Deception

I know the title sounds oh so intriguing but really it's not.

On several occasions, when I've gone in for my RE visits, scans and so forth, the doctors question my age.  This morning the RE looked at me and asked my age. She seemed shocked to hear that I would be turning 41 in May.

It's nothing new.

Most people are deceived by my appearance. I'm often told I look in my early 30s rather than my early 40s.  Perhaps that's why for some, when the issue of children comes up in conversation, they often say to me "Oh, you've got tons of time."  Little do they know that we've been on this IF journey for about 5 years now and really, age hasn't much to do with it.  Well, it does now but when we started TTC it wasn't about age.

On top of complimenting my youthful appearance, the doctor also commented on my "picture perfect" uterus.  I've heard that before!  My right ovary is the dominant one with approximately 6 follicles - 3 at 17mm and the rest varying from 13-15.  The left side, once again, is taking its own sweet time.  All of the follicles are between 13-15mm. I believe there were only 4 on that side.  As a result, the doctor asked that I stim for one more day (today) and return tomorrow for another u/s.

Saturday will be retrieval and I'm not sure when our transfer will be.  People at the clinic have had 2 day, 3 day, and 5 day transfers.  I guess it all depends on the embryos. Emergency ICSI is on the table but seeing as how we didn't need it for our last IVF, I'm hoping we won't need it this time either.

I'm tired of needles and am so looking forward to this portion of the cycle to be over. Ugh.

Good to go

Today is CD 1.  In the past few months, my cycle has shortened by two days.  For as long as I can remember, my cycle has been 28 days.  I don't know what's going on.  I know that my other RE stated that I should only be concerned if the length is longer not shorter.  

Anyway, it's CD 1 so I called it into my clinic.  It took a while for them to get back to me but they finally did at 3pm.  The nurse seemed a little confused as to why I was calling.  "Are you calling in your CD 1 to start your est.race priming?"  Huh?  Priming?  What was she talking about?  "No.  I've been on est.race since Feb 2nd.  I'm calling in my CD 1 to start my injections."  It appears that the nurse who took my call last time did not put it into my chart.  In a previous post, I mentioned that a number of REs left to start a new clinic.  With their departure, a number of nurses and other staff joined them.  It's not excusable but perhaps the last nurse was one of the ones leaving and was sloppy with her work?  I don't know.  I can't even recall her name. All I remember from that conversation was that I was to start my meds on the 2nd and that she called me sweetie.  

Grumpy nurse was annoyed that my last cycle had not been put into their system and seemed to be transferring the annoyance to me.  Sorry.  Not my fault that your colleague didn't do her work.  I'm doing everything right on my side.  

I was concerned that since they didn't have all my husband's blood work, we would be told to hold off but thankfully Grumpy nurse gave us the go ahead to start injections tomorrow.  Whew!  

So tomorrow I give myself my first injection of Men.opur.  Never done that before.  Quite nervous.    

This is what the next bit looks like:

Days 1-4 Meno.pur 225iu AM + Pure.gon 225iu PM. 

On day 5 I take the morning injection and then get blood work done.  They'll let me know how much I need of the evening dosage and if I need to start Orga.lutran.  

Wish me luck ladies.  This is our last kick at the IVF can.   

IVF 3.0 Delayed?

When we transferred to the new clinic the RE asked that we do a set of blood work as we were new patients. In December we got the requisitions and early January I got mine done.  I have constantly reminded Sweets about the blood tests and the new sperm analysis that needs to be done.

He kept putting them off.

Last Thursday I picked up my meds and the nurse stated, "You will not be given the okay to start injections until DH's blood work is in." Ugh!  So needless to say, I was pissed.  Sweets received a rather nasty phone call from me demanding he get to the lab IMMEDIATELY and get his blood tests done.  He wanted to wait until Friday but I insisted.   This is a long weekend you see. Who knows when the lab will get to his blood work?

My period is due soon. Because of his procrastinating, I may have to wait another freaking month to start my cycle.

I am not a happy camper.