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Thursday, September 28, 2006

CD28: 9DP3.5DT
FRED-less Today

After yesterday's dismal beta I couldn't get myself to POAS today. 2.48 means that nothing is going to show up today: why bother wasting a perfectly good FRED?

So instead of moping about at home, focusing on every cramp that came my way, I made my way to the Palace of the Purple People Eaters and lunched with ModernMillie. It was great to get out and I haven't left the house much since transfer. But more than that, it was nice to be with someone that understands exactly where I am at in my life, and in my head. The time flew by way too fast and before I knew it she was leaving back to her cubeland.

I'll beta again tomorrow at the local hospital, same place that my local lab sends their "stat" bloodwork to, so that my results will be consistent. Millie said 60 hours in between is the ideal time to do a second beta, which puts my time at 8:30PM. Perfect: the lab will be like a morgue. No one in their right mind is there getting a test that late. Save for me. :-)

But I know....I know how unlikely it is that my beta has budged a bit. It's more likely to have gone down from 2.48. That is what happened in IVF cycle #1. I think the first beta was 2.0 and the second was 0.9. A slow slide into nothingness for my embies.

As I surfed for tests that we could have run to try to diagnose what the hell is going on (beta-3-integrin, EFT, CA-125, et al) it dawned on me that what we really should be considering is finding a surrogate. I make loads of follicles, beautiful embryos, but I just can't grow them beyond the petrie dish. It would free up our lives from this never-ending hell called infertility if we could pass the birth baton to someone more qualified than I. Someone who doesn't have a busted uterus, like I.

Until then, I guess J will get his SCSA test done and there's not much I can do with regards to the endo biopsy to test for beta-3-integrin until I'm at CD20-24 in my next cycle. AF hasn't arrived yet, so we're 3 weeks away at minimum of being able to run the test. There's a company called Adeza that seems to have the corner on this test...and lucky for me, they're located right here in the Sillycon Valley. I can drive my test right over if need be.

Last night there was a chat on INCIID about implantation failure that was hosted by Dr. Michael Feinman. I told him our story and he suggested that we do an SCSA test and an EFT test (requires a biopsy). So I may also get a second biopsy done, at the same time as the beta-3-integrin test (OUCH!), to send to Dr. Harvey Kliman at Yale as this EFT (endometrial function test) can also yield some interesting data on why we are not getting implantation.

So tomorrow I'll test progesterone, HCG, and maybe CA-125.

Any other boxes I should check since I've recently added self-diagnosing to my habit of self-medicating?

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