So sorry I've not posted an update recently, but the truth is this last week I've felt bloody awful! The previous times I've had IVF I've not really been troubled by the down regulation part of the cycle, but this time seems to be different.
It really started last weekend. On the Saturday afternoon I started to feel very sick, but this quickly passed. However on the Sunday I woke with some terrible period pains and the arrival of my 'Aunt Irma' (one for you IT crowd fans). This is to be expected when down regging, but these were some of the worst pains I've had in a while and I do tend to suffer quite a lot with my periods. I spent most of the day laid out and not moving. I was looking forward to the next day as we were taking our nieces out and wanted to make sure I was ok.
Monday I felt a lot better until late on the afternoon when I started to get a headache. Nothing seemed to shift it, but it was bearable. Tuesday it all went downhill!
I woke up with a throbbing headache, not unlike a migraine, but my whole head hurt rather than the tight band feeling you get with a migraine, which seems to focus on one side of the head or the other. I felt sick, I was shaking and my heart was racing. I put myself back to bed in the hope I would feel better later in the day. I didn't really.
The next day the headache was gone, replaced with a feeling of severe dizziness as if the room was going round and round. Not unlike being drunk I suppose! We have a home blood pressure monitor so I took mine. 112/51! This probably explained the dizziness then. I thought another day of rest and plenty of fluids should sort me out. Wrong! The feeling continued into the next day. At this point I thought I'd ring the clinic where we are having treatment to see what they thought. 'Oh it's probably dehydration, as you've not had a reaction previously, but best to get checked out by your GP' so off I toddle to my doctor. Blood pressure this time 103/60. 'We will send you for bloodtests. You could be anaemic.' So now I'm awaiting results of said bloodtests. Anaemia could make sense as I've been feeling incredibly tired. Walking up the stairs is a chore, but it seems too coincidental to me. We shall see what the tests say!
In the meantime, I'm due my first scan at the clinic on Tuesday to see if the down regging has worked (I'm guessing yes) and if I start the injections. Right now I'm laying in bed desperately hoping the room will stop swimming soon!
No comments:
Post a Comment