07/25/2016
I had the absolute best week imaginable with my sister and niece out here. I didn’t realize how much I needed the break. We took my niece to all the touristy LA hot spots – the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Santa Monica pier, Zuma beach, Six Flags, Universal Studios and City Walk. They both had a blast, and I had a great time putting all this fertility stuff out of my mind for awhile.
We’re approaching the end of my two week wait. It’s been interesting, that’s for sure. Since I did the hCG trigger shot this time around, I can’t rely on a home pregnancy test, because it’ll show up as positive until all the hCG is gone from my system.
The “trigger shot” is a huge dose of hCG, the human chorionic gonadotropin hormone, which is responsible for pregnancy. It triggers ovulation by forcing the egg to release. My trigger shot was 10,000 IU of hCG.
Chemically speaking, hCG has a half life of 24 hours. So it takes about one day to get out of your system. I got 10,000 units, so on the 10th day, all remnants of the trigger shot should be gone from my system.
I have been testing out the trigger – which basically means every day, I’ve been taking a pregnancy test anyway. Not to see whether or not I’m pregnant, but to compare the second little pink line with the previous day’s test. As the hCG leaves your system, the line should get lighter and lighter. If you’re pregnant, it’ll get lighter to a point and then start getting darker – or it’ll get lighter and go away and then start coming back.
My line is still there. It doesn’t seem to be getting any lighter or darker…but it’s definitely still there. It’s faint, but it’s not really changing one way or the other.
So…who knows. It may not tell me anything at all, but at least I feel like I’m being proactive and keeping my mind occupied during this two week wait. I go in the 28th for a beta test, so I guess we’ll know something one way or the other then.
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