Growing follicles...Most of mine are over 1 cm now!Today was another followup visit to Nashville. Our drive up was uneventful and we arrived about 20 minutes early. We were taken back a pinch early, but to different areas. Adam had to cryopreserve his sperm today ($300 extra dollars), so he went into the "man room," while I headed to the lab. I had my Estradiol level drawn then headed to the ultrasound room. My ultrasound showed significant growth in my 20 or so follicles today, which is good! I kind of knew that though because I can FEEL my ovaries (inside...not from my belly)! As best I can measure, they've grown from a normal size approximating a kumquat/olive to a kiwi/tangerine in 48 hours. Looks like I'll have grapefruits by next Friday!
This afternoon, we received our telephone call with future instructions. Turns out, my estrogen went from 469 to 906 in 48 hours. While we want it to rise, doubling is a bit excessive! They dropped my Repronex again to 225 units tonight and guess what??? I get to drive to Nashville AGAIN tomorrow...sigh. Basically, I'm driving up to a specialty lab to have another level drawn. Then sometime after 5, I have to call Dr. Vasquez for instructions on how to adjust my medications.
I'm WAYYYYY overachieving at this point, which is good (that my ovaries work) and bad (that they work way tooo good). Hopefully the labs will be ok tomorrow. As expected, I go back on Monday for another ultrasound and blood draw. Thankfully, I have good veins! Can't do anything the easy way....it's in the Dampier genes!
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So what does this mean? That your eggs might be "ready" a few days early? Can they just take them a few days early if that happens? I'm alittle confused about what this means, could this set you back another month or have to start over, or is this common to have to do this kind of adjusting? Basically I just want my neice and nephew to get here ASAP
Leslee
We don't know. Maybe early, but if too early would be useless as eggs would not be mature enough to fertilize. We'll see what tomorrow holds and go from there...
Interesting and trying to follow...I guess there is a chance of twins or so..or not? That would be cool...Excuse my lack of knowledge.
53% chance of twins in our case. Won't know those details for quite some time though...
I had a lot to catch up with, Cinda! So far, so good-though you have got to be drained in every way-I'd want to move to Nashville as well! Wow! I will say special prayers for tomorrow- can't believe how much I've missed! You are one busy lady/couple!
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