Sunday, March 14, 2010

Change of Plans, x2

Well today was an interesting day.   It was a treat because my Babe agreed to drag himself out of bed to go to my 7 am appointment with me this morning.  It was a dark and quiet drive at 6:30 am on Sunday morning, not many people were on the roads.

At the appointment, we found we made some progress.
     Lining: 11 mm, which is great.
     Right ovary: 17 11.5 (17x11), 16 13.5 (16x11), 14, 13, 12, 12 & 11 (plus 5 small ones)
     Left ovary: 13, 12, 12, 12, 11, 11 & 10 (plus 10 to 15 less than 8 mm)

I have a total of 14 follicles in the race now, compared to 9 on Friday.  Yippee!!

I thought we would have made a bit more progress on the size of the follicles, but I'm happy that we have 4 more follicles that have caught up.  I try to remember what someone once said that we don't want the follicles to grow too fast; slower growing follicles make better quality eggs.  Not sure if it's true, but it's comforting to hear.
Change of plans.  No trigger shot today.  Boo!

I am supposed to came back in on Tuesday for another ultrasound and blood work.  I was told to stay on the same regiment: 5 units of Lu.pron and 2 vials of Meno.pur in the mornings, and then 300IUs of Follis.tim in the evenings until Tuesday's appointment.

Also found out that I could continue to do my shots at the same time, even with daylight savings.  For a while, I thought I'd need to move the shots back an hour to make sure it was within the 12 hour window, but the nurse said it didn't make that much of a difference.  A different gal, drew my blood today, and found out that "Helga's" real name is actually Ea.  Interesting name.  I will continue to address her as Helga in this blog though.

After the appointment, my Babe and I stopped in at Mickey D's for breakfast, which is something we NEVER do.  Went home, did my morning shots, then off to church we went.  After church, both Babe and I crashed and took a long nap.  It was nice, because we woke up to a beautiful day, with warm temps around 57 degrees and sunshine.

I found out later this afternoon that a nurse had called and left a message.  It seems that my estrogen level had shot up to 1,275.  Not sure what that means exactly, but they want to monitor me more closely.  So, another change of plans.

I am to reduce my dosage of Follis.tim to 225 instead of 300IUs tonight.  Same dosage of Lu.pron and Meno.pur in the morning.  Then I am supposed to call first thing tomorrow (Monday) morning to schedule an appointment for the same morning.  They want to see where I am at that time.

*Sigh*  More changes.  Not sure if they will tell me to trigger tomorrow night, or if I would need to go back on Tuesday.  I'm not going to speculate, I guess I will just wait and see.

Bloating remains pretty much the same.  No changes from yesterday.

Hang around to see how all this plays out.

4 comments:

  1. Yay for more follies, boo for no trigger! Hang in there... sending prayers!

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  2. Holy follies! Good news hopefully trigger is soon.

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  3. Yay for growing follies!!!! Hang in there. The big day will be here before you know it!

    Happy 100 posts too!

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  4. Hey - I don't quite understand all the stuff either but your follicles should grow at the same rate as your estrogen levels. Your estrogen may have been a little high so they had to decrease your dose. I can't wait your follie numbers SOUNDS AWESOME! I can't wait to hear!!!!

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