Green Light!

Well, I'm not sure what to think about this. I went in for my day 9 sono today; there's a big 22 mm follicle and mature lining, which means I'll trigger tonight for IUI on Thurs (which is fabuloso, at least in terms of my teaching schedule!). However, I tend to surge on my own once I have a follicle at 18.5 or 19 mm. I took an OPK this morning, and it was clearly negative (though getting close). So what gives?

In other wacky ovarian news, my estradiol level continues to be elevated (at 73 on day 3). Now, the superstitious part of me knows that I conceived LG on a cycle with elevated E2 levels, but the practical part of me wonders if this isn't some holdover from the monster cyst from hell and that "follicle" we saw today really isn't a follicle. (This is when a baseline sono would have been useful, but c'est la vie).


Updated to add: Well of course there's a glitch. There's always a glitch. Took another OPK and it's positive (or I think it's positive, one never can be sure with those things). Call in to Dr. Gorgeous' office to see if she wants to reschedule the IUI for tomorrow. This is *exactly* like the cycle I conceived LG, except in that case I solved the problem by doing two IUIs, one at 24 hrs post-trigger, the other at 48 (and of course there's no way to tell which of them worked, though I suspect it was the later one, as LG measured for the later date at those 6-7 weeks sonos). Damn. I wish I hadn't peed on that stupid stick.

Have I mentioned that I always have a nasty bout of insomnia around surge/trigger time? Last night LG woke up at 2:00 or so and I never fell back to sleep.

Again with the updates: So I tried to take a nap (which failed, of course; I only was able to nap during early pregnancy) and was roused by the call from the nurse. IUI rescheduled for tomorrow, between my two classes (dicey, yes, we'll see how it goes, though today I was there and back in just under two hours). Will need to get myself out of a meeting. An important meeting, but a meeting I'd rather not attend anyway. I'm not a good liar. I am however quite rhetorically savvy; it goes with the job.