IVF # 5 – Stim Day 11 – The 411
Today is the eleventh day of stims, sixth day on Follistim and fourth day on Menopur. In the morning, I inject Neupogen, Ganirelix, and Lovenox. I take various supplements and...
View ArticleIVF # 5 – Stim Day 13 – The 411
Today is exactly one year from the day I did my first IVF transfer, which resulted in the conception of my daughter. It is such a hard time. I remember how full of hope I was and how sure I was I...
View ArticleIVF # 5 – Stim Day 14 – The 411
Today is stim day 14… I am starting to wonder if we are ever going to get to the end of stims ! I do not feel the “full” feeling I get when my ovaries are about to burst with follicles. I can not...
View ArticleIVF # 5 Stim Day 15 – The 411
Today is my 15th day of stims ! One more week to go before retrieval !! Woot Woot ! I got up this morning and did my morning injections of Ganirelix, Lovenox, and Neupogen, popped the Prednisone...
View ArticleIVF # 5 – Stim Day 16 – The 411
Today is stim day 16 ! Wow !!! 16 whole days of injecting medications into my belly AFTER popping birth control pills for 21 days plus injecting Lupron for 7 days. This has been the longest cycle…...
View ArticleIVF # 5 – Stim Day 17 – The 411
Today is stim day 17 of my fifth stim cycle !! WOW !! That is a long time… 28 days of being on some type of hormone, developing and cultivating follicle and eggs and still three more days of...
View ArticleIVF #5 – Stim Day 18 – The 411
Today is the 18th day of stims. I went in this morning for monitoring and blood work. I have 11 follicles on the right and two on the left according to the technician who did today’s scan. I have...
View ArticleIVF #5 – Stim Day 19 – The 411
19 days and counting…. Just two more days of stims and then hopefully Thursday night is trigger #1 and Friday is trigger #2 and then I can get these little eggs out of me before my babies come out...
View ArticleIVF #5 – Stim Day 20 – The Last Night of Stims – The 411
Today is officially my LAST NIGHT of Stimming !! I have been patiently injecting myself am and pm for the past 20 days ! Tomorrow morning, I do my injection of Ganirelix, Neupogen, and Lovenox and...
View ArticleIVF #5 – Trigger Day 1 – The 411
Tonight at 9:30 pm was trigger night ! #wootwoot I did my Novarel 10,000 hcg shot IM !! Today was such a long day for me. I got up at 2:30 am and took a shower, did my Ganirelix, Neupogen and...
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