Injection Tutorial

Today is CD28 and day 10 of Norethisterone! Yippee that's the final day!!!!!

Today we had our injection tutorial. It lasted half an hour and was with one of the Care nurses (who was lovely!). Doing the injection is FAR more complicated than I imagined; there are so many different steps! So glad hubby is doing them not me as his memory is really good - mine is shocking and I'd never remember it all.

He did a practise injection on me without any medication in the syringe, so the nurse could check his technique. The needle is TINY - about the smallest needle imaginable, it's smaller than a sewing pin. It's really easy to break so we have to be careful!

I am starting with Menopur injections (a 'gentle' dose due to my high antral follicle count) on CD2 of my next bleed. We have to do those daily after 3pm, and we are planning to do them at 7pm, when hubby will definitely be home from work.

On CD6 (day 5 of injections) I add in a daily Cetrodide injection. Cetrodide is used with women on a short protocol such as me. We do this at the same time as the Menopur injection.

I can choose whether to have Menopur in the stomach or thigh, and I'm going for thigh. Cetrodide has to go into the stomach so it will mean less bruising in one particular area that way.

The Menopur and Cetrodide injections are subcutaneous, which means they go into the skin, not the muscle.

I will be injecting Menopur for between 8-14 days.

My period can come any time from tomorrow, but is expected to come between 2-5 days after last Norethisterone tablet (today).

Quite excited now!!!