Follicle Update

Shrike had her first monitoring appointment this morning.

Her 41 follicles from Monday are now 31, which is pretty typical.

Nurse D also cautioned us not to "live or die by the follicle count" because it depends a lot on who's doing the counting and how closely they look.

Her bloodwork looked good, too. Her estrogen level is lower than what they usually expect to see (just under 50; they like 100 - 150) but she said that's probably because of the high dose of Lupron and low dose of stims that she's been taking.

Tonight and tomorrow night she'll take a full vial of Menopur (up from 1/2 vial) and 150 units of Gonal-F (up from 112 units).

Tomorrow and Sunday mornings, she'll take 10 units of Lupron (down from 20 units) and we'll monitor again on Sunday.

On Monay, I have a lining check, and Shrike will proably start monitoring daily on Tuesday.

More news as we have it.