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Special Snowflake

I’m unique.  That’s what I am.  A very, very special snowflake. Apparently, my nurse has never seen the clinic allow someone with such a clearly dominant single follicle push through a cycle.  They always cancel and/or convert to IUI. But not me.  They’re letting me push through.  SuperNurse said she’s really excited because she’s always [...]

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A Perfect Candidate…

…for IUI.  That’s what I am.  When I was doing IUI cycles, I was nearly always a perfect candidate for IVF.  I had lots and lots and lots of follicles and rarely a dominant follicle.  Now that I’ve been doing these IVF cycles, I am having a hard time growing follicles, but I nearly always [...]

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Keep Pluggin’ Along

Here’s the update from this morning’s monitoring… E2 was 181, so nice rise there. Good sign. Keep same doses and return to office on Tuesday morning. I’m not sure what to think, to be honest. My doctor was there today, but wasn’t in the monitoring room when I had my U/S (he was doing a [...]

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Not PCO, Indeed

All that Follistim, and you’d think I’d have some mighty perky ovaries today, wouldn’t you. Try to at least consider living up to my original blog title, maybe? After all, my ovaries used to be perky all on their own without any help from Follistim/Luveris, etc. But … not so much. My right ovary had [...]

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Details on the Demise of IVF #2, Take 2

Thanks to all for all your kind thoughts and well wishes. I’m fine. The decision to cancel this cycle was a mutual decision between my doctor and myself. He would have been okay with pushing forward if that’s what I had insisted upon, but that’s not a position I want to be in, especially with [...]

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Reverse Psychology

Well, it turns out reverse psychology works! What the heck? I have never, ever in my entire life had a period without at least one day of completely debilitating cramps the day before, and typically for the six-to-eight hours before it appears I am in total agony. So I knew with absolute certainty when I [...]

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No Sign of AF

So per my tentative cycle schedule given to me by my nurse, I should have been expecting my period around, oh… today. (er, wait, it’s now tomorrow… so what I meant by today was Monday, just so I’m clear) And if not Monday, then definitely Tuesday. But I’m not having any of the telltale signs [...]

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And…. canceled

Trigger shot tonight. Bloodwork in a week to check my P4 (you know, to make sure I actually DID ovulate. Because with 10,000 units of hCG in my system, you know, I might not. Because this is ME!). Start Lupron April 1 (April Fool’s, anyone?) Expect period… oh, around April 6th or 7th. Probably return [...]

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Closer to Cancelled

Not to be confused with “Closer to Fine”. My lining, she is not wafer thin – she is 10.1mm and I have a lovely 18.6 follicle. Or maybe it’s a cyst. But it’s probably a beautiful follicle. We’ll see what my estrogen is, but either way, it probably means triggering tonight and starting Lupron again [...]

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