After one failed IVF, one cancelled and countless IUIs, you learn not to hope too much. Yet … my results seem better at every step so far for #IVF3. Monday, my baseline ultrasound and blood work were all in the normal range. Normal! I’ve been diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve, so just being dubbed “normal” was exciting. My protocol is the same as before — 450 Follistim/150 Menopur — so I tried to keep my hope in check and not expect too much. I’m bloated and, for the first time, I have killer headaches. Yesterday, my head hurt so badly it I even vomited. But otherwise, things seem normal and I just wanted to know how things were progressing in my uncooperative uterus.
I’ve had a lot of ultrasound techs, but I love the veteran who did my scan today. She turned the screen in my direction and talked me through each and every beautiful follicle. I don’t know why more ultrasound techs/clinics don’t do this — it relieves so much stress to get the info immediately rather than waiting hours for a call. But I digress.
First the right ovary lit up with black circles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and a few more stragglers who has some growing to do. Then we turned to the left ovary and, ta-da!, two more lovely follicles with three smalls, too! I cried, I literally cried. In all of my cycles, the most I’ve had was 4 follicles, the least was just a loner. I’ve never had any “extra” to freeze. I was so distracted by this awesome news that I left the clinic without going to the lab for blood work. I was all the way to the office by the time I realized my blunder and turned around. It gave a few people at the clinic a good giggle.
So now I’m back to hoping, even smiling about what the next few weeks will bring. It’s going to be a long stretch of waiting and wondering. Could this be the month E gets a baby brother or sister?
Mama IVF 