Low on Progesterone: This weekend we were in my husband's hometown visiting with his parents, his brother & family, and his 3 grandparents. So great to see everyone and hang out. On Saturday night, I got some texts from my sister saying that she had run out of progesterone after her evening shot. Unfortunately, since we were out-of-town - I had my progesterone with me and didn't have any extra at our house. Since her progesterone was so high last week - I told her that it definitely would not be a big deal for her to miss her progesterone shot on Sunday morning and that she could use some of mine for her Sunday evening shot. Since we have to use speciality pharmacies for our fertility meds, I told her that I would call the doctor's office on Monday and get some more ordered. I was a little surprised that we ran out before the beta tests - you'd think they would've given us enough to at least make it through that. I felt bad that my sister was stressing over it - but my husband and I were not the least big concerned. We just felt bad that she felt bad about it. This morning I called and left a voicemail for Nancy/McKenzie asking if they could call in a prescription for me for progesterone. I also told them that since my sister is taking 1 mL in the morning and 1mL at night - a 10mL vial would only last her 5 days. So I wasn't sure if I should get two 10 mL vials to get us through Monday - since I need 1/2 mL a day. I missed McKenzie's call - so she left me a voicemail. In her voicemail, she let me know that if we had enough to get us through today, I could just order the refill through the mail-order pharmacy (which is a little cheaper) and they could have it arrive by Tuesday. She also let me know that my sister should only be taking 1mL in the morning and no shot in the evening, since she's doing the progesterone suppository. I knew my sister would feel bad - but I'm 1000% confident that she was following the directions that they told her. Sounds like she got her instructions over the phone on the Friday before the transfer - she said she wrote it down and repeated it back to them. I feel bad that they didn't go over the post-transfer instructions when we left the office on Tuesday or write it out for her. We have reassured her that is really is no big deal and that too much progesterone is much better than not enough progesterone. Hopefully the extra progesterone is helping the little embryos to get warm/cozy inside of her womb. As long as she doesn't get the shakes as she goes down from 2mL to 1mL a day of progesterone, we should be good to go. I refilled our prescription with the mail-order pharmacy this morning and it will arrive tomorrow. We should have more than enough to get us through Monday. "Why Monday?" you may be asking. From past experience, I know that even if Thursday brings negative test results for both of us - they will ask us to continue our shots and re-take the blood test on Monday. Even though the chance of the test becoming positive are pretty much impossible - they always have you take the 2nd beta test regardless.
No Symptoms: Lots of folks have been asking how my sister and I are feeling. Unfortunately, despite a few new-found zits that we are jokingly referring to as "pregnancy zits" - we really don't have any symptoms to report. My sister thinks it's still too early in the pregnancy to be noticing any symptoms anyway. If either of us are pregnant on Thursday, we would be considered 4 weeks pregnant.
The 28th: Speaking of Thursday, we are getting a little more scared as the day approaches. When we were walking back from my sister's house tonight, we were joking about how we'd be okay with skipping Thursday this week. Then my husband said that he's going to feel the worst for my sister on Thursday if things don't pan out. We just don't want her to feel bad after all she's done to try to help us out. He went on to say that we've been through this before and know we can handle it - but this will be a different experience for her since she's been so involved. Of course we're hopeful that there's going to be great joy on Thursday for all to share - but you just never know what's going to happen. My emotions are swinging back and forth between the two extremes. Part of me thinks "This has just GOT to work this time." And then the other part of me wonders how these results could be any different than what we've received in the past. On Saturday night after my husband went to bed, I was reading through some of my previous negative beta test result posts (from February & May of 2011) and I definitely teared up a couple times. I'm definitely still hopeful that we are going to get good news. And I know that even if we do get a positive test on Thursday - it would just be the first of many hurdles in the pregnancy that we'd need to get through. But we've never gotten a positive pregnancy test in our 5+ years of trying and 4+ years of various fertility treatments. So getting past this pregnancy test hurdle would be a great milestone. I know it's all out of our control and up to His plan. We are just hopeful that this time is FINALLY going to be our time. Despite the anxious feelings of doubt and fear that are starting to creep in as the 28th draws closer - we are definitely doing our best to keep the faith alive! Until we know the test results on Thursday, we just have to...