IVF transfer #2, day 27: results
I had my initial blood test today for the early pregnancy results. Levels look good which means "positive". The last time I did this, the doctor told me that as of this point (considering we have genetically normal embryos), there was a ~90% chance of success. This time, I asked the nurse and she said she doesn't like to promise anything until there is a heartbeat. So we're just staying in this weird in between phase where you're sort of a tiny bit pregnant and have to act like you're pregnant, but there's no real indicator of anything other than some slightly increased levels. Like last time, I remain astonished that anyone gets pregnant accidentally/easily and just manages to have a baby 9 months later. Crazy!
The nurse also reminded me not to drink alcohol, which of course I'm already not doing. (And not missing it much by the way... wow I feel so much better than normal when I wake up in the morning.) Other things I can't do: eat deli meat or sushi, exercise too heavily, use retinol. I already really really miss the retinol.
And we keep going on the estrace and progesterone shots. My husband asked me the other day how long we have to do the shots for and I said "oh, I think at least a couple more weeks..." We started in mid Feb so I think we're looking at mid to late April. Don't tell him.
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Occasional reminder that I have a tag for talking about my reproductive health called #the estrogen is slapping right now and I take questions about this topic
Suppressing my periods is entirely about pain and isn't about dysphoria, though I am non-binary
We thought it was endometriosis, but I ended up having a laparoscopy that revealed no endo, so we're back to not knowing the cause of my problems
I began the tag when I started on Lupron Depot in September 2022 with Estrace and Movisse/Jencycla as my add-back hormones, but I was previously on Depo-Provera, which we stopped bc it wasn't working and I seemed to be in a withdrawal of some kind only 6-8 weeks after each shot, and I am now on continuous Alysena 21, due to side effects of Lupron that I subjectively didn't like (but someone else may be seeking from such a medication)
I haven't tried anything else to suppress my periods, so I've never had an IUD bc I'm too afraid of it causing damage, I've never tried the patch bc I have garbage skin, the ring isn't covered by my insurance, I went straight to Depo first bc I didn't want to deal with possibly missing my window to take a pill and ending up with bleeding (although I ended up with a lot of bleeding despite the Depo), and Nexplanon has just never been a conversation
Hysterectomy (without oophorectomy) is on the table, so that may happen in my future, just not right now due to both the recovery time and the fact that Alysena is working well so far, but you know I would be writing about it under my reproductive health tag
I've got a really lovely gynecologist (she's the one who proposed hysterectomy to me, a then-26yo with no children) who's following me through all this and I'm seeing her next on February 8th, so I'll ask her then what she now thinks could be putting my hormones out of whack and causing my periods to be so weird and so painful
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