1DP3DT, 6DPTrigger

As per my late Reproductive Immunologist's advice, I'm already peeing on sticks. The idea behind this is to get a baseline, watch my HCG trigger disappear and try to catch the earliest signs of implantation so I can get my silly arse into the clinic for IVIg (IV infusion of IgG). Why do I need IVIg? My immune system is way too active. It sees an embryo as an invader. My body produces too many CD56 and CD57 cells, natural killer cells. NK cells produce TNF-a, tumor necrosis factor alpha, which do just as their name suggests: they kill cells. They don't know when to stop killing. Somehow pumping expensive IgG into my body helps to keep them at bay. The half live of IVIg is 21 or 22 days, so if I get pregnant, I'll be in for repeated testing and monitoring until I hit something called "stability".

My OB/GYN's MA gave me a POAS test to take home one day and I got the wild idea that buying in bulk probably made sense. Hell yes. I think I got a box of 25 or 30 tests, from the very same company, for about $30. They're more sensitive than the CBE tests and by far cheaper. If my doctor trusts them, I do too. Simple enough.

Yesterday's POAS showed that I've still got HCG in my body as we would expect being that trigger was on Sunday night. Today's showed a bit fainter line and so it's on the downward trend as we'd expect.

The embryologist said the embryos should hit the blast stage either tomorrow (Sunday) or Monday. So implantation could happen shortly after. No way in hell this event will elude me, not with my industrial sized box of POAS.