Follie scan #2

Yesterdays scan and blood work was good. Follicle count is still around 12, Dr S said that there may be one or two hiding he can't see on the scan. And there's a few odd shaped follicles that he said he wasn't counting as they more than likely wouldn't contain eggs.

Size wise, they're all averaging around 15.5mm, with the lead follicle at 17mm. Growing slowly but steadily and pretty much spot on with the 2mm of growth a day. A bit smaller than they were expecting for day 10 of stims but they've been growing steadily and my estradiol levels have been rising steadily so both my doctor and nurse are happy with how its all going. They started at 323 last Friday, were at 625 on Monday and yesterday they'd reached 1197.

I do have to go back again tomorrow (Friday) for blood work again, just to make sure everything is still rising the way it should, they don't want to see my numbers sky rockettoo high or plateau. But I won't need a scan, so no waiting around to see Dr S. Tomorrows monitoring appointment should be nice and quick, just in for a blood test and back home again.

I haven't worked this week, I did miss a call from the teaching agency the day. But it was a day I had to have a scan and I wouldn't have gotten to the school on time. And I probably won't feel up to working until the end of next week. Anesthetic always makes me feel so worn out and shaky for days afterwards.

My original date for egg pick up was to be tomorrow but the way things are going it'll more than likely be Monday. If it is Monday, then tomorrow afternoon when my nurse calls she'll have all the details for checking into the day surgery unit. She'll also tell me the time to do my trigger shot as it'll be done 37 hours before my egg collection. And I'll have to fast for 6 hours.

I think fasting is the worst part of it. I get cranky if I'm hungry and when I'm dehydrated I feel even worse. We've had really hot and humid weather here all week so I've been drinking tonnes of water, it's been around 31ºC the last few days so I'm crossing my fingers that the night before my egg pick up won't be too hot and there's not too much trouble having the IV started the next day.

The shots haven't been too bad, and so far every blood draw has been ok. Gonal F doesn't bother me at all, but can't wait to do the last orgalutran. The last two days the nasuea from it hasn't been too bad. But the first few days were shocking. Just a few days of stims left to go!