Hi everyone,

Well I have been on the nasal spray for almost 1 week now. So far no serious side effects. Have tended to feel a bit hotter (had to strip off a few times as I felt like I was overheating but haven't had to have the airconditioner on or had the sweats like my mum got when she went through menopause). No nausea and no headaches so far. I know it's only early days so far but I was wondering if I was going to get side effects how long into taking it do you think it would be before I experienced the side effects.

It is a pain having to take it 12 hours apart isn't it. I decided 7.30 would be a good time as in the morning I am normally able to just get up at that time and in the evenings it's normally pretty easy to do it then, however on Sat we had a stall at a trash and treasure market and had to be there at 7 to set up. I took the spray with me but was so busy getting everything set up I didn't even think about it to check the time until 8.50am. So then had to take it 8.50 that night. Next day I decided to do 8am and 8pm to try to bring it back towards the 7.30 times, so today it was 7.30 again. I also got my period this morning... so now it really feels like I'm on the countdown for IVF (day 1 of this cycle now - egg pick up possibly day 22).

I also wondered is it normal for egg pick up to be so far into the cycle? I mean when you are doing IUI they base it on assumptions that you will ovulate around day 14 and as my periods were weird I would normally start having follicle scans on day 13 and sometimes right through to day 24. But if you were a woman who normally ovulated around day 14 why do they delay it so much (I know the nasal spray stops you actually ovulating so they don't need to worry about when they do the egg pickup so long as the eggs are developed enough). Anyway I just wondered if this is normal or if it's just my clinic choosing to lengthen the cycle because of easter etc. I don't start on the hormone injections for ages (because obviously I don't need to until close to egg pick up) but if they weren't lengthening the cycle wouldn't I start on these earlier?

Anyway I'd love to know how long your IVF cycles were? How long did you have to wait for egg pick up?

I now I'm getting ahead of myself but I also wondered for those who have done it a few times. If you don't have any frozen embryos left from your first cycle and need to do a full cycle again do you have to go through the full process of being on the contraceptive pill for 4 weeks first? Or do you just start on the spray when your period arrives (I guess you can't start on it before that because you wouldn't know if you were pregnant or not). Do you have to have a break between attempts?

If you do have any frozen embies left can you have one implanted on the very next cycle or do you have to wait?

Thanks
Lori