today was another check in with Dr. Mo, she asked if i was making any progress, and i thought "how the heck would i know??" she checked my ovaries and my right one is proving to be a total dud, i remember the first ultrasound i had with the clomid round last fall with my FAVORITE u/s tech Marty {which i can't wait to start going to see her again}, anyhow Marty said that my right ovary was really "shy." meaning that it's waaaay off in right field, so it really doesn't surprise me that i don't have any follicles growing on that one. but on the left today Dr. Mo said i now have two follicles in the running, one that's 15cm and one that's 13cm! hooray, that means there may actually be more than one target to hit when it comes time for the iui.
while my follicles are starting to look good, she did say my uterine lining was pretty whimpy. she said she'd like to see it at 8cm, and right now it's at a measly 5cm... dang it. when we tried the clomid round each ultra sound i had Marty commented on how beautiful or fluffy my lining was {almost like being told you look prett, haha}. so it's a little odd given that one of the major side effects of taking clomid is that it can thin your lining, and the up side to femara is that it usually doesn't... but o'well c'est la vie.
they had a solution, and i am now sporting two new vivelle-dot estrogen patches... and i didn't really think before and i just slapped them on.... upside down, go me!
the nurse said you can either double them up on one side of your lower tummy, or one on each side... and now that i think about it, i probably should've just doubled them up on the left for the sake of helping my left follicles to grow, but i did one on each side.
Dr. Mo also said she's thinking our iui could be monday or tuesday, but would need to see what happens this weekend... huh? as far as i knew my RE's office wasn't open on weekends, so i asked "sooo, when should i come back in for my next scan?" she said saturday, so ok 9am saturday it is, and you better believe J is coming with me and taking me to brunch after =). i guess they open up shop if patients need to be seen, which is comforting because i was starting to wonder what would happen if something needed to be done on a weekend, especially since fertility and cycles still march on over the weekends.
funny thing is, as soon as i drove away from the doc's office all of a sudden i got really flushed and felt little throbbing type feelings right under the areas where my patches were {kinda like i could feel my ovaries working}. so i'm gonna assume that means the patches were already working... hormones + hot flashes here i come! yeah, probably should've asked what the side effects are of the patches but i like to live life on the edge, i'm figuring out that sometimes in this process it's better not knowing what i "might" expect...
oh, and on a happy note: i got my hair did tonight, last month i had my friend/stylist add more lowlights to my hair, which i'm not really a big fan of too many lowlights since i feel like i start to look my hair is always dirty {it's a blonde thing}. so tonight she added more of my platinum back in just in time for my big 3-0 that's quickly approaching on the 28th, ack!
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