Adding Urofollitropin to the Mix

So today was my first urofollitropin/FSH shot. I didn't do too well at this one. My water vials were actually glass ampules and my instructions were in French. So Nurse S's injection 1 on 1 training didn't prepare me for that. I tried cracking off the first one and I literally shattered the top. I went back to my instructions, tried to interpret as much as I could in French. It was no use. I wound up calling a friend who speaks pretty good French (he's Canadian). Also, his wife did IVF so he's up on technique. He tried to open an ampule and sliced his right thumb open. Blood everywhere. I felt so bad. Guilty even. But as it turns out, my interpretation of the instructions was as good as his, so we were no better for him showing up. Third time we were able to get the ampule to crack correctly. My god. What an ordeal. But then Nurse S didn't tell me about inverting the mixed solution to draw it up...or about the little area for pulling the needle head into in order to get the last drop.

We lost some of my injection to the kitchen floor and ceiling because, despite injecting some air into the vial, we still wound up with a vacuum. It was a bit of a mess. I can only hope that this won't matter "too much" considering that we only lost part of the first vial, and the other two were fine. I honestly think it's less stress to take 3 FSH shots and forget the whole process of trying to fit three vials into one shot. I had to follow up with an insulin needle...sucking out as much of each of the 3 vials as possible to get every last drop (especially since we lost some to the kitchen!) Egad.

I put in a call to Dr. Z's office about my snafu with the needles at 9:30AM today and didn't hear back from Nurse A til about 3:30 or 4:00. Sure took them a while. So Dr. Z said that since I lost 1/3 of one vial (of three vials total) that at my evening dosage he wanted me to do FIVE (!) vials. So I did. But I told Nurse A that it sounded excessive considering I had only lost a tiny amount. But she said that the first days are really important for "recruitment of follicles" - I didn't know this....interesting. One would assume that the "antral follicle count" is the definitive assessment of how many eggs you have. So does this mean that it's not really that true? Maybe my glitch will mean I'll get a few more eggs in the end? ;-)

One can only hope.