IVF#2 - Plans and Speculation

Saw the RE this morning and the ultrasound showed no cysts, so we are on schedule for IVF#2.

Still on the Antagonist protocol but with a tweak based on IVF#1 response. The RE feels that Lupron will be too suppressive, and with my low response record, that's the last thing I need.

So that means, I took the last of the BCP of this morning (two weeks only), and start the medications on Saturday.

Medications:

1. Follistim - 375 or so per night. (Read as use a 600u vial - do 375 one night and the rest of the vial the next night. This is an increase.) (Also, how cool is it that there is an offer floating around for a free 300u vial, so that helps the costs!)
   
2. Menopur - 75 per night (This is a decrease.)
3. Ganirellix - as needed
   
4. HSG - trigger

The total for this round is just over $1600 (thanks to having not one, but TWO vials of Follistim and 2 vials of Menopur left from the first round, and the freebie vial). Much, much better than the almost $5k on the first.

I have an appointment for next Thursday morning to have a ultrasound response check, and I suspect, blood work. After that I will most likely have to make the early morning trek on either Saturday or Sunday for the same. Grrr.

If you haven't noticed (and, please, if you have noticed you are paying way too much attention to my life and need to activate your own) this puts me on the exact same schedule as IVF#1 - so my best guess is that the retrieval will occur on Wednesday the 15th. But guesses have a way of being wrong, so don't keep me to that date, just know it will be sometime that week.

As much as I'm looking forward to getting moving again with this, I'm not looking forward to being a human pincushion once more. Mah por bellah!