Cycle 4, CD 8
Going to the RE and not having to worry about kids and husbands and getting places afterward is so easy.
Was in and out of there and almost out of the city before my actual appointment time. I got there early and there was no one there so I went right back. The bad luck u/s tech was the only one in.
The nurse who called me this afternoon wasn't all that informative. I had to pry information from her and after I got a chance to think about it, I'm wondering if she was just confused or if whatever doctor reviewed my test results is confused as well. I am hoping she is the only confused one.
I have 5 follicles that are on their way to maturing, which is great. Mrs. Nurse Woman said that was actually too great because I don't want to end up with too many mature follicles (and end up with high order multiples). Thus, the doctor wants me to reduce my dose of gonal-f from 150 down to 75. I told her I only had one good side though and she was confused, didn't have a clue that I have a completely fucked up uterus and asked me what was wrong with the other side. In an attempt not to completely confuse her with details, I said I don't have a tube on the left. It took a lot of prying but she finally told me that my right ovary has two nice looking follicles (one at 12, and one at 11). That would leave my left side with three but she didn't tell me anything more about that side and I didn't ask. So much for Ms. Righty being super cooperative and ever so slightly in the lead. Not that having two growing and potentially good follicles isn't bad, but in my opinion, more would be better. Not that I want to get pregnant with quintuplets by any means, but there is a big difference between a normal person with an entire uterus and two tubes having five follicles and an abnormal person with half a uterus and only one tube having five follicles, when only two of the follicles have a chance of making it into the uterus. I am just hoping that the nurse was confused and didn't realize I only had one good side. Hopefully the doctor realized I only have one good side and he was happy with two good follicles on the one side. Now I am just nervous that the doctor didn't read my chart thoroughly and is cutting me back on gonal-f and shouldn't be.
Some more prying later I was able to learn that my E2 is 655 and my progesterone is 0.8.
Go back tomorrow for just blood work.
Maybe someday I'll get around to revealing all my issues with my parents and exactly why I need to keep this from my mom. I've typed enough already though. For now, just know I am doing it out of love. In part to save my own sanity from my mom asking me too many questions and wanting to know every single day if I am pregnant yet or not and what our next step is and why we can't financially afford to do this indefinitely and her telling me how she is going to sell all of her stuff to pay for our infertility treatments (seriously, she would tell me this) and then I would have to argue with her constantly about how she shouldn't sell all her stuff because we are done with infertility treatments and how she is the only one that is upset about all this and she has completely forgotten that I am okay with it and it is my body and my little family and DH and I are the ones that get to decide what we do not her. Mostly because if I told my mom and it doesn't work out, I am not sure she could handle the letdown of not having another grandchild. So yeah, mostly not telling her out of love.
Was in and out of there and almost out of the city before my actual appointment time. I got there early and there was no one there so I went right back. The bad luck u/s tech was the only one in.
The nurse who called me this afternoon wasn't all that informative. I had to pry information from her and after I got a chance to think about it, I'm wondering if she was just confused or if whatever doctor reviewed my test results is confused as well. I am hoping she is the only confused one.
I have 5 follicles that are on their way to maturing, which is great. Mrs. Nurse Woman said that was actually too great because I don't want to end up with too many mature follicles (and end up with high order multiples). Thus, the doctor wants me to reduce my dose of gonal-f from 150 down to 75. I told her I only had one good side though and she was confused, didn't have a clue that I have a completely fucked up uterus and asked me what was wrong with the other side. In an attempt not to completely confuse her with details, I said I don't have a tube on the left. It took a lot of prying but she finally told me that my right ovary has two nice looking follicles (one at 12, and one at 11). That would leave my left side with three but she didn't tell me anything more about that side and I didn't ask. So much for Ms. Righty being super cooperative and ever so slightly in the lead. Not that having two growing and potentially good follicles isn't bad, but in my opinion, more would be better. Not that I want to get pregnant with quintuplets by any means, but there is a big difference between a normal person with an entire uterus and two tubes having five follicles and an abnormal person with half a uterus and only one tube having five follicles, when only two of the follicles have a chance of making it into the uterus. I am just hoping that the nurse was confused and didn't realize I only had one good side. Hopefully the doctor realized I only have one good side and he was happy with two good follicles on the one side. Now I am just nervous that the doctor didn't read my chart thoroughly and is cutting me back on gonal-f and shouldn't be.
Some more prying later I was able to learn that my E2 is 655 and my progesterone is 0.8.
Go back tomorrow for just blood work.
Maybe someday I'll get around to revealing all my issues with my parents and exactly why I need to keep this from my mom. I've typed enough already though. For now, just know I am doing it out of love. In part to save my own sanity from my mom asking me too many questions and wanting to know every single day if I am pregnant yet or not and what our next step is and why we can't financially afford to do this indefinitely and her telling me how she is going to sell all of her stuff to pay for our infertility treatments (seriously, she would tell me this) and then I would have to argue with her constantly about how she shouldn't sell all her stuff because we are done with infertility treatments and how she is the only one that is upset about all this and she has completely forgotten that I am okay with it and it is my body and my little family and DH and I are the ones that get to decide what we do not her. Mostly because if I told my mom and it doesn't work out, I am not sure she could handle the letdown of not having another grandchild. So yeah, mostly not telling her out of love.
Labels: gonal-f, unicornuate uterus, UU
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