The Incredible Shrinking Follicles!

Yes, that's right folks, step right up, step right up! See the Incredible Shrinking Follicles right here! Meet the Woman Whose Body Rejects Modern Science! See the follicles, stimulated by drugs for over 16 days, do the exact opposite of what Nature intended!

Needless to say, the ultrasound appointment today did not go well. On Monday, I had four follicles measuring: 9mm, 10mm, 11mm, and 13mm. Not nearly what I had hoped for given we were already on CD16, but they were coming along.

Add four more days of mood swings, hysterical crying jags, uncomfortable injections, and general misery -- all for the good of those follies!

This morning I measured: 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, and 17.5 mm. Yes, that's right! THREE of my FOUR follicles have shrunk! As in reduced in size! As in the OPPOSITE of what the damned drugs are supposed to do.

I am sorry if I sound agitated. I am. I know that I should be happy; after all, I do have one good follicle. It's more than a lot of women get. The thing is, I usually produce one good follicle ON MY OWN. Without the drugs. Without the side effects. Without the &#!@*! $1500 price tag.

And, yes, I know that it only takes one. But when you factor in all our other issues (Mo's swimmers -- all ten of them -- are not setting any land-speed records here and my uterus is less cushiony than your grandmother's sofa), well, then, it seems we could use all the help we can get. The chances of one (ONE!) egg meeting up with Mo's few, courageous souls is just too depressing to think about. And then the chances of that actually implanting when my lining sits stubbornly at 7.5 - 8 mm?

It seems to me that if I am going to suffer the indignity of injectables, I should get more than one lousy folly. A consolation prize or something. After all that I, and infertiles everywhere have been through, we deserve SOMETHING for our efforts.

Don't you agree?