I'm not a very good blogger

I already missed yesterday...and it was only my second day with my blog.

In my defense I was thinking about what I should be writing while I was on the treadmill at the gym. If only I could hook something up to my brain to transfer it in here, this blog would be rockin'.

I had a dr appt yesterday. It was day 5 of my cycle and we went in for an u/s to see if we could start the injectables. We couldn't do them last month because my ovaries were huge, and had these cysts. Which aren't a bad thing, health wise. You just can't do the injectables until they are gone and your ovaries are back to normal size.

For those of you not familiar with injectable fertility drugs, here is a little overview. There are several different drugs. Follistim and Menopur are the ones I am familiar with. You take them for anywhere from about 5 to 15 days of your cycle. They help to grow follicles in your ovaries. How they are different from the pills like Clomid and femara, I'm not exactly sure. But I think of it as "steppin it up a notch." You have to have bloodwork and u/s s done while you are taking them to monitor the number of follicles growing, the size of the follicles, and your estrogen level. There's a risk of hyper stimulation, too many follicles in your ovaries, that's what all the monitoring is for. *****Disclaimer****I sort of get all this stuff. Do not take my explanations anywhere. I may be calling something the wrong name or who knows what else!

Anyway, we went yesterday and my ovaries looked good. I attribute that to the little talk I had with them on the drive over. Oh, also, my dr put me on pill this month. Yes the BIRTH CONTROL PILL. Taking the pill while ttc is just hysterical...isn't it. Anyway, it supposedly helps reduce some hormone from being released and that helps to make the cysts go away. So my ovaries looked good and we're OK'd to start Menopur this month. I have been freaking out about this cycle with the holiday. We're going to PA to see my family and I was worried that, that was going to screw things up. Turns out we're going to be ok. Bloodwork Thurs, dr will call Sat to let me know if we need to adjust the dose. U/s next Mon.

We go with the nurse who is going to show us how to do the Menopur. She's explaining the needle and the amps, and the q-caps. And then she explains how to inject it. The cap on the syringe is about as long as my pinkie. She said I could inject it into my thigh or stomach. I asked if I had to stick just the tip in. She said no the WHOLE NEEDLE. I got a little dizzy and grabbed my chest. "Oh my god." She whipped the cap off, and showed me that the needle was only about an inch and a half. Trying to catch my breathe...I was very relieved. I can handle that. The process of mixing the menopur is a bit like doing a chemistry experiment. You have to take 1cc of the saline, put it into the amp with the menopur, draw that out, put it into the next amp, and draw that out. Since I am only on 2 amps right now that's where I end. Holy crap though. She told us that people who are doing IVF have to take like 8. At least I'll be prepared if we get to that point.

So around 9 pm I started my experiment. It actually went pretty well. I was expecting it to be much worse. I had heard it burned a lot and made a big bump on your leg. I didn't think it was bad at all. So I'm off to do it again right now. Hopefully it goes as well as last night.