Saturday, January 23, 2016

Ready for stimming ivf #3

Jan. 15th I went in for baseline ultrasound and I was disappointed in our antral follicle count.
The antral follicle count is a fairly simple test to perform with high quality ultrasound equipment. It allows us to evaluate a woman's ovarian reserve - her supply of eggs for the future. Tests of ovarian reserve do not measure the quality of the eggs, they only measure the quantity.
Again my right ovary is failing me... we had maybe 1-2 counted. I don't even know if I still have a cyst on that side either that my previous RE found last summer during my year long break. My left side had about 8. It left me feeling bummed but hopefully we can still get quality over quantity. 
I also started lupron at night at 10ml. The next day I had bad headaches all day but haven't had any after that night taking some ibuprofen. I did have some crazy moments with the hubby where I over reacted but I swear it was the lupron. 
I stopped the birth control after 12 days and have started a light period which can happen. I went in the dr this morning for an ultrasounds to make sure the lupron was doing its job. The nurse was quite and I laid there wanting to ask how does it look, but I sat there quite hoping she would be able to count every single one there, but something didn't sit right when I saw the right side ovary. I'll just have to call in the office next week and ask. 
So, I'm all set to start stimming with menopur and gonal-f in 2 days and I'm still waiting for all my meds get here, but I have had some help with some friends until I get it all here. 
I also asked my ivf coordinator about my AMH levels. She checked and it was 1.61 which 😯 no the best but not the worst. 

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Birth Control Pills

Throughout our 7 years of infertility journey I always laugh when I heard other ladies having to take birth control before they started a IVF cycle. I guess I laugh to hard because this Dr and clinic has me starting on birth control pills to make sure we schedule the egg retrieval when the Dr has the outpatient surgery center schedule for him. So, now I see the importance of birth control before IVF cycles.
The best is when you go pick up the prescription and they have to go over everything because I mention I've never taken birth control before, hahaha. I almost rolled my eyes when she said you may want to use another form of protection until the medication kicks in.
All I could think of was, "If only you knew lady, If only you knew"
So the procedure I had last week jumped started my period a few days earlier, so I called the Dr office and  they had me started on the pill. I because the crazy person.
I stayed pro active this whole week because I knew things were coming up soon and knew I take forever to stim. It's a good thing I did my nurse called tonight and told me the Dr. made up my schedule and wants me to come in tomorrow morning and start Lupron tomorrow.
All I could think about was." AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, this is all getting so real again!!!!!"
So excited
yet so scared, again.
So I'm trying to calm myself down because my ultrasound tomorrow will give us our baseline count for my follicle and I really want the most to work with. 12-15 will be the best news ever....then if we can make sure my eggs are quality and ready to be fertilized.
We got our loan application all ready this week and ready to do this....
So here we go!

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Hysteroscopy- round 2

Yesterday I went into the hospital to have a hysteroscopy done again. Last time I had this was March 2014 and it was done during my laparoscopy where we found the endometriosis.
This time my Dr went in and didn't find anything he needed to remove or clean up. He did say some research has shown a positive implanting after a biopsy done with patience who had previous failed IVF. So we are hopefully that this can help us more.
Next up, waiting for my cycle to start and contact my Dr and set up my protocol for IVF #3 for baby #2.