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@Leialou: I'm so sorry. Fingers crossed the next time is it for you. Hugs!

@Mrs.Pinecone316: good luck!!!

@OMM4: oh yay! Good luck!

@Leialou: I hate, hate this for you. Take some time to heal, and we'll be here to fire up this thread again when it's next your turn!

@Shutterbug: yay!!! Good luck!!!

@Shutterbug: woohoo, so glad it's all starting! How is the Gonal F going for you? I forget, are these your first injectables?

I have a monitoring appt tomorrow. There's a snow storm here so I'm not sure how that will work. I already called today and asked if I should be concerned about them being closed and she said "nope, we're always open. We were open during Sandy!" But I'm worried about how I'll get there!
I worry way too much.
Praying that tomorrow they give me a date!

@Mrs.Pinecone316: Glad you have an appointment! Hope that the next 16 days go by quickly for you

@Shutterbug: Thanks for checking in! Baseline ultrasound today and then in ~10 days (CD1), we start Vivelle patches. Hopefully FET by end of Jan/beg of Feb! Anyone familiar w/the Vivelle patches? Any fun side effects I can expect?

Cross-post from the IF Check-in thread:
I have a date! FET scheduled for next Wednesday 1/8 at 1pm. That was the date I figured out in my head so no huge surprise, but it feels good to have it down in the books at the RE office. I start oil injections and crinone suppositories tomorrow.
I've never looked forward to a Wednesday so much!

@SweetiePie: Yay for a date! That is great news and it's so soon! I hope the next few days go quickly for you!

@MrsKoala: @twodoghouse: @littlek: thanks!!!!

@SweetiePie: Wishing you lots of luck!! Wednesday will be here before you know it! Is your DH giving you the PIO injections?

@Apex: haha epic! I love it!

@SweetiePie: If you have the dexterity to do your own IM shot, then by all means! Are you doing it somewhere other than your hip/butt? I tried reaching around one night when DH was late and just couldn't jab my own butt.

@SweetiePie: That's brave!

@bluestriped bee: I'm here if you need tips By then I'll be a pro!
To be honest, the IM injection seemed easier than the subQ. I don't know, the needle seemed sharper and thinner and I barely felt it. I felt sore the next day (like I worked out just one quadrant of my right buttcheek) but the injection itself was easy peasy.
I just stood in front of the full length mirror. I slightly bent the leg of the cheek I was injecting to relax the muscle (but kept my toes on the ground for balance) and plunged right in!
I could see how it might be difficult for some - it wasn't the easiest position for me to be in. But it wasn't impossible or super uncomfortable.
I'm excited for you either way...either a BFP or on to IVF I know you've been eager to do IVF for a while now!

@SweetiePie: @spaniellove: cool, thanks for the tips! At this point, I'm not that hopeful that this IUI will work. I am more excited about IVF.

Ok, this is a question for anyone who has done intramuscular progesterone in oil, but calling out @spaniellove because I know you've done it!
Was it particularly hard for your DH to push the plunger down while he was injecting the oil? All of the other shots I've done, I had to be careful not to push TOO hard on the plunger because it moved really easily. For this oil (I just did it) I had to push REALLY hard on the plunger to get it to go in. It almost made me a little bit worried that I did something wrong. But it did eventually all go in, I just had to force it (again, the plunger that pushes the medicine, not the needle...the needle went in fine).

Thanks to anyone who has experience!

ETA: I just did a quick search and the first "real person" video I found was a woman who said that there's a lot of resistance with the PIO injection so its hard to tell if its moving. That's exactly what I experienced so I feel a lot better!

@SweetiePie: Eeek!!! Yay for Wednesday!!! You impress me with doing your IM shots, way to go girl!

@Shutterbug: Glad your shots are going okay so far. I am so hopeful for you!!!

@SweetiePie: I don't think mine was crinone, but I did some kind of vaginal progesterone suppositories. I needed liners overnight, but was usually fine the next day without one. If you don't have any in the house I would definitely grab some to at least wear at night! I had tons of leakage even though I took it right before bed and was laying down all night.

@SweetiePie: I'm just over 21 weeks and have been feeling really good so far! Thanks so much for asking. I can't wait until you're on this side of it!

@SweetiePie: Sorry, I'm just seeing this now! He says it was a little harder to push the plunger because the oil is thick. I remember it taking a long time and I would have to stand there for a while waiting for him to be done. After a while I started to warm the syringe in a heating pad for a minute after I drew up the oil (but not to the point of being hot! You don't want to be injecting hot oil!) and he said that made it a little less viscous. I just wanted to avoid lumps/muscle knots afterward. You really rock for doing your own IM shots!!!

@SweetiePie: I didn't use Crinone (yet, I will this cycle) but with Endometrin I used it twice a day and definitely needed liners. Sometimes at night I could get away without them, but not during the day.