@Suki2020 good job on starting the injections :) I found them very hard at first, psychologically, but it's amazing how quick it becomes 'normal' for most people.
@AliceAbsolum that's promising isn't it?? Are you still determined not to test early?
@Agapanthus13 aw sorry about the line. Will you keep testing every day till the beta? It's so hard to tell anything for sure either way on these early tests.
So I wanted to let you all know how I've been doing, it's been a pretty horrible week for me but right now it's looking like things will work out okay. I actually went to the GP for a wide blood panel, because she wanted to rule some things out after my bacterial swabs (which looked normal but doesn't explain the symptoms of infection I've been dealing with). Long story short, one of the blood tests came back with an indicator for cancer, which was incredibly scary. Here I am thinking I'm an infertility patient and for two days my entire world was turned upside down as I suddenly had to wrap my head around not only stopping fertility treatments but undergoing chemotherapy, I was looking into freezing ovarian tissue and everything. However the blood test is very fickle and can easily be mishandled so they recommended redoing it... and it came back totally normal. Just got the results this morning. I'm frankly quite shaken still, and I do need to have some more tests, but it's nothing urgent now - I'm not actively sick, all of my blood tests (and they took like a million of them) are within the normal range, there's no reason to think anything is wrong and I can carry on with my FET as normal. What a roller coaster. Really put things into perspective.
To get things back on thread topic, I actually got selected to participate in a clinical trial for this FET round, so I'll be doing a medicated cycle which I'm pretty chuffed about, as this means they'll be carefully monitoring my estrogen/progesterone levels, which they wouldn't otherwise have done. The more data the better I think. I am on estradiol tablets now until April 11, where I'm going in for another scan, and then they'll swap me over to progesterone and do my transfer a few days later (I'm not sure exactly when the transfer will be). No trigger shot - actually there will be no ovulation at all in a medicated cycle, which is very surprising to me. Has anyone else been on a cycle like this before?
I was also a bit annoyed with my body's timing, because at my baseline scan I had 26 follicles. In the cycle where I had my retrieval, I only had 16! This is probably a much better cycle and I won't even be ovulating haha.
Oh well. All things considered, I am only feeling thankful and relieved right now and excited to actually be able to carry out this cycle at all.