The short version: It's pretty much decided we won't be getting pregnant this cycle.
The long version: What I've been worried about since the first sono is basically coming to fruition. They are almost certain that if I don't have OHSS (over-stimulation) after the retrieval, they are pretty certain a pregnancy would trigger it.
My estrogen levels are through the roof and I just have a whole bunch of eggs.
In the end, this is a good problem to have in that they are hopeful we will have A LOT of eggs to work with and hopefully make as many high quality, wonderful embryos as they can.
So this is what will most likely happen:
- Continue meds tonight
- Go in tomorrow for another sono and bloodwork to confirm we're ready to go
- If it looks good, we'll do the trigger shot tomorrow night and the egg retrieval Thursday morning.
- From there, they will still do the monitoring routine for 6 days and let us know how things are progressing in the lab.
- If our embryos look bad and they don't have many or think they will survive a freeze then they may decide to do the transfer anyway so that this whole round isn't a bust.
- If the embryos are good quality and plentiful then they will freeze all that they can.
After that, we wait out the end of this cycle. When the next one begins, I'm back on birth control, followed by Lupron to prep my body to receive the thawed embryos (1 or 2 only). It should be an easier cycle in that there's less monitoring and drugs.
He also said that in their current studies, they were having better pregnancy rates with frozen cycles versus fresh. Recently out of 20 women they tested this process with, 18 are pregnant. So he's confident that my odds of pregnancy are even higher going this route. He also said that this may be how they do all IVF cycles in the future if the stats stay as high as they are.
So that's where we're at. Still hopeful but will need to have a bit more time and patience.
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