So it starts. EEK! I'm a mix of excitement and anxiety. I long for the ease of conceiving without planning. If you don't plan you don't get anxious about it! Ah well, that is not the case for us and never has been. I should be used to it but alas I'm not. Anyway I start birth control today. WHAT?! Yes, birth control bills are an infertiles worst nightmare. I'm trying to GET pregnant NOT prevent it. It is, however, a necessary evil in this case. It's ok. I'm not surprised by it. 3.5 years ago I would have broke down and cried if I was told I needed to be on birth control when I was trying so desperately to get pregnant. I'm glad I'm not in that place anymore!
I will be on birth control for 10 days. 5 days from now the dreaded Lupron will start . Tomorrow Eric and I will go into the doc and sign consents for them to thaw our precious embryo's. I'm very anxious to get them back inside of me, "home" if you will. I will be on Lupron for quite some time. Sometime after the 23rd I will start estrogen pills and then start to taper off the Lupron. Then on a Sunday in February I will start progesteron suppositories. I did find out some GOOD NEWS today though. As of THIS year (meaning starting 5 days ago) they have stopped using the progesterone injections. WOOHOO! Another good reason to have waited til now to do this. For those that don't know Progesteron injections (from now on referred to as PIO) are awful, HORRIBLE butt shots. They HURT!!!!! I was on them for about 10 weeks with Madeline. My rear was sore. It hurt to sit. It hurst to lay on my side. It plain ole SUCKED! So I am very glad that I won't have to suffer with that again. BUT I am also in the mindset of "if it ain't broke don't fix it". PIO worked with Madeline so I am a tiny bit nervous about not using it. I have found another reason to be thankful for the pregnancy we lost in July though. I KNOW that my body makes enough progesterone to support a baby. So through the baby that we lost God showed us that my body likes to be pregnant AND can hormonally support a pregnancy. So that eases my mind a bit. Thank you God!
So why, you may ask, does November look like a good month? Well, it seems that our new baby (God willing) will be due in VERY early November.
1 comment:
Oh, I remember those progesterone shots! I had to numb my butt for 20 minutes before and then Kris had to do them because I couldn't get the angle right!
Congrats on getting things started and good luck. We are definitely rooting and praying for all of you!
Beth
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