I went to the doctor Friday and was happy to find out that the cyst on my right ovary was gone! God i good! Everything else looked perfect and my blood work levels were perfect so I go the go ahead from my doctor to go ahead and officially begin the IVF process. Yay! The first step is I have to give myself an injection every night for the next 10 days or so. The medicines in the injection are supposed to help my eggs grow and mature and help me retain most of them. Naturally women produce lots of eggs each month, but just through natural causes our bodies usually only has one that has grown and matured and is released during ovulation. The medicine should trick my body into keeping that amount of eggs I have now. As of Friday I had a total of 21 egg sacks that had potential of growing. My doctor did say that they usually are not able to get 100% of the eggs to mature enough by egg retrieval day, but is still hopeful we have plenty when we need to retrieve them. I am very proud of myself because I have been giving myself my injections. I was worried this would be an issue for me because I am a huge wimp. But I have surprised myself doing them myself. I go back to the doctor on Tuesday March 12th in which will begin my monitoring appointments. I will go every other day for them to do an ultrasound and check to see how my eggs are progressing. Once my eggs are ready, I will give myself a trigger shot that will make my body ovulate, releasing my eggs. I will go in the next day or two and they will put me to sleep and retrieve my eggs. This party I am nervous about and I'm thankful for being put to sleep for the procedure. I can not put into words how excited I am to finally begin the process. I wish my honey was here to go through this with me, but I I know he is here for me even on the other side of the world. Thank you everyone for your prayers, support, and kind words. If not for you, I would be a total mess through this whole process. I will keep you updated as we continue to progress....so stay tuned!
Until next time....
-BLT
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