Do you record all the data for each cycle? Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier not to know any of the numbers or measurements or counts and just rely on the RE's statements like, "There is your right ovary...beautiful..."
Beautiful is good. But.
I am a list maker and like to record, and I want to know everything I can about what the data from each cycle means, even if I stay up until 1 am reading all I can about the predicted success of a cycle based on antral follicle counts (even though the data is for IVF patients). Even if it is the same text I read after my last baseline scan. Only this time I had a count of 18 follicles resting on my ovaries, compared to 11 last time. So I read everything all over again. I went from the fair category to the good category (as shown here)
So I guess "beautiful" can be translated to mean 'good,' and I should just take that information, cross my fingers and be satisfied.
What do you do with the information given to you during your cycle?
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I tracked and compared mine to others, but to tell you the truth, it seems to all be a crapshoot on who gets preggers.
I am an obsessive researcher, too. This cycle, I am trying to learn to just relax and trust my doctor, but it's hard! Last night I was up until 2AM reading about estradiol levels, and comparing mine to the data. It's an addiction!
Oh I'm totally recording the info. Every time, methodically, and I'd add quite obsessively too. I know the rate at which my follicles/lining grew in relation to the meds I'm taking. go 18 antral follicles, go!
i record everything too. i usually put it in a spreadsheet, but i also have it in my bbt chart on fertility friend. i'm an information whore :-)
i record everything too. i usually put it in a spreadsheet, but i also have it in my bbt chart on fertility friend. i'm an information whore :-)
I'm obsessed and out mine in my FF chart and keep track of all the info in my blog, too. I can't stand it when the nurses just say " things look good" and don't give me numbers. I'm an analytical chemist and my husband is a statistitian! Our world REVOLVES around numbers!!!
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