IVF fun!

Okay, so I wouldn't say it was fun, but it we were sure hopeful! I started stiming with Gonal, Menopur and was also on some sort of steriod, along with the Lupron. I had a lot going for me with this since we knew how quickly my body responded to these stims, so the Dr. had a heads up making us all feel like we wouldn't waste a month on this trying to figure out what I was going to do with it all. Things were going really well. The nurse commented when she called with my first E2 that I was right and I must really know my body pretty well.

Follies were growing and things seemed to be going really well. E2 was starting to be a little bit of a concern. It was day by day to see what that number would do. I was beginning to get a little nervous. The concern of OHSS (ovarian hyperstimulation) had the RE giving me strict instruction to eat lots of protein and drink Gatorade. So I followed her orders, and ate, and ate, and drank and drank. She said she wouldn't cancel me, but if it was bad enough she would not do the transfer. I was scared of that happening so I did exactly what she told me to do.

My E2 was out of control, and my follies weren't ready. When that number rose to 4700, my RE decided to coast me, no more stims, just the Lupron. The next day the number settled down a bit it was at 5300, it was almost doubling before. I coasted for 3 nights, on the 3rd I was told to trigger. It was so exciting! At that point my E2 was at 7000, still a major concern that they may not do that transfer...I was still doing everything I was told at that point. On the day of retrieval I had gained 10lbs from the start of BCP's to retrieval. That was a lot for my small frame, I had started out at 104. They were worried that it was the fluid building up from my high numbers.

The retrieval went really well, they were able to get 19 follies, and I felt so good about that. :)
Things had seemed to go pretty fast from the start of stims until this day...which was August 7, 09 by the way.

At that point, the swiftness of the days came to a screeching halt! Now hurry up and wait. I'm not good at that.