Info on IVF

Hey Ladies.

I will be doing IVF this summer and hoping to do the retrieval in August. My husband will be out of town for two weeks starting the end of July and coming back early August. I am new to all of this so I am wondering if anyone who has done IVF can share how long you took each meds before retrieval. I am also wondering how bad it is to take the progesterone shot for so many months. It looks like such a big needle! I am hoping to give it myself. I trust myself better than my husband with needles. I am thinking of seeing my doctor in June to do the consultation since my DR. Office said to call in a month before we are wanting to start. We are taking out a loan to be able to pay for the procedure so basically need to have that taken out before the process too. My clinic requires a down payment before I receive my meds prescription and I know it takes a week or so to receive the meds. So basically, I am trying to sort my schedule out trying to see how long everything will take and work around traveling and having my husband here. I will be out of town the last week if July as well. I figured maybe I could be on my birth control pills then. What do you guys think?