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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Possible transfer this week

I haven't posted an update in awhile.  Mostly due to the fact that things have either been incredibly uneventful or very unknown. Last Wednesday I went in for monitoring. I was told to plan for a tentative transfer date of 6/21 but don't book travel yet as that may change. They said they'd know more after I got monitored on Friday. Went in on Friday. My doc (yes my actual doc - not my nurse(!)) called that afternoon. He said it looked like I was ready to ovulate which shouldn't happen. After a brief, mostly one-sided conversation as I was at work, he recommended that we bump up the transfer date to 6/17.  The other option was that I take ganirelix to put off ovulation for a couple days and still come in on 6/21. Problem with that though was it was late Friday afternoon and I don't know of specialty pharmacies around here where I could get ganirelix (can't just go to cvs for that med!). My local clinic would've known but they were closed for the day and don't answer the phones on the weekend.  So doc bumped up the transfer to 6/17 and said a nurse would be contacting me shortly regarding further instructions involving starting progesterone shots on 6/12 (Sunday). I am to go in for 1 more local monitoring session tomorrow and again at 6am Friday morning the day of transfer. 

So all was set. I went home that night and bought plane tickets to Newark for Thursday. But then I started getting ovulation pains on my left side and they continued thru Saturday morning. Back when I was charting my temps, I always got ovarian cramping after my temp spike (aka ovulation). I still regularly get those pains right around my ovulation time. So then I started to worry. What if I ovulated too early for the current timeline?  Shouldn't I start progesterone sooner??  Or maybe I should just cancel since my system is supposed to be suppressed anyway.  I want this embryo back asap but I also want to give this the best shot that I can since we won't be doing this again.

So I called my clinic's after hours line on Saturday morning. I got a call back pretty quickly and spoke with a sour, impatient nurse who acted like I was crazy to ask if I should cancel. The nurse said that my self diagnosis of ovulation wasn't a definitive indication of when it occurred or if it even HAD occurred.  Eventually she seemed to calm down and elaborate a bit in order to address my concerns. So in essence, what I finally got out of that call was that ovulation or not, I should still be ok and continue meds as planned. My monitoring appointment on Wednesday will validate that the transfer can move forward or if it should be cancelled. 

For now I guess I just wait til tomorrow. I'm working at home tomorrow so when I get the call I'll be able to ask more direct questions to make sure conditions are favorable for this to work.  Hopefully I will get all the reassurance I need to move forward with transfer on Friday. 

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