink as well as lots of fruit and vegetables and my pile of supplements. And drinking up to 2 litres of liquids mostly water every day.
I'm really praying this will work out for us because I'm so scared of how we will feel if it doesn't after so much effort physicaly,emotionaly and financialy.
Tuesday 18th (my moms birthday) I started my first puregon(Follistim)injection at 10pm that night at 150iu's dosage.
Wednesday I already feel alot of twinges in both my ovaries could be because of the cyst that burst or the meds starting to react even though its very early.
My first follicle check is tomorrow friday the 21st of may at 8.30pm.
Then we'll see how I'm responding will my dose go up or down or just stay the same.
Excited but nervous, today thursday morning I felt very nausous and couldn't stand up for longer than 20 mins with out feeling something in my ovaries this is all so different to me.
I have headaches on and off since the first injection and also feel emotional at times.
I'm eating 1 egg every day and drinking my protein drink as well as lots of fruit and vegetables and my pile of supplements. And drinking up to 2 litres of liquids mostly water every day.
I'm really praying this will work out for us because I'm so scared of how we will feel if it doesn't after so much effort physicaly,emotionaly and financialy.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
The final countdown for IVF
So I've neglected my blog lately,
I'm now back in Lithuania since April 26th, Things were very hectic.
Last monday the 3rd May I had my first appointment back with my fertility specialist.
I was 2dpo and at the time would could see on the transvaginal ultrasound,
that I had ovulated from the right ovary (my good side :) as I only have one full fallopian tube)
However I have a cyst (3cm) on my left side, potentially what's been making my cycles so out of whack the last 6 months.
Anyways if worst comes to worst I have to do 'long protocol IVF'
But if it goes away BY Af time then I will start stimming on cd3-5 of my next cycle.
It will be my first transvaginal scan on my period so not looking forward to that, but we have to do what we have to do.
Of course I'm hoping AF won't turn up at all :) but we'll see, need to wait another week to find out about that.
Dh had a new semen analysis on wednesday the 5th ( ironiclly our 3rd wedding anniversary)
The results were pretty good 60% good morphology, 84 million sperm per ml,30% fastest (A),50% (B) and 6%(c)not moving 14% (d) dead
Now is on exciting time maybe just maybe we can do this naturally or if not we get to start IVF and get a much bigger chance of having our much wanted child.
Its so hard to be positive all the time when you know that it might not work out.
It is such a huge investment physcially, emotionally and obviously financially we've wanted to do this for years especially since 2008 but it took us from april 2009 to now to save up enough money to do this and even then it will send us broke to do it but we're so over ready and we cannot wait any longer to take the next step.
I'm now back in Lithuania since April 26th, Things were very hectic.
Last monday the 3rd May I had my first appointment back with my fertility specialist.
I was 2dpo and at the time would could see on the transvaginal ultrasound,
that I had ovulated from the right ovary (my good side :) as I only have one full fallopian tube)
However I have a cyst (3cm) on my left side, potentially what's been making my cycles so out of whack the last 6 months.
Anyways if worst comes to worst I have to do 'long protocol IVF'
But if it goes away BY Af time then I will start stimming on cd3-5 of my next cycle.
It will be my first transvaginal scan on my period so not looking forward to that, but we have to do what we have to do.
Of course I'm hoping AF won't turn up at all :) but we'll see, need to wait another week to find out about that.
Dh had a new semen analysis on wednesday the 5th ( ironiclly our 3rd wedding anniversary)
The results were pretty good 60% good morphology, 84 million sperm per ml,30% fastest (A),50% (B) and 6%(c)not moving 14% (d) dead
Now is on exciting time maybe just maybe we can do this naturally or if not we get to start IVF and get a much bigger chance of having our much wanted child.
Its so hard to be positive all the time when you know that it might not work out.
It is such a huge investment physcially, emotionally and obviously financially we've wanted to do this for years especially since 2008 but it took us from april 2009 to now to save up enough money to do this and even then it will send us broke to do it but we're so over ready and we cannot wait any longer to take the next step.
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