Update from second follie scan and bloodwork

richmond_girl · #1 February 7th, 2009, 09:57 AM

I had my blood test at 7am and my ultrasound at 11am... let me start out by saying I was not real happy to wake up at 6am on a Sat

But, after everything we've been through, today went pretty well all things considered. It wasn't GREAT but it wasn't as devastating as every other bit of news we've gotten since October, at least. The good news is, my left ovary appears to have made significant progress in the past few days.

I switched to the 'mega' needles on Wed night (instead of the baby ones they had given me) because those are twice as long and I figured it might help if I injected the medicine deeper into my stomach. I have no idea if that worked, but I have several pretty good looking follicles now on that side. The bad news is, the right ovary is still moving at a snail's pace

. We might not get anything good out of that side for this cycle; we just have to wait and see if it improves over the weekend. My bloodwork came back high for estrogen which means that despite my sub-optimal response, I could be borderline "hyperstimulating" and we need to be careful about pushing for more progress. My RE said the estrogen level is not really correlating with my actual follie development but that this happens once in awhile. He wouldn't give me any details because he knew I would google it and he didn't want me to stress unnecessarily

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My uterine lining also got thicker, it's at 6.9mm now and the RE wants it to be 7-10 before egg aspiration, so we're getting close (On Wed it was only 5.1mm). I jokingly asked my RE if my uterus might have also miraculously "untipped" itself between Wed and today; he smiled and replied unfortunately no. But he said it will be fine, and just reminded me to take my Valium before the transfer procedure

I have another ultrasound / blood work at 8am on Monday, and depending on how things look, we'll probably trigger sometime between Monday and Wed night. So, barring more unforseen circumstances, I should have my egg retrieval by next weekend and if the eggs/sperm fertilize, we'll do the transfer 3-5 days later.

I'm disappointed my right ovary is lagging, but at the end of the day I'm just thankful that this cycle is not getting cancelled. I will take any small victory I can and savor it because I know it could be so much worse. For now I'm just grateful for this tiny little chance, this tiny sliver of hope, to keep fighting this battle.