Crystal: Sorry you are out this cycle, but maybe your past pattern will hold true and you will be celebrating soon!
Jo: Hope you are hanging in there.
Everyone else in the TWW: Let's go girls! I am hoping for some BFPs this cycle!
AFM: I went to the doctor again this morning and THE CYST IS GONE! YAY! I get to start my cycle now!

So, I will have AF within the next few days and I will start medication by mouth on Monday. Next, I will start with injectable medication on Wednesday and then go back to the doctor on next Saturday. When I go back to the doctor, they will be monitoring a couple of things.
(IVF education here...if interested) The injectable medication makes my ovaries form lots of follicles. Most follicles house an egg. I have low ovarian reserves, so I will not produce as many as a 20 year old who may get as many as 30-40 eggs in a cycle! I have made between 2-12 in past cycles. They will also be checking the thickness of my uterine lining. The lining needs to get to 7mm by the end of the cycle to have the best chance of the embryo implanting. The cycle will probably last up to 14 days after the start of the injectable medication. They will monitor the size of these follicles as they grow and when the "lead follicle" gets to a certain size, they will schedule my "egg retrieval". I will go to sleep and they will aspirate the follicles and hopefully there will be eggs inside each one. The eggs also have to pass another test and be graded as mature in order to be fertilized. Not all eggs are mature, and not all eggs fertilize, or fertilize normally. I will wait 3 days and will have my "embryo transfer", where they will put the best looking embryo back inside to grow. LOTS of things have to go right in this process. But, here I GO!!! Come on GOLDEN EGG!