Chels- Just wanted to say how brave you are fro doing all of this, and I am praying all will go as planned for you. loads of positive baby dust and BIG EGG vibes for ya!!! ((HUGS))
Just wanted to tell you about my IVF crap
January 22, 2008
I know that some of your wonderful ladies are kinda following my IVF cycle and wanted to put it all on a post so that if you wanted to know what was going on then you could read all about it :)
Soooooo, I was SPOSE to start my fertility injections on Sunday but my body wasnt quite ready so here I am still taking lupron, which is a drug to delay ovulation, and its kickin my butt with its side effects!! I have a steady headache that will not leave, my joints are sore and my muscles are sore, im a meg-B*tch and im sure that my family would much rather not be around me at this point. I am taking 20 units injections now since sat and I was only taking 5 unit injections to start with so the side effects have gotten much worse since Sat.
I go for acupuncture twice a week in preparation for the IVF and I enjoy going to her, if nothing else it is very relaxing!
Anyway, I have a doctor appt at 8am on wed (2moro) to see if I can wean off this crap and start the mega doses of follistim injections to make those eggs grow, many, many, many eggs!!! Hopefully it will only take 12 days on that and I can have my many mature eggs taken out. We will decide how many to put back in after we see how many good “quality” eggs they have pulled out of me. I am having them put at least 2 in but if they are not all that great then I would push to have 3 put in. The doc wants to start with only 2 but he understands why I would want the 3. I think we will start with the 2 and if it doesnt take then the 2nd round will be 3 little eggs. We are doing something called ICSY I think thats how it is - what happens with that is they pick a good strong sperm and put it in the dish with the pretty little egg and instead of hoping the sperm will break the egg shell they will help that along and make a little crack in the egg shell, that helps the process I have been told.
I will be off work the day they take the eggs off but then ok to do whatever and then 3 or 5 days later when they put the eggs back in I will be on bed rest for 4 days..... they said the ONLY thing I could do is get up and go to the bathroom, otherwise I better be in bed or on the couch! WOW, no driving, no nothing! My kids and hubby are already getting the menu and house prepared - LOL! I will be sleeping on the couch since my bedroom is upstairs, my DH will be happy to have the bed to himself for awhile since I am a total bed hog!!!
I am scared and excited all at the same time, I feel like my entire life revolves around all of this stuff but I did go ahead and tell my mom, mother in law and sister in law and they are a great support in all of this! I know my mother in law will be over with extra treats while I am on bed rest, she is such a wonderful, caring person. She keeps telling me what a saint I must be to go thru all of this :)
Ok, thats about it for now, guess, this will kinda be my IVF blog since I don’t have a real one - LOL!
Ask anything you like or nothing at all, I could use your support cuz I know some days I will be very frustrated and not so happy - some days I will cry and need to write about that but hopefully in the end I ca look back with a baby or 2 in my belly and see how far I have come.
Thx for listening!!
Soooooo, I was SPOSE to start my fertility injections on Sunday but my body wasnt quite ready so here I am still taking lupron, which is a drug to delay ovulation, and its kickin my butt with its side effects!! I have a steady headache that will not leave, my joints are sore and my muscles are sore, im a meg-B*tch and im sure that my family would much rather not be around me at this point. I am taking 20 units injections now since sat and I was only taking 5 unit injections to start with so the side effects have gotten much worse since Sat.
I go for acupuncture twice a week in preparation for the IVF and I enjoy going to her, if nothing else it is very relaxing!
Anyway, I have a doctor appt at 8am on wed (2moro) to see if I can wean off this crap and start the mega doses of follistim injections to make those eggs grow, many, many, many eggs!!! Hopefully it will only take 12 days on that and I can have my many mature eggs taken out. We will decide how many to put back in after we see how many good “quality” eggs they have pulled out of me. I am having them put at least 2 in but if they are not all that great then I would push to have 3 put in. The doc wants to start with only 2 but he understands why I would want the 3. I think we will start with the 2 and if it doesnt take then the 2nd round will be 3 little eggs. We are doing something called ICSY I think thats how it is - what happens with that is they pick a good strong sperm and put it in the dish with the pretty little egg and instead of hoping the sperm will break the egg shell they will help that along and make a little crack in the egg shell, that helps the process I have been told.
