Wednesday, September 16, 2009

How am I doing? I just started my 4th and last IVF. That's how I am doing!!

I got a call from my nurse at the Fertility Specialist's office that I go to and she asked me how I was.  "Doing great!  I just started my 4th and last IVF. "  I always said I'd never do Fertility drugs but I have done 2 IUI's with mulitple injections in my stomach and one in my buttock area.  Those (obviously) failed and now I have done 3 IVF's with exhorbatent amounts of needle sticks.  Not to mention countless needle sticks from accupunture.  One treatment of accupunture required 69 needles going up and down my back.  I called it "Chinese Torture".  Today I only had to do 10 units of Lupron.  Lupron suppresses my hormones at the pituitary level.  I injected it into my upper thigh which doesn't hurt that much.  I have to save my stomach area for later pricks.  I also have to take Dexamethasone which is a steriod.  It decreases inflammation and reduces the inflammatory response of my body to foreign bodies (ie. the embryo) before the embryo transfer.  Which is interesting that I am doing this (as I have done this with all my transfers) bc they say that my body is rejecting the embryo bc it is a foreign object (as well as I having a clotting problem with the embryo not implanting bc of this).  I will have to email the nurse again to clarify why dexamethasone is not enough for my body as I also need an IV transfer of Intra Lipids.  Anyhow, also taking a baby aspirin, birth control pills and various vitamins.  Just want all this to be over!!! 
Kids have been a lot of fun.  Jackson is in preK in the afternoon so this morning I took him to 2 different parks that we had never been to before.  Loved watching him run ahead of me or watching him do anything.  Logan wanted to come with me to pick up Jackson after Logan got home from school bc a little boy in Jack's class has a sister that Logan has a crush on.  Then we all went to Wyatt's bday party at Jumpzone, dropped Logan off at Baseball practice on the way home, Jackson played with the neighbors and his toads and then got the kids off to bed. 
My one goal this IVF is to get upstairs every night at ten so I must sign off and try and meet this goal. At least for tonight!

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