It's all happening!

It's all happening!!!

Sooo, I started my cycle on Sunday and went to the clinic the next day for an ultrasound to make sure I was ready to go!  My follicles and ovaries looked perfect....Dr. Massey said my insides look like a 32 year old's.  (hey, at least my insides can look young, because the outside?  not so much).  Anyway, so they gave me the green light to start taking the meds.  As you can see from the photo, there's A LOT to take.  I take Lupron, multivitamin and baby aspirin in the morning, and Menopur, Gonal F and a steroid at night.  The Lupron has given me the absolute WORST headaches that turn into migraines because I can't take any blood thinners.  I had to leave work the other day because I was puking.  In fact, I puked in someone's front yard.....Merry Christmas!  Other than that, I feel ok.  Just staying cautiously hopeful!  I go to the clinic again on Friday for another ultrasound to make sure the meds are doing what they should be doing and get further instructions. It's looking like a mid December procedure.....please, please cross your fingers and toes.  I can't tell you how wonderful the clinic staff is....so positive and loving towards Dan and me.  We love you all and hope you are having a happy holiday season.  I can't wait to see everyone's holiday cards with the kiddos......here's to hoping we will have one next year to send out!  xoxo

Update

We are moving forward with IVF at the Servy Massey Institute and the protocol officially starts on November 20.  At that time, they will probably do an ultrasound to make sure my uterus looks healthy and give me the fertility drugs that will have to be injected daily. I'm not looking forward to that part at all.  I'm taking something now to optimize my ovarian function and it is seriously painful when I ovulate.  Taking several pills a day is now my new normal.
So after that visit, I wait to get my period, and then on day 2 or 3, I start taking the fertility meds that will prepare my body and force me to overproduce eggs.  Sometime mid-December, Dan and I will head down to Augusta GA for the egg retrieval and transfer.  I have taken two weeks off of work so I won't be stressed and we have the week off after Christmas so it should be a super relaxing time.  I'm not getting ahead of myself or hoping too hard.  I tell people my feeling on everything is "cautiously hopeful".  As I type this, I flash back to that day when I woke up at 5am and realized I had my period and the IVF did not work.  I must not let myself go there.  At least all this is occurring during the holidays so I hope to have plenty of distractions.  Please invite me to your holiday party :)
I will post more when I know more!  xoxo