At the clinic on Friday I got asked what day post stimulation I was on and my first response was “about 312” which the nurses seemed to find amusing. I wasn’t joking. It feels like this has been the longest cycle known to man. I am currently on cycle day 20, day 17 post stimulation which is so much longer…
Category: Take Two
Round two, starting from Jan 30th 2018. Here we go again!
Not Going To Plan
Things aren’t going to plan. I am feeling so many things…I am scared, I am frustrated, I am anxious and I am just so tired. I had my third post stimulation scan this morning. Post stimulation scans are the scan that you have after once the injections have started, they are to see how well the ovaries are being stimulated…
Moving The Goalposts
Today I am going to talk about scans. Scans and emotions, but first of all scans. I had my second scan today to see what kind of action was going on in my ovaries. Last week I had a baseline scan on day 2 of my cycle, this was to see what my uterus was looking like, whether I had…
Injecting Life
I am currently on day 5 of my injections and am feeling very hormonal. It is like an extreme of PMT. I was thinking earlier that if this works, is this what I am going to feel like for the next 9 months?! I have hit the mid way point where I am feeling like a pin cushion, I had…
Here We Go Again!
Today is the first day of my period, what an opening line to a blog! But this particular first day of a period is important because it is the beginning of the second round of IUI fertility treatment that I am about to go through. I had to call my fertility clinic this morning to notify them, something else that…