I'm o.k. to go.....

Listening to: Soul Meets Body by Death Cab For Cutie

I had my ultrasound this morning and I've been given the go ahead to start the medicine tonight! My next ultrasound is 11/25 at 9 AM and we'll be looking to see how the follicles are growing to determine how many more days of shots I need to do before the IUI.  Needless to say, I am way excited and am totally expecting today to drag along.

On a completely different topic, I bought the ham and turkey for our Thanksgiving dinner next week.  Looking at the list of food that will be made, you would think I was cooking for 20 people...but no, it's just 6.  We've got company Friday to Sunday and then more company next Wednesday to Sunday.  There are a lot of things that I need to get done around the house for next week's company but I'll be lucky if I can get most of the items marked off the list.

UPDATE: I took 2 Letrozole pills (5mg total) at 6 PM.  No side effects so far but that might not mean anything.

Let's get this party started!

Listening to: Arizona by Kings of Leon

We went to Charlotte this past weekend to spend time with our friends and their little girl.  I spotted slightly most of the weekend but it was sporadic so I didn't think anything about it.  Monday morning, the spotting was a little bit more frequent and I still had two more doses of Prometrium to take.  I called my RE's office to speak to the nurse and she told me to just go ahead and stop taking them...evidently, some women start their periods while taking them so it was perfectly normal to be spotting.  When I took progesterone before, I always ended up taking all the pills and then waiting for my period to start 3 to 5 days later and I was expecting the same thing with this medicine.  Turns out I was wrong...but it's nice to be wrong because Prometrium made me feel really weird and tired so not taking it meant no side effects!  So, I officially started my period last night and called my RE's office again to schedule my baseline ultrasound for tomorrow morning at 9 AM.  Tomorrow's appointment is just to make sure that there are no cysts so it shouldn't be too big of a deal.

So, what does this mean? Yesterday was cd1 and tomorrow will be cd3 which means I start taking the Letrozole tomorrow night! I will be taking it cd3 to cd7 and then on cd7 I start doing the FSH injections and continue those to cd10.  On cd10, I go in for the ultrasound to see what's going on and they tell me how many more days to continue the injections.  Finally.  We're finally getting somewhere.  Excited doesn't even begin to accurately describe the emotion I'm feeling right now!

Waiting

I gave up on waiting around for my period to start and began the Prometrium last night.  Damn it.  So, now I've got 10 days of pills to take and then I wait for my period.  I feel like absolute crap.  I guess waking up at 4 AM does that to a person!

Still listening to the New Moon soundtrack and I will admit that it's growing on me.  These are the songs that I really enjoy:

• Meet Me On The Equinox by Death Cab For Cutie
• Possibility by Lykke Li
• A White Demon Love Song by The Killers
• I Belong to You by Muse
• Done All Wrong by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• The Violet Hour by Sea Wolf
• Shooting The Moon by Ok Go
• No Sound But The Wind by Editors
• New Moon by Alexandre Desplat

Less than 2 weeks until the premiere!