Darrell & Sharyn

Once again, I drove to Ft. Worth for an Ultrasound.

Once again, my follicles shrunk.

Once again, I have to do another Ultrasound in Ft. Worth on Friday.

Doesn’t that sound like fun?

They did blood work on Monday and today. Monday’s told them that my estrogen was upwards of 900 which is really good. The doctor basically said that it shows that the eggs are maturing, but we aren’t seeing the follicle growing. He estimates that sometime soon my follicles will just explode and there will be a whole lotta big ones 🙂 (hopefully no more than 5, please). We won’t get the blood work results from today until tomorrow since my appointment was around lunchtime (have to do it before 10AM to get results that day).

RE soothed my fears that we are out this cycle and that we will most likely fail. He said that he has had many patients on their first round of injectables whose cycle went crazy during stim time and then they ended up with wonderful follicles and a positive pregnancy test. I’m hoping that’s us.

With the fact that RE keeps upping my daily dose we have spent a lot more on this cycle than we were originally planning. We are hoping that the next ultrasound shows some wonderful follicles otherwise we might have to use some of our own money to pay for the last of the cycle as our HSA is getting low. 🙁

So fingers and toes are crossed. Belly is looking like a drug addict, and I am onto day 13 of my injections! (lucky me gets 2 tonight since there isn’t a full dose left in the old cartridge)

Once again — Think happy thoughts for Friday!

We drove all the way to Ft. Worth today so we could see why the follicles weren’t growing. They are growing a little, but not quite as fast as they were suppose to.

They said that we are looking good since there has been growth since Friday. But unfortunately, not enough growth to trigger tonight. So I get to drive to Ft. Worth on Wednesday for another Ultrasound. They upped my Follistim dosage to 100 and we are hoping for the follicles to grow normally these next couple days.

We are sitting at 4 follicles ranging from 13-15mm. That is perfect according to the doctor. Well, at least having 4 that are growing around the same rate. So hopefully, they will all grow together in the next two days, we will trigger on Weds, IUI on Friday and hopefully one will stick!

So, had the third ultrasound of the week today. Seemed to go great. 2 big follicles, looked good to me.

Then RE called. Said that it seems as though my follicles aren’t growing at all! Nurse said that my numbers haven’t changed all week which is weird since we have been doing the same dosage of the follistim. So she upped me to a higher dosage, I still have to take it all weekend, and then I have to drive to Ft. Worth on Monday morning to see what they can find and whether my ovaries are going to cooperate with us there. Which means that we will be driving to Ft. Worth twice next week unless for some odd reason, my follicles don’t grow and they end up having to cancel the cycle. 🙁

So, I did some reading online, and some women said that it was on CD22 when their follicles hit maturity while on follistim. I know, I know… Don’t believe everything you read online. But one can always hope right?

That is what my ovaries are. They are being very uncooperative with the ultrasound and making it very hard for the doc to see.

We had an ultrasound yesterday and my right was a little hard to find, but was found and measured 5 follicles. Some were slightly bigger than they were on Tuesday, but the big ones were actually smaller. 🙁

My left, however, was very hard to find. I think doc spent about 4 minutes trying to find it. When we did find it, we were only able to see one follicle. So we went from 3 down to one. RE says that they might just be behind the big follicle, so we still have our fingers crossed.

I have to do another ultrasound today and then there is a chance to either trigger tonight or tomorrow. We are kind of hoping for tonight since that would mean that we go in on Sunday and won’t have to take time off of work, but it will be what it is.