STIMS Day 8:
My stomach was pretty bruised from all of the injections so far. I had the routine down for the most part, and was getting used to the pokes and burn. One thing I had not expected was my jeans to no longer fit. I was so bloated that all I could wear where sweatpants. I stepped on the scale, and it read that I haven't gained any weight (yet!).
I was still pretty nervous to do my Ganirelix in the morning. This morning I inserted it with a "dart like motion", and it didn't hurt at all. It hurt more when I inserted it slowly.
Tomorrow I have my follow up appointment. I hope my follicles are still growing and our cycle can continue!
STIMS Day 9:
The appointment that morning went pretty well. I had done the same routine, bloodwork and ultrasound. My follicles looked like they were growing which was great!
I headed home, and soon got a call from the doctor. They wanted me to increase my Follistim from 225IU to 300IU because my follicles were taking a little longer to grow, and to also come back the next day to do a check up. I started to get nervous as so many questions entered my head. “What if I over stimulate?”,“What if they all don't grow in our time frame and we have to cancel our cycle?”, and so many more. This also meant ordering another $650 vile of medicine as big as my pinkie. So I took my injections with the new amount. At first I didn’t feel much different.
About an hour later, I started to feel extremely nauseous, my legs started to feel heavy, and I felt extremely light headed. K led me to bed, and my heart rate was going up and I was hyperventilating. I had a panic attack. K calmed me down, and I eventually went back to feeling like normal. I wondered if it was nerves for tomorrow’s appointment or because of the increase in medication, or both?
STIMS Day 10:
The appointment was normal, bloodwork and ultrasound, and my follicles did grow even more within 24 hours. The doctor said they would call me in the afternoon for more instructions, which they did, but those hours in between my appointment and the phone call were torturous. You think I’d be used to waiting by now....During the phone call, they said we should be right on track to do the trigger shot on Friday, if all goes well on my appointment on Friday (that is if most of the follicles are fully matured to move on to retrieval). The doctor sounded pretty confident that we will be back on track by Friday. I just hope I don’t have another panic attack tonight or Thursday night!
STIMS Day 11:
Today, in terms of side effects, was really bad. My body and stomach was now realizing how many pokes of medicine it was getting, and I’ve started to bruise pretty badly on my stomach. My arms are all bruised from all of the blood draws I’ve had to get....I’m running out of places to poke myself!
The evening injections weren’t terrible, but they definitely hurt more than the previous ones because I am having to re-poke myself in places I already did last week. It’s weird—I will get a ton of energy all at once and then crash. My legs will become super heavy, I become light headed and super nauseous, but then it fades away. I guess my body is still trying to figure these meds out!
STIMS Day 12: last day! (Hopefully!)
I had a follow up appointment (the 3rd this week!), and they counted 28 follicles!!! I couldn’t believe it!! They said I will probably do my trigger shot tonight to prepare for retrieval on Sunday. I was over-the-moon happy.
We came home and I did my Ganirelix injection. And oh my goodness. This one hurt the most by far out of all of my injections. I didn’t do it fast enough, so I had to really push the needle in, and the medication burned, and I am pretty sure I hit a spot of a previous injection.
K administered my last Follistim and Menopur and did a great job!
Soon after it was time for my trigger shot. We had to administer it at 11pm, exactly 36 hours prior to my retrieval.
The time came, and I became super nervous and nauseous. In the end, I administered it myself (most partners do it because it can be hard to reach) because I felt I had more control over it. I am really glad I used numbing cream before. I didn’t really feel it at all, pain wise, but I could feel the needle going in (the pressure of it). I am going to have to get used to the big needles because I’ll soon start my Progesterone injections that have the same size needle, and continue that until I am about 12 weeks pregnant.
As I am writing this, retrieval is tomorrow, Sunday, May 31st and I am pretty excited and hopeful. I’m praying they retrieve as many eggs as they can!
baby dust,
s.
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