Friday was my second monitoring ultrasound since starting my Follistim injections. I had done seven injections and had three days of my new dosage. Every time I make the trip up to Portland I honestly get pretty worked up. The trip up there alone is a long one and I have a lot of time to let my insecurites creep in and I end up picturing the worst case senario possible.
I had a really hard day on Friday. I don't know if the injections are making me overly emotional or if it was just one of those days. I just knew walking into some bad news. I ended up making it my appointment about thirty minutes ahead of time. I sat in Dr. Changs waiting room and a new medical assistant took me into the lab area. They drew my blood for my E2 level (which again, I don't know the result other than it was in a normal range).
I went into exam room 1. Did the normal "please get undressed below the waist and put this thin paper sheet over your lap" and waiting for Dr. Chang. She came in and we started my ultrasound. She said my lining was getting nice and thick. Which also ment my estrogen levels are rising. Hurdle number one down, so far so good. Then she took a look at my right ovary. Right away I could tell that my eggs (folicles) were bigger. She started measuring them one by one. There were now 12 eggs in my right ovary and three dominant ones. The largest measuring 13mm and the other two were 12 and 11. Not to shabby.
While she looked for my more stubborn left ovary I asked her how many mature follicles she was wanting. Most of my Google searches said that doctors would cancel the cycle if more than 3 mature follicles were present. For fear of them all implanting. To my surprise my doctor was right on the same page as I was. She said two would be fine but she would like to see up to five. I have been hoping that 4-5 eggs get big enough to ovulate. Not only do I not want to go through this again next cycle, but we are really hoping we will be lucky enough to get twins. Typing that out it sounds greedy. We will be lucky enough to be able to have one baby let alone twins. Only time will tell.
My left ovary still had 12 eggs but most were too small to make the cut this cycle. My right ovary is taking to the medication a lot better than the left. But there were still 2 dominate follicles right on track with the other three. She kept my dosage the same at 116IU and I have another appointment with her tomorrow (Monday) three days after my last ultrasound. She is hoping that on Monday my five dominant follicles will be mature enough to trigger and ovulate. Or at least a few of them. There is always fear that they will reduce in size or dissapear all together. She will know on Monday if I should do my trigger shot on Monday night or on Tuesday night. Depending on when I trigger we will make our appointment for our insemination (IUI). Insemination should be on Wednesday or Thursday. Then we have two weeks of waiting left to see if it worked and we get that positive home pregnancy test. I will write another update tomorrow after my appointment. I am praying for good news. :) Time for my 10th injection!
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