I will be triggering tomorrow night, for a Sunday egg retrieval. I've got 10 mature and 6 almost-there follicles as of this morning, and another 10 in the maybe-but-not-likely category. My e2 is in the 2200s, so they want to see me tomorrow just to recheck it, and to give me some Dostinex.
I hate to say it, but I just am ready for this to be over. I ache, I'm hormonal, I had a huge nursing exam today and another one on Monday, etc. I was so excited last time when I made it to retrieval. This time, I'm just not.
I know zillions of women would kill to respond like I do. I appreciate my blessing. But the sad truth is, no matter how many mature eggs I get, we still have to add the sperm. I just hope we have better luck this time.
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Good luck sweetie! I can't wait to hear how everything goes!
Keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Best of luck!!!
Let's hope this FET cocktail is the right mix of *stuff* :)
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Hoping everything goes well!!!! FIngers crossed :)
The thing about female fertility is that it tends to be pretty consistent (apart from a general decrease with age), because women are born with all their eggs in place, and we just mature one (really a few, but one ovulates) each month. So when egg quality is poor, it tends to stay that way on successive tries, unless a bad hormonal stimulation protocol was at fault.
But males make millions of totally NEW sperm every day, for their entire lives, and as such there can be a lot of variation depending on what went down over the past 90 days (how long it takes for sperm started on any given day to mature). Of course things like anatomy can influence male fertility, too, but all of the environmental influences can vary greatly along with hormone levels. So, just because for one IVF the sperm quality was problematic, doesn't mean it will be equally problematic the next go round.
So, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this time you'll have a better outcome on the sperm and egg getting together front!
Also, good luck on your exams!
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