So my instructions on my voicemail from the nurses are to drop my dose of follistim down to 75iu and come back Sunday morning. I asked the nurse why they decided to drop me down, and she mentioned that my E2 had taken a big jump and they want to play conservative, take it slow to make sure my big group of follicles grows together, and not risk OHSS. But when I plugged my E2 numbers into my little graph the numbers from last cycle and this cycle are almost identical. So on one hand I’m seeing us diverge now from the path we took last time and I am very very nervous.<\/p>\n
I know in many ways last cycle was certainly not ideal – and that’s something I need to keep reminding myself of – but it worked right? I am very very leery of messing around with anything. I’m of the mind to just follow exactly the same route, that it will get me back to the same place: pregnant.<\/p>\n
However there are some major flaws with that method of thinking. My body is not the same as it was. And there are always going to be fluctuations every cycle – environmental, physical, or fluke… nothing is ever the same twice. This is particularly obvious when you look at how many follicles I have this time. This was exactly the same protocol as last time up until today, but the ultrasound shows a different picture.<\/p>\n
I know I need to trust them – they’ve done this a million times and certainly know how better to tweak dosages than I do. The nurses at my clinic really are fabulous and I love them. I’m just… scared. Scared that by diverging from the path we are taking a wrong turn. But if we never diverge we will never have the chance at anything better. Maybe this is what we need to do to get more than one embryo.<\/p>\n
For right now all I can do is wait and see. I go in Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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