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Molly's MicroSort Journey

October 2003 - Posts

  • Early Testing

    I've been been on the boards much due to the fact that I keep getting BFN (as early as this morning). I am supposed to test tomorrow but I already know it will be BFN too, I don't even have the faintest line. It's so dissapointing to see that, even though I knew the chances were not great. I've only got my husband talked into one more try. So we will go on with the next cycle full force. I think I will try to stay off the boards and not test untill I'm supposed to (for the next cycle). Can you tell I'm PMSing or what. I hate that PMS is so simular to PG symtoms. It makes you nuts. Anyway, I will probally check in now and then but not as much. I just want to try to relax more with this next cycle.
  • The 2ww

    Long, Long, Long. Tomorrow, I will have one week left, I am supposed to test Halloween day. I'm just glad that I go to work 3 days a week to keep my mind off of it. It's sooo hard! How did you deal? I did some research on the dosage of my HCG shot and the one I took can stay in my system for the whole two weeks. When did you test? I do have the early detection tests that you can use 4 days early but that could pick up my trigger shot anyway. What I really need is a home blood lab! lol. Nancy never mentioned getting an early beta or anything so I just sit here and wait. Did you feel any symptoms in your 2ww? Every once in a while I will fill twinges places but then I think it's just my mind playing tricks with me. (I guess it could also be the HCG shot?)
  • Cost of monitoring

    I'm still figuring out the monitoring billing (i havent recieved a bill yet). For the airfare we were let about two days before the sort when we had to be there. We actually had to be there the next day because the sort was at 7:30 in the morning. I purchased southwest airline rapid rewards off ebay. You can use these to go anywhere southwest flies and at anytime. They ccost $300. per person for roundtrip. It would have been over $800 total if we purchased them directly from the airline. We will be going that route again if needed. I will let you know about the monitoring.
  • 1st Microsort IUI, 5dpo

    Thanks everyone for your well wishes! Man this two week wait thing is a killer, at least I work 3 days a week to take my mind off of it slightly. I want to test now! I wish I had my own ultrasound machine or blood lab so I could see if anything was happening. Any little twinge or slight cramp I feel I'm allways questioning. Of course I went and researched the earliest possible time you can test with an HCG shot here is what I found: Wait 14 days after a 10,000 IU injection, 10 days after a 5,000 IU
    injection, or 7 days after a 2,500 IU injection.
    Of course mine was the 10,000 injection so no hopes of getting a sneak peak because it might be a false positive.
  • I'm back!

    Here I am starting just starting my 2 week wait.
    We flew into Burbank on Thursday night arrived around 9pm. My BIL picked us up and took us to my DH's parents condo in S.Pasadena. It was funny he was asking us what we were going to do for our anniversary. That was our cover we told him we would be spending the day at Laguna Beach...not far from the truth. Anyways, we settled into the condo and tried to get some sleep. I set the alarm clock for 5:30 am (it's a 1.5 hours from Pasadena to Laguna Hills) and tried to sleep. Let's just say it was one of those nights where you have your eyes closed but you can't sleep. I finally started to dream towards 4.30 am and had a horrible dream something went wrong with MS. Anyways I woke up to my husband saying it's 7 am! "SHUT UP!" I yelled. We were supposed to be there at 7:30 for DH to leave his sample for the sort. I was almost crying as we were flinging our clothes on as fast as we could. I kept thinking that it was ruined because I didn't know if we skrewed everything up being late for the sort. I called and left a message that we would be late. We finally arrived and DH left his sample and our 2300.00 payment. We left to hang out around Laguna and went to breakfast and to the mall where I made my DH get a pedicure with me. We then went to Laguna Beach, it was so beautiful, sunny and warm. We had lunch and looked at all the cool shops there on the main strip.
    Durring lunch I could feel some serious cramping, very painful. We went to our 3pm appointment and finally met Nancy. We were told that my big follie had burst and that is good, so it was on it's way down the tubes. Our Sort was 263,000 I was also told that was good. She said she has seen a pregnancy with as low as 39,000. I laid back, very much like a Gyno exam with speculum, she then inserted the syringe into the cervix and we watched on the monitor as the little sperms got pushed in. Nancy put a pillow under me and told me to wait. So I sat there with my bum elevated on this pillow for an hour! They had forgotten about us! DH finally went and asked if we could go. Hey I thought the extra 30 minutes couldnt hurt. We then went and paid our 200.00 for the IUI and left. I was dissapointed that Nancy didn't stay and chat with us a bit more and Dr.Potter wasnt even there (he was at a conference). I was told to not BD for two days and take a anitboitic for 3. That was it.

    We went back to Pasadena and went out to a nice dinner. The next morning we went out to brunch with DH's family and then off to the airport back to Portland.

    I definately am not going to get my hopes up, we will just wait and see.
    Our 2 weeks end Halloween day!
    I forgot to mention...my lining was an 11.

