Meredith - oops, I did a longish post and missed your entry in the process.
Hold on hon, you are doing so well . I realise the egg number is more than you aimed for. But I did learn from the embryologist this cycle that EVERY cycle is different. This includes quality. Please do not write-off your eggs yet! And many women do fall PG from frozen cycles. Did the hospital give you any pain relief to ensure you get some much-needed sleep tonight? Sending you a big cyber
WTH - Wow - that sounds like a great result, you're doing amazingly well, you may even get some frosties from this cycl
Lisa - it's so unfair, sorry that you have to go through this.
Kel - thinking of you and keeping everything crossed for your results tomorrow or Thursday. Be kind to yourself, it's the hardest part of the cycle
Meredith - I am with WTH , don't write of your eggies, since you have had a lower dose of FSH the quality might be much better than last time.
CP: Your break sounds fantastic. Had my first walking group today, was a really nice group of people and good to do some exercise.
BW: thanks for letting me know your experience, I've called the assistant of my FS and asked if they can write a new account and specify on it that it's unrelated, will then submit it again and see what happens - it's pretty unfair, as if this all wasn't already expensive enough. Hope you're going well with your little bub and the sleepness nights.
Good night everyone,
Sara
Last edited by Sara69; January 29th, 2009 at 05:14 AM.
Meredith, I am sorry you are feeling sore after EPU and its getting better today...I hope the fert report will surprise you about the quality of this batch of embies. Hope lining will improve by the end of the week. Have a good rest hun and big hugs
WTH, well done on your embies are doing so well...I am hanging out to hear more report today...
Sara, hoping next Monday weather will be pleasant and not too hot, but yeah, looking forward to it...
Hi there. Well, day 4 for me. Potential biopsy (and hopefully transfer) tomorrow or Friday. Feeling OK today. Will surely be a nervous wreck tomorrow...
Meredith - looking forward to hearing how your fertilisation went. Are you feeling a little better today? Look after yourself , Sweetie
Kel - Sending some big positive cyber-vibes your way for a great biopsy result
WTH, Meredith and Kel - how exciting to have 3 potential babies amongst us, keep your collective chins up for a BFP
Spoke with Geneticist this afternoon and the probable reason for my bloods needing to be run again is that the lab sat on the original sample for too long before testing so it went 'off', DH's (in this instance the acronym will not be standing for Darling Husband!!)
Also our results on Brendan are not expected for about another 5 weeks.
I have my fingers crossed for all of you. I have been avoiding the bellybelly boards - only today did i want to get back on (kind of) because I picked up my drugs for this next cycle. It made me quite upset - I did not expect to feel this way - but it reminded me that 3 months ago, I was pregnant and thought this was behind me (for baby #1 at least). Also, the pharmacy -which is a major one for ivf as it's where the ivf clinic is - was full of women picking up their ivf drugs which just made me so very sad. So many of us want this - and it's so damn hard for too many!
buliej - sweetheart, what can I say. I remember when I picked up my drugs, I got in the car and cried because I was so overwhelmed by the whole thing and never expected to have to use IVF, ever, I mean why should I, I have 2 daughters but life certainly does throw curve balls doesn't it.
Try and stay positive, which is a lot easier to say than do most times. Your loss is still fresh and will it will hurt for some time to come. Mine was 8 months ago next week and I still cried today, and yesterday for that matter. Just try to focus on the positive step you are taking and keep smiling.
Kel - praying things went well with biopsy today and that you have at least one good one for ET tomorrow
WTH - Hopefully you have a few to biopsy tomorrow too and get one back in ASAP. Sounds like you are really positive this cycle which is great ( better than I'm doing!)
Lisa - Sounds like you've been really stuffed around. Hope you don't have to pay any more for the repeat testing. 5 weeks still on Brendan's results. Thats so hard for you. I pray you can back on the TTC train very soon
Buliej - Sending you a big hug darl. It IS just all to hard and sad for to many women desperate for children. Picking up your meds has just been a trigger for all the heartache suffered in these last few mths. I know I am feeling pretty much the same. Whilst I pick up my meds each time with hope that it will be the last time, i am also overcome by the sadness that I should have just about had a few babies by now if my pg's had continued. Hope this cycle truly is your last ( at lkeast for awhile)
Sara - when are you back on track with us again? Can't be to long now.
AFM - of the 23 eggies, 13 have fertilised so far. Apparently they are still watching 7. Is prob about the result I expected given at last scan i should have only had about 15-16 mature eggies. So presuming those fertilised came from them and the remainder likely just immature eggies that popped up at last minute. Much on a par with last cycle so far ( 14 embies from 21 eggs).Still feleing physically and emotionally far less than ordinary but have become resigned today. Not much more I can do to change anything. We will almost certainly still proceed to ET on Sun as I just can't not at least try but will be defnitely very practical and try and plan for the next step. Thanks for those trying to be positive about my lining but I do not like to live with false hope and there is very little chance it will change in the next few days
Beautiful mornign down here, thinking of going for a quick run.
Buliej: I know what you mean, sending you a big - think Lisa is right, the only thing you can do is trying to concentrate on the positives.
Meredith: Well done, hoping you get a nice little Blastie for transfer and a few to freeze.
WTH& Kel hoping very much for good news from both of you today WTH: how are you doing, hope your embies keep going so well, assume you might have transfer already today? Kel: I am thinking of you and keeping absolutely everything crossed that you get some unaffected ones for transfer and freezing.
