Graduating Class

I went in for monitoring yesterday (Sunday) morning. Turns out that the other 2 girls I've been seeing regularly this week are on this cycle with me. We were all on Stim Day 10 yesterday. I got to chat with one of them while we waited for our u/s and it was kinda fun to sit there and compare notes.

But there was a down side, this other girl is about 2 days behind me in growth and on about double the meds dosages. It really drove home to me how different each persons cycle is. She and her hubs are driving 2 hours each way to come to my clinic. And we had to be there at 8:30 and earlier in the week, 7:30. I am so glad I don't have to get up at 5am to go to these things.

And I think it made her anxious that they had told me not to order more meds, but had gotten her to order hers Friday. I hated that for her and repeated what they had told me Friday - slow and steady is best.

It's been an oddly comforting thing to see these 2 women each morning. Even though we usually just acknowledge each other with a quick smile and nod of the head. I was hoping to see at least one of them this morning, but I know that at this point our paths will diverge and we'll each really be getting individualized monitoring schedules.

When it was my turn in the u/s room, my growth was good, but the sonographer told me that she was predicting a Wednesday/Thursday ER, that it wasn't going to be Tuesday. Which is fine. I have 20 follies and my E2 was 1,053.

I was directed to stay at 150iu Follistim last night and 1 Menopur and 1 Ganirelix this morning. Too bad I don't have any more M or G... but they gave me one dose of each this morning there in the office.

It was weird though, I was measuring in the 12-14 range Friday, then yesterday in the 16-18 range, but then today most were measuring 14-16. I asked my nurse when she was giving me the meds and she said that since I'd had 2 different people doing those measurement that they were going to be slightly different. And that today they would mainly be looking at my b/w for answers.

Kind of made my confidence waiver. I mean, I know we're only talking mm here, but I can't see how accurate this all is with the numbers jumping around like that. I still think we're probably on for tomorrow being my last possible day of stims. I'm thinking it might be today, but who knows. My nurse did mention that there is a slight possibility that even though I've been taking the Ganirelix, I could have already O'd. And that, that would not be good!

Slow and Steady Wins the Race - *Updated*

Or so my nurse tells me.

My lining looks great, all those 8-9mm follies are now 11-12mm follies and we're letting the one biggie go.

My nurse said that she would much rather see me stimming nice and slow and having good growth (which is what she said she saw), then to have stimmed super fast. I specifically asked about my risk of being canceled and she said she thought that it was highly improbable I would be canceled and reiterated that stimming slow is not a bad thing and that I have some great looking follies. And also, I'll probably be back to see her on Monday.

That's all great, but I only have enough meds to stim through Sunday. I have enough Follistim to last through Sunday even if they bump it again (who knows if they will, but I have plenty). But if they double my Menopur, then I could be in trouble. Let's hope the pharmacy will overnight it this afternoon for delivery on Saturday. But there's nothing I can do until the nurse calls. Don't want to be ordering stims that I don't need! I've looked at my receipts, and I figure we're looking at at least another $1000 in meds. Yippee. Thank goodness I've still been working non-stop!

::UPDATE::

The nurse just called and said that they are leaving my meds as-is and that everything is looking great! My E2 was over 650 (in the 6's still) which from all my Googling is just about right on for Stim Day 8. I go in Sunday for yet another u/s & b/w.

I told her that I had plenty of meds to get me through Sunday, but nothing for Monday and she told me that that was ok, *if* I needed more Monday, then she would give me just what I needed, but she specifically told me not to order anything!! I think that means we're getting close!

So stinkin' excited about a good report. I know yesterday's wasn't "bad" per say, but I'm such a little overachiever that I couldn't stand that I was below average!