The Day Before Retrieval...Again

Tomorrow is retrieval day. Thank God. I am beyond miserable. I have 23 follicles measuring over 15, and several more that won't be mature enough to fertilize. Last time I ended up with 10 mature follicles and tons that weren't mature. This time they have all grown together, but that means my ovaries are big and extremely uncomfortable!! I can't sleep because they are pushing on everything and there's no position that is comfortable. Then last Friday Dr. G sprung the news on me that my lining was a little too thick and he was considering freezing all my embryos and doing a FET next month. Uhm, no. Not happening. My lining is at 18 and I have a tiny polyp close to my cervix. Is this ideal? Nope. But the polyp isn't in an area where the embryo would implant so that's not enough for me to cancel at this point. My lining is thick, but it's healthy and not old lining. Again, not enough to cancel things at this point. I haven't even approached the subject of transferring 2 embryos instead of 1. He's not going to like that either. I'm just tired of having my doctor make all these choices for me while I sit back and do as I'm told. That hasn't gotten me anywhere so now I'm pushing for what I want this time. Dr. M (the embryologist) will be in charge starting tomorrow. I trust him and have no doubts about putting my embryos in his hands. He will be reasonable with me and we will make a plan. I'm just hoping tomorrow morning goes well and we actually make it to transfer next Monday.