FET Update: Side Effects, Side Effects, And More Side Effects

Hi Everyone, and happy Monday!

Here's the latest:

  • Lining check on Saturday and I'm told everything looks great! Yay! A doctor I've never met did the check (the on-call doc in my local OB's practice), and once she looked at my history she kept saying, "You're so brave. How have you managed to do all this and still keep your sanity? I could never do what you're doing." In some ways it felt good for all that I have done to be acknowledged, in other ways it just kind of feeds this fear I have that I'm kind of getting to my physical/emotional limit in terms of what I can do with medical interventions...have been feeling this very acutely over the past week or so...trying hard not to think beyond this current procedure...
  • Blood draw this weekend too, and my estrogen is low. The patches I had Friday/Saturday weren't sticking great, though (never had that happen before), but I didn't get to explain that to anyone (communication with my clinic can be difficult, especially on the weekends), and they added oral estrogen so now I'm worried my estrogen will be too high as the patches I put on this morning (Sunday/Monday patches) are sticking great 
  • Traveled to Denver area Sunday and will be here until after transfer/bed rest, returning home next Sunday. Staying with my brother a little ways up into the mountains, which is lovely
  • I feel like I am just being bowled over by side effects this cycle. I've never done an FET, always fresh cycles, and I've never written down the details on how a cycle is going, but I just don't remember things being this bad in the past. In addition to the moodiness/irritability/anxiety I've been writing about, I'm also dealing with big-time insomnia (it's 3:30 AM as I write this, and I have a day full of conference calls tomorrow, plus a doctor's appointment at my clinic, which is an hour each way from my brother's, ugh...I SO need some sleep!) Headaches, too. Also joint pain that's been going on for a while...has anyone else had this happen? It's all over my body and it's so bad...I think it's a big part of the reason I can't sleep. I feel like a hot bath would help, but I'm not allowed to take baths. Tylenol may help, too, but I can't find any here at my brother's and am hesitant to take it anyway...need to ask my nurse about it tomorrow...

Anyway, sorry to complain (again)...hoping I'll start to feel better/more positive soon. Actually, I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of what's going on is related to Lupron, which I finished with over the weekend...fingers crossed that once that's out of my body I'll start doing better...

 

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