My FET : Monitoring the Ovulation

22 March 2011 - Tuesday (Day 13)
My 1st Day for Ovulation Test ;)
Once i got up from bed at 6.30am, i collected my urine in small container that was provided by the nurse. Then, i dip the Clearblue Ovulation Tester in the urine for 1 minute or so. 
Then i waited for the result... After a few minutes of waiting.. only 1 line is visible. There is a very blurry 2nd line. As per my expectation :)


23 March 2011 - Wednesday (Day 14) 
Just to ensure that i correctly did the Ovulation Test , i googled the Clearblue website and found this demo for using the tester. Very helpful. 
http://www.clearblue.com/ca/clearblue-ovulation-test.php
So.. for the 2nd day of my test, i did exactly as per the demo. Result is 2 lines is visible. But the 2nd line is still not as dark as the 1st line (ie the reference line). 
I called the clinic to inform my result. The nurse asked me to repeat again the test next morning. 

Oh ya.. i snapped a photo of the test result so that i can compare the result when i do another test next day. It's actually good to snap the test result because the 2nd line would be gone after a few hours. 

The Reference Line on the right. The 2nd line was a bit blur. 

My FET : The 1st Appointment

21 March 2011
Our appointment was scheduled at 10.30am. This time, both of us took a whole day of leave. So, there was no rush to get to the clinic or rush back to the office.
When we reached and entered the clinic.. the clinic staffs greeted me..still remember my name even after a few months ;) . Oh ya.. they also know that it's me who wrote this blog.. hehee.. malu la plak.
Then i looked to the right side of the clinic.. whoow.. the clinic looked different.
The renovation that they did during my last visit was completed.
Now it is more spacious.. i guess twice the size as previous one.. more sitting of course.
And there's another washroom at the end of the clinic.

Finally.. the decision is made

Yeszaa.. finally the 2nd episode in our ivf diaries is about to begin. 
It's not easy for us to get a good date for the FET.. well not really a good one but it seems to be the best available date for the FET. 
Reasons : 

1. The major milestone for my current IT project would be completed by end March.There are like 2 - 3 new upcoming IT projects this April onwards plus my daily task to do support for SAP system.. Fuhhss (Those who work in IT industry especially do support and implementation of SAP system would understand how tense it is be in this situation)
2. Hubby will be extremely busy with his IT project this coming April
3. We've been holding this FET for too long.. i'm just afraid, the longer we hold it, the less successful it will be.. (i mean.. it's not good to frozen the embryo for too long .. hehe just my assumption)
Whatever it is... hopefully everything will be ok. Amin.  

~ Yours Truly ~

Another fight with the Urinary Tract Infection

As i becoming older.. now in my mid 30s, i noticed that i easily get infected by unwanted things.
Last time it was vaginal infection.. now, it's the Urinary Tract Infection..huhuhu..
4 years back, i used to suffer a very severe urinary infection. My bladder was in pain most of the time, my urine felt like acid, it was seriously painful to urinate.. and what's more.. i felt the urge to urinate every 3 to 5 minutes...huhu...all medications including antibiotics that was prescribed to me by the doctor at clinics didn't work. So i was referred to the specialist at Subang Jaya Medical Center. The specialist took my blood and did abdominal scan on my bladder. Alhamdullillah.. after few days of medications from the specialist.... i finally recovered from the infection. I was lucky that the infection did not spread to other part of my abdomen.
The whole 2 weeks experience was such a nightmare. Ever since that day, i was always careful and take lots of precaution from getting the urine infection again.

Fighting with the Candida Vaginitis aka vaginal discharge !!

I noticed that after i started my fertility treatment, especially after i underwent the HSG procedure, i got this new problem.... vaginal discharge. This discharge i'm talking about is not a normal one that usually come out during our fertile period (everybody would be happy when the egg white discharge come out.. would be a good sign to TTC ;) ).
This one is not a normal one...it looks like a white cottage cheese, sometime it turns into yellowish in color.. when it's yellow.. it smell a bit fishy fuhhss weird eh when you smell like a fish.. the bad thing about it, is it usually cause irritation and real bad itchiness or burning in or around the most sensitive area...(know what i mean ;) )..

The discharge looks pretty much similar
like this cottage cheese 

I read from a website..this abnormal discharge is referred as Candida Vaginitis or in layman terms - vaginal yeast infection. I guess this problem is common in most women, it just that the severity of it that differ.
Since then, for like more than 3 years now, i've been fighting to cure this infection.
I would get this infection usually once or twice a week.. sometime it's just very mild one..but if i'm unlucky.. the infection become a bad one..
This discharge is making my daily life somehow feel uncomfortable....so to avoid this uncomfortable feeling, i wear pantiliner each and every day .. especially when i go to work, travelling, out for shopping etc etc.. One good thing about wearing a pantiliner is that it would ensure that i'm always in a clean state. I would change to a new one if the pantyliner got stained by the discharge.
I usually choose a cotton non-scented type of pantyliner.. the scented kinda of pantyliner not suitable for me.. the discharge would be even more when i use it.