Week of January 14th

[G22]

Jan 18, 2019 17:03:02 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I’m still slow growing and paying out the asshole in copays for monitoring 3 or 4 times a week. May start Centrotide tomorrow, retrieval May be pushed to Saturday.

I’m frustrated, emotionally spent, and broke (lol).

I'm sorry, that so frustrating. I hope your body will respond this time so things dont get pushed back any more.

[seeyalater52]

I’m so sorry Jalapeñomel. I hope things pick up so you can be finished with this cycle soon!


As for me, I’m kind of freaking out with anxiety over very minor timing issues around my next transfers in Feb and April. I have to do some work travel and it’s so hard to estimate how things will go. My clinic does two monitoring appointments before transfer, bloodwork to check estrogen levels, increase estrogen for a week, lining and final estrogen check, then transfer. My FET cycles that first estrogen check bloodwork was CD9. My mock cycle it was CD7. Do you guys think there would be an issue if I needed to travel during when they would ideally calendar me for that? It would likely be only a day or 2 late or early, maybe 3 if the timing is really bad but max 3. Will a couple of extra days of estrogen that early in my cycle screw things up?

I’m terrified I’ll end up having to delay transfers. I need to get through these last two ASAP or I’m going to lose it. The thought of it getting messed up is making me feel sick.

[pickel]

Jan 18, 2019 17:03:02 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I’m still slow growing and paying out the asshole in copays for monitoring 3 or 4 times a week. May start Centrotide tomorrow, retrieval May be pushed to Saturday.

I’m frustrated, emotionally spent, and broke (lol).

Ugh. That is so frustrating! And stressful when you feel tapped out financially. I had to do more monitoring than they originally told me and I about lost it over an extra $300 ultrasound and $275 of bloodwork. And then extra frustrating is getting your retrieval pushed back. I’m so sorry.

[pickel]

Jan 18, 2019 19:48:57 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

I’m so sorry Jalapeñomel. I hope things pick up so you can be finished with this cycle soon!


As for me, I’m kind of freaking out with anxiety over very minor timing issues around my next transfers in Feb and April. I have to do some work travel and it’s so hard to estimate how things will go. My clinic does two monitoring appointments before transfer, bloodwork to check estrogen levels, increase estrogen for a week, lining and final estrogen check, then transfer. My FET cycles that first estrogen check bloodwork was CD9. My mock cycle it was CD7. Do you guys think there would be an issue if I needed to travel during when they would ideally calendar me for that? It would likely be only a day or 2 late or early, maybe 3 if the timing is really bad but max 3. Will a couple of extra days of estrogen that early in my cycle screw things up?

I’m terrified I’ll end up having to delay transfers. I need to get through these last two ASAP or I’m going to lose it. The thought of it getting messed up is making me feel sick.

When I did my monitoring (sounds same as what you described above), I was told the monitoring dates could shift a day or two. We were traveling for Christmas and they said they could move the dates a bit, if needed. Im not an expert but considering they had a tight timeline with mine (to time w donor) and were flexible, I don’t think the extra day or two will make that big of a difference.

[shoeless]

Jan 18, 2019 19:48:57 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

I’m so sorry Jalapeñomel. I hope things pick up so you can be finished with this cycle soon!


As for me, I’m kind of freaking out with anxiety over very minor timing issues around my next transfers in Feb and April. I have to do some work travel and it’s so hard to estimate how things will go. My clinic does two monitoring appointments before transfer, bloodwork to check estrogen levels, increase estrogen for a week, lining and final estrogen check, then transfer. My FET cycles that first estrogen check bloodwork was CD9. My mock cycle it was CD7. Do you guys think there would be an issue if I needed to travel during when they would ideally calendar me for that? It would likely be only a day or 2 late or early, maybe 3 if the timing is really bad but max 3. Will a couple of extra days of estrogen that early in my cycle screw things up?

I’m terrified I’ll end up having to delay transfers. I need to get through these last two ASAP or I’m going to lose it. The thought of it getting messed up is making me feel sick.

I did all my bloodwork through lab Corp (there’s also another nationwide lab I cant think of the name) so maybe that would be an option for you. Ask your office if they can’t be flexible on dates if they will let you have the blood drawn at a different lab (and fingers crossed wherever your going has a convenient lab).

