1st IVF cycle

Join me on my journey for my 1st IVF treatment. I will be traveling to a clinic in Prague. In this video I talk about my two monitoring appointments to see how my follicles are growing. I discuss my symptoms and reaction to Gonal f. Also join me as I take a bus and explore Budapest, Hungary. #ivftreatment #ivfprocedure #ivfprocess

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Now it’s time to take my medication and I just literally landed so I had to come into the public bathroom in the airport um because it is medication time and it is what it is I have to do what I have to do um so I’m stuck here in this

Bathroom about to take this med medication there’s the click all right so I got my bubble slanted side I’m going to squeeze so that you could see it okay it’s Clinic day my first visit um I’m pretty excited to see how my eggs are responding to the gal

Injections I don’t know if I have mentioned yet but U my boyfriend is actually not with me I’m by myself for the first uh just the first part of the IVF process um he is still back home and he will be joining me soon um but

He’s going to come closer to one he’s actually needed which is um you know for the egg collection uh that part of the IVF so he’s not with me just yet I’ll be by myself for the first few days um so yeah I’ll just be you know I’m thinking

About what I want to do after um after this appointment I’m not sure when they’ll tell me to come back today is actually Friday so I might be coming back on um on Monday I’m just assuming so we’ll see when they want me to come back

If if they say Tuesday or something I’m thinking of hopping on a train and going to Budapest um or doing like some sort of day trip something that’ll keep me busy sightseeing and you know being a tourist so we’ll see um I’m going to decide after my appointment depending on what

They say so I will talk to you guys soon okay so I left the clinic and um she said that I had have uh it’s still too early obviously but as of now um they have they counted about 22 eggs 22 follicles she said I have many um and

That um she saw anywhere from uh she saw some size sixes some size 10s um I believe the 10 was the biggest um it’s so I’m still fairly early on I’m only 7 Days um tle 7 I mean and um as of now I’ve been taking you know the gal the

Gal pen I’ve been doing um 150 I use and um she wants me to up the dose starting tomorrow so I’m going to up the dose to 175 um and she wants me to take it starting starting tomorrow the 175 and then she’s also adding in um cetri tide

And I’ll be I’ll start taking that also tomorrow which is cycle day 8 and I’m going to take that tomorrow and Sunday and my next ultrasound appointment is on Monday um today’s Friday so that it’s on Monday I do have PCOS so um the more PCS tend to have a lot of

Follicles um so I don’t know if um 22 is if that number is going to stay that way um you know these follicles still have tons of time to still grow um some may disappear so we’ll see but thank you so much thank you oh this is humongous

Okay had I known I would have only ordered the salad and I thought it was like a little side salad oh according to Google uh the gaml makes your follicles grow anywhere from 2 to 3 um millim a day so I’m hoping we see some growth and I should know much more

On Monday as far as my process um and probably on Monday is when I’ll know more or less when egg collection will be how cute is this bag I’m actually leaving tonight to Budapest it’s a 6 hours a 6-hour drive um I was going to take the train but for some reason the

Train was longer I guess well it had one stop it wasn’t that bad but anyways the train was um the train was 9 hours and then driving was 6 hours Hi guys I made it to Beau and I’m at Matthis church I just bought a ticket want to go in [Applause] one amazing thing about doing IVF abroad is the amount of exercise you get in from walking everywhere um all I’ve been doing is walking all day long um you know one of

My favorite buildings in the world the Hungarian Parliament it’s so beautiful I am on day 11 um and I have monitoring appointment tomorrow morning uh to see how my eggs are progressing um so far I have 22 FAL they see and um some are on the smaller side and they

Just want those to grow a little bit more so my doctor did up my dose to of gal um from 175 I started off at 125 then they upt it to 175 and now I’m at 225 so I have a few small ones and then my biggest one

Is about a size 17 and my smallest one is about a size eight um but in total I have 24 follicles that they can see right now on the scan everything down just so I can get like a good idea of what I’m like I have to write things down

