So, first mixing meds experience tonight. It was… an experience. I of course was a little nervous and wasn’t sure exactly what I was doing. I got my “recipe page” and set it up in front of me – it’s the printoff of exact mixing instructions from the IVF unit – and followed it to the word. Okay, not quite to the word, but I went very slowly and carefully. 1 ml of diluent into 1 vial of menopur (using the big syringe); 5 units of lupron into that vial (using a small syringe); then 150 IU follistim into it as well (using the follistim pen). Then pull everything into the big syringe, twist off the big huge needle, twist on the tiny needle, inject it all. Or rather, I did everything up to that point, then called Den in to do the honors of the injection.<\/p>\n
The last 4 nights injections of lupron haven’t gone as well as the first couple did – for some reason Den lost his “touch” and it hurt going in each time. I think it might have been because of the humidity in the air, so it wasn’t sliding through my skin as easily? Or maybe Den’s hand wasn’t as steady. Either way. Today it went in fine, which was a relief! But then as he pushed more and more liquid into me it started stinging! Yikes! that was a lot of fluid. A lot more than a small Lupron dose. I did have a big drop of blood form afterwards.<\/p>\n
So this is what I get to look forward to the next week. In addition to frequent blood draws and vaginal ultrasounds. Whee fun! Making a baby was so much simpler when it involved just a penis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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