IVF #2 - Trigger Day

After eleven days of stims, tonight is my last injection - the HCG trigger shot. The purpose of this injection is to essentially force me to ovulate and allow the eggs to be collected from the follicles. The trigger is very time specific and taken 35 hours prior to retrieval - I take it tonight at 9:30 pm.


At the ultrasound this morning we counted eight follicles over 17 mm with the lead at 21. There are also a couple of stragglers in the 14 - 16 mm range that will catch up by retrieval Wednesday morning. My estrogen continues to rise quickly (similar to last time) and was 5388 pmol/L (~1500 pg/mL) this morning. All good news!


In other good news, we received an email from Genesis Genetics this morning (this is where we are having our genetic testing done) and the cost is about half what we expected at $2,600 CAD. This covers up to eight embryos over a nine month timeframe. So, if something happens (i.e. we send our embryos and none are genetically normal), and we decide to try another IVF, we are covered in this respect cost-wise if we do another cycle right away. It's good to have that peace of mind.


Next stop, egg retrieval! I show up at the clinic Wednesday morning at 7:30 am with everything but my legs crossed.