Thickening linings

Anyone who has been following this blog knows that I’ve become a bit obsessed with my “thin” endometrial lining.  (http://3yearwait.blogspot.com/2015/11/unlucky-77mm-aka-another-crap-lining.html; http://3yearwait.blogspot.com/2015/11/damn-thin-linings.html;http://3yearwait.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-acupuncturists-advice.html;http://3yearwait.blogspot.com/2015/02/lets-talk-about-something-we-havent.html;http://3yearwait.blogspot.com/2015/02/lets-talk-about-something-we-havent.html)  Of course, now that I know it’s probably just my shitty embryos and not my lining, I’m a little less worried about it.  (http://3yearwait.blogspot.ca/2016/02/its-not-meits-you-embryos.html)  Nevertheless, I’ve been doing everything in my power to thicken my lining “naturally”—which probably is much less important than the estrace I’m on 3x/day! 

I managed to thicken up my lining for this transfer.  All of my linings have been “B”s, which is good.  With my early fresh cycles I had thin linings (fresh cycle with son 8mm, fresh cycle with blighted ovum, 8mm), but that’s always a risk with a fresh cycle.  (The drugs that make you grow lots of eggs are not necessarily the same ones to grow a great lining.)  I managed to get some thick ones for my later failed frozen transfers (11mm, 10mm).  Then I pulled a really thick one for my fresh anencephaly pregnancy (11mm).  Unfortunately, since my abortion I have gone back to thinner linings for my subsequent frozen cycles (8mm each time)—a risk from having an abortion, unfortunately.  SO, for this cycle I religiously did acupuncture one to two times a week, gagged down supplements (literally), drank ginger tea, put heat packs on my abdomen, started eating red meat again, and begged my clinic to keep me on birth control for the bare minimum 21 days (which they did). 

And what do I have to show for all of my hard work?  I’m at 9mm (8.5, actually).  Well, it’s not amazing but it might be the best I can do.  Everyone knows how worried I’ve been about my lining, so they’re all super positive about it.  (The nurses: “GREAT lining!” My acupuncturist: “Super!”)  It’s good to have cheerleaders.  L-I-N-I-N-G!  Go lining! Go lining!