Monitoring #5

July 30, 2007

My 5th monitoring appointment was this morning (day 10 of stimming). My mother-in-law watched Sean for me, which was great, especially because our RE’s office was busy, I had to wait longer than usual, and there were a lot of couples there today with out children in tow. The u/s tech found 12 follicles (2 […]

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Monitoring #4

July 29, 2007

I had my 4th monitoring appointment, this morning (day 9 of stimming), at my RE’s downtown office. It went very well and I am feeling very optimistic following it!!! I still had 13 follicles over all and the breakdown was: 2 – 15.5, 1 – 15, 2 – 14.5, 1 – 14, 1 -13 and […]

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Sunday’s ETA and Dosage Adjustment

July 27, 2007

My next monitoring appointment for this cycle will be on Sunday (day 9 of stimming) at 8:00 a.m. The nurse who left me a voicemail to tell me that also informed me that our RE wants me to lower my dosage of Follistim tonight and tomorrow night from 300 IUs to 150 IUs. She said […]

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Monitoring #3

July 27, 2007

This is gonna be a quickie, but I wanted to be sure to check in and update for today… This morning’s appointment went well. The office was busy, so I had to wait a bit, but no big deal. Today I am on day 7 of stimming and the u/s tech found 13 follicles (13.5, […]

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Monitoring #2

July 25, 2007

I had my second monitoring appointment this morning (day 5 of stimming) and was very pleased to learn that the ultrasound (u/s) tech found 12 follicles today! She measured 1 – 10, 2 – 9, 1 – 8 and the rest were less than 8mm. It seems good that at least four seem to be […]

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Caller ID

July 23, 2007

The phone just rang and I saw it was my RE’s office… In the few seconds as I fumbled to press the “talk” button, my heart leapt and my mind raced as I started brainstorming possible reasons for the call??? Was my E2 (Estrogen level) low, somewhat indicated by the low number of follicles this […]

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