I have my doctors appointment tomorrow for the baseline and instructions on administering my shots. Looks like I will be starting tomorrow evening on Follistim and Menopur! Excited, but nervous! My ER is scheduled to be between January 31st and February 7th.

So I am starting my medicine tonight and had my baseline appointment today, with instruction son how to administer the shots. I will say that I was a bit overwhelmed, but I start tonight and am getting excited. I will be taking 200mg of Follistim and 2 powders of Menopur, then adding in Garnerelix for stim.

Kathleen good luck with the shots and please share about it. I start menopur on Sunday and I'm nervous.

DAgnes, I will be taking the birth control pills until Jan 29 which is next Thursday.

I am doing my second round in Feb. Just started BCP yesterday and retrieval scheduled for Feb 23.
I did long Lupron the first time around, and this time they have me planned to do a micro-flare protocol. I'm not sure what is different really. The protocol looks basically the same as last time, which failed obviously, so I am kind of disgruntled and don't have much hope for this time around.

Hey girls Shazzette the shots are not as bad as I imagined. The only thing is that it burned a little when it went in and the assembling an mixing of the solutions was a bit confusing, but YouTube helped. All in all not bad! Dont be nervous!

Heather welcome! Wishing you the luck this time around and hopefully the doctors have a plan for you, maybe they will change some things later? Keep us posted!

Hi heatherttc,

I am so sorry that it did not work! Disappointed is not a strong enough word for that. But do not lose hope! There are so many elements to IVF. My friend was in the same spot as you 8 years ago. First didn't work, but the drs didn't change the protocol. The second one worked. Let's hope this will be your story too!!

Kathleen,
This is exciting! How did the shots go?? Did it hurt? Did you do it yourself or asked hubby? Please share about the whole experience!!

DAgnes, they were not bad. I had hubby do them, alrhough some nights I may be doing them on my own. The one burns a little going in and its a bit technical putting then together ( i feelt like a chemist!) but really the experience is not bad the needles themselves dont hurt was a bit sore but nothing to hard to handle! It was pretty painless! Goid luck keep us posted!

Anyone else start?? If not when??

Good morning ladies

I just did my first shot of buserelin. The needle just felt like a pin prick but the medicine burned when going in. I definitely think I can get used to this.

Hi ladies. Sorry I'm a little behind on the posts because I've been battling a nasty cold for the past few days. Looks like you gals already started injections! Glad that the fear is gone now. Honestly, and this is coming for a gal who is deathly afraid of needles, the injections aren't so bad. If anything, the sting of the medication after its injected was worse than the injection itself. I found that icing the area before injecting helped (as well as playing fruit ninja on my phone while hubby stabbed my butt haha).

BTW, Kathleen, my nurse told me to stop taking any supplements once I start stimming. Prenatals, of course, are okay.

My update: I am still on BCP's. I just received my schedule (about freaken time!). I am on an antagonist protocol and will be starting injections on 2/6. I had, yet another, obstacle thrown at me 2 days ago. My clinic called me all excited saying that hubby and I need to rush in for a blood sample that they need to send to my pgd lab. And that there's a chance that the pgd tests won't be ready in time. Hmm, how did they come across this discovery? Because earlier this week, I decided to touch base with the two labs to make sure they both have everything they need from one another. Had I not taken the liberty to do that, they would have never realized this. God knows what would have happened to my cycle. There have been several times that they've dropped the ball. This is a new clinic I'm working with and I'm not feeling comfortable at all :-/

Paris: That is awful! It is good that you are staying on top of things and if it seems that that is how they are going to be, I would continue. Hope your cold gets better and you can finally get started! See I am not afraid of needles at all, I dont realy know what my fear was! I have never been sickly, and I guess that I was so nervous that I wasnt going to do them right! I will try the ice, they dont actually hurt going in, like Shiazzette said, it just burns gong in. I have found that the Follistim pen is the easiest because its pre-loaded and you really dont have to do much!

I had my routine blood and ultra sound, yesterday and they said that every thing looks normal and that I dont not have to change my dosage. I am having a hard time giving up coffee! I think I need to just do it, any suggestions?

I was also told that I cannot go to the gym which makes me sad because running is a great de-stresser for me, looking for other alternatives to deal with the hormones and the stress and anxiety of this process. Well keep me posted ladies and I will do the same.!

Thank you Kathleen. Good to hear everything is going well with your cycle so far.

I would highly recommend giving up the coffee right away though. Even if it's just switching to decaf for a little bit (although decaf still has some caffeine). We go through so much, why not change our lifestyle for a few short months to help us accomplish such a major goal. Trust me, I was a Starbucks addict, but I stopped cold turkey (might have cheated with half a cup of coffee about 6/7 times in the last two months) because it it's going to help increase my chances of better egg quality even by 1% then hell I'm going to do it! None of it is scientifically proven but why take that chance?

I hear you, I will stop today! I will just have to go cold turkey, I hope it is not too late :/ Everything looks normal with my blood work and follilcals, it looks like I have a few more days with the shots, at the same dose for now and I will hopefully be Schelling my ER this week!

Hello ladies,

This forum has gone quiet. Anybody else start their shots as yet?

Mine are going well. I did the first one and hubby has been doing them ever since. I watch tv while he does it and I hardly feel a thing. Today is my last birth control pill.

Hello,
I am doing well with my shots, with some side effects. I added Ganirelix three days ago and my retrieval may looks like it will be Sunday (possibly Monday). Yesterday I went to the dr and they said I had 7 follicles. Ive been pretty bloated, boobs KILL me, and started some headaches, also crampy at times. They also upped the Menopur and I am still taking the Follistim. Looking forward to my Retreival! I will keep you guys posted.

Shazzette, the shots are ok, the burning sucks, but all in all was not as bad as I thought, especially when hubby does them! What does your schedule look like as far as retrieval?

Hi everyone,

I hope all of you are doing well. Nothing new with me so far. I have another week to go before my baseline ultrasound on February 6. That's also the day I start menopur. My retrieval will be somewhere between February 16-18. It still sounds far away but the time seems to be flying.

Where is everyone else in their schedule?