My body was and still is slow to respond to the meds and grow, but they are responding. The last blog I had shared was after my first sonogram which showed the average follicle around 5 mm (which was on Sunday 5 days ago). The second sonogram on Wednesday showed an average follicle of 7 mm. This last sonogram (today/Friday) was an average of 10 mm. I should probably be around 15 mm as my average at this point :(.... but I will get there! I have faith.
That was probably all greek to you, but what it all comes down to is that I will need to do more days of injections than the average person to get my follicles up to the size they should be, which is at least 18-20 mm.
You might be wondering why I even bothered typing that all out, but I am blogging for my own memory too :) Yes, there are selfish reasons for this too!
So I go back for another ultrasound/bloodwork on Sunday morning and then will have DAILY check in's until they tell me tell me I am ready for my trigger shot! The trigger shot will be done once my follies are ready to be boosted about 36 hours before Egg Retrieval.
By the way, I forgot to mention if you see me in yoga pants daily from now on, it is because these meds are NOT nice with the bloat. Even though my follies aren't big yet, I think my body is pretty pissed off. I have bruises on my tummy and on my arms/hands from either the injections or blood work. I even get to add ONE MORE DRUG tonight called Ganirelex. Is it bad that I don't even know what I am putting in my body?? Actually I just looked it up and it is supposed to avoid the eggs from dropping/ovulating until they keep maturing and are ready for retrieval.
This is probably too much detailed and you probably haven't even read until this point.
I have already had to overnight from the east coast 2 shipments of additional meds and will need more. This is getting ridiculously expensive and if this first round does not work, I won't be able to afford another round.
Oh, and I found out that adoption will cost me around $45k.... so anytime someone thinks they are helping by bringing up the possibility of adoption, please know how much more stressful that is. And it doesn't help.
I am still in a good mood and praising God daily. I am so thankful that He has provided science for Dusty and I to take advantage of!
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