More Monitoring, More Results

We've progressed to pre-transfer monitoring, round 2. At this point, we are 16 days into the medication cycle and exactly a week after the last monitoring appointment. We will have one more monitoring appointment in 3 days, and then we'll transfer in a week and a half (June 12).

As with each monitoring appointment, they drew a vial of blood and did another ultrasound this morning. The things that have changed since our appointment last week are that I finished shedding old lining, the RE cut my Lupron dose down to 5 units per day instead of 10, and added oral estradiol at 1 mg twice a day. After the first three days of that change, he upped my estradiol to 2 mg twice a day. The effect that we hoped to see at this appointment was increased estradiol levels in my blood, my endometrium starting to thicken up (goal thickness at transfer is > 8 mm) while the ovaries should still be quiet (no follicles over 10 mm) and progesterone levels should still be low.

Results
Endometrial thickness: 9.3 mm
Right ovary: 6-7 follicles < 10 mm; 0 follicles > 10 mm
Left ovary: 8-9 follicles < 10 mm; 0 follicles > 10 mm
Additional findings: Small pocket of fluid in the uterine cavity
Estradiol: 228 pg/ml
Progesterone: 0.5

Things look great. My lining is already past our goal and we have no rogue follicles trying to impede our progress, so we're in great shape. We're going to keep plugging along toward our next monitoring appointment on Friday. The RE didn't say anything about the small pocket of fluid, but I'm hoping that it'll be gone by the time we do the next ultrasound.