Not a Happy Camper September 19, 2004
I was supposed to get my day 3 report today, and my IVF coordinator assured me that a message would be left for me on the message system by 5:00. It’s now 6:00 and no message. I’ve been anxiously awaiting that news all day, but it looks like I’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning to find out how our embryos are faring.
I guess I should be assured by the fact that no one actually called here. I’m assuming that if all of our embryos but a few had died out by now, then my transfer would have been today. It just makes me mad that they told me to expect a report, but no one bothered to give me one. It’s very disappointing.
The past few days have been rough. At every step of this IVF, I’ve thought, “Well, I’m sure it won’t get worse than this” or “I’m sure that I won’t feel any worse than I do now,” and every time I’ve been wrong. I’ve just been so bloated and sore from my retrieval. Add the fun of the PIO injections, and I’m pathetic. Today seems to be a little better, though, so at least that’s good.
Another thing that I’ll get to start complaining about soon is my knees. Yes, I know, I’m a champion complainer. Anyway, I have a condition called chondromalacia patella in both of my knees. In a nutshell, it’s when the cartilage behind the kneecaps degenerates. In my case, this is compliments of my 18 years of dancing (ballet). I was diagnosed in college after the pain got so bad that I couldn’t walk across campus without ending up in tears. It’s an extremely painful condition. The only things that have helped me are quitting ballet, taking glucosamine chondroitin, and keeping my leg muscles strong so that it doesn’t worsen. Unfortunately glucosamine chondroitin has not been tested to see whether it’s safe for use during pregnancy. I talked to my RE about it, and she recommended that I stop taking it before transfer if I was worried about its effects. I’m not about to risk taking it, so I took my last pill on Friday night. Any day now I should start having a lot of pain in my knees. It’s not going to be pretty, but if by some chance this IVF actually works I would not feel comfortable having it in my system. I told my husband this morning that we should order me up a wheelchair. Of course I was joking, but not by much.
Hopefully I’ll be in a much better mood tomorrow morning. I really, really hope our embryos are toughing it out.
- Posted in : IVF Part 1: IVF #1, various other ramblings
- Author : amanda
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I’m sure they’ll be all right – you had a great retrieval and awesome fertilization rates.
Hang in there! Fingers crossed over here…
Menita
(lifesjestbook)
Menita is exactly right. With that many eggs and sooooo many of them fertilizing, you don’t have a thing in the world to worry about. If you were at my clinic, you would’ve needed at least four 8 cells by today in order to go ahead with the day 5 transfer, so I’m guessing you’re well over that threshold, or they would’ve called you.
Hang in there — I know how easy that is to say and how hard it is to do!
It sucks that they didn’t call; the stretch between retrieval and transfer is so difficult!!
But I have to agree with the other commenters: if, God forbid, the news had become less good, they’d definitely have told you.
You got awesome fertilization results, and I hope everything with your cycle keeps humming along equally well. (And that your knees don’t hurt too much—o
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I keep refreshing to see if you’ve heard anything new.
I also remember you writing that your clinic doesn’t usually update so I’m not so worried but it would be nice to know!
My thoughts continue to be with you. Good luck tomorrow.
HHIS I souhld have thought of that!