CD7 - IVF Day 5

So my usual morning injection routine stepped up a gear this morning with the introduction of the cetrotide to suppress ovulation. We woke up 10 minutes earlier to ensure we had enough time to do both of the injections before work, as the cetrotide takes some mixing together!

In the box you get a vial full of powder and a syringe full of solution to dissolve the powder into a liquid to inject. So in when the solution, gently swirl around the powder until it's dissolved, replace a needle with a more skin friendly one, draw the liquid back up and ta-dah - Inject away. 

Before this I think I administered my gonal-f in under 60 seconds, not bad! Then I was able to use my saved fat to finally inject the other solution. 

Let me tell you, it stung like a bitch. The needle is a little longer and there is more fluid to inject compared to the gonal-f. Immediately after I removed the needle the area of skin surrounding it became red, and immensely itchy. I thought at first it was because of my 'pinching an inch' but by the time I had got upstairs to get dressed, I had developed a lovely array of swollen lumps around the injection site which resembled insect bites. Ouch. Its now 4 hours since the injection and the red swelling and itchy-ness has completely gone, but it was quite a shock to the system with how well my nice gonal-f shots have been!

The two different injection sites - On my wobbly tummy.

Few more side effects with the cetrotide, a headache very shortly after taking which doesn't appear to be shifting anytime soon, and general sicky feeling-ness. Still nothing I can't cope with.

Tummy continuing to get a little bigger by the day - only slightly, but I can definitely notice an increase in size! Hopefully this means I have lots of lovely follicules to look at on Saturday!