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Saturday, April 03, 2010

Rude Awakening

I went to bed with a terrible stomach ache. It's been a stomach ache that has been building for a week or so. I'm not sure what it was but last night it was pretty bad.

And then AF woke me up in the middle of the night. Usually I get a pretty good warning but not this time.

Thank god she's here. I wanted this fucking failed cycle to be OVER.

So now the question is whether I get my FSH tested to see if it's still elevated from the 2 back to back cycles...or if I just take an ENTIRE month off from "collecting data" and get ready for IVF#8 in 4 week's time.

I sorta want to know if the elevated FSH is persisting, but then I sorta don't want to know.

The scientist in me usually persists. So on Monday I'll probably zip over to Dr. Italian's at lunch to get a blood draw. (I'd go there because if I go to the other clinic they do their draws between 7 and 8AM and that's just too bloody early, pun intended, to get on a train on a Monday morning).

I do fully intend on leaving Dr. Italian's clinic though. I did like having him as a "fall back" clinic in the case that the other clinic cancels me for a cyst, but as we've proved, draining a cyst doesn't always work, neither does sclerotherapy for endometriomas. I feel that I would be more successful staying at the old clinic.

So, a potential blood test on Monday...then a month long wait in which I hope to get some of this steroid weight off.

Speaking of which, I can't tell you how affected I was by steroids these last two cycles. OMFG. Lupron is bad, but these little bad boys are a very close second.

I am thankful to be off of them. I finally feel a lot more like myself. I came "this close" to making some rather rash decisions while on 'roids these last two months. I am glad that it's over. For now.

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Comments on "Rude Awakening"

 

Blogger Julize said ... (2:06 PM) : 

I totally know what you mean about the steroids. That stuff is evil. For as long as I can remember, I've had a reasonably flat stomach and big 'ole child-bearing hips (what a joke) but during the months I was on Dex the trend totally reversed itself. I ended up having to buy all new pants because I put on so much belly weight. And of course, very little of it actually came off after I stopped the steroids. Can't wait to go through that again.

It sounds like we might end up cycling at the same time this go round. I'm starting the estrogen patch on day 16 of my current cycle (about 10 days away) and moving straight to stims on day 2 of the next.

By the way, I recently started a blog of my own, if you want to stop by at some point. I have a feeling our histories are pretty similar, minus the IVF attempts. The link is in my profile.

Take care,
Julie

 

Anonymous Jericho said ... (4:49 PM) : 

Sorry about your rude awakening. :( Glad its over for now.

 

Blogger Julize said ... (7:52 PM) : 

Hope you're doing OK, Linda, and having a nice break.

Missing your advice and expertise!

 

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