Stim Day #1

So tonight was our first stim injection. DH was kind of nervous because the Follistim pen (blue & yellow item in pic below) looks so different than the regular sub-q needle, but he did think it was pretty cool that it literally looked like a pen - just fatter! lol


In case anyone's curious about what's in the picture: (clockwise from top/left)

• Alcohol and cotton balls since I ran out of alcohol wipes
• 5 boxes of Follistim cartriges and needles (silver)
• The inside of one of the boxes (white/pink)
• Lupron (little bottle)
• Lupron needle
• Follistim pen
• Follistim case

So we walked through the instructions together to load it and put it together - and then he injected me! So far, so good - it's only day one, so not really expecting to feel anything just yet. But I hear that towards the end of stimming, I'm going to feel quite hormonal, bloated, sore belly, and just "full/heavy" feeling. Then off to the egg removal and embryo transfer!!