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I finally started my period today, so I've started wearing my Vivelle "dot" patches and taking one baby aspirin a day. After one day of testing, I can tell you that a baby aspirin is not an effective treatment for cramps. Do you think anyone will notice if I pop 800mg of ibuprofen tonight, really?
I also got our FET (frozen embryo transfer) calendar from the nurse today. We're going with the original plan, the more aggressive, "I will probably regret this later", plan.
Basically, I wear one patch for 6 days. Well, I don't actually wear the same patch for 6 days, I change out the patch every other day. Then I wear 2 patches for 2 days, then 3 patches for 2 days, then 4 patches for 2 days.
After that (on my birthday) I start something totally disgusting that I am not sure I'm even going to tell you about. Trust me, you don't want to know.
That's also when I start taking the progesterone shots, the ones that are oil-based and have the fat needles. These shots apparently go on and on and on, maybe even throughout the whole pregnancy. Yay...
There are a couple more pills I will be taking during the last few days, antibiotics I think. And all of this leads us to the embryo transfer on August 14th. If my body doesn't respond to the drugs this might move out to August 18th. As long as it happens on the 14th my doctor will do the transfer, any other day and we will have another doctor for the procedure.
During the last 3-4 days before the transfer they'll thaw our embryos and grow them to be 5 days old on August 14th. We have 12 embryos and we're hoping a good number of them remain healthy and make it to day 5.
After the transfer I have to stay in bed for 3 days, and then we will go back in to do a pregnancy test 9 days after the transfer. It's no good doing a home pregnancy test, apparently, because they've pumped your body full of all the same hormones that make a pregnancy test come out positive, even if you're not really pregnant.
I'll be back in a couple of days to let you know how it's going.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Everything BUT according to plan
It’s about time to start working on the “project” again. Actually, it’s past time. I should have started my period last Thursday and started wearing my estrogen patches, leading up to a transfer on August 11th.
So I called the nurse this morning to let her know I hadn’t started yet, and she proceeded to read over my calendar which had me starting birth control pills and Lupron shots and then having yet another period and THEN starting the patches leading up to a transfer in September! I told her she must have the wrong calendar, that I was starting patches immediately and my transfer was scheduled for August 11th. And she said “no, you are on the slower, more conservative calendar because of your history with endometriosis”.
Well, I lost the plot......as politely as I possibly could......and asked her to double check one more time because, as of Friday, we were still talking about my starting patches over the weekend.
She told me that even if I started patches this week, now that I am at least 5 days late with my period, that my transfer would be happening while my doctor is on vacation. And finally, she said she was very sorry, which helped A LOT.
That was in the morning, and I stewed all day long. I was getting depressed, thinking this is never going to happen, it’s just one thing after another. I was getting mad at the doctor for telling me one thing and then changing his mind…….and for taking a vacation. How dare he!
At about 5:30 this afternoon the nurse called me back and said “okay, you can go back to the original plan”. The doctor forgot that he had already told me I’d be on that protocol. In looking at everything today he would prefer I go the more conservative route, but I can move ahead with the original plan if I want to.
Of course, that doesn’t make me feel better because now I feel like, when it doesn’t work, I am going to be keenly aware that it was MY fault.
Today has not been a good day.
Oh, and if I don’t start my period by Thursday the doctor wants me to take a pregnancy test. Now wouldn’t that be ironic.
So I called the nurse this morning to let her know I hadn’t started yet, and she proceeded to read over my calendar which had me starting birth control pills and Lupron shots and then having yet another period and THEN starting the patches leading up to a transfer in September! I told her she must have the wrong calendar, that I was starting patches immediately and my transfer was scheduled for August 11th. And she said “no, you are on the slower, more conservative calendar because of your history with endometriosis”.
Well, I lost the plot......as politely as I possibly could......and asked her to double check one more time because, as of Friday, we were still talking about my starting patches over the weekend.
She told me that even if I started patches this week, now that I am at least 5 days late with my period, that my transfer would be happening while my doctor is on vacation. And finally, she said she was very sorry, which helped A LOT.
That was in the morning, and I stewed all day long. I was getting depressed, thinking this is never going to happen, it’s just one thing after another. I was getting mad at the doctor for telling me one thing and then changing his mind…….and for taking a vacation. How dare he!
At about 5:30 this afternoon the nurse called me back and said “okay, you can go back to the original plan”. The doctor forgot that he had already told me I’d be on that protocol. In looking at everything today he would prefer I go the more conservative route, but I can move ahead with the original plan if I want to.
Of course, that doesn’t make me feel better because now I feel like, when it doesn’t work, I am going to be keenly aware that it was MY fault.
Today has not been a good day.
Oh, and if I don’t start my period by Thursday the doctor wants me to take a pregnancy test. Now wouldn’t that be ironic.
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