They transferred embryo number 7, I wore the goofy socks, and my pets are all being more cuddly than usual. That's all lucky, right?! 😅
The original protocol called for aspirin too, but I'm allergic. If I was on both, I'd look like an overripe banana!
I'm currently undergoing IVF and the hormone cocktail I'm on had caused my breasts to swell. I previously wore 28D/DD, but my 28DD Freya Love Note bra is barely keeping up and my current lounge bras are basically nipple covers. My sports bras feel like they're trying to bisect me.
I measured tonight at a 30DD. I'm looking for a low to mid impact sports bra that I can wear to work. (I prefer to not wear underwire bras to work as I'm an RN).
Underbust:
Loose: 29.5"
Snug: 28.5"
Tight: 27.5
Bust:
Standing: 34"
Leaning: 34.5"
Lying: 33.5"
Any recommendations that I can order online in the Midwestern USA?
I'm on my clinic's autoimmune protocol for a FET. The medication routine is large with multiple injections, and I'm off my ADHD meds, so I'm fishing for dopamine wherever I can find it!
Do you have a favorite mocktail or iced coffee recipe? If so, please share!
Lupron is clearly not my friend and everything makes me want to cry today
I was instructed by my primary care doctor to ask my REI if I should continue my ADHD meds during my embryo transfer. The response I got back was "you'll need to consult your prescribing provider". I mentioned in my current med list that I'm taking Xyzal and was told by my coordinator that I'll "need to consult my prescribing provider" about whether to continue that during pregnancy, even though the IVF clinic is putting me on Claritin leading up to my transfer and there's no reason for me to take TWO allergy meds. The third strike was today when I asked if there's anything I can do for my Lupron side effects because I'm having massive mood swings and depression and I was told that there's nothing they can do and I should consult my primary care doctor. 🫠
Is this normal? Do REIs really not keep track of what medications are permissible during their treatment plans? Or is my coordinator just being lazy and passing the buck?
I barely have the bandwidth to put pants on, and I feel like I'm having to coordinate my own care because their IVF nurse coordinator doesn't want to do more than send boilerplate respoy
I *didn't* actually throw anything at her but I definitely started citing research studies. I've been actively reading research in fertility spaces for 8 years and endometriosis groups for 3. If I'm wrong show me where you read it, but don't come at me with "ugh, you need to read more".
Last night's theme was too tired and overwhelmed to heat up a frozen dinner. Today I'm contemplating a DIY wolf cut and trying to ignore the siren song of the hair dye under the bathroom sink.
I've always had a bloodhound nose, but I'm on a new medication, and odors have become the bane of my existence. Body odor, stale coffee, ketones on someone's breath, and someone's cologne have all nearly sent me running for the bathroom today. Waking past the trash cans in the cafeteria feels life navigating a mine field.
A lot of the "nose saver" tips I've used in the past were for acute, time-limited situations (like a big cleanup or particularly odorous patient). But it's almost everything. Someone suggested the classic wearing a mask with Vicks, but I'm concerned that people will assume that I'm sick rather than trying to avoid certain smells.
Would it be weird to just wear a surgical mask all day in an occ health clinic? Or just when I'm dealing with patients?
I'm going to start by saying that I tend to have a keen sense of smell on a good day. I've been on lupron and birth control for about a week for my clinic's autoimmune protocol prior to an embryo transfer. This is the first time I've been on both of these medications for this long of a time, and suddenly I cannot stand strong smells. I unfortunately work in a chicken plant, and I nearly puked in the parking lot today from the smell. Other culprits so far have been someone's BO, the coffee smell in my office, and a vaguely unpleasant food smell in the fridge. All of them are instantly stomach turning.
Has anyone else experienced this? And do you have any strategies for managing it?
It was pizza and cupcakes. I immediately got an "I know you eat healthy but-..." from the chaplain, who still thinks that my gluten free status is a healthy-eating thing instead of a puts-me-out-of-commission thing.
Maybe it wouldn't bother me so bad if I wasn't already hungry, off my ADHD meds, and trying to eat my baked beans with chopsticks because I'm off my ADHD meds and forgot to bring a fork. But now I want a cheap, sugary grocery store bakery cupcake! 😭
I have an unopened Gonal F 300 pen that I'm not going to use. It was ordered to replace one in the clinic's stock that they gave me to finish up my last cycle, but it got warm in shipping, so it needs to be used by August 18th. It has the needles to go with it in the box.
I live in the Springfield, MO area
We had him in a large field where a lot of people will take their dogs to let them get some off-leash time. One of the people near there has chickens in an unfenced yard. Oso has shown no interest in the chickens previously, but today he got a crazy hair after chasing a rabbit and chased the guy's chickens. No chickens were harmed fortunately, but we had a lot of apologizing to do with a very angry neighbor holding a baseball bat.
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Oso seems utterly clueless why I'm upset. 🤦🏼♀️
The Safe Spoon on East Sunshine is a gluten-free, allergy friendly cafe and has a sister bakery called Sensitively Sweet in Nixa.
I tried their pancakes for breakfast this morning and was thoroughly impressed. The pancakes are fluffy! Not quite gluten fluffy, but still a nice change from the super flat ones you get other places. I'll have to go back some time to try their lunch menu.
Maybe some of what's annoying me is semantics, but if a clinic wants me at an appointment at 10 AM for an 11 AM procedure, why tell me that my appointment time is 11AM?
Standard appointments request you arrive 15-20 minutes early to complete paperwork. Surgeries usually give you an arrival time in addition to a scheduled surgery time. But the specialist I'm working with? Not only did I have zero choice in when my appointment was, I found in the paperwork that I need to be there an hour prior to my scheduled appointment (with no rationale given). This wasn't mentioned when I spoke to the coordinator. It's not on any of the scheduling notifications; it's just in one of the dozen information leaflets that they sent me.
It's been hard work for him because he wants to be friends so badly and he forgets that he's a big guy
So, I'm not pregnant yet, but the IVF meds have turned my boobs into angry water balloons and I'm currently quadding out of all but 2 of my bras. 😳 I was a 28D/DD depending on where I was in my cycle but I'm 1 week into meds and I'm already a 28E.
Underbust:
Loose = 28"
Snug = 27.5"
Tight=26.5"
Bust:
Standing= 32.5"
Leaning =34"
Lying =32.5"
I'm currently living in a 28DD Freya Love Note long line and it's becoming a sensory nightmare; the lace never bothered me before, but currently it itches! I have a 30E bra that I bought during a bra emergency while on Clomid, but it was bought in haste, isn't a great fit, and the under wires stab me in the pits currently. My left breast stages a jail break on anything I have that's smaller.
The nearest specialty shop that actually gives AF and isn't going to shove me into a bigger band for their convenience is in Tulsa, so I'm likely going to be ordering whatever I buy. Does anyone have some recommendations?