40 hours til IUI #2!

We're here. Knocking on the door of IUI #2.

This cycle I have had a much better response than last month. We messed around with my injection dosages just a bit to help foster a slower response. My doctor is very pleased with the results. Here's what we did this month:

CD4 75IU Menopur
CD5 150IU Menopur
CD6 75IU Menopur
CD7 150IU Menopur
CD8-10 150IU Follistim
CD11-12 175IU Follistim

CD13 hCG trigger with IUI scheduled for 36 hours later on CD15.

My ultrasound today showed a nice half dozen or so follicles. There were some good ones (at least 4) at 19-22mm with a couple of secondary follicles following along at 15-18mm.

I feel that my doctor took a good approach to ensure better results this month. My follicles grew way too fast last month. It was just crazy to be ready for trigger on CD9 with IUI on CD11.

What perfect timing, I recieved my new Angie Fertility bracelet in the mail today. Thank you Gretchen for the sweet note you enclosed with my package. That really made my day.

Game On!

Unbelievable! I'm actually good to start a new cycle right away. Today in fact.

We are taking a little different approach with the meds. We'll be starting with Menopur again, but instead of doing 2 vials daily, we are going to do 1 today (75iu), 2 tomorrow (150iu) , 1 (75iu) the next day, return for monitoring and blood work on Friday.

I responded too quickly last time, so by dialing down the dosage a little bit, hopefully we can buy a little more time. We are also starting a day later with meds due to cycle start and getting in for the U/S.

Thank heaven for no cysts. I don't know that I could have handled another break cycle right now.

Sorry to disappoint

No need to wait for morning to test. That darn AF was waiting at the front door with her over night bag when I got up this morning.

Things just seemed to be going so well this cycle. I had great response to the stim meds, my lining was good, we triggered early. I had remained so hopeful right up til the very end. Even through the slight cramping I had yesterday.

This will mean a trip to the RE either Monday for Tuesday for a baseline U/S. I can only hope there are no remaining cysts after this injectable cycle. It really would be nice to get going on another cycle right away.

I'll keep you posted with news after my visit with the RE next week.

2WW - I made it!

Wow. It has already been a full two weeks since my IUI procedure. I've managed to remain sufficiently busy allowing the time to go really fast.

With a series of hCG boosters in the LP, I am not even tempted to test. Maybe a little anxious, but not so much tempted.

If I can make it through Saturday, I will test on Sunday morning. That will be cd29 and I'll be 18dpIUI.

My doctor didn't recommend testing until Saturday at the earliest anyways because of the hCG boosters. What's one more day?

One week down....

It's already been a week since the IUI. (Where has the time gone?) I did a good job to keep myself fairly busy this weekend and Monday evening, so the time has actually gone by really fast.

I'm doing hCG boosters in my LP, so I still have a good ten days before testing is recommended. Hopefully the next 10 days will be as busy and go as quickly as the first 7 have been.

Hope. That's what I'm riding on right now.

2w + 3d to wait

This morning was my post-IUI ultrasound. I was expecting them to draw blood, but apparently this wasn't necessary.

Looking at the u/s screen, I was a little confused. If I ovulated, what were those "things" I was seeing? Did I not ovulate? OMG!

Calm down. Apparently what's left are the "sacs" that the follicles released from. Okay, that's good to hear. Ultrasound doesn't tell the whole picture at this point, but it seems pretty apparent that they released. Yeah!

Today is 3 days past IUI and I got a much more diluted version of the hCG shot as a booster. Hopefully this will eliminate the bad reaction I've been getting to the full 10,000 units injected at once. Two more boosters are to be administered on 6 & 9 days after the IUI. So, that brings us to testing around August 18th. A full week after the last hCG shot. I'll be 17dpIUI.

How am I going to wait that long? Should I test out the last hCG? Relax...breathe...and keep yourself busy.

Let the 2WW begin!

Well...that wasn't too bad. IUI #1 is complete.

I had definitely thought going in to it that it was going to be a lot worse. I barely even felt anything. Just the tiniest bit of something as the catheter went in. And it was over so quickly. In the hours following the procedure I had a little bit of cramping, but nothing too strong.

They want to see me for an US on Saturday morning 3dpIUI. At that point we'll discuss hCG boosters for the LP.

I have a tendency to react pretty badly to the hCG shots, so I'm not sure what we'll do. The doctor thinks it has something do to with the high concentration of the hCG. There is a huge welt at the injection site and it is very sensitive to the touch. Clothes rubbing against it even hurts.

Please let the next two weeks go by quickly with lots to keep me busy and my mind off of testing.