I started my follicle stimulating medication on Monday August 25th. I inject Gonal-F 150 units and Menopur (2 vials the first two days, then 1 vial a day thereafter) in the morning around 8am. I am still injecting Lupron in the evenings around 7-8pm. I also take a Prenatal, Synthroid, and a baby aspirin per day. It was very difficult to figure out how to fit all of these medications into one day, because I have to separate each medication out. I finally have a rythmn where I take the synthroid in the morning with my injections. The prenatal and baby aspirin I try to take with my lunch, so I can have food on my stomach. The injections in the morning have to be given exactly 12 hours apart from my evening dose, because Lupron stops my body from ovulating to early. I will be on these medications for 8-12 days, depending on my follicle development:)
Once we are given the green light I will inject both syringes of ovidrel, which causes my body to ovulate 36 hours later. My egg-retrieval surgery will be schedule exactly 36 hours from Ovidrel injection!! The next/last step is embryo transfer, where they will put 2 embryos back into my uterus:) Embryo transfer will hopefully be 3-5 days after egg retrieval! We both just pray that my body reacts well to the medication and that we are able to at least have one good embryo:)
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