Stims at Last - Day 1

Well, after three postponements....we've finally been given the green light to start stims today. I had Dr. Russian again, instead of Dr. Pompy...not sure why we were given him twice in a row, especially as Dr. Pompy was there today. But there you have it.

Dr. Russian did an abdominal u/s rather than the usual wand (don't ask)...and so he wasn't able to "see" my ovaries as normal. He spent quite a bit of time pressing and looking and finally said, "I can't see your ovaries, and I can't see any cysts." He said they're run my estrogen to make sure it was still low, and if so, that I'd start stims this morning.

Bloodwork showed estrogen had dipped from 16 or 17 two weeks ago to 14 today...so nothing should be going on down there.

But actually things have been going on down there. Last Friday I started spotting and by Monday it was looking like AF had come. But how could that be? I'm on full strength lupron. Today the spotting had dwindled to a mere smear, at least I could be happy for that. But that was short lived as it just returned to Monday's levels. Dr. Russian said it should disappear altogether by day 3 of stims.

I'm quite pessimistic going into this cycle. What with two IVF losses and one FET loss all with a span of 14 months, who wouldn't be? What's more? J was totally freaked out over having to write a check for his share of the IVF w/ICSI fee. He argued, "I didn't know we had agreed to do ICSI!" even though the doctor said we should basically keep most things the same as we know they've worked for us in the past. When we get to the actual ICSI bridge I think we'll have to revisit. We each wrote our check for $5100 US. Ouch. That hurt. Oh yeah. I need to get to the bank today and deposit the moolah before they realize that there's nothing there.

And with check in hand I depart...