Injection Day 1

Hello everyone!

Well i have done it... i have plucked up the courage and injected myself. Not many people can say that now can they? Also now that a couple of hours have passed since doing it i can actually feel chuffed with myself.

I feel like a super woman! Like i can do anything! Ha ha!

I'm not going to say it hurts, because in retrospect it doesn't really... this is coming from someone who has loads of blood tests, on many occasions!

As i was putting the syringe and needle together i did start to feel a bit nervous and queasy, but it must of just been from my worrying about the unknown. I guess i was worried about not doing it right, or it hurting a lot, which of course is completely normal!

I thought it would be a good idea to put up some pictures of me doing the injection, maybe one day it will help someone else who comes across this blog? Also it will be nice to show you all what i am going through!

So first of all it is a good idea to get yourself prepared:

Then put together your needle like shown below:

Poke the needle into the Buserelin vial and turn it upside down so that the needle is immersed in the liquid:

Pull back the plastic plunger slowly to fill the syringe to 0.5ml (check that is the correct dose for you), if you get any air bubbles tap the syringe to remove them, or pull the plunger back behind the 0.5ml mark and slowly push it forward to release the air into the vial:

Clean the injection area (just any area below the belly button) with the antiseptic wipe:



Pinch the skin and push the needle in, you will need to be quite brave at this point. If you go too slowly it will most likely hurt, but don't go to quickly either! My information said to use 'a dart like motion', i didn't throw it in though, i just eased it in without being too soft.

Then slowly inject the liquid by pushing on the plunger until it stops:

After you have injected all of the liquid remove the needle carefully and cover it with the safety cap:

Then dispose of the covered needle in the sharps box:

So there you have it! Simple aye?

About 2 minutes after injecting my belly did go a bit strange, it felt quite itchy and i developed a red rash (i look pregnant already!):

This is quite normal apparently and after about an hour my skin returned to normal and i have a small red dot showing the site of the injection.

I am truely excited and happy that i have taken a huge step towards our dream today. I am really proud of myself and am so glad that we are finally making progress...

1 down, loads to go!

Take Care All xxx

Medication

Hello everyone!

Well as you can probably guess from the title my medication arrived today!

This is very exciting, but it also made me start feeling nervous which is strange because i haven't really been nervous about it all yet? Must be because it is finally happening. This is it, no turning back now!

Also this will be the first blog entry with photo's, i thought it would be nice to go through what we have here...

So, it turned up looking like this... how exciting!:

Inside the white box were the Gonal-F pens, the Ovitrelle (which you take 36 hours before your egg collection), and 53 needles! All of which need to be refrigerated, they look quite at home there don't they!:

The brown box had the following bits in it:

What you are looking at there is a small welcome pack, 3 Buserelin vials, 3 Crinone gel boxes (each with 15 doses inside) and a blue bag which contained this lot!:

That is my sharps box, 60 syringes, 60 needles and 60 antiseptic wipes.

Phew!

After putting it all back in the blue bag for safe keeping i read all the leaflets that came with the medications, there are soooo many side effects that i could have, some quite comical really! I don't expect to have them all, i hope i don't have any, but we shall see.

So i am all set for my first injection on Friday night at 6:30pm, wish me luck for then! I don't know if it is the excitement or nervous feeling that has caused this but... i can't seem to remember what i am supposed to be doing with all of it! Woops!

I had better get on to BabyCentre and read up on injecting! Ha ha...

Take Care All! xxx