CD8 and some thoughts

Today is cycle day 8 and also have to introduce another drug to my body which is called Cetrotide acetate along with the Gonal f that my body is already familiar with.

Yes, it is a little overwhelming dealing with pain and effects of drugs but I know we are already in the middle of our game - yesterday we came in to see my doctor for follicle scanning and he found 4 eggs on each of my ovaries - Although, that sounds a like a low number for an ivf cycle because my doctor only prescribed low dosage of gonal f for six days (only 150iu) he said we are still doing good and right on track. I admit me and peng were somewhat frustrated with the number so we blurted our concerns to our doctor about how we expected to have above 10 follicles but didn't. low number means low chances for us despite how great my eggs are - and because we were told that conceiving naturally is somewhat impossible for us so we wanted to have more in the freezer for future use so I dont have to go through the cons of medications anymore (including emotional, financial and physical stress) that it brings.

And luckily, after our doctor stressed out the importance of knowing the pros and cons of having large amount of embryos in the freezer and having a large family and what it brings we still decided that we wanted a big one anyway so he gave us a go signal to up the dose from 150iu - 300iu of gonal f for another 6 days in the hope of adding more follicles for better chances. :)

and now, all we have to do is wait. next week I will have another follicle monitoring and my estimate schedule of egg retrieval and I'm so game and excited with it.

This is getting a lot more faster than what I've expected but I really hope God would grant us the family that we yearn to have :)

Crossing my fingers till my next update :)

fighting til our last breath