IVF#2 Stimming Day 5 – BAM!!

Today I have felt the worst yet. The body aches, nausea, dizziness and headaches have all settled in. They seem to be lingering and get worse ever so slightly throughout the day. I am very, very much aware of my ovaries. I think I said it before, but I don’t remember being this aware of them this early on last time. Hopefully that means more are growing! 
I slept well last night and had very vivid dreams. Even though I slept well, I am still so tired. I literally could sleep forever. I have been complaining the past few days that I haven’t felt very bad and that I was worried the meds were not working. When am I going to learn? When am I going to see that there is not point in worrying about every tiny thing? I need to trust the doctors and trust this process. Just as I was really working myself up…BAM!! I now have the nausea, dizziness, headaches, bloating, fatigue, aches all over, abdominal discomfort, etc. here we go! This is what I have been waiting for!! Now that I feel this way I am not so sure why I was wishing to feel this way so bad!!

  
Over the last few hours, I have began to shake. I cannot keep my hands from shaking. It’s more annoying and distracting than anything. Also, I know many women get constipated on stims…I, however, get the opposite. Let’s just say I have not been far from the bathroom all day!! 

Even with all these symptoms making me feel sick and blah, I have been excited and upbeat. We go in tomorrow morning for our first monitoring appointment for blood work and ultrasound. I am excited to see how many eggs we have growing!! After the monitoring appointment, I was able to get an appointment scheduled with my acupuncturist because the nausea is overwhelming. I sincerely hope he can help me get that symptom under control. Tomorrow is also when we get to add Menopur and most likely Cetrotide. Yay! We go from one shot to three shots!!! I’m going to get stuck with a lot of needles tomorrow between blood work, acupuncture and the fertility meds…not looking forward to that…

  
I will say that I do feel very accomplished with the fact that I have not cried at all during injection time. I have only felt the needle once. We really do have this down to a science and I am so thankful we found a painless way to administer them!! The needles still make me nervous but not feeling it and therefore not knowing when it is actually happening, makes this so.much.less.stressful!!

Since tonight was stim night number 5 that means we are most likely half way there!! I stimmed for 9 days last time so we might already be past the halfway mark!! Hopefully this time next week we will have done egg retrieval and know how many eggs we got!! Fingers crossed for tomorrow’s appointment!

IVF#1 Stimming Day 5 – You Spin Me Right Round, Baby

So far today the side effects haven’t been so bad. Still bloated. Always. I think I’m getting used to it now so it doesn’t seem as bad. I am still tired as well. My sickness from last week is finally almost gone. Just the occasional cough which is super fun because it puts pressure on my ovaries when I do so. I had a mild headache but nothing unmanageable (says the girl with chronic migraines). There has been some breast tenderness. The nausea and dizziness are pretty much my biggest complaints.

I ended up coming home from the office around noon and working from home the rest of the day. I have been getting really dizzy around 1-2pm and remaining that way for most of the afternoon/evening so I didn’t want to get caught in a situation where I wouldn’t be able to drive home. When I talked to the nurse she advised me not to drive any longer because of my dizziness so I will be talking to my team about working from home the rest of the week.

We just did the Gonal F 150iu and Cetrotide. I used a heating pad on the right side to get ready for the Gonal F. I have found heat works best for that injection. It went much more smoothly than last night. I hardly felt it and it was done. The Cetrotide was a different story. I had a bit of an issue mixing the meds and getting everything drawn up into the syringe. Then there was an air bubble in it that we couldn’t get out. We accidently squirted some meds out twice so I hope we didn’t lose too much! Finally we gave up with the air bubble. Google told us this was a common problem and since it’s not going in a vein it’s not a huge deal.

I iced my left side for the Cetrotide because I read that was the best to do for least amount of pain. The needle is a lot bigger so I freaked out. Chris injected it and it wasn’t too bad. I didn’t feel it that much when we stabbed me. I felt some stinging with the medicine going in. It definitely hurt when he removed the needle. Then I started crying. Why? I don’t know. I thought Chris was mad at me. He wasn’t.

It has been about 30 mins since the injection. I am nauseous and dizzy as usual. The injection site for the Cetrotide is itchy. I did get a hot flash. I am more afraid that if I get up I won’t be able to walk from the dizziness and will just fall over. My legs feel like jelly and I am laying down. We will see. I will let you all know what happens when I finally decide to get up. Heck, I might get Chris to video it for y’all because I’m sure it will be hilarious!

IVF#1 Stimming Day 4 – Ouch!!!

Here is a brief update on today. It started out better than I have been. I had more energy, wasn’t as tired, wasn’t as sore and bloated. Or so I thought. This afternoon I started getting more headaches and dizziness. Oh the dizziness! I have had it on and off for days but I didn’t think that much of it because I get light headed sometimes just being me. I always have. Today was something entirely different. I had dizziness on and off for most of the day. At one point Cheis had to help me out of the bathroom and to the recliner because I felt like I was in one of those spinning tunnels in a Fun House. In addition to the dizziness, the nausea has become more persistent and relentless. I also cried because I was afraid Chris was mad at me for not wearing pants…yeah…that happened…

So that brings us to tonight’s injection. I don’t really know what happened that was different. Maybe it’s because we had to use two vials of medicine in order to get the right dosage and that dulled the needle but that injection HURT! It really hurt going in and stung for about an hour afterwards. The area is incredibly sore. I started crying after the injection and Chris helped massage it in. I asked him if he still enjoyed stabbing me with needles, he said he doesn’t like it anymore.

I am now laying down to try and get some sleep. Hoping for some good news at our monitoring check in the morning! Keep fingers crossed we got lots of follicles growing!!