So far so good

Yesterday I was back at the hospital for a down-regulaton scan and blood test. Thankfully, I received a call in the afternoon to tell me that I had the go ahead to start on the next course of drugs.

The drug for stimming requires a little more work than the drug for down-regulation:

1. You take a syringe and a very long needle,
2. You break a small bottle which contains a water-based solution,
3. You draw the water into the syringe,
4. Place the needle into the first ampule and release the water,
5. Mix the solution,
6. Draw the liquid back into the syringe and then, with the second ampule, repeat steps 4-6,
7. Once both ampules are mixed you draw the solution back into the syringe, trying not to get huge air bubbles,
8. Change the big needle for a much smaller needle,
9. Measure the dosage to 1ml,
10. And inject!

I just knew that it was going to be stressful. My main problem was that there didn't appear to be enough of the water-based solution. For some reason I thought that mixing it with the two ampules might miraculously increase the volume but, unsurprisingly it didn't. I was about to open another bottle of the solution when I realised that the lid of the original bottle contained quite a lot of liquid so I just sucked this up and, after a couple of goes, managed to get rid of the huge air bubbles and have 1ml. In the time that it took me to do this we had had two phone calls. The husband was still on the phone so I decided to inject myself. I was amazed at how easy it was, it didn't hurt at all.

I'm back at the hospital on Monday to see how I am responding. I've been told by various people that once you get to this stage time just flies by, I really hope that is the case because I am already fed up with the morning injections.


I'm starting to get a little excited although I am trying to control it. Positive thoughts occasionally enter my head but I really don't want to build myself up to being so positive that, when it comes to it, I am completely shattered when if it doesn't work.