Thursday, April 7, 2011

Documenting silence @ the mid-point of FET

Not much going on here, but I'm going to make a bold statement.  FETs suck worse than a fresh IVF cycle.  I am four weeks in and I'm longing for the structure and relative speed of suppress, stim, retrieve.  I've done two weeks of BCP and two more of Lupron and will continue Lupron until at least my lining check, which is next Friday.  I've gone through my first two rounds of patches.  Your body is not able to stay on it's normal cycle w/an FET, so my s/e are weird.  I am finally not spotting now for the first time since I started a month ago.  It will be another month before I know if it worked, then best case cue 2+ months of anxiety. 

I have to figure out where I'm going to put four estrogen patches on my belly tonight.  I've obviously never wanted to be heavy, but it would come in handy right about now.  I've tried them higher up and on my back hip before, but they don't last anywhere that bends.  I've wasted one already by putting it too high this week.  That leaves the space below my waist and between my pelvic bones, oh and ideally not where the last two were or where the next four will be.  And then I have to find somewhere in there to keep doing my Lupron shots.  This should be interesting.

I would otherwise be getting AF soon (and have the cramps to remind me), but since I've started the patches I'm having discharge like I'm ovulating.  My body is wondering what the hell is going on.

I'm in my last few days at work and besides the occasional silent freak out, I am happily riding things out.  Plans are coming together for the Vegas consulting project and I think I'm going to take at least a few weeks off after.  We close on the refi on Saturday and we are finally getting our taxes finalized, so this money is flowing out the door...

No comments:

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...