Today was visit #2 at the doctor's office. Wait time was much shorter (total plus). I was also 15 minutes late, so meh.
You have to call on Day 1 of your period - TMI (well I guess this whole blog is) and go within 2 days later, so it's a bit inconvenient if you have a job, but luckily the doc office was flexible, so we made it work.
I had an ultrasound and blood work done. Doc checked out my lining and uterus and stuff with with ultrasound, and then we counted my follicles (soon to be eggs) in each ovary. Yes, I participated haha. She said normal was 5, I had 8-9. Seems like a good sign, but kinda scary for when we pump these suckers with hormones to make them grow.
The blood work was easy. I'm not squeamish so that helps - regular needle in the arm. Fill a tube with blood, repeat a couple times. They were testing all the hormone levels and had to make sure I wasn't already pregnant or had a non-baby friendly disease. Spoiler alert: Pregnancy test came back negative.
I then got a prescription for birth control and was directed to start taking it once they called me and let me know my tests were good to proceed.
I got a call from the nurse - which I missed, and then a voicemail from my doc which basically said my estrogen levels were higher than normal, but for now, it's "game on".
Next step is an email from the doc with my very own baby-making calendar.
I've decided to go the route of egg freezing only, no embryos. Personal choice, but I'm not ready to make that type of decision yet. Funny enough I also got my Ancestry DNA results today, so now I have some idea of what ethnicities I'm passing along to my future little ones.
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