My Plan For First Donor Cycle

WED 14 Mar 2012

We saw Dr J today to find out what exactly I/We have to do for a donor cycle. Bit of a technical post this one!

The first step is to get my donor and my cycles in sync. My angel is already on the pill & I (of course) am not. So first thing is to wait for my next period to arrive which SHOULD be any day now (it never comes when you want it). I then start the pill and after 14 days on it for me, my donor & I will both stop taking it at the same time to bring on a period.

This time I have to do what is called a HRT cycle, on the first day I start Synarel nasal spray & progynova tablets (had synarel before & not a fan, the tablets I've never had). As I suffer from NK (natural killer) cells I will also start back on the steroid prednisone the same day (oh joy as last time they had me burning up, really made me feel like I was having a mid life crisis!) - please know that any complaints I make about the drugs are just the facts & what I have experienced taking them, the end result outweighs all this, otherwise I wouldn't do it!!

On day 7 Dr J wants to scan me & check my lining in case she needs to increase any of the medications. I repeat a scan again on Day 10. As this is our donor's first ever cycle Dr J has to work off estimates, and at present the egg collection for her should go ahead on my day 14. Once my angel has her egg pick up I start progesterone in the form of Crinone twice a day until transfer day.

 On the day of egg transfer we & Dr J have decided how ever many eggs are collected, half will be fertilised with H's sperm & the other half donor sperm to increase our chances of success. Now the don't just put it all in a shaker & you have no idea whats what! The two lots of embryos fertilised with the different sperm are kept separate & when it comes to transfer day, you know which embryo is going back. Of course if embryo's make it to day 5 with H's we will transfer one of those back first.

Hopefully by day 19 we have some wonderful embryos & Dr J will transfer one back (ONLY ONE & is adamant about this!!) I will then have to double my steroid dose of prednisone, continue 2 lots of crinone a day & start my other favourite, clexane injections which sting like crazy.

Then the 2 week wait begins. So I'm just waiting for Aunt Flo to come to town (so to speak) so I can start the pill for 14 days.

Sounds simple on paper but from past experience NOTHING is simple with this process BUT this is a totally different cycle so who knows.

Really, truly hoping & praying more than ever................