Saturday, July 30, 2011

Cycle Day 10: Trigger Day

I went in to the doctor's again this morning.  I saw my actual doctor again, and our interaction was brief as always, so I couldn't ask all the questions I wanted.  He told me that I was ready to trigger, and when I asked how my left ovary was doing, how many eggs were there, he glossed over it and instead served me a bunch of platitudes, "There's nothing to worry about.  We'll get at least ten.  I'm not worried."  Well, thanks, Doc, but that doesn't help placate someone like me who wants to understand what's going on; I don't need to be soothed.

So the nurse called me and said that I should stop all medications at this point except for the Ovidrel injection that I am to give myself at 10:30pm tonight.  Since retrieval is 36 hours later, this means that I will retrieve at 10:30am on Monday morning.

I'm relieved that I can stop the injections!  My lower abdomen area is a swollen, tender, angry battlefield of injections wounds.  However, I still have one full box of Menopur left and a full Ganirelix shot!  Wish I'd ordered more sparingly-- I could have probably shaved $500 off my pharmacy order.

I've been craving carbs, so I made myself a spaghetti carbonara last night, and I shared some pancakes at brunch this morning.

My acupuncture appointment yesterday helped, I think, even if only mentally.  I was feeling tightness on my left side near my injection side from Thursday night, and the acupuncture did seem to help that discomfort go away almost immediately as he stuck in the needles.  I think what also helped is that I felt like I really was doing everything I could to help my cause, so having a sense of my own agency helped me too.  I'm going for a second treatment tomorrow afternoon.  Even if this is only helping me with my stress levels, that's still good.

While my energy level is good, I'm sleeping a lot lately.  Last night I slept a full eight hours, and I couldn't have slept more.  I took a mid-afternoon catnap, and I never sleep during the day!  I guess the meds are really taking their toll on me.

OK, Ovidrel shot tonight at 10:30am!  Then I go back into the doctor's again tomorrow to make sure that the Ovidrel has been absorbed by my body...

It's almost over.

10 comments:

  1. What's the end of your story? I'm about to start process on Sept 8th-ish and would love to read the rest of your blog. For some reason,it just stopped in July.

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    1. Hey, hope your egg retrieval went well. I just added the "final chapter" to the blog (with an explanation as to why I stopped writing). Hope you check it out.

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  2. What happened next? I'm in the process of trying to retrieve eggs to freeze myself. Hope all went well!

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    1. Just added "the ending" to my Adventures in Egg Freezing blog, if you're still interested to check it out. Thanks for reading!

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  3. I just froze in NYC last month, and would be glad to support others going through it now, or compare notes with women who've finished freezing. I'm at intothefreezer@gmail.com.

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  4. Hi - curious to know how things ended up going? Loved reading up to this point but how did retrieval and the rest go?! I'm in the process of researching now.. Thank you for sharing your story!

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    1. Hey, thanks for reading my blog. I just added "the ending" (with an explanation as to why I stopped writing). Check out http://egggirlny.blogspot.com/

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  6. I'm about to undertake the procedure. I've started a blog called mytriptotheeggdoctor.wordpress.com if anyone is interested in following my journey.

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  7. Hey there - I don't see anyway on here to contact you but I'd sincerely like to speak to you about your blog and your egg freezing experience. Can you email me? My address is Jay(at)fertilityauthority.com. Thank you very much.

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