TTC - IMSI cycle #1 - CD11 - CANCELLED

Today was our second scan, to see how these follicles were growing. I knew they were doing something as I was starting to get pretty uncomfortable on the right side. I went to this scan by myself as DH had an appt and a lecture this morning so went in for bloods, this time running late because I slept in, still managed to get my blood on the first courier of the day, only just tho.

Made it to my appt on time, luckily my fertility clinic is in the same block as my blood centre. It was an 8.40am appt this time so busier than normal. I didnt have to wait long. I was having a med student for my appt this morning which I dont mind at all, im a special case so if they can learn from me all the better!

I had my specialist this morning which was great, she knows my case well so we got straight into it. Starting on my left we saw only 5 leading follicles but still only at 14-15mm, bugger, straight away was a disappointing result. Both her and I had a hunch that we would find something going on on the right, especially with the aching i was starting to experience. Took a while to find it today but when she did it was obviously a better result. 12 follicles!!! with lead follicles at 19-21mm. Are you kidding me?!?! She explained to the med student would be an otherwise good result if we could access that ovary. Time to get dressed and talk about our options.

As soon as I sat down I knew what was coming. "Not the results we were hoping for, i think we are going to have to cancel this cycle" which is what i was hoping she would say actually. It means we retain the funding for another full cycle and try and get better results, especially when paying $1k ontop of the cycle for IMSI. The fact id given myself 10+ injections to get to this point didnt bother me as we decided to add 3 more orgalutran injections to stop my follicles from ovulating and hope that they shrink away to avoid the great deal of pain I was in last cycle, lets hope it works. Not feeling as disappointed as i thought I would, i think its because deep down I know this is happening for a reason, surely. 

So, here we go again! Waiting for Cycle #3. I have to wait a full cycle out to make sure the meds are out of my system then try to book on for the cycle after that so looking at July/August now.

Plan now is to look at the option of paying for surgery on top of our last funded cycle to either attempt to relocate my right ovary or to collect from the follicles laparoscopically. We are not keen to risk cancelling over a bad result again as this cycle still probably could have continued if we had that option this time round as 17 follicles could have been plenty. We've got the time now to research so my next posts will be about what I find out. 

Onwards and upwards right... Its not over yet.