Beginning the TWW

So now I'm in the beginning of my first official TWW.  Crazy.

Let me back up a little.  I went in Saturday for the follow-up to my follicle sizing.  The follicle on the right had barely grown, and was around 13.5.  The left had surged ahead to 18.1, and my uterine lining was around 8.4 (I think, I should write these things down!).  So I was given the go-ahead to trigger that night at 10 pm.  We picked up the trigger shot and the sterile collection cup at the pharmacy and headed home, ecstatic that we were almost done with this cycle.

I'm a little sad that we likely only had one mature egg, but one is better than none.  We did the trigger shot at 10 pm.  I didn't feel the shot at all, but boy was my belly tender afterwards.  It was still sore yesterday, but this morning it seems fine.

Obviously, I had the actual insemination yesterday morning.  It was more painful than I thought it would be.  I was told that it would be easier than the HSG, but it wasn't, probably because the HSG involved injecting liquid into my uterine cavity, and the insemination was done using a catheter, which is a bit more sturdy.  My uterus is retroverted, and my back was killing me during and after the procedure, to the point that I turned on the heated seat in the car for the drive home, even though it was over 100 degrees yesterday. 

Another effect of the trigger shot was that it made me awfully lethargic.  I spent a lot of Sunday just laying around, and had no energy at all.  Yesterday, I had plans to get a LOT done, and I spent several hours just lying on the couch, although I'm sure the heat had something to do with it too.  My abdomen felt rather full and ever-so-slightly painful, sort of like a mild period or bad gas (really, more like bad gas than anything else).  And I felt a bit light-headed.  Today, I'm feeling much, much better, but still tired.

The heat is killing me, though.  It's only getting down into the upper 60s at night, so sleeping has been terrible.  I've never used AC so much in my life.  Today is forecast to be 110, and tomorrow will be 109, they say.  Due to the insemination, I couldn't jump in the pool yesterday, but I have every intention to get in today.  I'd love to swim laps, but I may not have the energy.  I went to the gym yesterday, but I was so exhausted and worried about jarring my innards that I didn't get a great workout.

The next two weeks are going to be hard, but I'm keeping my spirits up and trying hard not to get too anxious about everything.