First I have to say....YAY....a month has gone by. I'm now a month closer to our IVF!
BCPs
I started those on the 15th of February. I went to the pharmacy to get them and they were $175! Holy Cow! Teenage girls can go to the clinic and they pass these things out for FREE! I found out that was for a four month supply, so I did quick math in my head and only got half the prescription. I am supposed to take the 3 weeks of white pills, and skip the "period" week and continue onto the next 3 weeks of white pills until they tell me to stop taking them. When I went to visit my RE, I found out I was one pill short (pretty good quick math for not knowing my schedule!) The nurse said that was fine to stop one day early.
Trial Transfer and Hysteroscopy
On March 6th I went to have a trial transfer, hysteroscopy and get my protocol schedule explained to me. I think I expected to be there about an hour, but I was there for 3 hours! 1st was the trial transfer - that was very easy. He stuck a very tiny tube inside my vagina and measured how long my uterus was. 2nd - he took me into another room for the Hysteroscopy. He put another tube inside of me, this one was a little bigger then the other one (but still small), there was no pain. This time the tube shot water inside of me to open my uterus up so that he could use the camera and light to see what the inside looks like. He found a few polyps. I freaked out, but he said that they were very small and at the opening of the uterus so they would not effect implantation. I googled and found a YouTube video of a polyp inside the uterus and the one they show was huge in comparison to the ones I saw on my video. I'm sad for that lady, but it made me feel better that all the ones they talk about on the Internet are big and in the way, had he not pointed mine out to me then I wouldn't have even seen them. The nurse gave me a form that said I might have bleeding for 1-7 days after.
Bleeding :(
On the 2nd day, I was still bleeding a lot. I know the notice said 1-7 days, but that's normally just a worst case scenario, right? So I called the office and discussed my concern over feeling like I was on my period. Well come to find out, I was on the last pill of my 3rd week of BCPs so it seems I might have had some bleeding, and then I just started my period right after that. The nurse said "that's when you should start your period regularly" ..... I wanted to yell back, "Look at my chart, I have PCOS, and I am not regular" But WOW, why am I being so regular lately? I'm not complaining, I LOVE it, I feel like a regular woman who is fertile! Fertile! YAY *fingers crossed*
IVF Protocal
I spent the next two hours the day of my appointment with my nurse. The 1st hour I went over all my questions that I came up with from spending too many hours on the Internet reading everything about IVF. She spent a good amount of time helping me understand statistics and home remedies and we talked about my weight too. The thing that sticks out is that she said for the past two years my RE has had a 50% success rate! Woo Hoo! That is high in the world if IVF. She also said that I need to continue eating healthy and maintaining a good work-out routine, however my body size is not going to prevent me from getting pregnant. Woo Hoo again! I wanted to hug her, I almost cried.
Then she went on to my schedule and here it is:
3/6 Continue Metformin and start Baby Aspirin
3/22 Start 10 units of Lupron
3/28 Last BCP
3/31 Doxzycycline 100mg
4/5 Baseline U/S and Labs. Decrease Lupron the 5 units
4/6 HMG 150 iu. FSH 150 iu
4/10 Day 5 Baseline U/S and Labs
4/13 Day 8 Baseline U/S and Labs
4/15 Day 10 Baseline U/S and Labs. Possible HCG trigger shot
4/17 EGG RETRIEVAL
4/19 Progesterone 1ml
4/22 **Hopeful for a Day 5 EGG TRANSFER
4/23 Continue Progesterone injections and start vaginal progesterone
The nurse went over all the dates and why we are doing each thing, she went over how to give myself injections and went over all the medications she ordered for me. I was so ready for my schedule and to know all this stuff, so it was odd to me that I must have looked completely frozen or something, because she looked at me and asked if I was okay and if I needed a break. I told her to continue, because she was almost done, but I was anxious for my appointment to be over so I could sit in my car, turn on the radio and take a mental break. Before I could do that, there was more blood work to be done, dang!
It really was A LOT to take in. Ordering medications, organizing shipping and payments, learning how to give myself shots everyday, managing all the dates and times, figuring out how to balance work and driving 2.5 hours to each appointment. I really need to learn how to take one day at a time.
Now the waiting
I gather that for the next few months I will feel anxious quite a bit over waiting for the next step. Right now I am waiting for all my medications to arrive. I should get all the Lupron tomorrow, and the HMG and FSH a few days later. 9 more days until I start poking myself. Oh yeah...I'm totally making Eric do it! :) I watched videos on this too and I'm still scarred. Yes I am chicken of needles. Not looking forward to being a pin cushion! LOL
