First Monitoring Appt.

Well I had my first monitoring appt after 8 days of 75 IU of follistim.  My follies are slow growers. I had one dominant follie on the right side that was at a 12 but everything else was small. 

My RE said they are not growing as fast as he would have expected but he is not concerned.  He has upped my follistim to 150 IU and I will go back either Friday or Saturday for more monitoring to see where we are at. 

I would have liked to have seen more growth by now, but my RE said that they started me out slow since I have not been on follistim before and they were not sure how I would respond.  He said he would prefer to have to up the follistim does than worry about over stimming and have to cancel the cycle. 

They did say my lining looked really good at this point so that is not an issue.  Once they have my E2 results in this afternoon they will call me to let me know when I will come back in. 

So . . . the plan is to go up to 150 IU of follistim and wait for the call from the RE about how to proceed.  Luckily I have plenty of follistim so that is not an issue! 

On a side note, I am going back and forth over whether to test out my trigger when I get there, or just hold out until 14 dpo (assuming AF hasn't shown up) to test.  I have never triggered before so I have no idea how long it would take to get out of my system so that would favor testing it out.  At least that way if (by some miracle) I did see a bfp I would know it was real and not just trigger. 

On the other hand, I am afraid if I test out my trigger I will not be able to stop peeing on sticks which will just drive myself crazy.  Maybe I will just plan to hold out until Beta day.  Beta or bust!  In the past I have found that it is easier for me to wait it out than to pee on things because until I pee on things there is still some hope.  Once I start seeing the bfns on the pee sticks it is all over. 

Hmmmmm . . . decisions, decisions. 

Oh, and tonight is leg day at the gym!  This should be fun ::insert sarcasm here::