The Fun Has Begun!

Monday was my bloodwork, ultrasound and the pick up of my brown bag o'fun. My ultrasound showed a bunch of follies already starting off, so my doc decided to start me off on a lower dosage of follistim (75 iu). Lower dosage = cheaper cycle. Woot! Our total for the follistim, ovidrel shot, and progesterone suppository was $455.55. Not too shabby, and my wonderful parents decided to help us by paying for the meds. yay!

Anywho, Monday night was the first of a possible ten nightly injections. Standing with the follistim injection pen in my hand I completely freaked out, froze up, and had to have Dan give me the injection. So far I've done three nights of injections and I've got a few needle marks and one little bruise on my tummy to show for it. I included a pic of the actual follistim injection pen and needle, so you can see how big it is. It might not look like a big needle to you, but it's huuuuge to me. I'm a big cry-baby. :)

So, here's the whole plan:

Thursday night - follistim injection

Friday morning - bloodwork, ultrasound

Most likely after Friday's ultrasound we'll continue with nightly injections

Monday morning - bloodwork, ultrasound

Wednesday morning - possible bloodwork, ultrasound

At some point next week we'll be close to ovulating, at which point Dan will give me the ovidrel shot, and then the baby making begins!

Once I ovulate I'll start the progesterone suppositories (vaginally..yuck), and I'm pretty sure I caught the doc telling me I'd have to continue that 10 weeks into (possible) pregnancy. yuck-o.

Basically, Dan is my proclaimed Man Nurse for the next couple weeks, and I'm his pin cushion. I better be nice to him.