I went into my RE for an ultrasound on CD11 and after five days of of Femara 5mg and four days of Follistim (75iu,75iu, 100iu, 150iu) here are the results: my left ovary (which is super woman and has ovulated the last four cycles) had very small, non-mature follies. My right ovary (ol' lazy may) has one beautiful 17mm and several follies that are not mature (13mm, 14mm) but may have a chance to catch up and release.
Now my RE was a little disappointed because he wanted me to have two mature follies perhaps three but I am thrilled for my one good follie. Every once in a while he and I disagree with the best course of action but I truly love my RE. He is kind and yet so knowledgable so I trust him with him my treatment. Ultimately though I have to live with all the decisions made and so at times I will change the protocol and do something different. I also love the office staff. The receptionist is amazing and the nurses are always available and ready with an answer. If I were pressed to complain, I would have to say that I am not happy with how much information they give me. I love facts and I don't like making decisions unless I do have all the facts so when they tell me "you have a mature follie on your right ovary" I want to know how big and how big will it be after the trigger shot. I want numbers and details and they tend to give me qualitative answers instead of quantitative. But I do just fine because I push for the answers I need.
Though I am happy for my "good" response, I did tweak the doses some to see if I could possibly get one of those smaller follies to mature and release. I was told to do 75iu on CD 7,8,9 coast ( not do any meds) on CD10 and then ultrasound on CD11. Well my meds didn't come until CD8 so I ended up doing a different protocol.
WARNING I am not recommending that anyone change protocol/meds or go against their doctors orders. This was a choice that I made for myself after lots of consideration and thought.
I took 75iu on CD 8 and 9 and then on CD10 I went rogue and gave myself 100iu because I thought it may boost my follies. I was also supposed to coast on CD 11 but yet again was bad and just injected the remaining amount in my cartridge which was about 150iu. I'm really hoping that those higher doses helped to boost my uterine lining because at my ultrasound it was only 6mm and that is not great. My RE likes to see it at a 9mm around IUI time and so with an extra dose I think I boosted that lining a little bit more.
So after my ultrasound on Thursday, I was instructed to do my "trigger shot" of HCG on Friday which was last night. This shot really freaked me out because it was one that I actually had to mix up. So I was given a bottle of HCG powder and a bottle of bacteriostatic water. I was given instructions on how to mix the two and then administer it. Hopefully I didn't screw it up too badly. Dang did it hurt though and today the injection site is super sore. So this shot will finish the maturation process of the follie(s) and produce ovulation anywhere from 12 to 48 hours.
So once I ovulate than I have two weeks of waiting. An awful waiting period all to see if I'm pregnant. Ugh, here we go !!
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