I will be off work the day they take the eggs off but then ok to do whatever and then 3 or 5 days later when they put the eggs back in I will be on bed rest for 4 days..... they said the ONLY thing I could do is get up and go to the bathroom, otherwise I better be in bed or on the couch! WOW, no driving, no nothing! My kids and hubby are already getting the menu and house prepared - LOL! I will be sleeping on the couch since my bedroom is upstairs, my DH will be happy to have the bed to himself for awhile since I am a total bed hog!!!
I am scared and excited all at the same time, I feel like my entire life revolves around all of this stuff but I did go ahead and tell my mom, mother in law and sister in law and they are a great support in all of this! I know my mother in law will be over with extra treats while I am on bed rest, she is such a wonderful, caring person. She keeps telling me what a saint I must be to go thru all of this :)
Ok, thats about it for now, guess, this will kinda be my IVF blog since I don’t have a real one - LOL!
Ask anything you like or nothing at all, I could use your support cuz I know some days I will be very frustrated and not so happy - some days I will cry and need to write about that but hopefully in the end I ca look back with a baby or 2 in my belly and see how far I have come.
Thx for listening!!
thx all - you all so kind..... i dont feel brave but thats very nice of you. Im sure there are sooo many people would deff switch places with me so i dont want to feel sorry for myself every day. I know that i will feel sorry about myself very often tho! LOL!!
I went for bloodwork 2day to see if i can start my meds.
I went for bloodwork 2day to see if i can start my meds.
Hey Chels, I told you that you would be ok. I am soo sorry that the Lupron did you so bad. I started w/10 units and then move to 5 units not sure if there is the difference.
Here is a laugh for you. On the day of retrieval, my DH tried to make me walk blocks to the car. I could kill him for laughing sooooo hard. Needless to say the car was brought to the door. HaHa I got the last laugh. The 24hrs rest period the couch is exactly where I was. We had to stop @ my dear mother-in-laws house so I was on her couch for half the day and mine for the other half. Heck I think I was on the couch for 2 days, then frm the bed to the couch for another 2. I had a 3 day weekend after procedure on Thurs.
The embryo transfer was a piece of cake dear. I think my procedure was 5 minutes tops.
I am totally here for you!!!
Here is a laugh for you. On the day of retrieval, my DH tried to make me walk blocks to the car. I could kill him for laughing sooooo hard. Needless to say the car was brought to the door. HaHa I got the last laugh. The 24hrs rest period the couch is exactly where I was. We had to stop @ my dear mother-in-laws house so I was on her couch for half the day and mine for the other half. Heck I think I was on the couch for 2 days, then frm the bed to the couch for another 2. I had a 3 day weekend after procedure on Thurs.
The embryo transfer was a piece of cake dear. I think my procedure was 5 minutes tops.
I am totally here for you!!!
where are you in your cycle mrs trgn? i am very much looking forward to the transfer and some time off from work and life basically.
Im gonna bring a movie to watch cuz they make me lay there for 2 hours, minimum after the transfer. May as well watch a movie - just have to make sure that there is no killing of kids, missing childen, miscarriages or pregnancies in the movies..... any suggestions? Spose it cant be all that funny either since i should stay still, looks like a book maybe better, or my ipod! LOL!
Thx for the laugh, i am gonna milk this to the end i tell ya - i wont be doing a darn thing this whole month as my treat. I know they wont argue so may as well take advantage of it.
I started with 5units and now on 20units, cant wait to get off this crap and move on!!!
Im gonna bring a movie to watch cuz they make me lay there for 2 hours, minimum after the transfer. May as well watch a movie - just have to make sure that there is no killing of kids, missing childen, miscarriages or pregnancies in the movies..... any suggestions? Spose it cant be all that funny either since i should stay still, looks like a book maybe better, or my ipod! LOL!
Thx for the laugh, i am gonna milk this to the end i tell ya - i wont be doing a darn thing this whole month as my treat. I know they wont argue so may as well take advantage of it.
I started with 5units and now on 20units, cant wait to get off this crap and move on!!!
updating - doc called and i can start my follistim to get all those eggs growing nice and big! I start 2nite so i will still stay on the 7pm injection of lupron and then at 8pm i will inject the follistim..... guess after all this i cant be afraid of needles anymore hey?
SOOOOOO happy that i am moving into the next cycle of this!!!
Thx for being there for me to vent to!!! Love to you all!
SOOOOOO happy that i am moving into the next cycle of this!!!
Thx for being there for me to vent to!!! Love to you all!
January 22, 2008
Seek out people who have already done this and chat with them- I think Achingforbaby would be helpful!