Day 11 of Puregon

Gosh!!! It has been 11 days of Puregon. Not liking it very much.

Lethargy. CHECKED. CHECKED. CHECKED

Bruises on tummy. CHECKED

Lower Abdominal Cramping. CHECKED

Bloatedness. CHECKED

Slight Fever. 37.6. CHECKED

Mood Swing. CHECKED

I am ready to be off Puregon soon and I am ready to have my ER/ET in the nearest possible date. Well... Maybe you can ask me again once I have had my ER and then I will tell you whether I am liking it or not.

I am just feeling very tired at the moment. Hubby was off to work in the morning. Woke up, got him some breakfast and once he left I went back to sleep and woke up like 3 hours later. Wow!!! My whole body just feels so tired at the moment.

Hubby is on morning shift again tomorrow. Told him not to take leave. It is just gonna be another scan. Got mum to accompany me though. Having either hubby or mum around for my treatment makes me feel really secure and comfortable. I am hoping and praying for the best outcome tomorrow.

Gonna go and get some afternoon nap since students are taking a break from lessons due to holidays. I am just gonna enjoy whatever free time I am having now. I have always been right when I listen to my body and this time around my body says I need a rest. SO rest I would do... Till my next update.. which should be tomorrow.

2nd Follicles Scan

Today was my 2nd follicles scan. There are some good and some not so good news. Let us start off with the good news first. I have 2 additional follicles. 15 so far but 8 are still too small and the dr dont think that they will catch up so they are concentrating on the 7 (well better than nothing right).

Left - 19, 17.5, 16
Right - 15, 14, 13, 10.5

Now back to the not so good news. Dr also feel that my cyst seem to have come back. The cyst measures 2.5 x 3.7. Definitely much smaller than the one I had previously and only one compared to 3 the last time. BUT to me a cyst is still a cyst. The cyst has caused me much pain in the past. Recently during my stimulation stage I start having the backache I used to have before I had my surgery. So I guess that answers my question on why I am having my backache again.

So yup, I have been given another box of Puregon and will be going back to the clinic on Wednesday for my third follicle scan. Dr said tentatively ER will be on Friday. It all depends on what happen in the next 2 days. Pls follicles grow a little bit more for mummy...

If ER is on Friday that means I will have my Pregnyl Injection on Wednesday night. Any advice? I heard the injection kind of stings very badly. You know me... I hate needles. Currently my tummy looks like a map of god knows what... Bruises, green and black.

Okay people that is my update for now. Currently very tired and sleepy. Shall go and nap first. Nadia, I will answer your email once I wake up okay... Now a little groggy from the lack of sleep.

2 more days...

It is 2 more days till I go back to the clinic for a follies check. Hope everything is growing well in there. I will be praying that I do not have to extent my Puregon injection much longer than necessary coz that jab kinds of stings. So far on the symptom side, the dizziness comes as and when they like, there is an after taste in my mouth, I can't stand strong smell (especially the smell of some people in public transport - goodness gracious don't they bathe), my "ladies" are slightly sore, lower cramping is more obvious with alternating sides, and my lower abdomen is also kind of hard (like I have not been to the toilet for long) and the lethargy is getting more and more ridiculous. Oh dont forget about the lower backache. The backache is similar to those that I usually get just before my Ovulation day. SO that is my update of the symptoms I am having so far.

Puregon injection does hurt anymore after the first 3 days. Neither do the injection site bleeds. Just that I notice there are very tiny red "mosquito" bite where I do the injection.

2 more days will also be my 28th birthday. What a nice present this will be if I were to get a BFP. Well I can dream right? N hopefully from a dream will become a reality.

I will be writing an entry in conjunction with my birthday and perhaps include a pic or two of me when I was a little baby... Hehehe...

Not Liking It

2 days of Puregon and so far I am not liking it. 2 days in a row, my injection site was bleeding. Other than that, when I press on the area, it feels as if there is a teeny bite size mark. My tummy started cramping today. Not anywhere near my Pre AF cramp. This was just little twinges as I was walking. Tummy is bloated and hard. I am also peeing and drinking alot. Lethargy? Don't even let me start about it. I am so tired. Can't even keep my eyes open in a 30 minutes bus ride. Sitting cross legged on the floor far too long will cause my back to ache.

If symptoms means, the medication are doing what they are supposed to be doing then good. If you ask me now, Suprefact injection was child play compared to Puregon. I will choose Suprefact to Puregon any day. But well... we have to move on sooner or later. I am just glad Allah is on my side and is currently moving me along as I had prayed and hoped for.

I am still keeping myself update with all of your daily updates but don't expect much from me okay. Any free time I get, I think I will try to squeeze in some nap time to help reduce my lethargy. Once I have more symptoms to "complain" about, I will write in.

I thank Allah for His blessings and for guiding me this far. Thank you to the nurses who has been very nice and sweet with regards to my procedure. Answering my question and helping me as and when I need them. Thank you to my parents for being so supportive of what we are doing and always being concern about my health and well being. Thank you also to my darling hubby for being there to do my injections, for being there to be at the end of my ranting and 'scolding'. To everyone else in the Blogsphere, who has been kind and generous with their advices, THANK YOU. I truly appreciate it.

I survived!!!

Well, today was my appointment at KK for 2 consecutive days. After the phone call from the nurse saying that my E2 and uterine lining is sufficiently suppressed. I have currently moved to my next step - STIMULATION. I was alone today. Usually either hubby or mum will accompany me for any of my appointment but since it is just to collect my jabs I told hubby not to waste his leave. So yup I survived going for the appointment on my own.

I arrived at the clinic at around 0845. Boy was the clinic packed!!! I just walked up to the counter, told her that I have been asked to collect my second round of jabs, given the medication slip, went to the pharmacy to purchased/collect the medication. Today's medication cost $833++ but thanks to Medisave and Co Funding by the government, I didnt have to pay a cent. Thank God. N from here on, all scan and procedures will be taken from my CPF (Medisave)and I don't have to come out with any cash.

I was given the following
I will be taking 200 units of Puregon for the next 7 days together with 20 units of Suprefact. My next appointment will be on my 28th birthday (6th June 2009) for a scan to check on my follicles. After which the nurse said that my ER/ET can be anytime the following week. OMG!!!!

Juliah you are so right... Things are moving pretty fast once you have started and I am getting more and more nervous. Things are getting unfamiliar from here on. I am not sure what to expect. What are the signs and symptoms of OHSS? When do you start taking food that contains high in protein? now or after retrieval?

Today at the clinic was my first Puregon jab. SInce hubby was not around, I was trained by the nurse to do the jab. The funny part is I thought she was gonna do it for me but guess what? She gave me the instruction, tell me what to do but I had to do it in front of her with her supervision. She said, if I don't try myself how am I gonna teach my husband to do it for me. Hehehe... Yeah so for the first time I poked myself with the needle. hahaha... Not too bad but given a choice, I would never do it again. That's what the hubby is for. This is one of the ways for him to get involve in this IVF thing. Not just providing the swimmers.

Talking about swimmers, hubby was getting a little nervous. He has always been uncomfortable preparing the specimen in a bottle what more if it has to be done in the clinic so today I asked the nurse whether it was possible for hubby to produce the specimen at home. Thank God she said okay as long as we get the specimen to the clinic within 90 minutes on the day of teh retrieval. Ahhh.... Hubby will give a sigh of relief once he hears this news.

Okay that's all the update from me for today. I will be back once I have more things to say. If not, my next update will be next Saturday after my scan to check my follicles. To everyone, have a great weekend ahead.