After a failed attempt with injections, we are now upping our aggressiveness with injections, trigger shots and an IUI!
Day 3: BW/US- Uterine lining good and lots of tiny follicles, Okay to start injections at 50iu for 6 nights before bw/us monitoring. Asked Doc to up the dosage of injections but because I have so many follicles, he said he didn't feel comfortable doing that.
Injections: Not so bad the beginning of this round. Very little symptoms so far, except for the bloating.
Day 9: BW/US largest follicles 10.4 and 10.1 on left side and in the 9s on the right, continue with injections at 50iu. Estrogen at 63. Will a little click and stick to the trick?
Day 12: BW/US, lining thickening, no follicle growth, estrogen at 75 need to cancel iui because there won't be enough time before I leave for the wedding... bloated and heartbroken. Is there any way to describe how difficult this journey is??
CD 14: BW/US, lining still thickening, no real follicle growth (right ovary- 11.1 10.4 10.3 etc, left ovary- 10.9 10.8 etc) and estrogen level dropped to 40.3. Whoa! Huge, unexplained drop. I know that your estrogen levels are an indicator that the growth of the follicles is going well and can indicate how many follicles are maturing. This level is so, so low especially for this point in the cycle. We went out for pancakes to cheer ourselves up a bit and later that afternoon got a call telling us to up the meds to 75 iu from 50 iu which made us happier to know that we could amp up the aggressiveness a bit more to give this another shot... (literally and figuratively!)
CD 15: This ramp up in follistim is wearing me out. Feel lethargic, nauseous and so, so bloated. I feel like I just ate a huge thanksgiving meal and am constantly waiting to digest it! Yuck! Please let this be worth it.
CD 16: BW/US, lining is now at a good thickness, I have about 47 follicles with the largest at 12.3, 10.7, and 9.3 (so other follies may be backing off) and my estrogen jumped to 99.4. So glad they bumped me to 75 ius! While still not where I need or expected to be, this may be a glimmer of hope that we might not have to cancel the whole cycle after all (but IUI is still out of the question at this point because of the wedding I'm going to this weekend). Feeling insanely bloated. I wish I could push my stomach out of my belly button. Ugh! Going back for monitoring again tomorrow.Wishing and hoping for good news and a big jump!
CD 17: BW/US After one more shot of 75 iu of follistim... Estrogen 96.5, largest follicles measured at 13.2, 9.8. Met with the doctor today and he is trying to figure out a solution to my travels while he still strongly cautioned me that we may have to cancel this cycle. When I asked him about the drop in my estrogen before, he said this can happen as some follicles back off when one or two are taking the lead but that estrogen levels in the 40s or 90s are very low.
He upped my follistim to 112iu tonight with my last chance monitoring tomorrow morning before my flight out. I'm supposing this must have to do with the fact that my estrogen level is not climbing but is down a bit from yesterday... so stressful... I'm going to go do some gardening and then get my hair cut tonight to get my mind off of this...
