Contradictory

IF really turns the world upside-down. First the irony of starting the cycle taking birth control pills. Today, I'm celebrating because I'm bleeding! I start my stims tonight and Nurse S and I were a bit concerned because I hadn't started bleeding yet. As I had my HSG on Monday and had been injected with dye, I wanted to make sure to get all that out before starting stims.

We'll be injecting around 9:00 or 9:30 p.m. tonight! Wish us luck! I'm feeling lucky! Lucky and positive.

Jem

HSG = that bad

Yesterday's HSG was worse than I expected, but mercifully fast. 

First of all, they had to use a smaller speculum (really?) after trying a regular one, but after that was shoved up there, my cervix numbed, then the real fun began as the inflexible catheter was rammed in and the dye injected. It was extremely uncomfortable. Okay, it hurt. For about 2 minutes. Luckily, the dye went through my fallopian tubes with no trouble and dumped out the other side. 

All clear!

And then it was over and the offending catheter and speculum were removed and all was good with the world again.

I did take the Val.ium, which helped, as did the acupuncture treatment before then. Mr. Jem droves us home and took a nap. There was some bleeding after, and blue dye. Luckily it's all a blurry memory at this point and Dr. W called to tell me we were all good to go with my stims on Friday. Oh, joy!

Oh, and my baseline sonogram went well, too. I had that in the morning. All was quiet down there.

Jem

Test results

Here's where a negative is a good thing! Everything came back normal, except my cholesterol, which is high. Iron is good, FSH = 7.8 (anything below 10 is good, meaning ovarian reserve is still OK). The Recurrent Pregnancy Panel tests are normal, too. We are still waiting for the Karyotype results which should arrive June 11 or so.

I'm a little worried about my HSG next week - Here's a link to an explanation of what it is, for those who are curious.. Considering how much my embryo transfers hurt... anyone care to share their HSG stories?

Jem