This morning I had my first monitoring appointment for the cycle. It's only CD 6 so I knew not to expect anything to be mature yet but luckily I have a few promising follie's (largest already at 15mm!) My RE came into the ultra sound with me and started talking to me about what to expect for the next few cycles and talked a little bit about IVF with me. He offered to meet with me right then but he was "on call" with all the other women getting monitoring done so I decided to wait until my appt at 2:45 so we wouldn't be interrupted.
After the doctors appointment I went to my cousin's house to see her nursery and baby gear. Her baby shower was this past weekend so I was excited to see everything together and set up in the room. It was adorable of course and made me excited for the day when I get to decorate a nursery and have a house full of "gear". Then I met a friend and her 6month old son for lunch at P.F. Changs. It was delicious and fun to play with him:)
Later I went to my appointment with the RE. I was pretty nervous because IVF had been mentioned a few times so I was hoping he wasn't going to say that was the direction we should go. I think the nurse was a little confused about why I wanted to meet and actually had a packet of information on IVF ready for me including a prescription for BCP's. EEEK! Thankfully, I went in to talk to the RE and while he didn't have an explanation for why the past cycles haven't worked yet, he was very optimistic about it working at some point. He said we're basically playing at chance right now and while it hasn't worked yet, I have ovulated each cycle and that was the issue. 85% of couples conceive within 6 months of trying. Right now we're on cycle #5 with help (which is what counts since before I wasn't ever ovulating). My insurance covers up to 6 IUI's so he suggested exhausting those before moving onto IVF. That was my plan anyway but he was pretty confident that it would work eventually and we may not even need IVF. He's already happy with how this cycle is going too which makes me feel good (especially since the last cycle was HORRIBLE). So I left feeling encouraged and with a renewed "I can do this!" attitude. More than anything he stressed that if I feel like I'm getting to the point where I can't continue because of what it's doing to me emotionally, I need to let him know and we could discuss moving onto IVF since it has a much higher success rate. BUT if I could tough it out and keep going with what we're doing, he thinks we'll be successful. SO... good news for that.
And right before I left he told me to do one more vial of bravelle tonight and come back in the morning. He predicted 3 more nights of injections before it was time to trigger. If that's true, that would be perfect since the IUI would be this weekend! I'd love it if I didn't have to take off more time from work:)
So all in all a good day. Tonight I had to give myself my first injection. Up until now J has been doing them for me. I syke myself out too much and just don't feel like I can do it myself but he's out at a movie with a friend tonight so I didn't have a choice. It actually went pretty well and I'm confident I could do it for myself from now on if needed. Hoping for good news tomorrow morning!:)
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