..AF arrived, STIMS have started & 2nd follie check..

I am SOOOOO sorry for my delay in posting an update.  I have been so tired this past week or so I just haven't had the energy to type and think about what I want to say. But here I am, and I have lots to update you all on. 

AF
In my last post I was asking where the heck AF was.  Well, on Friday AM I called my nurse at my fertility clinic, told her AF had not arrived and we scheduled an appointment for me to come in the following day (Sat) for US/BW.  Little did I know that AF would show that afternoon in FULL FORCE!!!  If AF would have showed up on time, a CD2 appointment would have been made for that Sat, so it was perfect timing that I needed to make the appointment thinking AF wasn't going to show.  AF has not been nice, but I'm very happy she showed.

CD2 appointment
My appointment was at 8 AM Sat morning.  The US showed a cyst (of course) around 4 mm (cm?) not sure of the size, but it was 4 something.  They didn't seem too concerned about it but that they would have a better answer when my blood results came in.  About 4:30 that afternoon, I got the call to go ahead and start stims that night. Here is a look at Stim day 1-4 before 1st follie check:

• Sat night = 150 iu of Gonal F & 150 iu of Menopur
• Sun AM = 300 iu of Gonal F
• Sun PM = 150 iu of Gonal F & 150 iu of Menopur
• Mon AM/PM = same routine
• Tues = 1st follie check @ 8 AM

1st Follie Check
My cyst made it hard to see things.  The tech and the RE that I saw that morning said my cyst was squishing my follicles making it hard to see/find them and to see any type of measurements.  They said they saw at least 2.  The RE said schedule a 2nd follie check for Thursday and let's wait and see how your blood work comes back.  Well, not so good.  My estrogen was 26.4 on Sat before starting stims.  Day 4 of stims my estrogen was 38.1.  This is very low meaning and should be over a 100 by now.  So they said to continue my same dosages and come back in on Thursday and cross our fingers that we see a rise in my estrogen and that my follicles have grown and are more visible.  Lupron may have suppressed my ovary too much.  Unlike that last cycle, they were trying to prevent me from having that one leading follicle making it hard for the other's to grow or at least catch up.  But now we are experiencing the opposite where there may be little to no follicles and a very low estrogen level.

My 2nd follie check is tomorrow at 8AM and I'm just praying things look better.  I'm trying to stay positive but it's hard when there are always so many ups and downs in an IVF cycle.  Please let this be our miracle baby Lord!:)  I don't feel as much tugging and pulling in my ovary like I did last time, but I think this approach (the slow growing approach) might be the trick to get us our BFP! So we shall see.

Thanks again for your continued love and support!  Means so much to us.

I'll update tomorrow night on how my 2nd follie check went.

Talk to you soon,
Lauren