2/4/2017 0 Comments stims day 8Today's Day 8 of stims (technically it's my "day 11"... or was it "day 12"?). I had a monitoring appointment yesterday morning, this morning and I'll have one tomorrow morning. They're monitoring me every day (and monitoring means bloodwork and a transvaginal ultrasound which is quite unpleasant) and I really hope tomorrow is my last. After tomorrow's meds, I'll be out of menopur and tonight I'll be out of ganirelix. We ordered the meds a long time ago, which I was still working, to ensure I could get them covered. The only issue with that is that my doctor had to guess how much medication I would need. She was pretty close but I think we will need some more and I'm not sure how much it will cost.
To do this whole thing, we've been incredibly lucky with subsidizing this cycle. IVF was covered by Ontario Health Insurance (OHIP) and meds were covered by my health insurance. That's probably a savings of about $15,000. We're doing ICSI, so that would have been another couple grand, I think, so that's factored in to my figure. J did a surgery called microtese, which cost us about $3000 out of pocket. That's really been our only cost. I know I've mentioned this before, but we are really grateful and lucky to be where we are. Being out of work since August has not helped with stress or our finances and I am a bit nervous about starting a job (if I do get one in the near future) while pregnant. I don't want to tell my new employer that I got pregnant the same time they hired me! But, circumstances are what they are, so I'm doing my best to roll with things. That all being said, any extra meds we have to buy is kind of gut punch because they're so fucking expensive. I think the menopur is probably about $80 a shot (thinking about that makes me appreciate those shots a bit more) and I have no idea how much another few doses of ganirelix will be. I guess I'll find out tomorrow! The important thing is that I'm so close to the finish line , I can almost see it now. The appointment today revealed that they can see 18 follicles and at least 10 eggs at this point. Apparently that's a lot of follicles. I guess we want about 15 eggs (some people have 40!) because I read somewhere that 15 is the best number to have before sacrificing quality. That could be a load of nonsense, I just read it in some online newspaper. Anyway, we'll know more tomorrow! Now for some Saturday night pizza before my dreaded shots.
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