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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.
3 comments:
Praying for the best outcome possible for you and Kelly!
Hugs,
Kimberly
Whenever you call me I'll be there,whenever you want me I'll be there,whenever you need me I'll be there---I'll be around.:):):)Love Mom
Looking forward to the updates. I hope you have plenty of good books to read and movies to watch. Three days in bed could seem like forever!
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