They take the sperm and inject it directly into the egg instead of placing them in a dish and letting fertilization happen on it's own. It's due to the morphology number that we have to do IVF and that we'll do a process call ICSI, Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection. According to our clinic, all Robbie's numbers are in the low range of normal, except for the morphology. Different clinics use different testing criteria for SAs, so I don't want to say what normal numbers are. Those numbers are pretty in line with all previous tests. It's been a while since he had to have any testing done, so the needed an up to date semen analysis. Robbie wasn't lucky enough to get out on testing this go round. I didn't have to use it last time, and I've heard it's a real pain in the ass, literally. All of the medications are injectables, and the only one I'm nervous about is the PIO. PIO, is a progesterone injection that is taken only after the egg retrieval. Once there are enough mature follicles, Ovidrel is used to finalize the maturation process. Follistim and Menopur are then used to hyper stimulate the ovaries. The list of meds include:įor those of you not familiar with IVF meds, the Lupron is used to down regulate the ovaries and make sure I don't ovulate. However, the protocol has changed a little bit since last time, so there are a couple new drugs I'll be taking. I did a day 21 Lupron protocol then, and will be doing the same protocol this time. My cycle day 3 labs are as follows:Īll of those numbers are within normal range, and pretty similar to where they were for our first IVF cycle. Since we already know from our canceled FET that all looks well internally, all I had to do was give a few vials of blood. Our tests that we had done pretty much dictated the protocol we will follow this time around.
#Kevin hart laugh at my pain dropbox plus
On the plus side our RE's office is helping us get the best possible prices on our meds and informed us of some potential assistance programs for cash paying patients. Sense the sarcasm? Yeah, I laid it on pretty thick. It makes me so glad we pay the ridiculously high premiums we do so that none of this can be covered. Not only is the procedure not covered by our insurance, but neither are any of the medications. We've had some tests done, received our protocol, and started working on getting our meds taken care of. We've had a lot of progress over the last couple weeks when it comes to this next go round. And while I've come to terms with losing all of our embryos, it's still painful to think about. They would have been a couple months old about now. Thinking about the baby or babies that might have been.
Other days I'm sad thinking about our canceled FET and how if the embryos would have survived, we probably wouldn't be going through this right now. Pretty much every emotion in the book can describe how I feel about this. I am excited, scared, nervous, anxious, hopeful. I can't believe we're only a couple months away from the start of our fresh IVF cycle.
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