Slight changes

Our next PGD cycle will be in April.

I am trying to be relaxed but I tend to go over and over things in my mind. The clinic we go to is wonderful but not always very well organised. My biggest fear is that we miss a test which has to be on a specific cycle day and we will be delayed. I am also unsure whether our tests from October are valid or not. It is very difficult to get hold of people on the phone. They do call back but last time they did I was in a playgroup with Lily. I could not go out and leave her alone so I tried to say yes and no only. Obviously it meant I did not get to ask my questions and was just told they can't say anything so early and to ring after my March period.

Our next cycle will be the repeat of our fist cycle with slight changes.

IVF doctors want to regulate the patients menstruation cycle so they have better contol of timing. On my first two cycles I was given microgynon (contraceptive pill) in the month prior to the treatment. A few days after I stopped taking the pill my monthly bleeding started and thus treatment started alonside it.

I was asked to take another pill this time instead of microgynon. I forgot the name but remember that it is a progesterone only pill. To quote the consultant it does not contain the "bad" oestrogen only the "good" progesterone.

Personally I don't think oestrogen is "bad", progesterone is "good" and the whole matter is so simple. They are natural hormones with complex roles in the body. I wish I could just go ahead without taking any contraceptive in the month prior to treatment. It feels really silly when I want to have a child. However if it works we can say that we got pregnant the first month after stopping the pill :)

The other change might invole the use of a "growth hormone". I was not told which medicine it is exactly but apparently it is the same thing what is given to children with growth hormone deficiency. I really really do not want to take it. It seems like a random thing to me. On one hand it is great that my clinic tries to be in the forefront of research and constantly trying new things to improve success. However fertility science is far from precise and if they keep changing they will never have a good enough sample to produce proper statistical results and determine the usefulness of each approach.