  • Off to CA....MicroSort here I come!

    Here we go with one follie in tow. I took my trigger shot last night, we are flying down to CA from Portland at 5pm. Tomorrow will be the sort and then back home Saturday afternoon. Wish me luck! I will update when I return.
  • HELP - ONLY ONE Folly

    I'm back at from my next monitoring and I don't know what to do. The repronex appeared to have no effect on me. Yes I had alot of follicles but I had 11-12 on each side before I even started the drug. So now I have only one folly ready to go, Nancy said you normally would have 3-4 on repronex. Then again I was only taking 1 amp istead of two the norm. They did want to be conservitive because of my age. But this is as if I took nothing and did a natural cycle. So I really don't know if I should go through with this or not. I need my girl friends to guide me because I havent got a clue. I'm already dissapointed and I havent even gotten a BFN yet.
    Help.
  • DH makes the call, we're going for it

    My husband has made the call (I couldn't do it!)and we are going to go for it. His sperm count #s were off the chart, my lining is good at a high 8 they think it will go to 10 by the time we do it, my estrogen levels are very good meaning there is a good egg in there. So here we go...I made my husband promise that we could go again if this fails. I think I would probally be this nervous next month even if we had more mature follies available.
    Hoping for the best...
  • Shots...

     I forgot to add about how the shots are going. The first one was really the hardest...just trying to make contact with my skin and that needle (the needles are tiny BTW). When it had made that contact I was amazed that I really felt nothing after that intial poke (and the poke is nothing). One tip I would give to people first trying is when you are grabbing an inch to give yourself the injection (your stomach area) remember to let go of your skin before you pull the injection out. If you leave it pinched as you pull it out some of the medication will seep out. Little FYI, sorry gross I know.
    I have read that the trigger shot hurts the most so I will be looking forward to that! But as far as the Repronex it's been pretty easy.
  • MicroSort monitoring update

    I just had a monitoring today CD7? Anyways, I am told all looks good. Follicles are growing, I heard sizes 7, 8, 9 and how many I think I was told around eleven on each side.
    My lining is currently at 8 and is supposed to thicken more untill "O". I will have my next and final? monitoring on Monday morning to make sure when to take my trigger shot. Nancy my nurse thinks it will be tues night, we will see... could go early. If we do the shot on Tuesday night we will fly to CA on Weds, do the sort Thursday, and come home Friday. Wow this is going to happen really soon! I will update when I know a more settled date for the sort and trigger. Thanks for thinking of me.
  • More Monitoring....

    Well I just had my monitoring and it didn't look good. I had one huge folly size 15 and the rest had stayed at 7, 8, 9 (by the way I have tons of them). So new plan of attack starting tonight. They bumped me up to 2 repronex a night for today thru Weds, another ultrasound on Weds to see if that helped. We are now looking at trigger on Thursday and MicroSort on Saturday. I had taken this week off thinking we were going to CA on Weds! How naive!
    Wish me luck for my next monitoring.
  • Monitoring & Lying...

     I just wanted to add that I called up a random RE (as I don't have one myself) and asked them do the outside monitoring. I told them I was having an IUI procedure in CA. I didn't tell them anything else. MicroSort will send the orders and there really isn't any acknowledgement between the two about MicroSort as it is sent from Huntington Reproductive center. I wouldn't worry about it, as I say that I had a dream last night that the RE found out I was doing MicroSort and threw me out LOL! Anyway I am going in for my first monitoring tomorrow morning CD3. I was told they wanted me to go in to get my follicle and endo. lining sizes and estro. & projestro labs before I start the shots. I am supposed to then start the shots that day.
    It's funny we have our inlaws in town and my SIL asked if I was going to go do MS. I told her we are always thinking about it, just forgot to mention to her that we will be there in a couple weeks! My Inlaws live in Pasadena so I don't know if we will visit them or not, if we do we are planning on saying we are just there for some R&R, it's also around the time as our wedding aniversary. I think weve got our bases covered.
  • Here is what I will be taking this cycle

     baby asprin
    prenatal vitamins
    green tea supplements
    I'll eat some pineapple too
    as for the real drugs (with prices)
    one repronex untill trigger shot (starting on day 3, cost: $332.10 for 9)
    one chronic gonad (trigger shot with a funny name, cost: $29.90 for one)
    progesteron suppositories (taken after IUI for 14 days, cost: $24.00 for 14)
    I also paid for syringes/needles $5.50
    Holding a baby girl in my arms at the end....priceless!
  • AF is HERE!!!!!!

    Here we go!!! Finally, of couse it had to be my longest cycle ever to start. It might have been ment to be, because my shots arived 3 days late themselves! Weird. I will keep you updated, supposed to have my first monitoring in 3 days and start the injections that day.
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