I wish I had a clue... I have no idea if my progress is good or bad. I thought I was doing well since they lowered my doses and put me on ganirelix already. The doctor keeps telling me everything looks great but I don't know where I am expected to be at this point so, as usual, I'm worrying. They don't give me any follicle measurements but I peeked at the screen they left up this morning and they put my count under the less than 10mm column. Shouldn't they be bigger by now? And if they're so small, why am I on ganirelix? See? I'm very confused. My estradiol level was 433 this morning so that is at least progressing. But, my follicle count was 27 tuesday and 17 today. Where did the other 10 go? They're keeping me on the same meds so something must be going right I just hate having to rely on someone else to make sure everything is right. I'm a planner and a researcher and not being able to do either is really hard.
PS - I wish all my injections were as easy as the ganirelix. For one, it is all mixed up and in the syringe already so I don't have to do a thing but inject. And two, I'm so sleepy in the morning when I do it I can't even get worked up about it. I just do it and either run out the door for an appointment or crawl back into blessed bed.
I have also never valued sleep so much. It is now considered sleeping in when I get to wake up at my normal time for work instead of an hour early to rush to an appointment before work. Next scan is Saturday...no rest for the weary.
You get a lot better quality when they stim you slowly from what I know. Some follicles will naturally drop out and quit developing. With around 17 right now though you should be able to expect somewhere around 10 usable eggs at retrieval. Most of the time they get less than the number of mature follies they see. Follies grow approximately 1 to 2mm per day so by your next appointment they should be more measurable and they may even give you actual sizes, most clinics don't measure/report sizes on follies <10mm they just count them. Its hard to trust them sometimes, but they usually know what they are doing. Just remember not to be afraid to ask them what is going on, what they are hoping to see, or why they are doing things the way they are, it is your body, and your money paying for an IVF cycle :).
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