CDsomething and I'm Makin' Eggs

Because of my super-long Lupron protocol, I have no idea what cycle day I'm on. But I do know this: today marks my one-week anniversary of stimulating my ovaries, and this is happening, people. I have 14 measurable follicles on my right ovary and 8 on my left ovary. (I realize that in my last post I reversed the count so it looked like lefty was the major producer, sorry about that - just my latent right-left confusion causing trouble.)

The doc who performed my ultrasound said that I'm responding very quickly to the Follistim and I might trigger as early as tonight, but left the final decision to my RE. Turns out he wants to wait one more day and monitor me again tomorrow morning to see if any of the smaller follicles are catching up to their friends, and then probably plan on a retrieval Wednesday or Thursday. I'm really surprised because my RE and I were initially planning on a Friday or Saturday retrieval (and I wanted the extra time to recover over the weekend, which I suspect I now will not get), but like everything with this infertility process, there's just no way to predict how things will go.

So that's the good news. The bad news is that as my overachiever ovaries have been popping out all of these follicles, I've been feeling increasingly worse. The twinges I felt in my belly on Thursday morphed into a constant menstrual-cramp-like pain by Friday, and got worse all day on Saturday. By Saturday night I was also feeling intermittent low-level nausea, which has continued today and which I've also felt when I've had intense menstrual cramps in the past (thanks, endometriosis!) I'm not actually throwing up and it could be much worse, but I've spent most of the day on the couch taking Tylenol and sipping on tea and juice. Work should be interesting tomorrow, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. And in terms of days to spend sitting on the couch - it could be worse, I have the playoffs to watch!