I can meet you over there and I def understand it not feeling real!
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Thank you for letting me know. Moving over.
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I assumed this would be your month only because I have not gotten around to mailing out the tests for you 
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My first box of meds has arrived! Still waiting on one more box because one had to ship from Israel and one from Turkey due to supply chain stuff. The one from Turkey arrived first via FedEx.
Hopefully, the one from Israel will be here pretty soon. It says it’s coming Priority Mail Express International and that takes 3–5 business days. I’m on the second business day, and it’s still showing as in Israel. Business day 5 should be next Wednesday. I’m supposed to hit CD1 on Monday or Tuesday based on O-date and my usual luteal phase, but I’m feeling stuff moving around in there like it might hit early, so IDK. It would fucking figure if the one cycle that I need it to hang on and be regular, that it would try to come early.
I’m going to call the clinic on Monday and make sure I know exactly what I need to do when the time comes. The doctor had said CD3 or CD4 to start meds, but he didn’t say what would determine which of those two it will be. I don’t even know yet how I’m supposed to take them, like do I start them ALL on the same day? Maybe I already have what I need and it’s OK if the one kind still missing is a little late?
I don’t want to call and bug them until the weekend is over and I know whether CD1 has shown up early or not. If it’s on time, I think I should be OK unless there are shipping delays.
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Your doc should give you a calendar for stims. It will show which meds to take on which days, although it might change after you have your first scan (usually on day 4 or 5 of stims).
It is pretty common from what I understand to start with your FSH drug- I think you said Gonal-F- and something like Menopur or low-dose HCG, and then later add cetrotide or ganirelex, which prevent ovulation as the follicles get bigger. I mean, every doc does it differently, but I hope that perspective is helpful. Fingers crossed your meds show up, and good luck!
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I have the Gonal-F and the Cetrotide here and am still waiting for the Menopur. So . . . hopefully it gets here soon if it’s one of the first ones that I’m supposed to take!
If I’m getting a calendar, which is presumably based on when CD1 is, do you think I should wait to call until CD1 then? If it isn’t over the weekend or on Monday? (It’ll probably be Monday.)
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Hmmm, I think I got mine in advance based on a projected Day 1 and then they updated it, but if you are starting on day 3 or 4 then calling on CD1 probably makes sense! @Bracken_Joy, what do you remember about stims and calendars?
ETA: I belong to a nice FB group about IVF that is not as intense as the infertility subreddit, DM me if you’re interested!
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My lupron was for suppression, so equivalent to BC for other types of cycles
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I actually joined a bunch of FB groups and subreddits, but, honestly, I just lurk because I can’t keep track of the other folks well enough to feel I’m part of a community. Subreddits, especially, I just cannot get used to the format somehow. It seems so RANDOM to me compared to forums, and I have trouble following the convo threading. But, sure, I’ll DM you and take a link to your group specifically. 
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I wasn’t prescribed Lupron or BC, so maybe they’re doing something a little different with me, but the calendars are super helpful, thanks!
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Interesting! Are you just going in “cold”? I did one cycle with BC and another with estrogen priming. Although BC is common, my doc who did my second retrieval says she mostly only uses it for, like, egg donors, because otherwise it can oversuppress people, and she does estrogen priming.
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I don’t . . . know? All I know is that the only meds the doc told me to get were the Menopur, Gonal-F, and Cetrotide, and I’ll be getting Ovidrel as a trigger later. My nurse ordered all but the Ovidrel, saying I will get that locally later and it’s not that expensive here. The doctor specifically said I’d be starting on meds at the beginning of my next cycle. So . . . I assume that if he was going to have me on anything else, I’d have had to pick it up somewhere and would already be on it.
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For low ovarian reserve some places definitely will do no suppression phase.
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This breaks down some of the protocols:
ETA although only one does no pre menses treatment at all (number 4). Maybe you won’t start stims at all this cycle? I’ll be curious to see your calendar.
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I hope I’m starting this cycle! That’s what he’d said, and what I got my heart set on. I’m gonna be super disappointed if I have to wait yet another cycle.
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Well, it would still be starting meds this cycle! Just… suppression ones. Then menses. Then stims.
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Ah. Hmm. Welp, I guess I’ll see what they say next week. I guess it’s possible that I utterly misunderstood him when I tried to extract a timeline from him.
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Yeah I’ll be curious what he says! It just seemed like the no suppression was for really low AMH and follicle number, which doesn’t seem to be the case with you. But all the protocols are really not an exact science, so who knows what any individual doc wants to do!
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In Australia I think it’s not that common to start on BC pills prior to CD1. My treatment was the same as yours from the sounds of the drug names, I think they called it antagonist protocol? Got my fingers crossed for your second package of drugs to get here quickly so you can get started🤞
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