@Sweetness, I hope you feel better soon hun!!!
You should get some gatorade and pedialyte to keep yourself hydrated. The pedialyte can be mixed with most drinks. You should also be eating alot of protein from what the other girls have been saying.
AFM, Well I survived my injections. I played you tube videos with instructions on how to do the injections before so I could make sure I was doing the menopur correctly with the water solution and the mixing and all of that jazz. My sister watched the gonal F video with me because of how the injection is different. You have to like push it and it snaps like several times and than hold it for like 5 to 10 seconds to make sure all of the fluid is out once it is into the skin.
So I thought the Gonal F would be the worst because of having to hold it in there for a longer amount of time but it wasn't to bad. I didn't feel much, just a small prick, But my sister didn't think she got it all in the first time because the crank thing had a 75 on it, so she had to repoke me again with the gonal f to make sure that all of the medicine got in okay. But all of it did go in the first time, and the default setting apparently always shows the 75 on it still I guess
, so lucky me I got an extra poke. I had blood ooze out of the injection site so I had to use my alcohol wipes and gauze pads to stop the bleeding.
The menopur was worse because it burned a little when it went in and there was alot of fluid that has to go in. Blood oozed out of that too after the injection.
I could feel a pretty nice prick with it as well when it went in. Mixing it is pretty easy though.
The lupron is even easier since I have stepped down from 10 to 5 units of it. So that is still the easiest shot.
I had a bunch of red spots on my belly after. Apparently you can also do the injections in your upper thighs but my sister seems to think the belly will be less painful, so I think we will stick with my belly for now. The icing is necessary because without it, i think the injections would be even more painful and I still had alot of redness even with the icing, so i think it helps cut down on it some. The icing numbs the area I think so it doesn't pinch as much with the injections.
Well I survived and I am not feeling any side effects yet, I am just super sleepy but that could be from the lupron because it has always made me sleepy. I also have some cramping in like my ovary area.