Quiz time!

If you're anything like me, you've spent an inordinate amount of time online researching dozens of aspects of fertility.  Hormone levels, antral follicle counts, IVF protocols, you name it, I've Googled it.  But one thing I never really spent a lot of time researching was my fertility meds.  Apart from a quick glance to see what kind of side effects I might experience from Lupron, Gonal F, Cetrotide, or whatever concoction I'm on this month, I never really paid it much heed.  Just took my RE's word for it and poked it in my belly.  

But then I came across a fascinating tidbit that I thought would be interesting to share.  In the interest of entertainment, we'll do this in quiz form!  Oh stop whining, learning is fun.

Question 1:  The follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) contained in ovarian stimulation medication can either be made synthetically or derived naturally.  Which one of the following products contains naturally derived FSH?

a) Gonal F

b) Menopur

c) Follistim

Answer:  B (scroll over to view)

Question 2:  From what is this natural product derived?

a) willow bark

b) salmon skin
c) human urine

Answer:  C

Now, I'll stop here for a second to make sure you've checked your answer to Question 2.  Because again, if you're anything like me, the next thing you will wonder if you've ever used this naturally derived product is this: exactly whose piss is it that I'm injecting into my body???  Let's move on to Question 3.

Question 3:  Exactly whose piss is that that I'm injecting into my body???
a) postmenopausal women
b) old Italian ladies
c) nuns

Answer:  All of the above

That's right, my friends.  It's all right here.  Last night I received my first injection of old nun pee.

All in all it went fine.  It did burn going in, though.  It burned with the fury of hellfire and judgment and the pent-up sexual frustration of 50 years of artificially-imposed celibacy.  Which totally makes sense now.