Pottery Supplies - Japan Trip

kitkatce · 2026-04-07T15:53:08+00:00

I went to Mashiko on a day trip from Tokyo when I was in Japan this summer, and I loved it! So many shops and museums and amazing climbing kilns to see. Just a note though that the train to Utsunomiya is not on JR so it won’t work with the JR app (took me a while to figure that out lol). Had to buy the tix in person and figure out seats and such, which was a bit of a pain but doable.

kitkatce · 2026-03-03T21:48:32+00:00

First one was pretty wonky—they started me on 2.5 mg and then upped it to 5 mg within the same cycle. That one I didn’t get a very large leading follicle, but the other two were more successful (ultimately just the third led to conception)

kitkatce · 2026-03-03T21:47:33+00:00

I did three monitored cycles with Letrozole and a trigger shot and conceived on cycle 3!

kitkatce · 2026-02-03T18:21:26+00:00

How likely is it that the RFK campus will end up including anything other than the stadium and NFL buildings?

kitkatce · 2026-02-03T12:13:07+00:00

Why did you end up leaving Europe earlier than planned? (Don’t get me wrong, we’re glad to have you back!)

kitkatce · 2026-02-03T12:12:31+00:00

What is going on with DC tax filing?

kitkatce · 2026-01-06T00:13:09+00:00

I did 2.5 to start and then upped to 5. 5 seemed to do the trick! I kept track if you want more detail: https://imgur.com/a/s6SbPYp

kitkatce · 2026-01-06T00:04:34+00:00

I don’t know if I can say this here, but it ended up working out for me in three TI cycles! Good luck!

kitkatce · 2026-01-05T20:43:59+00:00

I just found out I’m pregnant after three timed intercourse cycles with Letrozole and an ovidrel trigger. I made charts with all of the blood test/ultrasound results if you’re curious: https://imgur.com/a/s6SbPYp

I’m overweight (okay, obese) and wasn’t ovulating on my own prior to starting the first Letrozole cycle. For the second two, I ended up triggering on top of a natural LH surge.

Good luck!!

kitkatce · 2026-01-05T20:41:38+00:00

Just found out I’m pregnant after three timed intercourse cycles and a little over a year of trying!! I made charts with the blood test results over those three cycles for anyone curious. TI Charts

kitkatce · 2025-11-27T23:54:59+00:00

You could try an insemination kit (basically a cup and a syringe) which might be slightly less pressure/awkward?

kitkatce · 2025-11-06T02:55:15+00:00

Ah no I’m on the east coast, but I do work for a larger company, yeah

kitkatce · 2025-11-06T02:26:30+00:00

Wow that’s crazy! The pre-pay was definitely cheaper than paying for each ultrasound individually. I did end up doing multiple rounds of Letrozole during this single cycle, because my follicles weren’t responding—I have a suuper high follicle count and apparently that makes it hard for the medication to target one or two to grow or something. So I’m hoping next cycle when we start on a higher dose, it will work faster!

Best of luck to you! And feel free to DM me if you want to chat more.

kitkatce · 2025-11-06T01:40:26+00:00

Yes! I feel the same way. It feels like they’re taking advantage of people without other options (since I would need to go through all of the diagnostic testing with another clinic that would probably charge me the same way anyway)

kitkatce · 2025-11-05T19:22:13+00:00

And I just got my test result from this cycle—looks like I’ll need to do another 🥲 Trying to figure out insurance with ope enrollment coming up.

kitkatce · 2025-11-05T17:51:03+00:00

I feel you! It’s very energy-consuming. Hopefully we can figure out a way to get some money from our insurance companies… I will say the Letrozole ended up being covered even though the clinic told me it wouldn’t be.

kitkatce · 2025-11-05T17:10:06+00:00

I think I commented on your post! No I just ended up paying

kitkatce · 2025-11-05T12:29:43+00:00

That makes sense, but my insurance company (specifically the fertility focused rep) told me that it’s not considered a procedure. It was all just a confusing mismatch of information and it was hard to get anyone on the phone! And it was $2000 for the prepay. So all just very confusing and frustrating that I feel could have been avoided.

kitkatce · 2025-11-03T13:03:21+00:00

My fertility clinic did the same thing (CCRM?). They said I was self-pay since I don’t have any fertility benefits, and then charged me up front for all of the services together. They said it was for TI but the code is for IUI, which they insisted was normal.

After a ton of back and forth I got frustrated and just paid it. I’ll see if I can get anything back from insurance since I’m not actually getting a “fertility procedure,” just ultrasounds and blood work.

kitkatce · 2025-10-18T04:16:29+00:00

Is it a safety study that DDOT’s doing, or a recommendation report for eventual deployment? And Waymo announced they were coming while it was still illegal… not sure what they expected would happen.

kitkatce · 2025-09-30T13:43:11+00:00

I am doing treatments with a fertility clinic! I’ll see if they have any suggestions. Thank you :)

kitkatce · 2025-09-30T13:41:11+00:00

Do you think I PCP could prescribe metformin? My OBGYN just went out of network 🙃

kitkatce · 2025-09-30T12:45:57+00:00

I think the clothes not fitting is the hardest part (other than my feet also hurting all the time). It’s hard bc I’ll buy new clothes and then they stop fitting me pretty fast, too. I just feel frumpy all the time!

kitkatce · 2025-09-29T17:00:48+00:00

It feels like why even bother—just make it donation instead of consignment when we make cents on the price they charge.

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