IVF#4 - FSH Day 9 Monitoring

Wowser, my follies really took off today, it's looking good! The nurse said they would really be on the fence about whether to trigger me tonight or tomorrow. Looking at my follies, I was in agreement about being on the fence.

B/W was not too fun. The blood was just dripping into the vial instead of flowing. I was worried my E2 was causing dehydration. It took awhile to get the vial full, I had to keep pumping my fist. Another nurse saw this and asked me to come into her room. She examined my arm and said that I was not dehyrated and that the other nurse missed my vein. You can clearly see my vein and the puncture spot is right beside it. I'm not having much luck with b/w these days. Anyway, the nurse gave me a heat pack to use for tomorrow to get my vein nice and ready.

After I returned to the hotel and really scrutinized my last 4 IVFs, comparing numbers, sizes, trigger timing, maturity, every detail... I changed my mind. I really felt that it would be best if I was stimmed for 1 more day. I feel that my maturity rate would be low if they triggered me tonight.

Last cycle, they tried to trigger me too early because they took me completely off Gonal and it stalled me. My biggest follie was 17mm and I knew it was too early. It was a stressful nightmare on Thanksgiving to get them to push me another day. But they did and it was definitely the right decision as I had 13 mature out of 23, it would have been much lower if I hadn't pushed for another night of stims.

So I decided that I wasn't going to wait for that stressful call tonight possibly telling me to trigger. I called my nurse and discussed my concerns of needing to stim another day and also to please not coast me tonight as it stalled me last time. She totally agreed that it's too early and that they don't need to coast me. She put this all in my notes for the doctor to read.

Just got my call and I'm so excited! Everything is going as hoped for. I'm not triggering tonight! They are lowering my Gonal from 150 to 75 and my Menopur in the morning from 2 to 1.

Here's today's results:

Lining: 10mm
Right ovary (mm): 9.4, 14.8, 17.2, 17.3, 17.8, 18.4, 23.3
Left ovary (mm): 12.1, 13, 15.4, 15.6, 15.6, 15.7, 16.9, 17, 17, 20.5
E2: 3226 (very happy with this, lowest it's ever been on this day!)
LH: 0.4
P4: 0.9

IVF#3 results as a comparison:

Lining: 11mm
Right ovary (mm): 12.3, 15.1, 16.3, 16.5, 16.7
Left ovary (mm): 12.7, 13.0, 13.5, 13.8, 14.1, 15.2, 16.2, 17.4, 17.7
E2: 3800
LH: 1.5
P4: 0.4

To answer a few of your comments:

Ashley, we are doing ICSI, I'm not sure what MICSI is.

KayJay, we are doing a lupron and novarel trigger to boost maturity. Schoolie put me on antagon so he had the option of triggering me with lupron and then he's adding in 1/4 of novarel as a boost.

Day 10 monitoring tomorrow. Until then, thanks for all your support!

PS... Kerry wanted to say thanks for all the stud comments!