Today was the day, and a day it has been.
Firstly, because I'm not going to sit here and lie on my own blog, I want to tell you how Negative Nancy I've been. I cried on the phone to my mother last night for a half hour because I just knew this cycle was not going to go well. I keep having these flashes of my mother stepping off the plane to me, in tears, devastated and unable to compose sentences again.
This morning in the parking lot of the fertility clinic, I told BJ I didn't want to get out of the car. I said, "Let's not and say we did." BJ replied, "C'mon, let's go." So I did...I do listen occasionally, but it's by free will.
Before you yell things like, "It's not going to work if you don't want it," and "Your thoughts are powerful." may I remind you of the fact that positive thinking only got us to round 2 of IVF with nothing but a huge dent in our bank accounts. Would you tell a cancer patient that if they relaxed and thought positively (maybe throw in a macrobiotic diet) they would get better? That worked so well for Steve Jobs. (Sorry if that's too soon for my geekier friends, I hate that he's gone too. Damn granolas and their holistic bs...) Scientifically/philosophically speaking, things are gonna go how they go just like they went how they did in August.
I was ashamed that I felt so negatively last night. Too ashamed to tell my husband. But I did this morning, and he told me about the Stockdale Paradox. This Stockdale guy is pretty amazing and describes my situation perfectly. I'm not comparing myself to a POW, or a cancer patient, but please realize I do have a disease, and I am a patient. I think that is one of the most difficult things for breeders to understand when a friend suffers with infertility.
Relaxing, head-standing, adopting-to-induce-spontaneous-conception or any other natural method is pretty much giving the macrobiotic diet a whirl in lieu of chemotherapy and radiation. I'm not sure this IVF cycle will work. I want to have a baby more than anything in the world. This is my paradox and if you take the link, you'll see it's not only rational to have these conflicting thoughts, it can save your sanity. So I read it, and now I feel better.
So much so that I am willing to share my results.
Estrogen Level: 20.0 August Baseline 37.3 Desired results <50
So I'm over-achieving in this area, but I don't think how low necessarily makes a difference so long as it's below 50. One website says the lower you are the better your response to stims...so YAY!
Progesterone Level: .333 August Baseline .252 Desired results <1.5
Little higher than last time, but still nowhere close to 1.5, so I think it's all good. We want this one to stay low until after the retrieval, and then I want it at 40 by 5dpt.
LH level: 2.86 August Baseline 4.16 Desired results <7
Better, it means my ovaries are "quieter" as the specialists like to call it. They are more easilty taken hostage by stimulation medications.
Baseline Scan: 12-15 follicles on each ovary August Baseline 5-7 on each Desired results 10-12
Yeah buddy! That's potentially a lot of eggs and I just need 1!
So, yeah, I'm a little bit excited again. I also know I'm gonna be alright no matter what.
Peace, Love and Last One of These,
Mary Katherine
Firstly, because I'm not going to sit here and lie on my own blog, I want to tell you how Negative Nancy I've been. I cried on the phone to my mother last night for a half hour because I just knew this cycle was not going to go well. I keep having these flashes of my mother stepping off the plane to me, in tears, devastated and unable to compose sentences again.
This morning in the parking lot of the fertility clinic, I told BJ I didn't want to get out of the car. I said, "Let's not and say we did." BJ replied, "C'mon, let's go." So I did...I do listen occasionally, but it's by free will.
Before you yell things like, "It's not going to work if you don't want it," and "Your thoughts are powerful." may I remind you of the fact that positive thinking only got us to round 2 of IVF with nothing but a huge dent in our bank accounts. Would you tell a cancer patient that if they relaxed and thought positively (maybe throw in a macrobiotic diet) they would get better? That worked so well for Steve Jobs. (Sorry if that's too soon for my geekier friends, I hate that he's gone too. Damn granolas and their holistic bs...) Scientifically/philosophically speaking, things are gonna go how they go just like they went how they did in August.
I was ashamed that I felt so negatively last night. Too ashamed to tell my husband. But I did this morning, and he told me about the Stockdale Paradox. This Stockdale guy is pretty amazing and describes my situation perfectly. I'm not comparing myself to a POW, or a cancer patient, but please realize I do have a disease, and I am a patient. I think that is one of the most difficult things for breeders to understand when a friend suffers with infertility.
Relaxing, head-standing, adopting-to-induce-spontaneous-conception or any other natural method is pretty much giving the macrobiotic diet a whirl in lieu of chemotherapy and radiation. I'm not sure this IVF cycle will work. I want to have a baby more than anything in the world. This is my paradox and if you take the link, you'll see it's not only rational to have these conflicting thoughts, it can save your sanity. So I read it, and now I feel better.
So much so that I am willing to share my results.
Estrogen Level: 20.0 August Baseline 37.3 Desired results <50
So I'm over-achieving in this area, but I don't think how low necessarily makes a difference so long as it's below 50. One website says the lower you are the better your response to stims...so YAY!
Progesterone Level: .333 August Baseline .252 Desired results <1.5
Little higher than last time, but still nowhere close to 1.5, so I think it's all good. We want this one to stay low until after the retrieval, and then I want it at 40 by 5dpt.
LH level: 2.86 August Baseline 4.16 Desired results <7
Better, it means my ovaries are "quieter" as the specialists like to call it. They are more easilty taken hostage by stimulation medications.
Baseline Scan: 12-15 follicles on each ovary August Baseline 5-7 on each Desired results 10-12
Yeah buddy! That's potentially a lot of eggs and I just need 1!
So, yeah, I'm a little bit excited again. I also know I'm gonna be alright no matter what.
Peace, Love and Last One of These,
Mary Katherine
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