Baseline ultrasound
Had my baseline appointment today. My lining was 9mm and my right ovary had 14 follicles and left had 8. I feel like my right always has more but 8 is still a good number for the left. So we start injections on Tuesday. The nurse today went over all the injections and actually had the gonal pen and the menopur vials and such so she actually showed me how to draw them up and inject so that was cool. Nice to see it in real life and not just on videos.
After joining the shady grove Facebook group and seeing everyone’s posts it’s kind of brought me down to reality a bit. I’m still really excited to be doing ivf and hopeful about it but I think at first I just thought it was the immediate answer to our problems. I’m realizing now there’s so many speed bumps we could hit. What if I don’t respond well to the drugs and we don’t get that many follicles? What if we end up with no good embryos after pgt? What if my lining doesn’t thicken enough for transfer? What if the transfer fails? There’s all these checkpoints you have to pass to make it to the next step. I just hope it all goes well.
I also start my job on the 15th so I hope I don’t feel super terrible from all these shots while trying to start a brand new job.