CD19: Test Results Back

Test results are in! My NK's are lower than they've ever been (8.7), my cytokines are low, too, and my LADs came back PERFECT:

T Cells at 99.7
B Cells at 99.3

As DB's nurse said, "They can't get any better than this!" So we've got the green light to proceed with next month's FET!

We are so excited as we were fearful we might have to make a third trip to Nogales for LIT treatment. We did have one thing that did come back bad: my endometrial biopsy. They found 9 cells of NKUs in my "screen" and anything at or above 4 is considered "abnormal". My friend LL, also a DB patient, had 20, or was it 30, in her endo biopsy and she was on humira for 3 months before she was given the green light to proceed. I've been on Humira for 1 month, and will have been on it for 2 months when we do our FET. So hopefully I'll have enough of it in my system when the FET occurs. If I get a BFP I'll be on it for another month or two and I'll also make another trip to Nogales at this point for a booster shot.

But it does look, so far, like I'll be able to get by with out the $2015-per-dose IVIg infusion. Of course, Dr. S might change his mind and tell me to do one anyways, but we probably won't know for sure until we're closer to that date. But gosh it's coming up FAST. Today's CD19 and AF is due in a little more than a week. Once AF comes, I'll be starting on my dexamethasone (CD6), continuing on with prenatals, folguard, lovenox, lexapro, and synthroid. I have a little sushi dish next to the refrigerator where I put the day's supplements, vitamins, and medication. It's quite a fright to see so many pills in there each and every day. But it's all for the good of the embies.

Now I just stress that we get at least one good embie when they've thawed. After all the immune work we just did, I think that if this doesn't work the only thing we can do is to go RIGHT into a IVF cycle after this. The LIT will only work for 6 to 12 months, and the effects of the humira only last 2 weeks. I hate to waste all this good work we've done, and being that I turn 42 this year, I really feel that I have to press on and try again. Sigh.