Treatment day 7

Last night was the 6th night of stims...Two of my follies shrank back to 10s. I have 2 on the left that are now 15 and 17 in size. I have 8 on the right and they are all in the 17-20 range. The nurse said I need to chillax because being so upset is not going to help matters. Bottom line is my scans look great...if I was on day 8 or 9 of stims, chances of good quality right now aren't very high. They will review my bloodwork later today and see if they can push it another day or not. We are all in agreeance though that if this yeilds poor quality, fragmented embryos again that nothing will be put back.

So basically I need to find my zen for the next few days.

Stimming to quickly again

Ugh. My E2 jumped from 225 to 600 in two days. Today is just day 6 of stims. They are trying to push me to trigger on Saturday which is only 7 days of stims again which as we all know does not bode well for quality which is my major issue. My new RE lowered my doses considerably so they are pretty shocked this happened again.

Well, at least it will all be over soon I guess.

Ouch!

I just got back from my second follie scan and I keep repeating the mantra quality over quantity. After 4 nights of stims I have 7 follies on the right side measuring between 14-17 and 1 18. On the left I have 3 measuring between 13-15. Eleven total isn't bad, but I can't say that I am not a little bit disappointed. My AFC was triple what it was last year and I have less eggs cooking. I realize I have absolutely zero control over this so it is what it is and hopefully one or two of those are decent quality.

I took my third menopur shot last night and had a reaction almost immediately. It's very similar to the reaction I had last year to ovidrel. I have a baseball sized welt and it feels like a burn, I am just hoping it does not bubble and peel like the ovidrel reaction site did. Showering was super this morning when I realized that I basically can't let water hit the welt. The bitch of the situation is that tonight is my fifth night of stims and I most likely won't be stimming for much longer so they aren't sure if they are going to do a med change or not. Three or four more of these welts all over my body is not something I can admit I am looking forward to...hopefully it will all be worth it in the end. Tonight I am supposed to take benadryl 30 minutes before and basically pray it doesn't happen again.

1st follie scan update

I just got back from my first scan and my follies look great. 21 measurable follies after three nights of stims. So all good there.

The issue is that my period is off the hook(I was on prometrium for 7 days post ovulation last month). I woke up to what looked like yet another murder in my bed. At my baseline on Saturday my lining was still 9.4. Today my lining has thinned out by I still have a pocket of blood at the bottom of my ute that is waiting to come out. My nurse said that my follies won't take off until the blood is gone. She is going to talk with the doctor today but she seemed concerned. Have you ever heard of a IVF cycle being canceled because the patients period still wasn't done yet on cd5?

Update: The new coordinator called me back...as my mailbox was not properly set up. LOL, come you have to laugh at that. Everything looks great so far, yes I am still bleeding but its not completely uncommon. If my lining hasn't plumped back up by retrieval they will put me on Estrace. I am going to start drinking POM juice as soon as my period is over as that always seems to help with lining also. So all is well and the new coordinator was wonderful.

Reassurances

Celina, my wonderful nurse called me back today and tried to calm my fears about the coordinator and this cycle in general. She said that the coordinator is never this bad and she really isn't sure what is going on with her. As far as she can tell this is what is going on...

1. When I talked to coordinator this morning she stated that there was an issue with my bloodwork..and that was it. She did not elaborate. Celina stated my bloodwork looked great and the only troubling thing was that my lining was still very thick. My period has been super heavy the last three days so we are both sure that tomorrow's lining check will go much better.

2. Celina believes I was supposed to take my doxy this week and not last week, although she said there is no reason why last week wouldn't be fine also. She isn't sure why coordinator ordered two scripts for me. The zpack is for the day before retrieval and four days after. Again, she is unsure as to why coordinator did not know this when I asked her.

3. I should be on baby aspirin. Newsflash there as I was never told that.

4. I start taking the Medrol the day after transfer, I remembered that from last time.

5. I should have been given a packet and all IVF patients should be given a packet with a calender. This packet does include how to set up a mailbox so she is going to set up my mailbox today and show me how to use it tomorrow.

6. I "should" get paperwork at my retrieval that gives me all of my transfer/post transfer med instructions. Time will tell if I actually get it or not.

So in the end I am feeling much better than I was this morning. Celina profusely apologized stating that part of the reason I switched clinics was for better service which I am obviously not getting. I appreciate her saying that because she is absolutely right, with the exception of her and Donna at Milford, there service does suck and at least at the other clinic I knew exactly what I was doing in regards to my cycle and so did the coordinator if I had a question. Celina told me again that she was going to call the new coordinator on the down low and ask her to take over my case completely. Now, I have heard this a few times before so we will see if it actually happens.

I am such a post whore during IVF

Warm and fuzzy feelings

Are not something I get from my new clinic. I just spoke with coordinator from hell who said she was sorry there was no paperwork ready for me on Saturday and that there is no point now to give it to me. This clinic hands out zero directions for what you should be doing when. They never hand out calenders or sample calenders. They give you NO directions on things you should and should not be doing while stimming such as no unprotected sex or exercise. WTF...OMG..STFU...I can't think of any other acronyms at this point that would tell you how I feel about this. What if this was the first time I was doing IVF, how would that even fly?

I just called my awesome nurse at my satellite office and am waiting for her to return my call. I need to know if she actually can set up a mailbox tomorrow morning for me or not so I am not wasting my time driving an hour south if I then am going to have to drive an hour and a half back up north to set up a frigging mailbox. Then will the mailbox even work, will anyone call it, or will I be calling the emergency line at 4 needing my instructions. I am so over this clinic. It's a good thing I have heard such great things about this doctor and that I have no other in state options or I would be taking my drugs elsewhere.

Oh, she also mentioned in our first phone call this morning that I am allergic to hcg triggers. Um, no I am allergic to something that is in Ovidrel specifically, not all triggers. Considering I triggered from your office during the clomid challenge you would think she would know I am not allergic to all triggers. She had already disconnected the call before I could even process what she was saying. I then of course called back and left a message, she called back but when I picked up no one was there. I then call back yet again leaving another message asking for a return call on if the trigger information is now straight.

Baseline and Stim Start!

I went in for my baseline today and for once everything looked great. My AFC was 20, where last time we did IVF it was 7. E2 and FSH looked great according to the nurse so I didn't even bother asking for the number. I start Follistim only tonight on a much lower dose than IVF #1 and am adding in Menopur on stim night #3, which should be entertaining as I have never used Menopur before. From what I remember I believe DH starts his doxycycline today but truthfully I am not even positive about that but at this point what could it hurt.

The hilarity at this point with my coordinator continues though(the new coordinator apparently has not yet taken over). The nurse today told me to wait in the room and she would go get my written instructions...no shocker here but the coordinator failed to put my packed together. No problem, we will leave the directions for tonight in your mailbox...yeah she never set me up with a mailbox. If I had not previously done IVF I most likely would have had a massive meltdown in their offices today. So I left with no written insturctions, no mailbox to retrieve my messages, nothing. I am trying my best not to stress about it...my feelings toward my coordinator will not affect the outcome of this IVF...