Here we are, 5 days post IUI and 6 days post trigger.  As many of you know, home pregnancy tests test for the presence of HcG.  Triggers are also HcG, or a synthetic form thereof.  Since the trigger shot stays in your system for awhile (most estimates say 1 day per 1,000 units, and an average trigger contains 10,000 units, so 10 days), it could lead to a false positive if you test early and often during the two week wait following a procedure.

I am a bit obsessive, so I have been “testing out the trigger”—taking a cheapie pregnancy test every morning until the positive disappears so I know when the HcG is out of my system and can be sure that a positive after that point would be a “real” positive.  Today the test took the full five minutes to become just the faintest bit positive, and I am pretty confident it will be negative tomorrow (though, unsurprisingly, I will still test to make sure).  Six days is…a lot less than ten! 

Why can’t I burn off my sweets this fast??  Does my body only work efficiently in metabolizing hormones (I sometimes imagine my liver as sort of a mean bouncer, like, “Hey!! This here is a hormone-free zone, now git out!”)?  Sometimes I think my bathroom lab creates more mysteries than it solves.