Lisa & CP
Just a short note about my Medicare trouble, got a call from the assistant of my doctor saying they can't write me a new bill as the docot's visit was connected to the failed cycle before. Seriously, I really think they need to be upfront about these costs, in the greater scheme of things it's not important but it's just too much hassle, at least if I know upfront that it won't be paid I don't need to send it through to Medicare etc...
Sara
Last edited by Sara69; January 29th, 2009 at 05:16 AM.
Meredith - Great fertilisation, hon Hope your embies stay strong and grow beautifully for you. You are only a few days away from being PUPO!
Lisa - Another 5 weeks?? ARRRRGH! Not happy about the lab sitting on your sample, either. I can relate to your frustration. This whole waiting game business is what has sent me over the edge. Just want to move forward and get on with things.
Sara - yes - they should be completely upfront about the costs and circumstances surrounding them. And I disagree with them relating the visit to the past cycle, as I have no doubt you discussed future options. It is just they way they are choosing to look at it!
Buliej - take heart. You are doing everything physically possible to realise your dream. I am glad we do not have a crystal ball. You never know what might just be waiting around the corner. It is what gets me by. GL with the your new cycle
AFM - Day 5 post-EPU. I got "the call". 2 x grade 1 hatched blastocasts beginning biopsy this morning. A 3rd "fair to good" one is at blastocast stage, but has not hatched yet. Biopsy maybe this afternoon. The other three are at Day 4 stage and ranked fair and poor. Realistically, up to 3 to be biopsied. Because I have the 8 tests, it is done in two stages, so if any pass the first 5 colour FSH, we have to get on the road to Sydney in the hope we get through the next three colours. This is what we had to do last time, too. If we make it to transfer, DH and I have agreed to stay in Sydney tonight, rather than face the bad traffic we had going home last time. We want me to stay relaxed and horizontal. Feel very weird that if I was doing normal IVF I would definitely be having a transfer this morning. I don't know if I will make it back on again today. Wish me luck...
WTH - for tests today, keeping everything crossed for you. Two grade one blasties is a great result, hope the other two make it to the biopsy as well. I think it's a good plan to stay in Sydney to stay as much as possible relaxed.
No embryos survived. We had one blast yesterday out of the four morulas but it started going backwards yesterday afternoon and didn't survive the night. So, from 19 eggs to 16 embryos to four morulas to one blastocyst, there is no PGD, no embryos, and no BFP. Just to cap off how productive this first cycle has been, I'm off to hospital today with grade four OHSS, including so much fluid in my lungs that it is almost impossible to breathe.
Now what the **** are we supposed to do? I feel like an idiot for being hopeful. For four years it hasn't happened, why on Earth did I let myself think that this would work?
I'll check in later, when I'm in a much better mood. Thanks for all your support through this cycle, everyone. Good luck everybody (WTH and Meredith you're in my thoughts today).
Kel: I am so sorry to hear that and can imagine how you feel going through all this without even being able to get to a transfer. Sending you lots of look after yourself and give yourself time to grieve.
Kel, take care. I hope you have a speedy recovery from the OHSS. Sorry about losing all the embryos - I can't even begin to imagine just how craptastic life must seem right now. My thoughts and prayers will be with you.
Kel: I wish I could give you a great big hug. Why is it as humans we have to look on the positive side of things, it would be so much easier if we expected everything we did to fail. But what sort of life would that be. I can only give you words of support that you will get through this trying time and you will come out the other side but I know that at the moment you just feel like, why bother. Hang in there.
Kel - that's awful news. I'm so sorry and hope you feel better.
Thanks everyone for your empathy - it does help.
My fingers are crossed for Meredith & WTH - hope you get great results - hope I haven't missed anyone who is currently in the egg growth/fertilization/waiting stage!
Kel, I am so sorry to hear no embie survived and you have to go to hospital for OHSS, it really sucks. I know for the time being, it all seems too much and we've all been in that ugly place, but please don't lose hope. Take time to grief and be angry or whatever the feeling you harbour at the moment, I hope once the physical strength returned you will feel more positive on a bigger picture.
WTH, I might have missed you to give you my best wishes. I hope you will be staying in Sydney tonight which then we will know that at least one got transferred. My thoughts are with you hunny.
Meredith, how are you going hun? I know you don't feel optimistic for this cycle and don't want to hold out the false hope (Im the same), I hope in a few days time, this will only add to your amazment that how things can turn around but I will keep quiet for now.
Lisa, I am so soory another 5 weeks been taken away from you, its just not fair! I pray that your patience is with you hun!
Buliej, take care hun, know that feeling too well, what we can do is to look forward and get on...hope when injection starts, at least your focus will shift...
Sara, bugger for the 'bill' you can't claim. I agree with WTH, its about future cycles, anyway, we learn the ropes in this TTC process more than we think don't we?
Nothing to report from me, just cruising along and trying not to think too much really and praying that WTH and Meredith will have a BFP this time... this thread is due to have some excitement, come on 2009!
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. I realise the egg number is more than you aimed for. But I did learn from the embryologist this cycle that EVERY cycle is different. This includes quality. Please do not write-off your eggs yet! And many women do fall PG from frozen cycles. Did the hospital give you any pain relief to ensure you get some much-needed sleep tonight? Sending you a big cyber
it's so unfair, sorry that you have to go through this.
thinking of you and keeping everything crossed for your results tomorrow or Thursday. Be kind to yourself, it's the hardest part of the cycle
, Sweetie
Hope your embies stay strong and grow beautifully for you. You are only a few days away from being PUPO!
Not happy about the lab sitting on your sample, either. I can relate to your frustration. This whole waiting game business is what has sent me over the edge. Just want to move forward and get on with things.
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