I had my suppression check today and everything looks GREAT!!! That means that I get to start my stims tomorrow night!! WooHoo!! I can't even explain how exciting it is to finally be getting started!!
So, what we were looking for today were calm and quiet ovaries, a thin uterine lining and a sufficiently low estrogen blood level, and I met all those qualifications, thank goodness! When your ovaries are dormant like that, you have what are called antral follicles which are basically tiny little follicles that are all waiting to grow. In an unmedicated cycle, only one of those will actually grow large enough to ovulate but on a medicated and especially an IVF cycle, you want to try to encourage all of those antral follies to grow large enough to contain a mature egg. Well, we could see about 15 antral follies which is fantastic!! There are usually some that are hiding so I could certainly wind up with more than 15 eggs.
I also got my dosages today - I'm to continue with the same dosage of Lupron each night and take 200iu of Follistim and one vial (75iu) of Menopur, so that means 3 shots per night, awesome! It seems kind of high (for my IUI cycles I was on 100iu of Follistim) and that does make me a bit nervous but I have to remember that I'm much more suppressed than I ever was on the IUI cycles and I'm still taking a lot of Lupron which will help to keep things in check. I go for my first checkup on Tuesday morning - wish me luck!!
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