I worried all morning that I was not going to make it to the doctor because of the snow but thank God the snow decided to start after I got there. My doctors appointment today had three parts. The first part of the appointment was the trial transfer. They do the trial transfer to see what it is like inside your cervix so they day of egg retrieval there are no surprises. It ended up being really quick.....a little uncomfortable...but it was not to bad at all. The second part of the appointment was blood work. That is one thing about the infertility office, they either take blood, give you a shot, or a combination of both each and every time you go. The third part of the appointment was the shot teach. Honestly, this part was so weird to me. I have been lucky enough to be healthy my whole life so I have never even thought about giving myself shots. The whole time she was showing me how to do it, I know I had a look on my face like you trust me to do this. During the shot teach she taught me how to give myself each shot. The first shot I have to take is called Lupron. Lupron is already mixed so that is one of the easy ones. The second shot I have to take is a mixture of two different medicines called Bravelle and Menopur.This shot it to stimulate my eggs. This shot is a little more difficult because it is 4 vials of meds and water that have to be mixed together. The last shot is the HCG shot which is the trigger shot. I will have to take this shot 35 hours before my egg retrieval. This shot is another one that I have to mix but seems a little easier than the second shot.
Today, I also got a list of all the medicines that will delivered to my house on Tuesday. A totally of 9 different medicines at a whopping 2,100.00. It could be worse through we were originally told that the medicine could be between 2,500 to 5,500. We got lucky because insurance paid for all the pills and we just had to pay out of pocket for the shots.
If anyone has a kid that wants to be a doctor, tell them to go into infertility because they have to make a fortune!
1 comments:
Hey Girl! Thanks so much for posting your updates:) I'm enjoying following your adventurous (sp) journey! I'm so proud of you:) I actually donated my eggs a few years ago and had to do those same shots...but I made E.J. give them to me b/c I would not have been able to do that myself...lol! They ended up not being that bad though, even the trigger shot! I was stressed to the max about E.J. giving me the shot in the booty but it really wasn't bad at all. Anyway, you've got a LOT of people praying for you!!! Keep your chin up:):):) Love you!!!
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