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5 week hcg test results:

5 weeks 1 day – actual hcg reading 1293 (not the “1200-ish” result previously given) up from 197 seven days earlier

Progesterone – 19 down from 33 seven days earlier.

Medications:

Additional 200 mg progesterone pessary (making total of 3 x 200 mg daily) commenced three days ago on the day of the follow up hcg test.

Progynova 3 x 2mg daily. Continue reading The truth about progesterone and hcg

We all survived the weekend.

After a 4 am start to run and catch a plane, Wobbles was home by mid-morning. We promptly came home and laid down while I took a pessary. I quickly told Wobbles my worries before he fell asleep. I was to follow soon after, with kitties curled up between us.

What I had not wanted to tell Wobbles over the phone was that on Thursday night I had started to have odd cramping pains. Okay, I have been having crampy pains since prior to ET, and they have continued all the way through and seem strangely comforting now. But the ones that began on Thursday night were different. Distinctly to my left side and incredibly low – in the pubic region. Some stage that night on one of my frequent visits to the bathroom, I discovered the tiniest – and I mean pin-prick size – dot of blood. I was convinced a big bleed was about to begin. Continue reading 5 weeks 3 days

Day 17 post 5 day transfer

Hcg 1200-ish (up from 197 seven days earlier)

Progesterone pessary 200mg x 2

Progynova 2mg x 3

The nurse was saying all the right things when she phoned with the results of the follow up (7 day) HCG test. Something did not feel that right.

The questions that followed were a giveaway: Continue reading Seven Days On

The ability to make lines appear on sticks with your own pee is quite a heady experience. Ask any infertile who has longed to have that particular skill. We have all desired at some stage the chance to see that second line appear.

Less than a week ago, I entered my second term of Magic Stick Powers. Then, even though our history of infertility bad luck seemed to be changing before our eyes, it was still a time fraught with fear and difficulties. In many ways, those feelings made it almost identical to all previous steps along the way with IVF. Tuesday I had a continued discharge, a loss of my nausea symptoms and other changes that led me to presume our almost good news was about to become more like our usual downbeat IVF news. Continue reading The Clouds of Tomorrow