Merry Christmas to you all. I hope and pray that this season has brought and will bring wonderful things to us all, and that the coming new year is one filled with happiness and joy.
I have not received that positive pg test that we had hoped and prayed for, but we still had a wonderful day with our family and I give thanks for all the blessings God has bestowed upon us.
I am not happy to face another cycle, and have to decide whether to continue on with treatments or take a break until spring, but then I know that this imperfect world rarely treats us fairly. I discovered this song in 2008 when Ben was in the hospital, it spoke to me then in my despair, and it still speaks to me as I sit here with a heavy heart despite my joy in celebrating our Christ's birth.
Here is the address, I'm sorry I can't embed the video to make it clicky, for some reason that is disabled. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXPZYGBxqmc
Enjoy!
25 December 2009
20 December 2009
A quick update at 8dpo.
So, we had our second IUI on 12/12 at 11am, with my trigger (Ovidrel this time) just over 24 hrs earlier. And we had awesome numbers this time. 55million after wash!!!! With 91% motility!!!! I about fell off the table in shock, I couldn't believe it. :D That is a lot of little guys for my two eggs, I hope they all hooked up and had a party. ;)
I've been having plenty of phantom symptoms, mostly bloating, constipation, cramping, boob enlargement, and some hit or miss nausea. These are all things I had with our first bfp, so I am hopeful. I have to say that the bloating and constipation are not nearly as bad this time around, and I am much more comfortable. ;) I'm also having stuffy/runny nose problems and funny tastes in my mouth, but that is most likely from this cold Ben and I have been trading back and forth.
So, Pee day is Christmas eve at 12dpo/13dptrigger. :D Although I do have a confession, I have been testing out my trigger with cheapie opks, and those faint lines are still there. :D I am 9dptrigger right now, and I used Ovidrel 250mcg.
And I, being the super nerd that I am, had to figure out when I could expect to stop getting +'s from the trigger. So, the half life on Ovidrel is 29 hrs +/- 6hrs, making the maximum half life 35 hrs, i.e. just under 1.5 days. Dividing 250 by half, the remainder by half, and so forth, after 4 divisions there should be 15.625 mcg of hcg left in my body. Each division is 33 hrs, so 33 * 4= 140hrs. 140/24= 5.83 (repeating). Thus according to my math I shouldn't be getting + on the opk (threashold of 25mcg) after 6 dptrigger. The opks I have taken in the last few days haven't been positive, but they have certainly had two lines, so despite my obsessing over the science of it, I don't think I'll believe that second line until I poas Christmas Eve morning at 12dpo. Whether I'll be strong and keep away from my cheapie opks until then, well, that I can't promise. :D
I've been having plenty of phantom symptoms, mostly bloating, constipation, cramping, boob enlargement, and some hit or miss nausea. These are all things I had with our first bfp, so I am hopeful. I have to say that the bloating and constipation are not nearly as bad this time around, and I am much more comfortable. ;) I'm also having stuffy/runny nose problems and funny tastes in my mouth, but that is most likely from this cold Ben and I have been trading back and forth.
So, Pee day is Christmas eve at 12dpo/13dptrigger. :D Although I do have a confession, I have been testing out my trigger with cheapie opks, and those faint lines are still there. :D I am 9dptrigger right now, and I used Ovidrel 250mcg.
And I, being the super nerd that I am, had to figure out when I could expect to stop getting +'s from the trigger. So, the half life on Ovidrel is 29 hrs +/- 6hrs, making the maximum half life 35 hrs, i.e. just under 1.5 days. Dividing 250 by half, the remainder by half, and so forth, after 4 divisions there should be 15.625 mcg of hcg left in my body. Each division is 33 hrs, so 33 * 4= 140hrs. 140/24= 5.83 (repeating). Thus according to my math I shouldn't be getting + on the opk (threashold of 25mcg) after 6 dptrigger. The opks I have taken in the last few days haven't been positive, but they have certainly had two lines, so despite my obsessing over the science of it, I don't think I'll believe that second line until I poas Christmas Eve morning at 12dpo. Whether I'll be strong and keep away from my cheapie opks until then, well, that I can't promise. :D
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