Tuesday, June 17, 2014

June 10, 2014


A few days after surgery, I felt almost as good as new.  We went back to Medical City for our medicine consultation with Heather, our sweet, personal nurse.  We went over what seemed to be about a million different medications and the instructions for each.  Thank God Justin was there to help me remember all of it!  She explained that we only order meds once, and so we would get every medicine and every pill and every needle needed throughout this whole process, all at one time.  She gave us our meds schedule, and placed the order with the pharmacy.








Pink- Prenatal vitamins- taken through everything

Gray- Birth control pills- taken for a little over a month, to allow time for the doctors to manipulate my system and hormones.

Yellow- Lupron- a shot I have to give myself in the stomach each morning in order to shut down all of my hormones.  Could possibly give me headaches and menopausal symptoms.

Green- Dexamethasone- a small steroid pill taken every morning in hopes of building superhuman eggs and embryo environment.  Could possibly cause insomnia, hot flashes, and constant hunger.

Blue- Follistim- a shot I have to give myself in the stomach each day for about a week to stimulate ovaries right before retrieval.  Could cause pain and abdominal swelling and weight gain from over stimulation.  Most expensive medicine I’ve ever purchased!

Red- Intra Lipids- For first infusion on July 3rd.
 

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