Iron Infusion #4

Fourth iron infusion today. Nothing remarkable happened...just a bit of burning in my right hand where the iron was being dripped into. I'm not feeling hugely energetic or anything. I wonder how long it will be until I can feel some of the side effects of the iron infusion?

I'm still bleeding quite a bit from the BCPs - that hasn't let up and it seems to be getting heavier. I had a call with the RN from my new clinic yesterday to go over my cycle. She said for me to call her when my period starts once I stop taking BCPs on the 27th. I said, "I've been bleeding non stop for 5 weeks. How on earth am I going to know when my period arrives?!" She just didn't get it. So here's the schedule so far:

• 11-26 take last bcp
  
• 11-30 baseline u/s and bloodwork. start meds if all systems go. sperm is supposed to arrive today but I am going to defer delivery until 12-1 just in case the cycle is cancelled.
  
• 12-3 intralipid infusion
  
• 12-9 or 12-10 probable trigger
  
• 12-11 or 12/12 probably retrieval (add in sclerotherapy if I plan on freezing it all
  
• 5 day transfer OR freeze it all

I just wrote to Dr. Italian to find out why they are delaying my baseline til CD4. I think that it's an excessively large amount of time to wait and want to make sure that they realize how they're scheduling things. I don't have huge amounts of confidence in the RN I chatted with...another cycle of managing the managers I guess?