Yesterday the bloating and discomfort reached levels I couldn't handle so I called my nurse for help. She recommended a few things and said if it's not better in the afternoon to call her again. I called again in the afternoon to report no change and scheduled to come in this morning for an ultrasound. They saw fluid pockets in my belly and around the swollen ovaries but nothing that alarmed them enough to recommend a procedure to drain it.
They also asked me to get weighed and for a change I wasn't worried about the number being too high, if only to have some proof that I'm not faking it! I weighed in wearing my heaviest and longest denim skirt because it's two sizes too big and literally the only thing that fits right now. How's this for irony: my weight was the same number as I had at baseline exactly three weeks ago, to the decimal point.
I learned a few things this recovery period:
- Free water is bad. It collects and doesn't pass as easily. Doctor recommended electrolytes so lots of Gatorade.
- Green leafy veg are good. Spinach is bad because of the iron.
- Colace isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's a stool softener, not a laxative. Today doc recommended milk of magnesia. It's been two hours since taking it and still nothing. We'll see.
- Potato chips are recommended! Salt? Starch? Don't remember the reasoning behind why they work, but they do.
- Protein helps. After I spoke to the nurse yesterday morning she recommended upping protein intake so I had an omelette for lunch and this morning I saw a slight difference.
In embryo news, 14 are still growing. They need to biopsy them for PGD testing so they will give them another day or so to reach blast stage. I can't believe we're talking about double digit numbers right now. These are unprecedented numbers for us! I hope it bodes well for good numbers overall.
Shabbat shalom.
Fingers crossed for embryos! Hoping you feel better soon.
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