After I wrote that post yesterday I remembered that I had experienced cramping after my first round of IVF. So I went back through my old entries and found this post, which was written at the exact same point in the cycle. I was stunned at how what I’d written echoed how I was currently [...]
Archive for August, 2010
IVF #2- 8dp5dt- Reality check
Posted in Medications, TWW on August 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
IVF#2- 7dp5dt- The Week that Drags
Posted in Emotions, IVF, TWW on August 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This weekend was hard. My body finally decided it wasn’t that big of a fan of the ethyl oleate solution which the progesterone is in. At first I just had two itchy areas, one on each side of my butt. I didn’t realize they were there until I found myself wondering why I kept absentmindedly [...]
IVF #2- 4dp5dt
Posted in Emotions, IVF, TWW on August 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A typical morning. Me: Gosh, here I am typing/reading/whatever after breakfast and I don’t think I feel cramping anymore. I don’t think my bbs are sore anymore, either. Maybe I’ll just sit quietly for a while and pay attention to my body. Brain: Crap. Crap! She’s sitting quietly and paying attention again. Uterus and BBs: [...]
IVF#2- 2dp5dt
Posted in Emotions, IVF, Medications, TWW on August 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Two of the younger nurses at the clinic have set up a phone line and email address for cycle monitoring patients. You never actually get a person, but they listen to your message and then they actually call you back, or answer the email. Usually that same day! This is amazing, and is the best [...]
IVF #2- 1dp5dt- some good news
Posted in Emotions, IVF, TWW on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The clinic froze two blastocysts today. I was so relieved when I heard that that I forgot to ask some key questions (were they graded? are they frozen together, or separately?), so I’ve had to leave a message to see if anyone will give me more information (really, I wish they would just email me [...]
IVF #2- transfer report
Posted in Emotions, IVF, Medical issues, TWW on August 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Here is what you DON’T want to hear your f/s say as she peruses the report from the lab: “So we’re not freezing any today then.” Q. and I both absolutely freaked out inside when we heard that, but things turned out to be not quite as bad as we feared. A significant number of [...]
IVF #2- Blastocysts are go!
Posted in IVF, Medical issues, Medications on August 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The clinic called this morning around 8:45. The nurse opened with “I’ve got good news!” The f/s who is filling in for my usual one had reviewed our embryo report and decided that we are “perfect” candidates to go to blast. I wasn’t able to get precise numbers out of the nurse, as I guess [...]
IVF #2- and the fertilization report is in
Posted in Emotions, IVF, Medical issues, Medications on August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This morning, while we were eating breakfast, I asked Q. what number of embryos he was hoping for. “High teens,” he said. I agreed. I figured, if we got twenty-something mature eggs from the 34, and ended up with seventeen or eighteen embryos as a starting point, that would be about as good as we [...]
IVF #2- Day 15- Retrieval report
Posted in IVF, Medical issues on August 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
34 eggs. Can’t say I was expecting that. I am in a really bad state. I needed a lot of medication to get through the procedure- they gave it to me too early and then my f/s didn’t show up, so it wore off and I needed more. As a result I’m still (five hours [...]
IVF #2- Day 14- waiting on the edge
Posted in Emotions, IVF, Medical issues on August 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This morning I was sitting on the couch we have in our kitchen, drinking my tea and watching Q. cook his breakfast, wondering why I felt so relaxed. Then I realized that for the last five days I’ve been at the clinic at that time, submitting to needles in my arms and my butt, and [...]