[seeyalater52]

Jan 19, 2019 8:22:26 GMT -5 shoeless said:

Jan 18, 2019 19:48:57 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

I’m so sorry Jalapeñomel. I hope things pick up so you can be finished with this cycle soon!


As for me, I’m kind of freaking out with anxiety over very minor timing issues around my next transfers in Feb and April. I have to do some work travel and it’s so hard to estimate how things will go. My clinic does two monitoring appointments before transfer, bloodwork to check estrogen levels, increase estrogen for a week, lining and final estrogen check, then transfer. My FET cycles that first estrogen check bloodwork was CD9. My mock cycle it was CD7. Do you guys think there would be an issue if I needed to travel during when they would ideally calendar me for that? It would likely be only a day or 2 late or early, maybe 3 if the timing is really bad but max 3. Will a couple of extra days of estrogen that early in my cycle screw things up?

I’m terrified I’ll end up having to delay transfers. I need to get through these last two ASAP or I’m going to lose it. The thought of it getting messed up is making me feel sick.

I did all my bloodwork through lab Corp (there’s also another nationwide lab I cant think of the name) so maybe that would be an option for you. Ask your office if they can’t be flexible on dates if they will let you have the blood drawn at a different lab (and fingers crossed wherever your going has a convenient lab).

Thanks. This might sound selfish since I know not everyone has coverage, but I’d really rather not pay OOP for a lab that isn’t in my network since otherwise it would be covered. As far as I can tell my insurance won’t allow a lab outside of my general geographic area even if it’s an otherwise covered lab (for wxample, Quest.) It looks like OOP could be up to $250 for an estrogen draw? One of the trips is just a day trip so no possible way to get to a lab around meetings, the other is 2-3 days long so I could possibly make it work if I needed to but not necessarily on the “right” day depending on scheduling. It would be SO much better if they could just flex the monitoring by a couple of days so I could do it at my home clinic.

Thanks pickel that’s helpful info. I hope my clinic is that flexible!

[pickel]

Jan 19, 2019 9:06:04 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Jan 19, 2019 8:22:26 GMT -5 shoeless said:

I did all my bloodwork through lab Corp (there’s also another nationwide lab I cant think of the name) so maybe that would be an option for you. Ask your office if they can’t be flexible on dates if they will let you have the blood drawn at a different lab (and fingers crossed wherever your going has a convenient lab).

Thanks. This might sound selfish since I know not everyone has coverage, but I’d really rather not pay OOP for a lab that isn’t in my network since otherwise it would be covered. As far as I can tell my insurance won’t allow a lab outside of my general geographic area even if it’s an otherwise covered lab (for wxample, Quest.) It looks like OOP could be up to $250 for an estrogen draw? One of the trips is just a day trip so no possible way to get to a lab around meetings, the other is 2-3 days long so I could possibly make it work if I needed to but not necessarily on the “right” day depending on scheduling. It would be SO much better if they could just flex the monitoring by a couple of days so I could do it at my home clinic.

Thanks pickel that’s helpful info. I hope my clinic is that flexible!

I hear ya! I posted this above but I about lost my shit on a $575 extra monitoring. I’m tapped out financially. The extra $$ matters!

[icedcoffee]

Jan 18, 2019 19:48:57 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

I’m so sorry Jalapeñomel. I hope things pick up so you can be finished with this cycle soon!


As for me, I’m kind of freaking out with anxiety over very minor timing issues around my next transfers in Feb and April. I have to do some work travel and it’s so hard to estimate how things will go. My clinic does two monitoring appointments before transfer, bloodwork to check estrogen levels, increase estrogen for a week, lining and final estrogen check, then transfer. My FET cycles that first estrogen check bloodwork was CD9. My mock cycle it was CD7. Do you guys think there would be an issue if I needed to travel during when they would ideally calendar me for that? It would likely be only a day or 2 late or early, maybe 3 if the timing is really bad but max 3. Will a couple of extra days of estrogen that early in my cycle screw things up?

I’m terrified I’ll end up having to delay transfers. I need to get through these last two ASAP or I’m going to lose it. The thought of it getting messed up is making me feel sick.

I really don’t think it will be an issue to push it up to 3 days. Timing for FET can be super flexible. At least for my protocol the only thing that needed to be super specific was that transfer needed to be on the 5th day of progesterone. That’s non negotiable. Everything else was not that strict. My clinic would definitely let me just do 3 extra days of estrogen. I hope it works out for you!