Big day today! I went for my first appointment to kick off IVF cycle #1. I worked last night until 11pm and had to be up at 5am to be at the doctor's office by 7am. The fertility doc is an hour from where we live and I am so exhausted from working so many hours - but I supposed this is the first day of the rest of my life so I should be excited. I'll get there ...eventually...
They took a couple of vials of blood (after the 7 they already took last Friday for our IVF orientation) and gave me the first set of instructions. LMP was 4/2 and I'm on BCP again for the next 21 days. Then, it's the beginning of the injectables (Lupron) on 4/22. Drugs are officially ordered and will be shipped to our house soon....the nurse told me not to be overwhelmed but I can't imagine what I'm about to go through...the thought of injecting makes my skin crawl. Especially the intramuscular injections...hubby is going to have to take care of those for me :-)
Injectables teaching is scheduled for 4/21 and next monitoring appointment is 4/29....I just can't believe how real this is. There was a woman in the doctor's office getting her blood work before me, and I could hear her talking to the nurse about when she could start her next cycle. I surmised from the conversation that she had just had a failed cycle and was asking when she could try again. I really hope that is not the convo I'm having 8 weeks from now...
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