IVF #1 CD 13 "The Good and The Bad"

The OHSS started feeling slightly worse yesterday afternoon. I guess it was impossible to avoid it. I started feeling super bloated and uncomfortable from all of the water retention. It feels like when you eat WAY too much and you are super full and uncomfortable, only with this...nothing helps alleviate the bloat! You are just miserable and uncomfortable and have to wait it out. We had a tough night last night with lots of vomiting...booooo!!!! DH was VERY worried and kept reading the OHSS symptoms to see if we needed to go the hospital. He was making me get on the scale to see if I'd put on too much water weight...I haven't! It is just moderate OHSS...so no hospital visits. Just bloated and nauseous this morning. I hope it doesn't last because this is just plain miserable! Please keep me in your prayers that this passes quickly!

I continued the ganirelix injections yesterday and then started the lovenex (blood thinner) injection. I decided to start doing the injections in my thighs since my tummy is so bruised up...I needed a change! The lovenex was fine during the injection, but started stinging a few minutes later...like a bee sting. Oh, how I can't wait to do this every night for the next two weeks! Not! I'm so ready to have my body back and be able to get around like normal, not feel so nauseous, and not be sticking myself with anything!

The embryologist called this morning and out of our 32 eggs that fertilized, ALL 32 have continued to divide normally!!! We are amazed that so many have made it this far...we are in complete shock...never in a million years did we think our response would be this great! This good news is what is helping get me through this difficult stuff....I would go through it all over again!! Grow embryos grow!!!!

Everyone keeps asking me what I did to grow 50 eggs in my tiny 105 pound body! I wish I had some secret potion I could give to you all.....lol! I don't get all this...at all! I feel like such a fertile myrtle....so why if I am THIS fertile am I still not pregnant?! This whole fertility thing makes absolutely no sense to me at all! I wish there was some secret behind all of this...I wish I could tell all you girls what I did to grow 50 eggs in one stinkin cycle! I would have been thrilled with 20, or even 10! What am I going to do with all of these embryos? I just don't have the answers right now....I guess I don't immediately need to, but eventually...I will.

Trying to explain this whole thing to your 54 year old mother is very interesting. I told her that we are going to be freezing all of my embryos and she said "it seems weird that they are going to freeze them, don't they need to stay warm?!" Uhhhhhh.......yeah, okay, let's try this again, Mom. I guess she's already thinking about the safety of her grandchildren....lol!