So on Saturday I was trucking along. E2 was 504. P4 was 0.2. Follies were 16mm and below. I felt good.
Monday morning, I go in for my U/S and she said "I bet he'll have you stim for *one more day*. It depends on your blood work of course, but that's my guess."
Welp, they called with blood work and it had spiked up to 1392 for E2 (more than double in 48 hours) and my P4 skyrocketed to 1.07 (hhhhmmmm this feels familiar). So I asked the nurse "Did he mention anything about a freeze all since my progesterone is now over 1? ((as this is what happened last IVF and the reason he gave for freeze all)). All she could say was "Well, that's a possibility. We won't know for sure until Wednesday." So I was told to trigger Monday night/Tuesday Morning at 3am.
3AM?!?! Who does that?
Well, I think that this "batch cycle" for my RE (where everyone cycling is put in synch so that he only does ERs and ETs between June 4th and 12th) there must be a LOT of us ready to go on the first possible day because I'm not scheduled until 1:30 in the afternoon. Thus the 3am trigger. Agh. So ok, I set my alarm clock, got up at 2:40 so I'd have 20 minutes to really wake up (because last thing I want is to be sleepy and do something stupid or wrong when it comes to the trigger), did it and finally got back to sleep just after 4am. But the other problem I thought when she told me this schedule...I'm diabetic. I can't eat before ER because of the anesthesia. I have to go almost all day without food?! Well, she said I'm actually allowed to eat until 4am. Ooo great! So now I'm planning on staying up until like 1am so that I can have a "meal" at midnight so that I have a chance of making it to the late afternoon without eating. SIGH. But whatever. I'll do it.
Based on U/S I should only have 7-9 eggs at most retrieved. Still trying to come to terms with the lower number. But last time of the 13 retrieved, 11 were mature but only 7 fertilized. So I'm (being possibly unrealistic?) hoping that the seven best are all mature and fertilize so that I actually have as many to "work with" as last time. SMH.
See you on the flip side of the retrieval.
Wishing you the best of luck on the retrieval!!!
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ReplyDeleteI hope your ER went well! Can't wait to hear an update!
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