Early morning ultrasound after a late night out does not bode well. I did NOT feel well sitting there in the room, waiting for them to come in. And no, I hadn’t been drinking… I was eating. A bridal shower and then going out to dinner…. I ate a ton of food and oh boy did I regret that this morning. My stomach was doing backflips and gurgles and I had to sit there half-naked for over 10 minutes. Ugh. But luckily once they got in and we got started I was fine… just sitting there waiting with nothing to do but think of how bad my stomach felt wasn’t good.

The “bad” news (and I say “bad” because it’s not really bad news, it’s just not great news) is that I’m not fully baked yet, so no retrieval on tuesday (which would have been ideal for both Den and my schedules). But I have a ton of follies in there… more just keep joining the party. I don’t know the exact count because for some reason I thought they could give me a run-down afterwards, but they showed no inclination of doing so. When I asked how many she said, “33 total” but that includes a lot of small ones.

I was watching intently as the ultrasound tech measured each one… I have a bunch on my left that are 15-20mm, all squashed in there, along with several at 10. On my right they average smaller, with several of them at 14-15mm, then I remember there were 9 at 10mm and about 4 or 6 less than 10. So, given my memory of events, I’d say that of the 33 half are pretty good size and half are too small. Given that last ultrasound I had 6 on my left and 8 on my right that were all 10mm, my left side has been a bit of a hog and they grew bigger, while the 8 on the right are being somewhat lazy.

I also have some “free fluid” in my left ovary, I don’t know how bad that is? Between that and the bunches of big ones on my left explains why I’ve been feeling my left side but not my right. I don’t know, for some reason I thought it would be worse. Maybe it’ll get worse…. but even if it does, it won’t be horrible for more than a day or two. I guess this whole process has been a lot easier than I expected/feared.

The Dr was there and she said that she’ll call me after they get my E2 results back, but that I’ll need another day or two before trigger. I only have two days left of menopur, but she said it shouldn’t be more than that. So we’re looking at a Wednesday or Thursday egg retrieval… I’ll find out later this afternoon what day I need to go back in for another ultrasound. She also said they’ll probably be reducing my dose a little bit again.