1 Week In Updates!

I am currently on day 8 of my stims/shots for IVF.  Let me bring ya'll up to speed.  Tonight I will have had a total of 16 shots so far. Holy needles! WI started my Third Injection yesterday. It's a morning shot that prevents ovulation.  They don't want you releasing an egg on your own and they want to push more follicles to be able to produce mature eggs. Unfortunately this shot gives you an instantaneous rash.  I feel so classy walking around the office scratching my belly :) I told Austin I felt like Dirty Joe.  He said, "Who?" oops I meant Joe Dirt... whatever i feel dirty :) 

We just put in our second order of meds this week. Did you read that right.?? THIS WEEK!?!  That makes 3 med orders so far.  I appreciate that the do this along the way so you don't end up spending a ton of extra money and wasting medicine. They have decided to up my doses again.  (This will be the second time)















Still the only weird side effect I have experienced was the one random AWFUL migraine.  It felt like an evil creature was trying to break out of my brain... with an ice pick. It probably didn't help that I thought I would quit caffiene that day. Trust me I changed my mind by lunch, but my diet coke had no healing effects. It also didnt help that I may be a little hormonal and my migraine made me feel bad for myself which made me cry a tiny bit, which made it hurt worse. Ugh! I am usually not such a weeny.  Austin and my doggies to the rescue!  Other than that though I am feeling great! Austin has rocked my shots! I only have one bruise.  1 out of 16 ? ! I think that is pretty awesome!

My first sono happened on Tuesday. My estrogen level was up (that's good), my lining looked great there was a little fluid in the uterus, but they said that was normal given everything we are doing to my reproductive system. So far, just 6 follicles on ONE ovary. For some reason my right ovary, just isn' t digging this process and is being stubborn.  I had expected to see a lot more follicles, but the nurses didn't seem to concerned.

I had my second sono to see how things were progressing.  I am apparently feeling great, because there isn't a whole heck of a lot to feel.  I now have 7 follicles on my right ovary and 2 itty bitty ones on the left.  Not sure why that ovary has just opted out of this.  There is no "I" in TEAM ovary!  Get on board NOW!!! I googled... BIG MISTAKE.  I read that my counts are extremely low and that women with such counts are at risk of Cycle cancellation... WHAT!?! Dr. Google had a lot of other not so fun things to say about my not yet harvested embryos and their success rates, so I decided to ask my actual doctors.  They say all is still well.  We aren't necessarily looking for quantity, we want quality and my few follicles seem to be growing at the same rate, meaning they could all produce mature eggs.  It may not be the 20+ eggs I thought we would get, but all we really need is one good embryo. :) I just have to have faith that this is yet again part of the plan and part of our story. ( It's yet another part I hadn't planned on, but things seem to always turn out just fine.)      

This process is exciting. There are so many things going on and checkpoints, but it is still a teensy bit terrifying.   I do feel that I am being called out upon the water.  There are so many unknowns with what we are doing and no guarantees that we will get the outcome we are hoping for. The entire process is out of our control.  I have honestly had a great experience so far, even in light of our not so awesome updates. As scary as the unkown is I have Faith.

I will look beyond the waves and this struggle. I will continue to have faith in the process, in my physicians and most importantly in a God that has a plan for Austin and I..  I pray that he continues to give us strength to get us through this journey and opens our hearts to see the beauty within the struggle. .          



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