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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Monitoring #1

July 23, 2007

I had my 1st monitoring appointment for this cycle, since I began the stimulation meds on Saturday, this morning. The ultrasound tech saw 7 follicles that were under 10mm. In which case, she doesn’t report measurements for each follicle, only if there were any over 9-10mm. There will most likely be some measurable follicles when […]

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Then Again We’ll Start on Saturday!

July 18, 2007

So I just got a call from one of the nurses at our RE’s office to tell me that in fact our Dr. wants me to start the stimulation medications this Saturday, not Sunday! So we are back to the original schedule (see my post about our new “antagonist” protocol for the details), which returns […]

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