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That Sucked! June 7, 2005

My husband came up with a plan that solved the drug dilemma. He really couldn’t take off a couple of hours from work, and I really didn’t want to head into my appointment sans drugs. We ended up figuring it out so that neither would have to happen.

I went to my appointment an hour early. As soon as I parked the car, I popped a Vicodin and then sat and read until it was time for me to go in. Afterwards, I walked over to the mall which is conveniently located across the street from my RE’s office, had lunch, and spent a couple of hours shopping while the Vicodin wore off. Drugs for me, plus no endangerment of my fellow citizens on the roadways. Win-win.

It’s a damn good thing I was able to take some real drugs. Oh, my goodness, the pain. My RE did the hysteroscopy first, and it was a bitch. I was just cursing up a storm in there, because it was so bad. My RE actually had to stop and wait several times during the procedure because I was hurting so badly. Towards the end of the procedure my RE asked if I wanted to see the screen or if I wanted him to just take the scope out. That was so not a tough choice. GET-IT-OUT. It’s not like I expected my bitch of a cervix to actually cooperate, but it still wasn’t fun.

The good news is that everything looked good. Apparently I have a nice looking ute, no fibroids, polyps, etc. I honestly didn’t expect him to find anything, but it’s nice to know that everything’s how it should be.

Next my RE did a mock transfer. After experiencing the hell that was the hysteroscopy, that seemed like a piece of cake. It took a little while for him to get the catheter up through the curve in my cervix, but it did make it up there.

Then I had an ultrasound. The dildocam was nothing after all of that other stuff. My RE showed me my lovely curved cervix. He was like, “Yes, that is a 90 degree turn.” I told him that he couldn’t say that I hadn’t warned him. My ovaries were then given a once over, and I had 16 antral follicles, 9 on the right and 7 on the left. Pretty darn good for me, so I was happy with that.

I finally got to put my pants back on and went to discuss the plan with my RE. I have to stay on BCPs a week longer than I thought I would due to lab closure. I’ll be on BCPs through 6/29, start Lupron 6/27, have my baseline on 7/6, and start stims on 7/8. He wants to keep me on the long Lupron protocol, because I have a tendency to have a really high E2 come trigger day. I’ll be having my ET done under anesthesia again, too.

So, I survived and actually have a plan now. Thank god it’s over.

• Posted in : IVF Part 5: IVF #3
• Author : amanda

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