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...
Vancouver, Day 7...And I Start Lupron Today!
Vancouver buildings at night...
Happy Friday Everyone!
We're spending the next few days in Vancouver, a city I haven't been to since I was a teenager. It's spectacularly beautiful up here, so lush and green and mountains and water everywhere and in the city itself has such beautiful architecture, such an interesting mix of old and new buildings.
Drove up from Seattle yesterday with my husband and his best friend, checked into our downtown hotel, and then spent the rest of the afternoon/evening wandering around a few sections of the city. We:
- Browsed in an Indian art gallery, where there was a bird mask I really wanted to buy--red and white and black with a big beak and a tongue sticking out and a raffia-like substance for hair--my husband said it was too scary (and too expensive)
- Checked out the incredibly cool furniture in the sleek modern furniture stores in the Gastown neighborhood
- Watched the old-fashioned grandfather-like steam-powered clock that chimed on the quarter hour...so charming...
- Had beers at a little Irish Pub with big, comfortable, cushion-y chairs...it was like sitting in someone's living room...lovely...
- Ate what was seriously one of the best meals of my life at Nuba, Lebanese cuisine in this hip little underground space. I want to go back, but it would be a shame not to explore more of Vancouver's restaurants...
And in fertility-related news...I've been doing OK on the hormones in the birth control pills I'm taking, although earlier in the week I puked for no reason (probably unrelated, but on the other hand, I never puke) and I've been feeling a little moody (not too bad) and worn down (not sleeping great...also probably unrelated). AND, today I start Lupron shots! Not looking forward to those, but it's one step closer to the transfer...
Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!
XO