I now know what you have all being doing wrong.
After two nights of moderate wine drinking (ok, not so moderate last night, had three glasses of wine!), 2 (two) menthol cigarettes, and a bit of fairly harmless flirting, my ovaries were lulled into a drunken stupor and too tipsy to avoid the Gonal F. Some FSH sneaked through, gave the ovaries a serious kick up the butt, and I have some (many small) follies growing. My E2 seems to be moving up.
Sooooo, for now I am to carry on with the stims and go back on Monday for yet another scan. My husband thinks its all an elaborate hoax on the part of the Dr in order to see me again. I said to him ‘duh. Obviously. Men want me.’ (Dear lord I hope my Dr never reads this blog).
I asked the Dr whether the prolonged period on stims could affect egg quality and he said an emphatic NO. Trying to trust him on this and let him do his job, but its damn hard not to jump in and start giving instructions. Of course now the Dr says he is worried about OHSS. Nice. Dr said “I don’t want 30 eggs”. I said “I don’t either”. Dr said (imagine Belgium accent…) “you zee, wiss theez type of problem, you get nothing, zhen all of a sudden, you get theez explosion of eggs”. Let's hope there is no explosion of any body parts.
So, bugger the pineapple, throw away the wheat grass, dump the barley green. Get yourself some good Chardonnay, throw in some harmless flirting and voila!! You have the schizophrenic responders protocol. Designed and tested by Tertia. Dr Sher has his poor responders protocol, I have mine. Mine is a lot more fun.
Here's my question: Does the wine and pseudo-harmless flirting work without the stims? Cause I've got some time open next week and I'm pretty sure I could fit in some inappropriate moves on the opposite sex.
I, too, will be praying that there is no explosion in any of your bodily organs. I can't say I'll wish the same for your husband - he'll need at least one nice, um, explosion.
Posted by: Julia | 07 May 2004 at 03:50 PM
Great protocol, Tertia. We need to find a peer-reviewed scientific journal that will publish it.
I'm so glad that things are looking up, but like Julia, I'm hoping that they don't go *too* up.
Posted by: getupgrrl | 07 May 2004 at 04:36 PM
Yeah, not too up. I'm still reeling from my ER of 35 eggs...sigh...took a lot (literally) out a me.
Posted by: Cecily | 07 May 2004 at 08:22 PM
Ah, the Schizophrenic Responders Protocol. Sounds heavenly. I'm going to request this protocol for my next cycle. (do you think it would be okay to use cabernet instead of chardonnay?)
Glad to hear things are looking up!
Posted by: Danae | 07 May 2004 at 11:56 PM
Well, I'm glad those follicles suddenly decided to show their faces and join the party. And I like your protocol. A lot. I want to do it tonight, but I'm still in the 2 ww and can't until Tuesday night when I get the negative. But I'll be ready. I might feed myself margaritas intravaneously.
Posted by: Karen | 08 May 2004 at 01:24 AM