Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Im shooting up

Sorry I have been MIA! As many of you know, my precious nephew came into the world at 11:47am on New Years Day weighing 8lbs 6oz. I have spent every waking moment with him if im not at work. I was telling my sister that I cant imagine how I will feel when I meet my baby(s) for the first time cause I just love that baby so much and he isnt even mine! Today is day 3 of the injections. I started the shots Sunday night and they consist of 2 different medicines mixed in 1 syringe that I inject into my abdomen. The meds are 375iu Follistim + 75iu Menopur. Just to give you an idea of the cost of the medicines, 1 vial of follistim is 300iu which actually has about 425iu of overfill cost $260 and 1 vial menupur which is 75iu exactly cost $80. Thats a total of about $340 per night injected into my abdomen. I wish these medicines had fat dissolving properties to them, at least then I would feel like my money was doing something useful. haha!!! At this phase in the injections, the meds are stimulating my ovary to grow those 20+ follicles I had on my baseline ultrasound. We want as many follicles to grow and produce a healthy egg as possible without causing me to hyperstimulate so pray specifically that I do not hyperstimulate as I am at high risk for it this cycle with the increase in medication dosage. Hyperstimualtion can be very dangerous and could send me to an ICU if I got it so we are praying very hard that there is no hyperstimulation. I go to the clinic Thurday morning at 7:30 for the first follicle check via ultrasound and labs. After that, I will more than likely go to the clinic every other day for labs and ultrasound until the follicles have grown to the size of maturity. The projected day of egg retrieval is next Thursday Janurary 16, but that day will depend on how the follicles grow. The embryo transfer will be 5 days after the egg retrieval. We will transfer 2 embryos God willing we have 2 healthy ones! I did have the endometrial scratch procedure this past Thursday. It was super painful but just hoping it helps those embroys stick!!!  I will post again on Thursday after the ultrasound! Please continue to pray with us that this cycle is Gods timing for our miracles!!!! :)

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