The first milestone has been passed! We have done one injection and have officially started downregging!
We have decided we will do these injections at 7pm each night, so they're out of the way for the evening and not hanging over us. So, after we'd eaten, we went into the kitchen to get started.
H prepared the syringe by drawing up 0.5ml of Buserelin and flicking out the air bubbles. I pinched a bit of fat on my tummy and stuck the needle in. I felt a bit more resistance than I did the other day at the clinic but it slid in ok. It stung very slightly as I depressed the syringe and the liquid went in, and I don't think I injected it all in a very smooth way. I was probably holding the syringe a bit awkwardly. Anyway, got all the drug in there and that was it - injection one done.
I sat on the sofa afterwards and was almost waiting for something to happen. Silly really! Anyway, after about 10 minutes the injection site felt a bit hot and itchy and looking at it, the skin looked raised and red. It looked as if the drug was just sitting in a pocket under my skin and not dispersing. It felt spongy to touch. I rubbed it gently a bit and after a couple of hours, the raised area had gone down. I'll see if this happens again and if it does, perhaps I'll ask the clinic if it's normal.
So here we are, at the start of this very surreal journey. I so hope it has a happy ending.
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