So I had one um I had 10 on my right OV and then I had 14 on my left OV and my biggest one was a size 17 again this is on day 12 Day 10 so my biggest one is a 17 then I have 11 16 I

Have three that are 15 I have two that are 14 one that’s 13 and then I have a um four that are size 12 so now this starts to get into like the smaller side right um so I have two that are 11 I have three that are 10 two

That are nine three that are eights and the smallest ones are two that are sevens so they’re all over the place they’re you know um all sizes right so that’s when my doctor upped my dose from now that was day 10 and she upped my dose from 175 to

225 so and then told me to come back for monitoring in 2 days so I should see some great Improvement um within from that was on Monday and tomorrow’s Wednesday so from these two days I should see some Improvement hopefully um we like that’s why I’m kind of

Anxious to see what these numbers will be tomorrow when I go in tomorrow morning for monitoring I’m curious but um that puts me at cycle day 12 and um I don’t know she doesn’t think I did ask her I said so do you think EG collection will be like Friday or

Thursday or something and she’s like no I don’t think so um she doesn’t think that that it’ll be on Friday they’ll probably tell me to administer the the HCG shot on Friday um but we’ll see she said we’ll you know she’ll know more tomorrow so I don’t know as far as bloating goes

Um so I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos and seeing how you girls re are reacting to uh you know the Sims and stuff and I don’t know it’s because maybe my myg my Foles are still really small um but like I said I have 24

Follicles that they can see and I feel just a little bit of bloating like just a little little little heavy um but nothing uncomfortable nothing that I’m like you know like um this one girl was so uncomfortable and she couldn’t sleep and she’s like I can’t I don’t think I

Could do this for another day and like it I’m nowhere near that so so if I had to say from 1 to 10 how bloated I am maybe like a a three I don’t know um I’ve been more way more bloated on like a period

Um but I don’t know so we’ll see um but I will say that my cervical mucus is I’ve never seen that much cervical mucus ever um it’s a lot um and I had to Google I mean it makes perfect sense that I would have a lot if

If your body’s you know making all these follicles um so it makes sense but I I do see I did read that it’s um a normal symptom and it’s a great sign because uh it means that your estrogen is rising so and it’s but I’m just so shocked at how

Much it is um but that’s a great thing and and as of last night or this morning I think it was I started to get really sore nipples and my actual breasts feel normal um Everything feels fine and normal it’s just the actual nipple is extremely sensitive and very tender and

Sore um that is that’s a symptom that I get post ovulation like the moment I ovulate and um and progesterone my progesterone Rises that’s usually how I know I’ve ovulated because um my nipples get really really sore like immediately once my progesterone has risen so I got really

Nervous and I was like oh my God I definitely ovulated like this is I only get this kind of um you know sore nipples when when I ovulate so I started uh you know Googling of course and I got into these forums like um and a lot of people were actually

Saying the same thing that they they got really sore nipples during IVF and like some people were concerned the way I was and apparently that is actually uh very normal oh the last thing um I find weird is that my clinic has not uh taken any any uh blood work for

My estrogen levels my progesterone any of it no hormone levels they haven’t taken any injections any blood work for that and I at first I asked and the Very my very first visit when I was cycle day 7 and um she said oh no it’s not

Necessary um this is they did take blood workout but that was for um for anesthesia um but they didn’t do anything for hormones cuz she said it wasn’t necessary so I don’t know if they just do things different differently here but I’m definitely going to ask

Further and get a real explanation um of to why they haven’t or why they’re not going to if they’re going to take my estrogen levels I thought that was a pretty important part and we shall see how these um bad boys are doing if they’re you know how much they have

Grown um I’m expecting to have some pretty big mature um follicles at least half of them um definitely the ones that were size 12 and and up I do expect to see some major Gren those and then the smaller ones um hopefully they’re still hanging around and they grow and um you

Know hopefully that they’re becoming a decent size as well and then eventually at collection day they’ll they’ll still be around you know um so let’s see if they still see 24 more or less um but I will update you guys in my next video or soon um have a

Great night it’s night time here um I’m going to bed I’m exhausted and I will see you next time