Day 13 Post Transfer - thoughts before D Day

Tomorrow morning is my Beta (blood pregnancy test for those of you who don't know the fertility lingo).  Unfortunately, I could not wait long after my last post to take a HPT.  I took one on Thursday night, another one Saturday morning, and my final one this morning.  All three were negative.  The first two, I admit, might have been too early.  But the one I took this morning puts me 13 days post transfer and 18 days post retrieval.

The reason why I think today's HPT should have told me exactly what the result of tomorrow's beta will be is that (1) the trigger shot is definitely out of my system, and (2) this would be the time that other people would be doing an HPT -- that is, those who don't have fertility problems.  My beta is scheduled 19 days post retrieval -- which, with IVF, I knew to be 19 days post-conception since an IVF conception date is the day of retrieval. The day of retrieval is the same day that the lab puts eggs and sperm together. With a completely natural cycle -- assuming a perfect cycle -- ovulation would occur around day 14 and conception shortly thereafter -- so you could HPT about 2 weeks after that. I figured this would give me a pretty accurate read on the HPT in that my odds of a false positive or false negative would pretty much be the same as anyone else not undergoing fertility treatments. I would rather think that I wasn't pregnant and be surprised with a positive beta than not be prepared for potential bad news tomorrow.  With my first two pregnancies, I got a positive result the day of my missed period, so for me, I usually don't have to wait 4 days to get a positive HPT. Also, I know that if it wasn't for the holiday today, they would have been doing my beta this morning instead of tomorrow morning.  And if my HPT was negative this morning, my blood test probably would be, too.


So that is where I stand right now.  I am expecting a negative result tomorrow morning and I have had a few days to digest that fact.   As for what we do from here- M & I will have to regroup- both financially and emotionally.  I think we have pretty much agreed that we can't spend another $20k in 2011; we will have to wait until 2012 when our prescription drug cap resets and we have more money saved up.  I wonder what it's like for those who have IVF covered via insurance? Hopefully one day those who have to deal with this horrible situation will not have to think about the financial cost and all of these treatments will be covered as they should be.

I just can't believe this has happened to us, but we will keep fighting.

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