Monitoring Appointment #1

Today is day 4 of stims (although I have yet to take my 4^th dose of stims – that will be tonight).  I had my first of many monitoring appointments this morning bright and early at 7am.  The sono tech, Kelly, said I had 8 follicles on the left and 8 follicles on the right!  That’s 16 follicles!  This is awesome as on Friday (3 days ago) my antral follicle count was only 10!   I am getting more and more excited about this cycle!  Come on eggies, grow, grow, GROW!!

I’m now just waiting for the call from my clinic nurse, Dawn.  She’ll give me my follistim dose for tonight and the next few days and tell me when to go back for my next monitoring appointment.  Hopefully I won’t have an issue getting into my local OB’s office (where I do my monitoring appointments).  I always hate making these last minute appointments when I get a call from the clinic at 2 pm and call the OB and say I need an appointment tomorrow morning or else I’ll have to drive to Cleveland!   I stress myself out too much worrying about this stuff.  I take after my mom.  Hi mom!

UPDATE:   My nurse called at 2:39pm and my e2 (estradiol) level was only 51.  That’s not too good.  That means my eggies aren’t all growing as they should.  So they upped my follistim from 150 a day to 225 a day!  (Reminder, my IVF #1 my follistim was only 100 every day…but I was also 3 years younger then.)   So I go back Thursday morning at 7 am to be rechecked (sono and bloodwork for e2 levels).   That means that I will most definitely need to be rechecked over the weekend which means I will have to drive all the way to Cleveland to get checked.  Hopefully just one day.  There’s a possibility we’d have to drive down Saturday and Sunday if Saturday is too close to trigger.   Oy!  There’s also the possibility that I go to Cleveland Saturday and they want to check me again on Monday…. At which point it will be the weekend and I won’t be able to make an appointment with my local OB over the weekend.  Sooooo…. I may get sneaky and make a Monday appointment after we see how my Thursday’s appointment turns out.   Man o’ man I’m gonna give myself an ulcer!