Tag: progesterone in oil

  • The Shots

    The Shots

    You’ll probably recall I had a lot of anxiety about the Progesterone in Oil (PIO) shots, so I thought it’d be good to provide an update on how those have been going. As I expected, I was building up the shots in my head and making them scarier than they actually are. There are also…

  • Color-Coded Madness

    Color-Coded Madness

    Once we knew we were moving ahead with a frozen embryo transfer (FET), my new FET nurse emailed me my schedule and sent in all my prescriptions to the pharmacy.  Folks, as the blog title implies, the schedule is pure, color-coded madness.  And I thought egg retrieval was a crazy process with lots of medications…

  • The Hand-Off

    The Hand-Off

    In the last week of June, my IVF nurse told me to pick up a new birth control packet and gave me a day to start it. And then she said a short sentence that gave me more anxiety than I anticipated: “Let me know on your cycle day one, and I’ll transfer you to…