In a holding pattern

Well I *could* have gone in for my baseline appointment today and started the additional shots tomorrow, but when I spoke with the RE nurse on the phone on Saturday she said it's fine to keep my appointment for Thursday even though it means my FSH shots won't be starting until cd7, and they usually start earlier than that. She said I am in a holding pattern on the Lupron and can be left there as long as they want. Humph. I wanted to say would YOU want to have three extra days of shots for "no good reason"???? But I decided it wasn't worth fighting a battle to get my appointment moved up just to avoid three extra Lupron shots. She said "but you need to be on Lupron for at least 10 days." Well today was the 11th shot so no worries there! Then she said well you can be on it for weeks - it doesn't hurt to be on it longer than the minimum. My tummy begs to differ with "it doesn't hurt." I've got quite a collection of little bruises already! But I am trying to just go with the flow so I didn't persist and just let it go. Paul was actually the one I think ready to call the nurse this morning and ask her to move up my appointment, LOL! Paul said I am not an airplane and don't need to be in holding pattern! :-) He started giving me the shots a couple of days ago, and I do like that better. I'll do the Follistim ones myself, but I think I'll have him do all the others.

So anyhow Thursday morning I will have my baseline bloodwork (will refer to it as b/w in the future) and ultrasound (u/s). Then Friday I will add one shot of Follistim in the morning and one shot of Repronex in the evening to my routine and will continue the morning Lupron shot as well. That will likely continue for about 10 days (plus or minus a day or two). I am happy to say though that I've been feeling pretty good lately. I had a headache on Thursday and Sunday but I think that was more from driving in and out of NYC not the Lupron, LOL! I did take a nap on Friday, but I haven't had one since then. So I am thankful that my "menopause" symptoms haven't been too severe (no hot flashes yet!).

I haven't heard from Cathy yet. I assume she received our 10 profiles last week in the mail. I am anxious to hear her thoughts. We'll make the changes she suggests and then make 30 more (as she wants 40 total of the first batch).