I'm waiting for the clinic to call me with the timings for what should be my trigger shot this evening, and the time for my IUI procedure tomorrow morning/early afternoon. It's almost 3pm and I'm still waiting.... frustrating.
The scan this morning was fine. I've been feeling some crampy 'fullness' in my right side which is the side my ovary is on. I don't usually get pre-period feelings of any kind, so it's been a bit weird to feel my right side, particularly as this isn't really a stimulation cycle like it was for egg freezing. Here there's only one good follicle. So why all the pressure?? Maybe it's just the drugs working.
At any rate, the scan showed my uterine lining continuing to grow as desired and a straight line growth of the one good follicle which was at 14mm on Friday and is now 18/19mm this morning. The nurse said this means my trigger should be tonight and the IUI tomorrow. We went through how to mix up the Pregnyl which is a bit fussy. You have to snap tiny glass vials and do the whole powder/water mixing thing. I asked why they use Pregnyl instead of Ovitrelle and the nurse said that based on their very limited numbers, they had better results with Pregnyl. So that was good enough for me! Even if it does come in an easier to use syringe. I'm sure it will be fine. If I think about it, I might take pictures of these teeny tiny vials.
The main thing I'm waiting to hear other than the timings for things is whether I need to do one injection of the Pregnyl or two. This is based on my blood test results. This time it took her two tries to get the blood out. The first time she went for the same vein that the nurse went for on Friday so in order to hit a different spot on it she went higher, but no luck. So she ended up going for the same spot on the second try and it gave up the goods. Hopefully I don't have to give any more blood tomorrow.
I had my second acupuncture appointment on Saturday which went well. It was very similar to the first one with needles in my abdomen, right ear, arms, hands, calves, and feet. She again did the warming trick with the needles and put a heat light on my feet. I managed to doze off during the treatment so that's probably a good thing!
I have very low expectations for this procedure, as in, I do not expect it to work at all. Of course I will be very disappointed when it doesn't, but right now I feel that it won't. Which will also mean I'll be scared shitless if it does! It's really impossible not to think about it and have hopes and worries as you go along. Minute by minute or second by second even. I'm trying to just stay sane and go with the flow. I'm going to have to wait two weeks to know anything at all which I'm sure will be headache inducing with how much my brain will mull it over.
I suspect the procedure tomorrow will be relatively straightforward and quick-ish. I will write it up after the fact. They told me that when you're scheduled to come in they defrost the sperm in advance so there's no waiting around. They also said that there is absolutely no benefit to laying down or what have you for however long. Either you're going to get pregnant or you're not and that is not going to make a difference in the slightest. I'm sure I'll take it easy, and may in fact take a taxi from work to the appointment and back (instead of cycling). But it's pretty much out of my hands at this point. Not that it particularly ever was in my hands to begin with if you think about it.
Anyway. It's all very exciting, terrifying, and disappointing all at once at the moment. Which seems to me to be just about normal.
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