Pokey Day 17: Start of Phrase 2 Lucrin + Puregon + Saizen

The strawberry monster is officially here.  This morning, we added Puregon and Saizen into the jab routine, making it a total of 3 jabs every morning.  Lucrin jab on one side of the tummy and Puregon and Saizen on the other.

After the jabs, the tummy had a pulling sensation.  It is not something that handicaps you, just a bruising feeling whenever you try to exert strength.

With so many injections and my pre-existing PCOS condition, I think I am gonna have a really bad bout of OHSS.  Well, the doctor did warn me and I agreed to take the risk for the sake of getting more and better quality fertilized eggs.  Let's hope it is all worth it.

KUDOS to my personal nurse, which is nonetheless than my mother.  She has to learn how to administer the various jabs cos there is no way I can bring myself to self-inject.  Here's a brief summary of the various instructions:

1. Lucrin jabs (10units) - Provided with 32 syringes and one bottle of medicine.  Each syringe comes with an attached needle.  Just insert into the bottle, extract the needed amount of medicine and inject. 
2. Puregon (200units) - Provided with a Puregon pen, two vials of medicine and 12 needles. Insert vial and needle in the pen, set the needed measurement using the dial at the end of the pen and inject. 
3. Saizen (5units) - Provided with 4 boxes of medicine, 8 syringes, 8 big needles and 8 small needles.  Each box contains a bottle of powder and a bottle of solvent.  Attach big needle to syringe.  Use syringe to extract solvent and inject into the bottle of powder.  Stir bottle gently to mix the contents.  Use the same syringe to extract the needed amount of medicine.  Replace big needle with small needle and inject.

The Saizen injection was a little complicated and my mom was kinda confused.  Luckily the nurse was patient and understanding which helped to calm my mom down.  She did succeed eventually =)