Day 7

I am chugging right along with my estrace, prometrium, doxycyline, and dex cocktail. It worked out that I started this on the 1st of the month so its been very convienent so far in trying to figure out where I am in the cycle according to what day it is. The side effects are nothing compared to when I was on lupron but either the doxy or the prometrium is kicking my stomach's ass. I am taking everything with food but I am still as nauseous as hell.

My only other issue is that the massive increase in estrogen is throwing my anxiety into overdrive. Luckily with all of the therapy I had last year I am able to keep it in check, it's just an annoyance at this point to be worrying about silly things like the oven.

Well my stomach is growling so I am off to go get a bobbie! I'll most likely check back in after my baseline which will most likely be next Monday or Tuesday.

Blonde Moments

I decided it would be fun if I took a picture of my IVF meds tonight so I could compare it to my first picture. Upon pulling everything out I realized she didn't order me any subq needles for the Menopur. This, of course does not shock me in the least bit. Just yesterday I had to run to Target twice because she was supposed to call in 4 perscriptions but only called in 3 so I had to go back later in the day to pick up the fourth. So now I am going to have to call her yet again on my way to work to see if she can't get the needles ordered for me.

Updated: So I realized this morning that I was wrong. The 25 guage needles she ordered for me are subq. She didn't order me the two sets of needles for PIO like I had last time, I mixing needle and then one for the actual injection. I am thinking the type of oil it is in this time isn't as thick and that is why it doesn't require two separate needles. Anyway this is what happens when you don't trust your coordinator. I automatically assumed that she ordered me the wrong things. I emailed her this morning and told her I was having a blonde moment and to disregard the email I sent her asking her if I had all the right needles. Oh well:)

We're off to the races...

Current meds:
1000 mg of Vitamin C
Dexamethasone- start every other day
3 mg of folic acid

Estrace- 2 per day

We finally have an updated plan. I am on quite a lot of shit pre-IVF! In four days I am adding doxycycline and prometrium to this cocktail for 7 days. I should then get my period three days after that and I go in on day 2 for a baseline! I can tell the doctor has been very involved in this udpated plan as it looks nothing like my original protocol so I am quite happy.

Coordinator from hell update

After spending the entire weekend flipped out over my IVF coordinator and her wanting to cancel my cycle for a multitude of reasons it seems things are calming down and heading in the right direction. I went in this morning for a progesterone check and spoke with my nurse about my converstaion with the coordinator. After I finsihed my rant she looked at me and said, "this is why we hired someone else to take over her position." My nurse(I go to a satellite office) stepped in today and called the doctor herself on my behalf to get things straightened out.

My bloodwork today showed that I definitely did ovulate, which we basically already knew. My doctor is out for the day but the coordinator is supposed to call me back in the morning and tell me whether I should start the bcp for ten days or if he wants me taking a estrogen/prometrium combo that apparently is a more natural way of suppressing. Has anyone heard of that?

The dip asked me again why I haven't taken the IVF class and I responded for the fifth time because I already did. She then "laughed" and said oh silly I wrote those notes on a different peice of paper. She also wanted to know if she should order my drugs...yeah I have had those for at least a month in a half now. I was also told to use a milkjug for my sharps container since she forgot to order one of those. I was laughing by the end of this conversation because its so obvious she doesn't have a clue.

The IVF nurse just called me back. Yes, I do have a collapsed follie but my E2 is only 45 and my progesterone is 3.3 on day 21. On Monday I had a 17 mm follie and I was told that my bloodwork showed I was on my way to ovulating. She said it looks like I am about to get my period. I told her my cycles have been wacked out since my last IVF and wasn't even sure if I have been ovulating in recent months.

They way she was talking my whole IVF was going to be cancelled and she couldn't even remember us talking about me doing IVF and she wanted to know why I even went in today in the first place. Hello lady I talked to you on Monday and you ordered my meds last month.

Wacky IVF med dream

(First I need you to think of the Good Seasoning salad dressing cruet)

In my dream last night Dh and I took out all of my IVF meds for our first night of stims. I start opening each vial and the vial is a cruet. Then I start to worry about how will I know the difference between my salad dressing and my meds. I think start to concoct a plan in my mind using food coloring so I can differentiate each cruet. Why I didn't just think of smelling the salad dressing is above and beyond me. The alarm then went off which is a shame because I would love to know how the dream me would have solved this issue.

Ovulation Check #1

I went in yesterday for ovulation check #1. The good news is that I am well on my way to ovulating and I go back again on Friday for check #2. I had a 17mm follie on the left which they think will go any day now which was the good news, the bad news was the fluid around my right ovary. Not bad news as in your cycle will be cancelled, but bad news is no wonder I felt like I mack truck hit me this weekend. I found it really odd to be having a fibro flare in the middle of summer, but I am now assuming it was caused by the ruptured cyst. No wonder I was in so much pain and was naseous all weekend long. I even called my friend and asked if I could go in his hot tub because I was so miserable. So hopefully that will have started to resolve itself by Friday and they will see that I have in fact ovulated so I can start the bcp. Not that it matters, but the other good news is that even if I don't ovulate for a few days this cycle was still a "normal legnth" which I am pleasently shocked about. Yay for my body doing something right this month.