Good.To.Go.

Oh hell yeah. I can start my stims tomorrow morning. YESSSSS! Let's do this!

No go...

Why on Earth would I think I would be able to start an IVF cycle without a delay? Silly me. I should know by now that nothing goes as planned in this process. I thought I had tougher skin by now but I actually cried about it. I know, I am a big baby. A glass of wine helped. This is just so stupid. The whole thing. (Yes, I am whining. I am allowed too.) I was told to come in on Friday and by then my progesterone should be down. Well, Jackee doesn't want to wait until Friday. So, I asked if I can come in on Thursday. Ha! I am temping in the mean time and as soon as I see my temp go below 98, I will know I am good to go. This morning it was 98.45. I hate temping because it makes me so anxious. All I think is "hurry up and get to bed so I can see what my next temp will be". And I'd always hope for a higher temp. Now, I so desperately want it to be LOWER. Funny how things work...and I always had a crap ass short luteal phase of 9 days. Now for some reason it decides to be longer? Really? STUPID!

IVF #4 Long Lupron Protocol

11/12/2012- start BCP
11/14/2012- add 10 units of Lupron
11/19/2012- Laparascopy (all clear)
11/20/2012- BW (ovulated through the BCP & Lupron-delay 2 days) NO more BCP. Just Lupron.
11/26/2012- BW & US start stims Progesterone too high (5) delayed until Thursday
11/29/2012- BW & US Progesterone 0.4, E2 20.4, decrease Lupron to 5 units/night
11/30/2012- START STIMS! GonalF 225 AM & 225 PM. Continue 5 units Lupron/night
12/1/2012- 225 am & 225 pm & 5 Lupron
12/2/2012- 225 am & 225 pm & 5 Lupron
12/3/2012- 1st monitoring appt. E2 359. Lots of follies! Same doses
12/4/2012- 225 am & 225 pm & 5 Lupron
12/5/2012- 2nd monitoring appt. E2 754. RE dropping my dose...
12/6/2012- 150 GonalF am & 225 GonalF pm
12/7/2012- 3rd monitoring appt. E2 1619.
12/8/2012- 4th monitoring appt. E2 3483. TRIGGER 11pm Ovidrel
12/9/2012- 5th monitoring appt. E2 4144. start dostinex to prevent OHSS
12/10/2012- Egg Retrieval. 23 eggs retrieved
12/11/2012- Start PIO. Fert report- 12 fertilized normally.
12/13/2012- Embryo Transfer. Transferred 2 BEAUTIFUL 8-cell embryos
12/17/2012- Progesterone check= <40! Excellent. Got the good news that we have TWO snow babies!
12/20/2012- First positive HPT
12/23/2012- 10dp3dt HCG 137 (WAHOOOOO)
12/26/2012- 13dp3dt HCG 448 (16dpo)
01/03/2013- 1st u/s BOTH IMPLANTED! 5w3d 21dp3dt HCG 9,789
01/11/2013- 2nd u/s BOTH HEARTBEATS 139! 6w4d HCG 50,000 drop PIO to EOD
01/18/2013- 3rd u/s Batman & Robin look great! 7w4d. Batman=7w4d Robin=7w5d HCG 162,959
01/21/2013- spotting
01/23/2013- spotting again. Moved u/s up. 4th u/s 8w2d. Batman & Robin look great! BPM 182 & 184
                     HCG 190,005. Released from RE! Stop PIO
01/30/2013- 9w2d found one heartbeat on doppler!
01/31/2013- 9w3d found both precious beautiful heartbeats on doppler!
02/05/2013- 1st OB appt!

Ready...Set...IVF #4

Okay...so I started BCP 2 weeks ago and added Lupron 2 days later. I hadn't ovualted yet and was on CD 26. I think they were trying to "override" ovulation so that I wouldn't ovulate at all. BUT, I ovulated anyways and had to wait 2 extra days. So I should be starting stims tonight. I also had a laprascopy done last Monday with Dr.Kligman at Cornell. I swore that they would find endometriosis. To my suprise, I woke up and was told NO ENDOMETRIOSIS. So, I was relieved (because who wants something to be wrong?) but was also hoping for some answers. Dr. Kligman wants to proceed with an IUI now after flushing my tubes. I like him but I don't know where all of his optimism is coming from...3 IVF's were unsucessful and now he wants to take steps backwards to IUI? I don't get it.