Wait and see

On Friday I did my first ever Orgalutran (ganirelix) shot. It gave me a bit of anxiety and I hesitated for a while. My Gonal F comes in a little pen type syringe, it doesn't look anything a traditional syringe. But the Orgalutran was in a single use glass syringe with a longer thicker needle.

It didn't hurt but it did feel different, the needle itself wasn't as sharp as the Gonal F ones and it took a lot more force to push it into my stomach. And I must've hit a blood vessel because I have a shocking bruise from it too.

I also had my first monitoring blood test on Friday, and of course, it was nasty nurse who was taking blood that day. She's the one who kept saying "when this IUI fails" at our last IUI and also is the same one who gave me the progesterone that was out of date. Ugh.

She was pretty nice to me on Friday morning, she was really positive and upbeat. But then she rang with the results of my monitoring bloods. My estrogen levels were only at 323, within the normal range for day 5 stims, but on the low end of normal. Sigh. This is how the IUIs went and this is how we started the "will it be cancelled or will it go ahead" game.

She did tell me that this could be a longer cycle or it may even wind up being cancelled but she wasn't curt or cold in the way she said it. Then she went on to say that she expects my numbers to have jumped up over the weekend and be in the mid range by Monday. A much more positive attitude! She also said that if my numbers have risen nicely then egg pick up could be sooner than Friday. 

I'm booked in for a monitoring scan and blood work Monday morning, so tomorrow we'll get up early and head down to the clinic. Because the scan is so early my husband can come in with me before work. I'm starting to feel a few side effects (hello headache from the Gonal F and today I've been battling with nausea which has to be from the Orgalutran) and I don't really feel up to facing peak hour traffic feeling under the weather.

I'm half prepared for this cycle to be cancelled if my estrogen levels have stalled or dropped. But I'm really staying positive that the news is good news! And that my doctor sees the perfect number of good sized follicles and that my blood work is right on target.