So Frustrated With My Clinic...And It's So Hard to Make Plans With Fertility Stuff Going On...

I don't think I'm that high-maintenance of a patient...I don't know, maybe I am...but anyway, my nurse said to call or email on cycle day (CD) 1 and they would give me my calendar/let me know next steps for my FET (tentatively scheduled for July 22). This is my first time doing an FET, so I need some guidance. My period started late last night (which I thought would make yesterday CD1), so I emailed this morning and asked that they contact me.

Nothing.

I know it's the weekend...and I don't need much...I just need to know: do I need to start taking some sort of medication today?

After hours, I called the after-hours line and the nurse I got said, "You don't have a calendar? You don't have instructions? Do you know what protocol you're on?" No to all three.

The after-hours nurse told me that since I got my period late in the day yesterday that TODAY, not yesterday, is CD1. And I don't need to start birth control pills until CD3. So that's good.

But I'm so frustrated by the lack on communication on the part of my clinic. I've been working with them for a year and a half and I picked them partly because they're in Colorado, where I live (although I live 4 hours away), and partly because they have phenomenal success rates. We have frozen embryos that we're going to do FETs with, and then we are done as far as medical procedures. I don't really want to leave my clinic because I feel like the medical care there is amazing, but it's hard to get them on the phone, I'm left in the dark a lot I feel, and no one holds my hand or comforts me or gives me support (with a few rare exceptions). If I could do this all over again, I think I would do better at a clinic where they hold your hand a little more...or at least you know they'll get back to you when they say they will and you don't have to call the emergency after-hours line to get answers from someone who doesn't know you and can't understand why you haven't been informed already.

Also, CD1 being today may mess up our whole schedule...we're over in Denver hoping to leave after my appointment which is supposed to be CD5...which was supposed to be Tuesday...but now CD5 may be Wednesday and we're supposed to drive to the West coast to meet friends on Thursday, which give us no time to get home and pack...but if the appointment on CD5 goes bad we can't go on vacation anyway...

Ugh...it's so hard to make any sort of plans with this going on. This comes first, but still, I'm trying to keep my life as normal as possible while this is going on...

This will all be worth it. This will all be worth it. This will all be worth it.

XOXO