First Blood Test

E2 = 140

Carry on with same dose, next blood test Wednesday + ultrasound

I keep forgetting that I’m cycling since all I do is 1 x injection every morning. I’m really not sure what could possibly be seen on the u/s on Wednesday since it will be exactly 4 injections by then, with one on the day?

On the CFG front, I had a follow up appointment last night and she has agreed to help me through the cycle, starting with her acu last night.

Her acu is more rigorous than I’ve had before – the needles get wiggled once they go in until I feel the necessary twinging ie the ones in the belly cause a kind of throbbing down towards my girly bits, and the ones on the ankles and knees - a kind of stabbing sensation up the legs. This means she’s hit the right spot or …ahem meridians. And if I thought I could then drift off into ‘Acu-sleep’, very much mistaken, because she comes back in the room 10 minutes later and gives them all another wiggle!

I’m going to be having acu every second day up till retrieval then the transfer kind. After that no more acu (she does this with natural cycles as well). From then she just gives nourishing herbs (for the baby, she said!).

She finishes the acu with what she calls ‘massage’. This is her finding the acupressure spots and giving them an almighty probe as well. Phew the liver and ovaries sure got a walloping – just in case they thought they’d hidden from the needles!

For all this, I actually have some faith in her.

I was wincing so much she asked me if my previous CFG’s had put the needles in my belly – yes they have, but they don’t wiggle them like you do, I told her.

‘Ahhh, well you see CFG’s, we’re all different, it’s not like going to a Western Dr.’
Yes, I agreed, they all just read from the same book!

Update after Wednesday.