I had another ultrasound Monday and the technician was WAY better than the last one.
The news was good! My lining has thinned out and we were good to keep going and move to the next phase of this process. And the technician did tell me that, but that was all she told me. She was very nice and not diagnosing me with ANYTHING.
This next phase now involves me putting things up my vagina, so that’s a fun, new turn of events.
I started on a medicine called Lupron back on the 26th of May. That medicine is to basically trick my body into simulating menopause and stopping it from ovulating. Because this a frozen embryo transfer (FET), you have to trick your body. Because I’ve already ovulated and they collected that egg, and fertilized that egg, and we are going to put that back in my body after a time when I would have already ovulated and had that egg fertilized IN MY BODY. So since it isn’t happening in my body and all that happened in a petri dish, we’ve got to make my body THINK it is all happening naturally. (Science is crazy, right?)
So I’ve injected that into my stomach every day since then. The side effects from this medicine are generally headaches, foggy brain and hot flashes. I only really had the hot flashes. That was until this past weekend. This past weekend the headaches hit my like a ton of bricks. They were so bad Monday and Tuesday that I felt like I was going to puke all day. Thankfully today seems a bit better, and I’m trying to drink all the water to help.
Now that my lining has thinned out, I’m still injecting that Lupron every night. The dosage has decreased, but I’ve also added in estrogen. That’s meant to help plump up the lining. We want it nice and thick, and cushy, like your bed on a winter morning, when you’re all warm and comfy and don’t want to get up.
Now we are adding in estrogen in patch and pill form. The pill isn’t swallowed, though. No. Of course not. I have to instead insert it vaginally. And the pill is teal colored, so every now and then when you wipe, it’s like a blue surprise on the toilet paper until you remember that you stuck the blue pill up your who-hah. Thankfully my doctor told me this, otherwise I may have freaked out a bit.
I got back for an ultrasound on Friday morning to see how the lining is growing. I’m hoping that since it was already pretty thick while I was shedding my lining on my period, that I won’t have any problem plumping it up. But we will see how things are on Friday.
But the doctor is still aiming for a transfer on June 22, which is right around the corner. SQUEEEEE!!
