Trigger Happy!

It's done!

I'm not going to lie, it was the most stressful few minutes of my life.  Even though we asked the nurse before we left Sheffield on Wednesday and she said it was 0.5ml, naturally we doubted ourselves.  All of the previous injections have been in pre-filled pens (like Gonal F) or you draw it into the syringe yourself but use the full dose (like Cetrotide).  It's been so long since we had the tutorial that I was really nervous about doing it wrong.

Fortunately, ALS kept a level head as always, got 0.5ml in the syringe and injected me as normal.  It must have been a thicker needle as it was really tough to pierce the skin and quite painful - nothing unbearable though.  The other reason for this could be because we had to use the same needle to draw the medicine up as we did to inject it, therefore piercing the rubber on the bottle may have blunted the needle somewhat.

Either way, it's not hugely painful in the grand scheme of things and that is the LAST injection (at least until we start getting ready for transfer).

I've been absolutely drained today so I'm looking forward to an early night and not having to get up at 6am to do the Cetrotide.  Tomorrow will be all about relaxing before heading to London as our train doesn't leave until 8pm!

My next post will be after egg retrieval, probably when we get home on Tuesday.

Wish us luck.