IVF baseline Stats

So it's start time!  Got all my meds yesterday.  Had my baseline today.  Start meds on Friday.  And will have follow up monitoring on Monday.  Hells Yeah!!  As for the blood work done today:

E2:  52
FSH:  7
LH:  5.6
P4:  0.2

Now I know the E2 is the estrogen and before I start growing follies this will be low.  The number goes up and they grow and each mature egg produces 200-300.  So based on U/S counting follies and this number they can take a guess at how many they can retrieve at the last monitoring appt I have.  (Which will be probably weekend after next).

And I know P4 is progesterone, which after a BCP cycle of rest or at the start of any cycle should be almost non-existent.  I also know that FSH stands for Follicle Stimulating Hormone, but since I have not started to take meds yet I really don't know what it should be so I'll just believe them when they say this level is good.  Ditto for the LH level (Luteinizing Hormone).  I might go hop around the blogosphere to see what successful IVFers had.

As for my ultrasound - as she said "Alls quiet on the Western front".  Quiet ovaries just like we want.  AFC of 19 is what she told me but when they just called they said 21.  I don't know which to believe but since I was happy with 19 I'll take either.  It's like in the IVF web world manual to take a pic of your meds so that some day you can say "This is everything I took to get you" so here it is...

Isn't it a pretty stash of drugs?  

I have to give a shout out to my #75strong girls.  When I heard the Ganirelix would be $840 out of pocket I put a message up on our FB board at 9:30am.  By 2:30 I had three girls mailing me the amount I needed (it's the nine blue boxes in the back)  I asked on Wednesday and by Monday they had all arrived.  The three grey boxes front and center is the Follistim another #75strong gal gave me last year after she adopted her son (who was born on my birthday!).  She sent me enough to do our last two IUIs and this IVF.  And I should still have enough to pay it forward and donate the leftovers since I can't imagine I need 2700iu.  Thankfully it's good until spring of 2014 so there's plenty of time for others to use it too.  So four kinds of injectable meds (with plenty of needles), two oral pills (also not pictured is my PNV, baby aspirin, 600mg of CoQ10 I take per day) and the oh-so-yucky vaginal suppositories.  A friend of mine at work said "Only you would be excited to get a box of needles and something to shove up your who-ha."  Nah, girl...you just have not met enough IVFers!  

So there it is folks, the start.  I will be updating with boring stats throughout the cycle.  And any ramblings to just word-vomit to get it out of my head.  Next appt. Monday Sept 23rd.