Bloody hell!

Excuse the language please but, considering I have only taken 4 days of stims with my total intake of puregon being only 600 iu how many follicles do you think they found on my scan…

wait for it…

32 !!

(plus possibly a few little ones hiding)

Yep, you read that right. Twelve on the left, 20 on the right with a range between 10 and 14mm.

As fantastic as the prospect of many many eggs is, the clinic are of course concerned about hyper-stimulation. So far I am feeling well and not particularly bloated (up until this evening typically!). They have dropped my dosage to 100iu to rescan on Friday, when they may drop it even further, or even stop it all together and allow the follicles to ‘coast’ for a few days on their own.

Worst case scenario (other than me ending up in hospital) is that the cycle has to be abandoned. Of course, this is the the scenario we are both imagining and worrying about but at this stage they are still confident there is a good chance they can monitor me closely and complete the cycle with a good healthy set of eggs. I have to keep an eye on symptoms, with anything too drastic meaning I have to give them a ring.

So Friday is going to be quite a critical scan. Egg collection could even end up being as early as Monday! But a better outcome will keep us with the original date of Wednesday. We will have both my monsters in tow instead of just the little one as its not a nursery day so things could get interesting anyway.

I’ve just eaten a big tea so now I definitely feel like I’m going to explode. I’m off to the sofa for a lie down before I pop