Day 18 – My 1st Appointment and a little Dissappointment

This morning DH and I went in for the first official IVF visit!
The nurse took my blood and also explained to my husband how to do the lupron shots. Looks like he’ll be giving them to me under the belly button. The needle was thin and didn’t look that wicked (funny, I had it at home but never looked at it)

She told me its OK to continue exercising on lupron and carry on normally in everything. The bloodwork would determine when I start and how the cycle would map. She said she would call me with that information.

We were out of there quickly and I was fine till about 3pm. After that I started looking at my phone nervously, waiting for it to ring. Why on earth would I be nervous NOW? I mean, what could happen? And if I am nervous now what would become of me when things get REALLY interesting?

But there I was having flashbacks to when I was waiting for the call about my follow-up betas on that ill-fated pregnancy. It was just the worst wait I had to endure.

Finally I called the nurse and she said she would call me right back with my plan. Luckily she did and I didn’t have to wait long. Unluckily it wasn’t exactly the news I wanted to hear. Nothing real bad. Just that looks like my IVF calendar would be a lot longer than I had hoped. I am to start lupron on Friday (not today/tomorrow as I had hoped). And hopefully starting Friday the 13th won’t mean anything lol Then I would be seen for a follow-up appointment in 2 weeks. Two weeks!!!! I thought I would only be on lupron for one! Or ok, maybe 10 days. So the appointment would be October 26th, and then if I check out all clear, I will have another one the following day to start meds.

She said projected retrieval will be the week of November 6th. A whole week later than I had hoped. Sigh…

This might not mean too much, but somehow I had hoped to be done with this process by certain dates based on a lot of things going on. But hey, I should be used to hearing things I don’t exactly want to hear by now, right?

I’ll take it in stride – I’d rather take not-so-what-I-want-to-hear news now than later, when its a TON more crucial. So may this be the start of a GREAT cycle!
And hey – there’s always a bright side – more time to lose weight!