Egg pick up Monday 10/5/10
Hi everyone,
Well I have egg pick up booked in for Monday (10th May). This is my first IVF cycle (after 13 months of donor insemination) so I am nervous and excited.
I had a scan on Wed which showed I had 4 large follicles and then alot around the 12 to 16 mark so the fertility nurse recommended we wait for them to grown (though the larger ones will be no good by then). I did have the option of going in for egg pick up today to get them and lose the smaller ones... I hope I made the right choice. It is scary isn't it... all these decisions and you think "**** I hope I made the right choice... I hope I won't end up wishing I had gone the other way."
I had my cycle put on hold for a month whilst I was reimmunised for Rubella and when I had the down reg scan for it I was told that the smaller the EMT lining the follicles the better (as this shows synarel is working well). Well that month I had 0.1 EMT lining and largest follicle was a 6. This month my down reg scan showed 0.4 EMT and largest follicle was a 9 (and I was told if I had any 10's at that time they wouldn't go ahead). I asked the nurse why there was such a difference and she said it just means my hormones are having a party!!!
It made me even angrier that they stuffed up my last cycle by not telling me about the rubella test results earlier as I feel that maybe that cycle would have been more successful. Anyway I have been lucky in that I haven't had any side effects from any of the drugs but I'm so nervous... I just hope it is all worth it and works.
I am doing this on my own and have found that hard in that there is no one to discuss decisions with. I concieved my daughter (now 13) by accident (when using contraception) so never had any of this stress. I split up with her father when I was 16 weeks pregnant so have raised her as a single mum her entire life (and she has never met him) but I didn't go through the early pregnancy stuff on my own. I thought the donor insemination stuff was hard mentally but this is just so much harder.
Are there any other single women on here going through this on their own?
Lori
DD - 13
Started donor search Dec 06, Donor insemination Jan 09-Jan 10 with known donor, now IVF with anon donor sperm.