Monday, April 19, 2010

10dpiui - Holding My Breath...

So I kept peeing on sticks over the weekend. Even 2 FRERs that expired last April. Of course they were both positive...lol. Now I'll never know if it was because of the trigger or the expiration!

But this morning's HPT (doesn't expire till July 2010) was faaaaiiiint positive. There was a clear second pink line though. I keep finding that my trigger isn't out till about 12 days after the shot. My metabolism sucks. At least I know now instead of getting all excited (again). If I still get a postitive tomorrow (12dphcg/11dpiui) then I will really get frigging excited. Like one of those little lap dogs that jumps on people who come though the door. Yep, that'll be me. Lucklily for me, I found a stash of HPTs in my medicine cabinet (it's pretty huge) that includes 6 Answer tests and 3 FRERs. I also have 2 digitals and then two more FRER digitals on the way from Ebay. At least I won't be spending tons of $ on the tests this month. I already bought them (and apparently forgot about 1/2 of them). lol.

As for symptoms? My bbs are getting quite sore. Every.single.month. I get a symptom though and I keep thinking it's from the (stupid) progesterone and then I can't remember how my bbs felt the month before. But I can definitely say the've been hurting since about yesterday.

Finally, for a "funny" story, on Saturday DH was outside weeding (not getting into that part) and I was on teh couch watching Bones on our laptop. All of a sudden I heard my cell phone ringing in the kitchen and it was DH's ringtone. So I ran to grab it thinking something terrible had happened to him outside (instead of just going outside)...oh wait, I had our/my cockatiel on my shoulder (that's another story some other time) so I couldn't go outside. Anyways, I was wearing my cute Sketchers slippers with zero traction and when my foot hit the hardwood floors from the carpeting I had been on, my feet flew out from under me and I slammed on the floor on my right side really hard. The bird started flying around the room screaming, I just laid there trying to figure out if I'd broken a hip or something and couldn't tell if I wanted to cry or not. I eventually got up and went outside after hobbling around, grabbing the bird and putting (shoving) him in his cage. I found DH and he said he accidentally called my phone, he'd meant to call his dad. I didn't think it was funny but he did and now I have a bruise on my hip/butt. It hurts but because the bruise isn't huge (see: In a League of Their Own; bruise scene) he just laughs at me. And I rarely fall. Hrumph.

That was the "highlight" of my weekend. I hope everyone out there had a good one! I'll post daily updates and if I get a BFP tomorrow or any day this week, I promise I'll only post pictures of FRER/Answer tests or Digitals. No more blue-line tests. The're bullcrap.

4 comments:

Lindsay said...

I have my fingers crossed for you!

jkarns said...

Ran across your blog this morning while doing some research on IOWArranty. Going on 6 years of trying with IUIs, and just had our initial IVF at University of Iowa last week. Shooting for August...

Anyway, good luck to you!

Christa said...

Thanks jkarns! Any advice for us for the prelim appt? We can only guess as to how it will go. Thanks and good luck to you too!

jkarns said...

Prepare for a long day! ha. You kinda sit in a room, and a rotating staff of people come in and talk to you. They throw alot at you, but it's good.

We did get a letter this week, informing us that we didn't qualify for IOWArranty, so that sucks. They are doing a test now that is fairly new (March from what we've been told) that determines whether or not we qualify. Seems to be kind of B.S. to me, but...they are the doctors I guess. It's testing the AMH levels, and we fell barely under what they consider normal. (Even though the standard normal is .2 less...) From what we were told (and what I've read) it loosely has to do with ovarian reserve, but is generally used as an additional fertility test and not a primary. The numbers for what is normal are also debated (thus inaccurate), because it hasn't been studied long enough. But, I guess it's a big enough deal for them to not want to "share the risk" but not enough to effect our chances. Kinda frustating. Still trying to get a good answer from someone on whether or not they would have even tested this hormone had we not opted for the IOWArranty program. No one brought it up, until we said, "Yes we'd like to try to do IOWArrnty." All this changes things alot, because alot of available financial aid out there is based off of chances. Taking away the "warranty" makes it a little harder to get money. PLUS, we haven't looked into paying "straight up" because up to this point we've been told we "shouldn't have a problem" getting into the program. Actually, even at the initial appt. that day, we talked to one doctor that said we should be good...then a different doctor came in later on and told us we had to take this AMH test. I dunno...

But, we are still set for this fall...

Here is a link I found, because in looking at your blog...you like to do your research. I'm sure you've heard abou this before and we somehow missed it, but here you go just in case. We thought we were pretty educated, we went in and had no idea about this test. Never came up from any doctor, or any reading we've done. All tests we've had in the 6 years we've been trying...they say we are in the "Undetermined/unknown, everything is healthy, you are just unlucky" category. Seems if this was just a big concern and our number is low...it would have been valid long ago.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. Got kinda long. Good luck!!

http://www.advancedfertility.com/amh-fertility-test.htm

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