Update from Friday's appt (March 21)

A nurse called me back with the results of my bloodwork. They said that my cyst is "non-functioning", which didn't mean much to me, but I researched and that means that it is not producing estrogen, which is a good thing. That means it will not stop egg production.
But they still pushed me out a week, they're having me do Lupron one more week before starting the Follistim. I start Follistim and Menopur tomorrow (Wednesday) and then go back for a check up on Friday morning.

Totally bummed

I had my screen scan appointment today, expecting to start stims tonight.

But I had a feeling that I'd have another cyst. And I did. The right ovary looked fine (as usual) the uterus looked fine, but the left had a 26mm cyst on it, that is apparently larger than they will give the okay with.

So Julie the nurse was sending the info to the main office in Grand Rapids and now I'm waiting for a call back telling me what to do next. She said they might have me stay on Lupron for a week longer before starting stims.

I know in the grand scheme of things, a week isn't a long time, but I was really hoping for this to just be 'normal' for once.

More shots on my own

Chris was still gone last night, so I gave myself another Lupron shot. I'm getting to be a pro at this now! :)
He'll be back tonight, I'm glad.

AF is here, the show's on the road!

AF showed up late last night, so I was able to call today and get an appointment for my first ultrasound. It will be on Friday morning at 9:30 AM in the Kalamazoo office.

I also had to give myself the Lupron shot last night...right after class got out in the car. Went fine. I'll have to give myself another one tonight and then Chris will be back tomorrow.

If everything follows my sample schedule, I should have ER on April 3rd with ET on April 5th.

I gave myself a Lupron injection! :-)

Chris will be out of town this week for a couple of days, so I knew that I was going to have to give myself the injections. I've been freaking out about that ever since he told me.

So Saturday night I decided that I'd better try and do a practice one before he's gone. I had barely started thinking about it before I'd done it! It went really easy, I think it was almost easier than when he does it. So I did another one on my own. Easy peasy.

Lupron injections

My first night of Lupron injects was Saturday, March 8th.
The first night went okay...no freaking out by me, no crying, etc.
The injection site itched for a couple of hours.
The second night, it itched, plus it swelled up a bit.
Last night was night 3....not so much itching.

But today I have a killer headache :( I hope that goes away soon.

More pics of the meds

Just to be dramatic