Hi ladies!
The last several days have been crazy busy, so I've been reading but haven't had a chance to post in a while....
Nikki, I am SOOOOO happy for you!!!!!!
Thank you so much for letting us know. I was just thinking about you and a couple of the other thread founders the other day and wondering how you were getting on. Were you doing any treatments, or is this all your own work? I can't remember.... Please don't be a stranger - keep us posted! And if you feel up to it, don't forget there is a graduates thread: https://www.babyandbump.com/pregnancy-groups/495635-35-ttc-1st-graduates-come-over.html
Heavenly, I'm glad AF finally showed... well, not glad for the obvious reasons, but glad because I know it was making you crazy!
Welcome to Dashka - I'm glad you found us!
Asry, welcome back from your vacation - sounds like you had a fabulous time! (Here's where I need a tropical drink smiley again!)
I so love grapefruit... I used to have half a grapefruit for breakfast every few days (sprinkled with a packet of splenda, because it's too sour without it) but now I'm not supposed to have it anymore - it interacts with my anti-anxiety drug! :sad: Good news is that it actually increases the body's absorption of the drug, so if I'm having a particularly anxious day, I can eat some grapefruit (or drink some juice, but I go for the fruit instead) and it literally helps calm me down now!
So I still have grapefruit every now and then, but just as a special treat now instead of a regular thing.
LadyH, about when to start OPKs - it really depends on if your cycles are regular or not. My cycles are almost always 28 days (sometimes 27 or 29, but that's close enough to be called regular) so I always know roughly what week I should be ovulating (since, in most women, AF starts roughly 14 days after your LH surge)... so when I was using OPKs I would just count backward from when AF was due and start using the OPKs a few days before the expected surge, around CD9 or 10. Generally, just follow the instructions on the box. Different brands are meant to be used at different times of the day, so just make sure you're doing what YOUR box says to do.
Butterfly, how did the call with your dr go? When does he want to see you?
AFM, things are going fine so far.
Not too uncomfortable yet, though I can definitely feel lots of activity going on in my pelvis. Today is day 5 of stims, and I had my first follie check yesterday - I have one at 15, two at 10, two at 7, 3 at 6 and two at 5 - my nurse said I'm exactly where I need to be at this point.
That made me feel good, but then when she called later in the day with my instructions for last night's stims, my doubt crept in because the dr increased my stims from 225iu twice/day to 300 twice/day, so of course my brain started crazy talking to me that the dr thinks my ovaries aren't responding well enough and sh*t like that. I tried to counter those thoughts by telling myself no, nurse said I'm exactly where I need to be, and maybe this means he sees he can push me a little harder. Idk.
That follie at 15 is a little worrisome just because there's a big gap in size between it and the 10s - dr had said in the past that my ovaries like to form lead follies early - but I know the ganirelix will prevent me from ovulating, so I'm guessing they're going to let that one get overripe and aim for the others instead. Still looking at trigger on Tuesday and retrieval on Thursday, but as you all know that could change in an instant.
I also started acupuncture yesterday! There is a clinic right next to my fertility clinic that only does reproductive acupuncture, and they work hand-in-hand in terms of scheduling during IVF cycles - so the acupuncture clinic will make sure I get in for a session immediately prior to transfer, even if transfer winds up happening on a weekend.
I hadn't had acupuncture before, but we figured if we're doing IVF, we want to throw everything we have into it so that we don't have to second-guess the decision later... if this cycle doesn't work, I don't want to leave myself open to thinking that if only I'd done acupuncture it might have worked, ykwim? The acupuncture dude (I don't even know what to call him - the practitioner, I guess? acupuncturist?) specializes in infertility because of his parents' struggle - they adopted him from Colombia, and his younger sister was the first IVF baby born in Missouri. I thought that was interesting.
Village People was awesome!!!
And OMG that VP smiley was the greatest!! The American Indian guy has been eating well all these years, but fortunately he keeps his shirt on these days.
We had a blast. And the crowds weren't bad at all... but from watching on tv, they are now - I'm really glad we went downtown Monday and not now.... I had to do my shots that night in the dressing room of a downtown department store - I figured there wouldn't be a line there, like there would be at all of the restrooms. It went fine - I've had to do them in public restrooms before, but with the addition of Menopur for this cycle (which requires mixing right before you inject it) I need some place to set things down, which isn't always available in a public stall.
Dwrgi, thanks for the reminder about the protein and water. I have been trying to increase both, but I didn't remember what the goal amounts were. No way have I been eating THAT much protein, but I can definitely increase it from here on out (as I eat my cheese snack with 5g right now). I usually drink a lot throughout the day anyway (even though I haven't sung anywhere in two years, that's one habit from my opera days I've kept up), so 2L is no problem.
That's all for now - I have a lunch meeting in about 40 min so I need to get off BnB! Have a great day, ladies. xoxo
...and won't be testing til 2 March.
to you all. xx
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hi to everyone, am in a rush to get my bags repacked as they are overweight and head to my sisters in an hour 
looks like there are two...are you around 7 weeks?
. I have O probs, but since I have started seeing naturopath (also) & doing acup. 1 month ago, I actually O'd on a "normal" CD18 (1/25) - Yay! (confirmed now). Don't know if acup regulated me/broiught it on, but... it's an awfully big coincidence...
, but the bright side is... Valentines day? Would make for a great story! ;-)
