IVF #4 and Life

Yesterday was a LONG day. Up at 5:30 to get my husband to his PT apt. PT went well he can't really use his arm at all no lifting of anything hardly any movement it has to stay in the sling, just can move his hand and do a few exercises with his shoulder shrugging, he won't be able to even start back to lifting till almost end of Dec. and then through Jan work on building back strength so this is going to be a long process.

Then I drove to my RE apt Scott helped keep me awake and focused but it was really hard to get there and back driving. We decided to do the karyotyping testing and had blood drawn for me and Scott, only bummer is it can take a few weeks to get the results and we can't move forward with IVF till we know if something genetic is wrong. Talked over a plan to start in on Ganirelix or Cetrotide right away with the Follistim (instead of day 5-6) to keep the LH surge down as it may help PCOS patients have better egg quality and that they also only use lupron now to trigger to prevent OHSS. My RE is going to send in the info to my insurance to see if we can get approval for the PGD/PGS testing of the embryo's that is another thing that may help just in the aspect of telling them which one's would be normal and which one's not meaning I would probably mc those not normal one's so we don't transfer them. Also means all of them could be abnormal too. Don't have the results of my AMH or LMH in yet but he said either way we would start at the max of Follistim 450IU again. So right now it's more waiting and praying that the karyotyping is normal and if we see any issues during the sono like the tiny cyst that we can just drain it, and this all getting done before Dec. 31st.

Figure my goal next few weeks while waiting is eat healthy and lose the weight I put back on so back to exercise and a detox. Also will give my dh some time to recover from his shoulder surgery before we start in on stimming and apt's etc. for IVF. I don't think I will be able to get to IL to see Dr. K this time around with my dh not able to drive there so not sure if I will get her opinion on things yet or not this time around. Hoping to get some much needed sleep today and tomorrow as I am so exhausted from this week's activities my body really needs it.