Medications Class

Yesterday B and I met with the IVF Nurse to talk about injections, medication schedules, and overall IVF logistics. We left after over an hour, feeling very overwhelmed but ready.

My tentative schedule is as follows:

• Sunday, March 4th, 8 am: blood test for progesterone, to see if I have ovulated. If I have, we're ready to start. If not, we have to wait and re-test on March 11th.
• Monday, March 5th: begin nightly Lupron injections, sometime between 5-7 pm each evening.
• Continue Lupron for one to two weeks, till my period comes. Then, anytime that week, go in for bloodwork and baseline ultrasound, to be sure my ovaries are "quiet."
• Saturday, March 17th: continue Lupron, but also add Menopur and Follistim each evening, again 5-7 pm. That adds up to 3 shots a day. B begins doxycycline twice a day.
• Tuesday, March 20th, 7:30 am: go in for first estrogen blood test.
• Thursday, March 22nd, 7:30 am: begin daily blood tests and ultrasounds. Will be told if need to come in every morning or every other morning from now on.
• Continue shots and monitoring for 8-12 days total.
• Monday, March 26th: stop shots and give HCG trigger shot.
• Wednesday, March 28th: egg retrieval, rest that day.
• Saturday, March 31st: transfer day, begin progesterone (or maybe Monday, April 2nd if doing a 5 day transfer of just one embryo).
• Wednesday, March 11th: pregnancy test!

I know all of this is tentative and may fluctuate, and not everyone even makes it to retrieval, but I am excited and nervous to begin. May this next 6 weeks pass quickly and with few problems.