Aching OvariesDay Before Retrieval

I triggered last night at 10:30PM, on the nose. Dr. Indian's office prefers a trigger to the hip (my least favorite shot to do to myself) which didn't make me at all happy.

This morning my ovaries are hurting like m*ther f*ckers. OMG. I have six on the left and none on the right, but the right side is hurting more than the left. WTF? All I know is that I cannot wait for them to take these things out of me. I also don't know how I am going to walk the half mile to the train to get to the clinic in the AM with this much discomfort. It's like the sensation of ice picks in my sides, on both sides, that never goes away.

Pain aside, I feel like there's some catching up to do since I've been away. I've been on a really low carb diet this cycle. Two reasons: I gained a shitload of weight since October and, secondly, I read that spikes in insulin can screw up egg quality. I figured that doing the low carb thing would help me lose weight and might actually help with egg quality. Not that my egg quality has been sucky (as far as we know), but I haven't had really fragmented looking embryos so I haven't had reason to be largely concerned. Yes, my eggs are probably screwed to high hell due to my age, but it's not keeping them from doing all the right things.

Mostly I've cut out sugar, flours, and high glycemic fruits and veggies. It doesn't leave much. Seriously. I've been eating meat/chicken (my flock back in California would shudder) and dairy (I'm allergic but I don't seem to be having any physical reactions). There was a diet study out of Harvard that I cited in a previous blogpost that mentioned how full fat dairy seemed to be very positively correlated to fertility success. So, full fat yogurt is has been for the last month or so.

I've really stirred up my usual dietary routine this cycle. No telling if it will do anything, but I've got six on the left side, so I am hoping it's portentous of good things to come.