Ouchie!

Today marked the start of the Cetrotide injections.  I'd read so many horror stories about these, seen that the needle was twice the length of the Gonal F one and been told they really hurt so I was pretty worked up about them- unnecessarily I might add.

6am rolled around and we headed downstairs, mixed the medication and got ready.  There was a lot less wincing and telling ALS to wait than there was with the first Gonal F and I mostly just let him get on with it.  It really didn't hurt much and I immediately relaxed as soon as it was through the skin.  Unfortunately thanks to the relief everything started to go fuzzy and I spent the rest of the injection saying, "Hurry up, I'm going to faint".  I managed to hold out to the end, lay down on the floor for a few minutes and felt okay, just a bit nauseous.  After the injection the site went red (about the size of my palm around where the needle went in) and incredibly itchy for about 2 hours.  Fortunately it calmed down after that.

14 hours later and it's a little sore and it has bruised but nothing too bad.  I've just done my Gonal F injection in the other side which hurt a little more than normal but I'm putting it down to my stomach being generally sore from all the injections.

Side effect wise I'm pretty much the same although I get a pain in my right ovary area every time I bend or take too big a stride.  On the scan my right ovary was shown to be the dominant one so hopefully this just means it's growing some big, healthy follicles!

I walked home from work and then went out for another walk around the local park later on and it's exhausted me.  It's definitely taking a toll on my body and I would love to be able to take a couple of weeks off work to just let my body do the work and not have to worry about anything else but unfortunately that's not an option.

It feels really odd to know that it's been nearly a week now and I have no idea, other than how my body is feeling, whether the injections are doing anything (or more importantly whether they're doing what they're meant to do).  Roll on Friday morning when we get to find out what's going on down there!