Hot flushes….

so I have been on the buserelin for 2 weeks tomorrow and the hot flushes have well and truly started in fact I am having one right now it’s crazy I was just cold a minute a go… I get them regularly throughout the day but it’s in the morning that is bugging me as I wake up about an hour before my alarm because I’m having a hot flush so I kick the covers off and try to go back to sleep and of course I can’t and then I fall asleep at about 10 minutes before my alarm goes off and then I don’t want to get out of bed haha…. Tiredness is another big big side effect for me all I want to do at the minute is sleep I’m in bed at the minute at 9pm and normally I’m falling asleep to something on TV about 10 minutes later…. It’s a good job I have recorded all my programmes I keep falling a sleep to them. It is not so good for my housework I normally will make sure my house is tired ok I may leave the washing up or hoovering one night but never more than one and I can’t remember the last time I hoovered which is bad. I hate having a messy house but I’m just so tired I can’t do it I just go to bed so I don’t have to see it hehe… Hubby is helping out though so that’s good I think he is scared of my mood swings if he doesn’t help 😆 but to be fair I don’t think they have been that bad this time… But there is still time so he better watch out 😉 I did say to hubby I’m sure I wasn’t this tired last time but he thinks I was?

So tomorrow I am off to the clinic for a scan and hopefully everything is ok for me to start the menopur I’m quite excited about starting the next step although it does mean another injection but that’s fine if I’m having one I might as well have another one… My positive attitude is still with me which I am happy about all in all apart from being tired and hot I feel pretty damn good.  Long may it continue

Hope everyone else is good xxx

Day 3

well just a quick update as the side effects have kicked in big time a horrible stinky old headache I have been laying all day with a cool cloth on my head trying to ease it but no should luck so going to try to sleep and see if I can rid of it that way. Am not looking forward to work if I still have it, reading the computer with this head will not be good 😢 xx

1st injection…done

Yah 1st injection is done

 it was a little tough to get the needle in I think my skin has got tougher where I have had so many injections haha either that or I’m rusty which it probably is that… Hopefully tomorrow there will be no issue… I am now just waiting for the side effects last time I got bad mood swings and hot flushes… Hubby is not looking forward to the mood swings last time I threw a box of tea bags at his head as he turned the telly over to football instead of helping me put some shopping away. The thing is I don’t normally mind football and would watch it with him or go watch the other TV but when I was on the injections it really pissed me off so I launched the box at him and it smacked him straight in the face 😆 fingers crossed he doesn’t annoy me this time or we will just have to make sure there is nothing around me that I can throw at him… Let’s see how many days until they kick in. I will of course let you all know when they start and how bad they are. Xxx

1 day to go…

So yesterday was scratch day 1pm was the time of my appointment so I took the whole day off work so I could relax a little bit after… I didn’t think of the fact that I would have the whole morning to worry!!! Now I have had it before but I then started to question myself whether it did actually hurt or not had I blocked the pain out… I was just being silly. So an hour before I had to take 2 little blue pills and put a bullet out the back door haha IVF is so glamorous.

The procedure went ok it did hurt as he had to do it twice as the doctor said he didn’t think the 1st one was correct something to do with the equipment so he did it again so my womb is definitely scratched haha 😆 it feels like a really big period cramp but a really strong and painfully one! And then a few mild ones after but it is all done now and fingers crossed it helps 💜

I then went through with the nurse my treatment plan I will be starting on buserelin then I will start the menopur and aspirin then I will have the trigger injection and then it will be injecting the progesterone instead of having the bullets. And during all of this I will be drinking 2l of water and will be on a high protein diet as that is what I did last time and it seemed to improve the quality of my eggs?!? I will also not be snacking I will just be having the 3 meals a day as apparently the snacking can cause sugar spikes and effect your eggs. Now I am not saying it works for everyone and I have known people that have eaten what they like and IVF has worked but not for me and last time all I know is I stuck to my diet and there was a difference so I will be doing it again.

So tomorrow is D day for injection number one of the buserelin and I can’t wait… I am feeling very positive about this cycle and I am just going to go with it xx

Nearly time to start…

So the count down is on!

I shall be having the scratch, or as they now call it the Endometrial stimulation, on the 13th April. I must admit the scratch name does sound a bit scary but I know it’s not I had it before and it was nothing just uncomfortable really bit like a smear. I have only had this done once and It was the only time I did fall pregnant it just didn’t stick so I think it is all worth it. I have also started my high protein diet which I did last time as it helped with the quality of my eggs so it’s lots of meat and veg for me at the minute. The 1st injections of buserelin will be on the 15th April so less than a week to go and I am a bit excited?!? Not really sure why but I am feeling very positive about this next cycle and I haven’t felt like this in a very long time. I feel like I did on my very 1st cycle. And I am not sure where it has come from I just hope it stays throughout this one.  I am not sure when I will be starting to take baby aspirin or the other injection which I can’t remember the name of, but I think it is soon so I think I will be soon having 3 injections in one day ahhhh just call me the human pin cushion haha. Before I started all this IVF, needles would freak me out I hated them. Now I am fine with the 2 injections (1-buserelin and 1 menopur) as I have had them before but the other ones I am freaking out about as it’s the unknown and I am not so good with that I build it up in my head and make it much worse than it is so when it comes to it I think it is the worse thing ever and then don’t want to do it so I then have convince myself it won’t be that bad. I can get into quite a state so I am trying very hard at the minute to calm my thoughts down. I did this when I had my very 1st injection I was actually crying before the needle even went in my husband had to tell me to calm down so he could inject. I couldn’t do it myself to start with but on my last cycle I did all my own injections so I felt like a bit of pro and quite proud of myself at how far I had come. But now with these new ones they have put me back to that scary place of the unknown. It didn’t help that the doctor told me they would hurt and that the needle is bigger and I would have to have them in my bum which means hubby will have to do them which I don’t like the thought of not being in control of them all anymore so the day when I have to start them will be fun so look out for that post as I think it will be a gooden haha but if it all works it will all be worth it.

So anyway that is a little update from me I will be back on to let you all know how Wednesday goes

hope everyone is well xxx