Holy guacamole!

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was pretty good. I made the decision on Friday to ignore my grading for the weekend (grades are due this Friday) and that was lovely. So nice not to think about it for a while. Saturday I said goodbye to some of my favorite seniors as they graduated and then went to a going away party for two of my friends who are leaving in August for another job in another part of the country. (The party was this early because some faculty leave town for the summer.) I'm very sad to see them go because they are two of my only close friends in town. It was good to go to the party, but it stretched my ability/desire to be "social."

Yesterday was OK. I wished my mother a good mother's day and then I just ignored the rest of it. Honestly, I think I felt more annoyed at the day than sad about it. Bleh.

Anyway, back to the holy guacamole part. Saturday I went back down for my next scan and had two medium sized follies on the right and a large one and medium sized one on the left and a few well below 10 mm with E2 level at 498. Kept with the 150 IU Follistim for the next two nights for a re-scan today.

The results today:

13, 15 mm follies on the right
15, 19 mm follies on the left with three others that looked about 13 mm
Uterine lining at 9.0 mm

That's not the shocking part. The shocking part is the phone call I just got -- my E2 level is 1528.

Yes, 1528. I had done some estimates and compared to last cycle and was thinking we might head toward 900 or so. But over 1500? Yikes. No wonder I'm a bit of an emotional mess and have EWCM literally pouring out of my...well, not my ears but you get the picture.

The nurse said, if I get pregnant, we're at a 20-25% chance of twins and 2-3% of triplets. My research has said the same although the fact that I'm 36 tempers it a bit. I'm clinging tight to the study I found last time that showed no triplet pregnancies in women over 34 even with higher E2 levels. (And, feeling silly for being nervous about this last time given how nervous I *should* be about it this time.)

So, at this point, I'm triggering tonight and am scheduled for IUI Wednesday. That is, as long as I don't talk myself out of it before then.

When I called my DH I said "we have a not insignificant risk of twins" and he said "you're talking to a statistician, that has a specific meaning." When I told him the actual risks he said "well, yes, that is above the 5% qualification for significance!" He's such a geek. Of course, I am, too, because I was thinking that, also. I said "are you willing to take the risk?" He confidently said "yes." So, there you go.

I'm still nervous.