Day 10 Monitoring Appointment

It's day 10. My appointment was fine... my follicles are still chugging along at a slow-ish pace. I am happy things are still progressing but wish that shots could be over now. It's been enough injections and appointments and blood draws. When you hit the 10 day mark, you kind of want to move on with things. 

As I uploaded these pics today, I laughed to myself thinking: did I ever think I'd be sharing pictures of my ovaries? I guess this is what it's come to. Ultrasound pictures of babies are more commonly shared, but all I have for now are ovary pictures. So you can love them just the same. 

My left ovary. The follicles are slowly but surely getting bigger. 

 

Right ovary. This is kind of my rock star ovary- a lot of good follicles here. I assume it's okay to have a favorite ovary.

Truthfully, I am getting a bit mentally exhausted. For the second time this cycle, I'll have to call the pharmacy to reorder vials of meds for injection. It's kind of a pain, but I don't want to over-order because they are so expensive, so I call and order 2 or 3 days worth at a time and then have them shipped overnight. Hopefully this is the last time, but I am not sure. They still can't tell me when ER will be for sure.

I also got my TSH back that was drawn Saturday and it's low:  0.16. I would lament the fact that I don't have a thyroid and this is a time in my life when I really, really wish I did, but I've done that before and it doesn't bring back my thyroid. So, I talked to the fertility doctor who said she doesn't think this will negatively affect my cycle, but that I can make the adjustment that I want. Here's a time in life when I am very happy to be a pharmacist, even though medication adjustment for thyroid is much more of an art than a science. I am on the exact same dose as I was last cycle and my TSH is drastically different. It's really crazy. I think I am learning this art, especially when it comes to me. So, I will make a slight adjustment and hope for the best.

UPDATE: 10:42 am- Nurse called to say my estrogen is 678- really good! I will start the third injection (Cetrotide) tomorrow to make sure I don't ovulate before egg retrieval. Hopefully that will be sometime this weekend. Time to give myself a kick in the butt and stay mentally strong through the next few days. 

Next appointment: Wednesday morning.