First we go back to my last cycle. My Dr.'s plan was for me to produce 3-4 eggs. For those who don't know (because I didn't) a woman produces Follicles. You can produce a ton of them, but only the big ones will actually end up as fertilize-able eggs. After being on drugs for a week, I go in on a Thursday for an ultrasound to see how they're working. Dr. says, "Look at all those follicles. Beautiful" So I'm like great. Looks good. He plans out the rest of my plan. I go back Saturday. Everything still looks ok. He picks Wednesday for the IUI. I go back Monday. We discover I'm stalling out....the 4 biggest follicles weren't getting any bigger. In fact, the two on my left side got smaller (along with a lot of others getting smaller) So we push back the IUI and push up the drugs. I go in Wednesday. He starts the ultra sound and told me I had 6 small follicles on my right side and his exact words were "that's not what we want" when he looked at my left side there were 8 small follicles, so I said "I bet that's not what we want either." He said, "no. in fact, hell no" At that point we can't push drugs any more, we gotta Trigger and make me ovulate. So we do and Friday we did the IUI. So in the end I had 2 eggs which were both on my right side.
So today I go in for my CD3 ultrasound to make sure my ovaries are "quiet." What is a quiet ovary you say? Well last cycle I'd say I don't know! I just know it's what I want. Well apparently this time I have "a not so quiet ovary." I have a cyst. A cyst = a not quiet ovary. So not only did my body refuse to produce 3-4 good follicles by giving me only 2...it opted not to release one of those 2 for fertlization. So I have a big fat follicle cyst on my right side. How big and fat? I don't know. Not outrageously huge I don't think. (although it looked huge to me on the screen). Of course my left side is nice and quiet, of course it opted not to even participate last cycle so it'd freakin' better be quiet!! Either way, in the end without 2 quiet ovaries we can't do another IUI this cycle. I have to do a Trigger Shot near my natural ovulation time in hopes that will make the cyst release. So we wait another month. Hopefully it works or I'll we'll be waiting another month or longer.
So I my best efforts to not be overly negative I look too the bright side....
1. No more needles for a month! Yay!
2. No more bruised belly! Yay!
3. I don't have to drive to Scottsdale every other day and turn around to drive straight back in order to get back to work.
4. It's a super busy time at the studio...work won't suffer because I'm gone and I won't end up having to do serious overtime to make up for time I'm gone.
5. My bank account gets to breathe a HUGE sigh of relief. We have a break to get saved up for the next set of meds.
6. Little Willis (my car) can be clean! No more bugs on the windshield and fast food bags laying everywhere. Poor thing is trashed.
7. I don't have to do blood work!
8. My house won't get neglected and MIGHT stay clean for an entire month.
Ok so that's all I can come up with. I was really hoping for a top 10, but I guess I'll settle for 8!!!
So today I go in for my CD3 ultrasound to make sure my ovaries are "quiet." What is a quiet ovary you say? Well last cycle I'd say I don't know! I just know it's what I want. Well apparently this time I have "a not so quiet ovary." I have a cyst. A cyst = a not quiet ovary. So not only did my body refuse to produce 3-4 good follicles by giving me only 2...it opted not to release one of those 2 for fertlization. So I have a big fat follicle cyst on my right side. How big and fat? I don't know. Not outrageously huge I don't think. (although it looked huge to me on the screen). Of course my left side is nice and quiet, of course it opted not to even participate last cycle so it'd freakin' better be quiet!! Either way, in the end without 2 quiet ovaries we can't do another IUI this cycle. I have to do a Trigger Shot near my natural ovulation time in hopes that will make the cyst release. So we wait another month. Hopefully it works or I'll we'll be waiting another month or longer.
So I my best efforts to not be overly negative I look too the bright side....
1. No more needles for a month! Yay!
2. No more bruised belly! Yay!
3. I don't have to drive to Scottsdale every other day and turn around to drive straight back in order to get back to work.
4. It's a super busy time at the studio...work won't suffer because I'm gone and I won't end up having to do serious overtime to make up for time I'm gone.
5. My bank account gets to breathe a HUGE sigh of relief. We have a break to get saved up for the next set of meds.
6. Little Willis (my car) can be clean! No more bugs on the windshield and fast food bags laying everywhere. Poor thing is trashed.
7. I don't have to do blood work!
8. My house won't get neglected and MIGHT stay clean for an entire month.
Ok so that's all I can come up with. I was really hoping for a top 10, but I guess I'll settle for 8!!!
3 comments:
Your frustration is jumping out of the screen, I can't imagine what your going through. And then for it to all not work, I am so sorry. Just hang in there and don't give up.
You seriously have to drive all the way to Scottsdale every other day? Holy crap, poor girl!
All that sounds so complicated! I really hope you have better luck this time around. We're excited to see you in a few days!
Geeezzzzz! That is so frustrating! Someone told me that when you want to be pregnant, no matter how long you have to try it's too long and I totally agree. I'm annoyed for you. I do love reading what you write though. You need to write books or something. Stephenie Meyer Jr.
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