I find this helpful when I am reading other blogs looking for doses of what the future may hold.
I am young but have elevated FSH and a low antral follicle count for my age, this means I have probable diminished ovarian reserve, so my RE is breaking out the big guns early and putting me on the Lupron Flare Protocol to minimize suppression, she is also starting me on higher doses of Follistim and adding small HCG because of my lean body mass.
April 10 - AF is here.
April 12 - Start BCP
April 19 - 3D saline sonogram/baseline
April 21 - IVF med class, + DH and I celebrate 4 yr anniversary
May 3 - Take last BCP ***(My clinic would have allowed me to start this April 25 but this worked out better for us)
May 5 - Start Lupron 5 units twice a day, Doxycycline for both DH and I
...................thats 2 shots a day
May 7 - Start Follistim 300 units, and Ovidrel 20 units in evening
...................thats 2 more shots a day
May 11 - First U/S and bloodwork
May 13 - U/S and bloodwork
May 16 - U/S and bloodwork
May 16-18 - possible trigger (Ovidrel 250mcg + stop IVF meds)
May 18-20 - possible retrieval with ICSI (+zpack )
**Next day - Start Progesterone oil shots and Vivelle patches
May 21-23 - possible transfer
June 6 - possible beta
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sing a song of hope...
I consider myself to be a realist. My DH is the optimist of our house, and sometimes it gets on my nerves. As a realist I allow myself to consider all possibilities without focusing on one or the other, ADD maybe. That being said, My RE gave me a sliver of hope today. I had my 3D sonogram and she said I have a beautiful uterus. She said that she thinks the only reason we are not pregnant right now is because she believes that my eggs have never gotten to see sperm. On the flip side to that though is the fact that I have a low count. This is my second US and both times I had seven follicles. Seven could be a lucky number. But I am 28. I asked her the normal number for my age and she said 10-20, yikes. She said this is why I will be on high stimulation with lupron flare.
So my job now is to show up to appts. take injections like a champ. Convince my ovaries to grow lots of eggies but not OHSS. The provide a good home in my “beautiful” uterus for 9 months. My DH would reply “I like a challenge” whereas I am feeling the pressure.
Here are some pictures of my furbabies just because...
Kaya the DIVA
fuzzy pic of The Black Dog
So my job now is to show up to appts. take injections like a champ. Convince my ovaries to grow lots of eggies but not OHSS. The provide a good home in my “beautiful” uterus for 9 months. My DH would reply “I like a challenge” whereas I am feeling the pressure.
Here are some pictures of my furbabies just because...
Prince Carlos
Kaya the DIVA
fuzzy pic of The Black Dog
Sunday, April 10, 2011
A little about us...
When I originally thought of starting a blog, I named it my world unravled, because I thought it would be about the craziness that is my life with a play on my favorite hobby (knitting). I have yet to write on it until now. I didn't know then that it would be an IF (infertility) blog. But the truth is that IF is the craziness in my life right now. And it has gotten me blogging. Hopefully to help others (as so many IF blogs have helped me), and to help me capture and release moments in this wild ride of life.
DH (John) and I have been TTC (trying to conceive) for 18months. Anyone who has spent any time actually TTC and not "trying not to prevent" knows that it has its ups and downs. It can be exhausting. By cycle 3 I had OPKs (ovulation predictor kits). By cycle 5, OPK was finally testing positive. By cycle 7 I was temping. By cycle 8 I was pretty good at getting OPK right within a day or two. By cycle 13 we were going to see the OB. Our TTC journey from there deserves its own post later this week.
Back to my family. John and I are both from FL. We moved away 4 years ago to NC. We now live 10+ hrs from 90% of our family. We moved to NC after job lay-off #1. At the same time as cycle 1 TTC we were going through lay-off #2. Now hubby has a good job were he spends 60% of his time in Jax, NC, 2+ hrs away from our home.
We have 3 furbabies. Big Black Lab, Cody, aka. Black Dog. He is really sweet, and really goofy. He is a happy dog who only gets in trouble once and he will never do that again, ever. He loves fetch and the water. We have a skinny husky, Kaya, aka Girlfriend and Missy. She is the coolest dog. She has a lot of personality, and is so stubborn. She has a lot of personality, she is sassy and quite funny if you can read into her "woooo-ing." We also have old man Carlos. He is a gray house cat who just turned 9 years. He actually acts quite young because Kaya keeps him on his toes. He has no fear of her which is good cause she is harmless though she may "tell" you otherwise. But he is a little cautious around the black dog because he is often clumsy and unaware where he steps.
We live in a big house fit for us and kids. Although we don't plan on selling it we now live more financially smart and buy things more for the two of us and not for the family we hope to have one day.
DH (John) and I have been TTC (trying to conceive) for 18months. Anyone who has spent any time actually TTC and not "trying not to prevent" knows that it has its ups and downs. It can be exhausting. By cycle 3 I had OPKs (ovulation predictor kits). By cycle 5, OPK was finally testing positive. By cycle 7 I was temping. By cycle 8 I was pretty good at getting OPK right within a day or two. By cycle 13 we were going to see the OB. Our TTC journey from there deserves its own post later this week.
Back to my family. John and I are both from FL. We moved away 4 years ago to NC. We now live 10+ hrs from 90% of our family. We moved to NC after job lay-off #1. At the same time as cycle 1 TTC we were going through lay-off #2. Now hubby has a good job were he spends 60% of his time in Jax, NC, 2+ hrs away from our home.
We have 3 furbabies. Big Black Lab, Cody, aka. Black Dog. He is really sweet, and really goofy. He is a happy dog who only gets in trouble once and he will never do that again, ever. He loves fetch and the water. We have a skinny husky, Kaya, aka Girlfriend and Missy. She is the coolest dog. She has a lot of personality, and is so stubborn. She has a lot of personality, she is sassy and quite funny if you can read into her "woooo-ing." We also have old man Carlos. He is a gray house cat who just turned 9 years. He actually acts quite young because Kaya keeps him on his toes. He has no fear of her which is good cause she is harmless though she may "tell" you otherwise. But he is a little cautious around the black dog because he is often clumsy and unaware where he steps.
We live in a big house fit for us and kids. Although we don't plan on selling it we now live more financially smart and buy things more for the two of us and not for the family we hope to have one day.
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