Everything is fine with Jesse. He has bloodwork on Tuesday but we have no reason to expect anything out of the norm. This time, I'm the wreck.
Everything was progressing beautifully, if not just a little slower than most women. But no big deal in that event... just add more meds and stim for an extra day. What happened though, I never expected and the nurse said she'd never seen anything like it.
I went in for a routine check up to see how things were going, and to have my medication infusion. Scan looked perfect, everything was textbook. Set up my IV, got myself comfortable. They monitored me pretty closely with blood pressure, pulse, etc. I think I was hooked up about as much as Jesse when he was in intensive care. I guess you could say I was pretty relaxed... blood pressure at one point was 95 over 59 and pulse was consistently low 60's.
At least, that is, until the very end, when I saw my labs. My pulse shot up into the 90's.
I neurotically checked my labs because it was a fun kind of game to watch my levels rising with my progression. Now, estrogen is a direct correlation to how many eggs I'm growing. Friday, it was the highest it's ever been and looked perfect for where I was. Yesterday, it had dropped by 1000 units. No clear reason. I heard the nurse on the phone with one of the doctors asking if my Zumba the night before could have caused damage to the follicles (impossible) or if the fluid in my ovary could be something of concern (nope), did I ovulate early (negative), what could it possibly be? He doesn't really know, just that it means the cycle is no longer optimal. What are our options? Cancel the cycle and try again (which we don't have the money to just throw away what we've done and start over), or up my meds, check in on Monday, and see if we can save it.
I'll take door #2, but not before texting Dr K and freaking out.
It's a rare doctor indeed who will encourage the use of their personal cell number at any time. He always encourages his patients to text him. What I was not expecting was a call back about a half hour later, from poolside in Florida. He kept saying "this is bizarre" as he was looking at my chart. He observed that I'm responding slowly to the meds but that isn't a big deal. He even has no idea what could have happened, and has never seen a drop that extreme that fast without an ovulation. I asked him if this could possibly be a lab error and he said, yes, absolutely. He told me to try not to worry, and that we WILL save this cycle. He said to do as the other doctor advised and increase my meds. They will recheck me tomorrow the morning, then he asked that I text and let him know what they say.
If I hadn't already been impressed with our doctor! Jesse is insisting we name our child after him.
So, first thing tomorrow I go to have the follicles checked and my blood drawn, again. I don't even know what to expect if it wasn't a lab mistake. If things go well, I'll still be having retrieval next week. If not, I don't know.
Please just say a prayer I won't have to find out.
Everything was progressing beautifully, if not just a little slower than most women. But no big deal in that event... just add more meds and stim for an extra day. What happened though, I never expected and the nurse said she'd never seen anything like it.
I went in for a routine check up to see how things were going, and to have my medication infusion. Scan looked perfect, everything was textbook. Set up my IV, got myself comfortable. They monitored me pretty closely with blood pressure, pulse, etc. I think I was hooked up about as much as Jesse when he was in intensive care. I guess you could say I was pretty relaxed... blood pressure at one point was 95 over 59 and pulse was consistently low 60's.
At least, that is, until the very end, when I saw my labs. My pulse shot up into the 90's.
I neurotically checked my labs because it was a fun kind of game to watch my levels rising with my progression. Now, estrogen is a direct correlation to how many eggs I'm growing. Friday, it was the highest it's ever been and looked perfect for where I was. Yesterday, it had dropped by 1000 units. No clear reason. I heard the nurse on the phone with one of the doctors asking if my Zumba the night before could have caused damage to the follicles (impossible) or if the fluid in my ovary could be something of concern (nope), did I ovulate early (negative), what could it possibly be? He doesn't really know, just that it means the cycle is no longer optimal. What are our options? Cancel the cycle and try again (which we don't have the money to just throw away what we've done and start over), or up my meds, check in on Monday, and see if we can save it.
I'll take door #2, but not before texting Dr K and freaking out.
It's a rare doctor indeed who will encourage the use of their personal cell number at any time. He always encourages his patients to text him. What I was not expecting was a call back about a half hour later, from poolside in Florida. He kept saying "this is bizarre" as he was looking at my chart. He observed that I'm responding slowly to the meds but that isn't a big deal. He even has no idea what could have happened, and has never seen a drop that extreme that fast without an ovulation. I asked him if this could possibly be a lab error and he said, yes, absolutely. He told me to try not to worry, and that we WILL save this cycle. He said to do as the other doctor advised and increase my meds. They will recheck me tomorrow the morning, then he asked that I text and let him know what they say.
If I hadn't already been impressed with our doctor! Jesse is insisting we name our child after him.
So, first thing tomorrow I go to have the follicles checked and my blood drawn, again. I don't even know what to expect if it wasn't a lab mistake. If things go well, I'll still be having retrieval next week. If not, I don't know.
Please just say a prayer I won't have to find out.
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