Hi Babydownunder,

A fellow newby here (in fact, this is my 1st post, although I've been lurking for a few weeks). I'm just starting my first ICSI cycle, after never using any fertility treatment before, so I'm in a similar boat to you. Anyway, I just did my first ever Puregon shot this morning. I'm happy to report that it wasn't bad at all. I'm not great with needles and I couldn't even feel the shot as it was sitting in my belly. Now it's been an hour, and I feel a slight twingeing at the injection site (not painful at all), and that's about it. So hopefully that will take away a little of the trepidation for you. I start Orgalutran the day after tomorrow (slightly bigger needle), so I'll re-post and let you know if I found the Orgalutran just as easy.

My biggest fear is that I just found out 2 days ago that I have low AMH (6.9), so now I'm concerned about whether I'll even respond to the shots at all. Before I got the results, my doctor had told me to start off with 225 units of Puregon, but, in light of the results, he bumped me up to 275. (I should mention that I turned 38 2 months ago and have never been pregnant. Before getting this result I had thought that the reason we hadn't been getting pregnant was DH's poor morphology (1-3%).) I was pretty relaxed until I got my AMH result back, but now I'm feeling pretty stressed. I won't get to talk to the doctor about it until I go in for my scan next Wednesday. Oh well . . .

Now I'm also wondering if I might have mistakenly given myself a larger dose of the shot than I was supposed to, but that's for another thread.

Good luck to you and to everyone else who's cycling this month!

KitKat72