The medication collection begins

Oh, the memories from past IVF's after these past six months off. The Friday afternoon scramble after a last minute protocol change with only an hour to find my meds and get them on the shipping dock from some mail order pharmacy in order to get them on my front porch by Saturday morning to have them to stab myself with Sunday night. Really, those were the good ole days. This time it isn't nearly as much *fun*, what with three weeks plus notice to get all my meds, protocol (the only one left for me to try) in hand, and calm weekday morning conversations with the pharmacy. Where's the challenge in that?? There's so much calmness leading up to this, I almost don't know what to do with myself. All my past IVF attempts have just been absolute mass chaos at the very very last moment. I mean, we had months or at least weeks of notice we'd be starting a cycle, but the clinic never seemed to have their ducks in a row, and thus the traditional Friday afternoon scramble.

Anyways, all that sarcasm to say, I spent yesterday calling three different pharmacies to find the lowest price for each of the meds since we'll be paying cash for the drugs (as usual). Luckily, I found our new insurance will cover some of the non-IVF specific drugs, such as the progesterone. After all the calling, I ended up saving over $1550 by ordering them from three different places (a drop in the bucket at the point sadly enough, but a very big drop nonetheless). So, yay me. Now, I would have loved to have the nurse partake in this fun adventure, but seems it was once again left up to me. This wouldn't irritate me as much if I, in my social work career, hadn't spent many Friday afternoons (ironically enough) calling multiple pharmacies for my own patients instead of leaving it up to them. Being a big advocate for the golden rule, it would just be nice to be treated on my own medical journey as the patient in the same way that I treated others during their journey when I was on the medical team side.

But, at the end of the day and only a little frustration, I found my meds and saved some money. I've got the cheaper suppression and progesterone ones already set to be delivered on Saturday. I waited to order my expensive stim meds because I'd like to continue to live in the delusional hopeful world that I am WTH miraculously pregnant until proven otherwise in about a week. Why waste $2200 if I'm just going to get knocked up sans-team naturally? I know, it's ridiculous, but considering I won't need the stim meds for about three weeks, I chose to be hopefully cheap anyways and will order them in a week if need be.