P.S.

The only "glitch" in speeding things up was that they usually do a day 3 FSH blood test 18 days before starting the Lupron. Well first of all today is day 7 and secondly I am on the pill so they can't do the FSH test while I'm on the pill. Even if we had waited until July to start, I would still have wanted to stay on the pill because otherwise it would be very hard to predict when I would be 7 days past ovulation. The success rates are much better when the FSH is less than 10 on day 3. If the FSH is higher then it usually means you are harder to stimulate (won't have many follicles). If it's between 10-20 they still will consider IVF as long as you know your chances are much less for pregnancy particularly as you get closer to 20. They never do IVF if your FSH is greater than 20 unless it's with donated eggs. So she tried to see if I had my FSH tested before. I knew I had, but she couldn't find any record of it. The other clinic used to test FSH on day 3 at the start of every inj cycle so I (falsely) assumed this clinic did as well. Turns out they were only tracking my E2 at that point. Well she consented to starting the IVF without knowing what my FSH level is, especially when Dr. Awad was so confident that understimulation is not a concern in my case. I just dug through my medical records and found three FSH results - 5.4 in May 2003 (not sure what day of the cycle that was), 4.4 on March 2, 2004 (day 3), and 6.63 on July 12, 2004 (day 3). So although my FSH has likely increased some in the last 3 years (it goes up as you get older), I feel confident it's still less than 10 since it was between 4 and 7 in 2003-2004. I will show her these records on July 5.