What is the sound of 7 follicles exploding?
As I write this, it has been roughly 40 hours after my hCG trigger shot on Saturday evening and I feel like my ovaries have been kicked. Hard.
It's one thing for the good doctor to go in and clean out the follicles with a needle, under anesthesia, but to actually ovulate all 7 of them? Egad.
In a normal month my mittleschmertz pain is enough to feel like someone is sticking an icepick in my side. Make that times 7 this month.
Dr. Pompy's office is supposed to call today to talk to us about our next cycle. AF is two weeks away and at the CD3 point we'll do another baseline U/S to count antrals (and also look to ensure that there aren't any cysts AGAIN). I hope that I am right, and Dr. Pompy is wrong, in that my numbers fell from 12 to 7 this cycle due to overmedication with lupron. I mean, I DID have 12 follicles at some point. This losing-of-follicles business is unprecedented. Never happened before in my body as far as records show.
So why now? Why should my body just start doing random shit?
If my body wants to slip into perimenopause, why doesn't it just start off with 7 follicles. Why start off with 12 and then let 5 wither? It doesn't make biological sense to me. Maybe there's an explanation but I just don't know what it is.
I'm baffled.
It's one thing for the good doctor to go in and clean out the follicles with a needle, under anesthesia, but to actually ovulate all 7 of them? Egad.
In a normal month my mittleschmertz pain is enough to feel like someone is sticking an icepick in my side. Make that times 7 this month.
Dr. Pompy's office is supposed to call today to talk to us about our next cycle. AF is two weeks away and at the CD3 point we'll do another baseline U/S to count antrals (and also look to ensure that there aren't any cysts AGAIN). I hope that I am right, and Dr. Pompy is wrong, in that my numbers fell from 12 to 7 this cycle due to overmedication with lupron. I mean, I DID have 12 follicles at some point. This losing-of-follicles business is unprecedented. Never happened before in my body as far as records show.
So why now? Why should my body just start doing random shit?
If my body wants to slip into perimenopause, why doesn't it just start off with 7 follicles. Why start off with 12 and then let 5 wither? It doesn't make biological sense to me. Maybe there's an explanation but I just don't know what it is.
I'm baffled.
Labels: The Hell that IVF Is
posted by linda at 12:12 PM
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Mary Ellen and Steve said ... (7:50 PM) :
post a commentI'm so sorry your in pain! Hopefully next cycle will be better, and they will figure out where your 5 eggs follies went!
I don't know what to say linda, I'll just hope the next cycle is better.
By the way, susan at holding pattern did a back-to-back cycle at one point, she was a low responder, though. It didn't work for her - she didnt' get any additional follicles the second time, but thought you might want to check in with her anyway.
Oh, i'm so sorry about this! I had 2 11th hour cancellations, and they're really tough. The last one included a nice fat case of ovarian hyperstimulation.
Hope you feel better soon.
I know this is late, but I am so sorry for your cancellation. Sending you a hug.