Get used to seeing this every day.
They have you come in every morning for a blood draw and ultrasound. The blood draw monitors your hormone levels, and the ultrasound measures the size of your follicles.
I had 10 follicles that were growing well. There is no exact number that they are looking for, it's case-by-case.
It's tricky because each day you don't know what's going to happen until you get your results.
You get the blood draw and ultrasound in the morning, then in the afternoon they'll call you with any changes in your medication/ shot dosage. So things change on a daily basis sometimes. On Thurs, I got a phone call that told me my surgery was going to be on Saturday morning! And that I needed to do my trigger shot that night! One of my shots was supposed to be at 5:30 pm, then my trigger shot was at 7:30 pm. Then I had another one at 9:30 pm. (And I found all this out at 3 pm on Thurs. My hubby usually doesn't get home from his work until 6:00 or 6:30 pm!) So I had to hurry and contact him to see if he could leave early. It was kind of rushed. And crazy. But were a little late with the first shot, but everything else was on time.
All those meds in my system made me nauseous. But I never actually threw up. I just felt like I was going to. Towards the end, you just feel bleh. And REALLY bloated.
And that's normal, because all the extra follicles are filled with fluid. During your regular cycle, you'll grown and release one egg per month. During an IVF cycle, you'll be growing multiple eggs.
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