It’s 12:30am so I can say I am 2dpiui today. Yay! One more day crossed off the calendar.

My ovary has stopped aching, so it’s pretty safe to say I’ve ovulated and those little eggs are on their way. Yippee! I found out on a forum that after the hcg trigger your follicles will grow another 3-5mm. I was trying to draw out how big 22mm was, and then adding another 5… ouch. And there were 4 of them! No wonder I ached so bad. It’s making me think about how uncomfortable an IVF cycle would be!

Someone on a forum mentioned mini-stim IVF. Only a couple of doctors are doing it right now (the ones mentioned were in St. Louis and New York), but it may catch on as a viable alternative for those who respond well to meds like clomid. The success rate is probably not as high as with traditional IVF because the simple fact that you’d get less eggs. But it’s a lot cheaper and a lot easier on your body. For me it sounds exciting – I mentioned it to Den, though, and he thinks even if that were an option that we should do traditional IVF because our insurance covers it and it has a higher success rate. That’s a little disappointing to me – I’m still not at the point to accept IVF yet but it would be easier to accept mini-stim IVF. It’s a smaller stepping stone. And less invasive and less medication – as Den put it when I said just that, “You’ve always been like that.” (Not wanting to take more medication than is absolutely necessary, that is. Despite the fact that I finally “gave in” and now am on daily medication for my depression, I still would actively fight against taking even tylenol for headaches. Obviously my views have relaxed somewhat over time.)

Not that I really need to think about IVF right now. But the way I responded to only 100mg of clomid would make me a really good candidate for the MS-IVF.