I forgot to mention that the day of my transfer, I went up to the clinic because I was hurting so much I could hardly walk. It started right after the retrieval. I had never had that kind of pain before. I wondered if maybe I had a UTI. I spent hours at the clinic because they wouldn't see me until all the monitoring for the day was finished. I had an ultrasound, which showed nothing, then they took a urine sample, did a dip there at the clinic, which was negative, and sent it off to the lab for culture. My RE, who did my transfer that day and was at the clinic that morning (but only briefly) said he'd let me know about the culture when he got the results. Well, my symptoms went away and I basically forgot about, until I got a call from the IVF nurse THIS MORNING -- ONE WEEK LATER -- saying that the culture had come back positive for a UTI. Apparently, my RE was out of town and didn't get the results until today. She asked me if I was still experiencing symptoms and I told her no and we talked about the fact that my pregnancy test is Thursday. She decided to call my RE to doublecheck with him to make sure I should still take antibiotics, called me back and told me that yes, I was going to have to take them.
I am pissed off. A week later they finally get around to telling me? How has this affected my chances? I need this like I need a hole in the head. This is not good. I will call my RE tomorrow to ask him, but I am not happy about this. If this doesn't work, I almost feel like they owe me another cycle. (Yeah, like that's going to happen.) This is not fair.
Oooh. I'd be pissed, too. I hope the RE is able to reassure you tomorrow.
Posted by: Kris | December 03, 2006 at 05:10 PM
That's just criminal. Seriously. A doctor being on vacation is no excuse--someone has to step up to the plate.
(I had a similar experience with an RE on vacation back in the day: the beta came back very low with egregiously low progesterone and estrogen, but they would not start estrogen supplementation because my RE was on vacation. Are you kidding me that in a clinic that big--to whom I have paid enormous sums of money--there's really no one else to ask?)
Posted by: Brooklyn Girl | December 03, 2006 at 08:17 PM
Absolutely outrageous, I hope she was deeply, deeply apologetic!
Hoping that this has no effect on your chances (I can't imagine that it does unless it's given you a fever?)
Posted by: thalia | December 04, 2006 at 07:08 AM
Wow - that is ridiculous. Glad to hear that you're feeling better though and hope there isn't an impact (I can't see how - except for a fever like Thalia mentioned).
Posted by: spark | December 04, 2006 at 12:52 PM