[3rdtimesthecharm]

Ok ladies, I’m back from a short hiatus…mostly it was due to frustration with my clinic. I should have had my schedule by the end of last week…but no such luck. Last Thursday they still didn’t have the results of all of my updated bloodwork…the nurse promised me she would check on it and call me Friday…hmm…no call Friday, so I left a message…then no call Monday, again another message. Today I was fed up and I called another nurse…one that doesn’t typically fulfill this function, but I was frustrated! She got the ball rolling and I finally got financial clearance, so I should get my schedule within the next day or two. They will start to cycle you anytime (during their window) once you have been on BCPs for two weeks…I’ve been on them for almost three weeks, so I want to have a bit of an idea of when they might ask me to start…it’s all about expectations management, and I would like to have mine managed with some information!!! Patience is not my strong suit...

Southhampton: I’m not certain where they are going to start me this time…last time I took 150 gonal in the morning and 75 in the evening…I’m expecting that I will go up to a total of at least 300-375 each day. I just wonder if they will up my menopur (75 per day) since that is supposed to help the eggs mature. Hopefully I will get some answers to my questions tomorrow. If not, I will go back to my annoying message leaving tactic!

Bella: I agree, we are all more than due for some lasting BFPs that result in a healthy pregnancy!

jdw: The whole regret aspect is why DH caved…he’s concerned that at some point I will resent him because we don’t have children and he was against further treatment. I don’t see that happening since I absolutely adore him (and we’ve been together for 13 years now)…but I need to try this…ok, who am I kidding, I need this thing to finally work!!!

2Lines: I hope you are having an awesome trip!

jp: I feel your pain…my last cycle they only got 10 eggs out of 18 follies (first was 21 out of the same number of follies)…of those 10, only 8 were mature and 4 fertilized…we had nothing to freeze and the embies were only a grade 3 (1-5 scale) at best…that was the same as round 1…round 2 was with different donor sperm than round 1…new theory, bad eggs. So this cycle the theory the docs are going with is if we can get her to produce more eggs, there has to be some that make better embies. I hope you get some good answers that aren’t like peering through mud tomorrow.

Greenmomma and Cagirl: !!