I suggest try the wheatgrass again, just one teaspoon on a whole glass of water with a little bit of lemon lemonade, that's the way I think it's quite okay. I also thought I couldn't do it the first few days when I used a large teaspoon in a shot glass.
Thanks Sara and Julie ; I can't drink it, I know what I am like. Thanks for trying to suggest different ways to try it. So the offer still stands loverlies .. Free to good home
I am going to try the Honey Pollen ? Tablets that Where's the Hope suggested. I have read very good things about them on other threads whilst googling them, with women getting good results..ie pregnancy after taking them.
Bulliej: Can you pls text me the number to the DHEA doctor. I am trying that as well.
BT is this Friday, I am so scared, I am thinking of having one at a GP on wed to calm my nerves, oh who am I kidding, I have already made the appointment :-)
I'll text you the dr tomorrow. He's expensive and although his office visit is covered by Medicare, the tests that he has you do are not. I don't regret going - and will continue if things don't work out - but if my FS had been willing to prescribe DHEA I wouldn't have bothered. I also did not ask my GP, but they can prescribe it as well. Just some things to think about.
I searched the internets for a forum as I have just found out that my husband and I will be going through IVF with PGD soon.
I am thrilled at what an amazing group of women you all are! I wish we could all just get pregnant and have healthy babies! like, now!
Anyway, my quick story.. i'm 35, DH 34, been trying for a while.. my husband has already had a surgery to supposedly help. Right before we were going to try IUI, we took a bunch of blood tests and found out we are both carriers for a genetic disease. So, now we can't do IUI and have to do IVF with PGD.
i've done some research, but I know the best is personal experience!
We are going this morning to meet to talk through all of that with the RE.
WLAB - good luck with the Royal Jelly. Remember, will seem expensive as there is a year's supply in the jar, but realistically works out to be less than 50 cents a day (1/2 the cost of CoQ10 capsules)
California. You will find great support from some wonderful girls here. I don't know how I would have got through this whole mysterious PGD journey without them!
Cuddlepie - GL hun with your Day 3 results
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Just got a call from clinic, I am transfering today due to limited number of embyos. Day3 report is 1 x 8cells, 1 x 5 cells and 1 x 2cells. I've never done Day 3 transfer and I know embies under 6 cells are unlikely to develop into a blastcyst. So I inclined to transfer the 5 cells one as it is not too bad for a Day 3 embie and there is also chance for the 8 cell one to keep developing and if I am lucky, I will have a frozen blastcyst.
I know I am taking a risk here of losing a 8 cell embryo, but if its not fit to develop into a blastcyst, its not good in the first place. Do you think my rationale is sound?
Transfer is 1pm today and FS will discuss this with me but I want to prepare for my opinion. What do you think girls?
About losing the 8 cell would talk it through with the scientist and see what they think, perhaps they could check tomorrow and then decide if to freeze tomorrow or wait until it's a blastie?
Actually just to add one more thing, Jann the Acupuncturist was talking long about Day 3 transfers yesterday (Was thinking at the time it was kind of pointless as not possible for me but now know why!) In her opinion they have just as much a chance as Day 5 blastie transfers. She has been in this business for a long time and said that years ago when only Day 3 transfers were done they had just as much success as now!
CP - I'm not sure I'm following, but why can't you transfer 2 - both the 8 cell and the 5 cell? By the way, MIVF does 2 day transfers, so I am not sure that it's been definitively shown that blasties are always better. There are 2 sides to this argument - I've heard both - they both make sense as well.
Sara, is that Jann Mehmett at Rozelle? They are really lovely there, and they do know very much what they are talking about. I never saw Jann, but I did see some of the others and loved them all.
Cuddlepie, I'd leave it up to your clinic to suggest which one to transfer. I didn't even get a choice ever! But I do just want to add that as a person who only ever had pregnancies from frozen blastocysts I was devestated when we got to our first fresh transfer and had to transfer at day 3... but that gave us Sam - so please hold on to some hope there!
BW - yes it is. Actually went to the clinic after seeing your suggestion last year.
I had seen Bernice earlier (she is new there) but got an appointment with Jann as someone else had cancelled and just think she is absolutley excellent, feeling so much better after a treatment with her. Also saw Melissa and really like her, haven't seen any of the others but heard good things.
Sorry California, forgot to welcome you - I am also doing PGD because I carry a genetic disease, happy to talk to you if you have questions.
HI lovely ladies. Sory I haven't been in much. Just have needed a bit of a BB break but still thinking of you all
CP - I am bit late and you've prob made your choice so I hope the clinic was abe to help guide you. I know my clinic would push to put the best back but I can understand your thinking. I wanted to freeze my best last cycle cos i din't think i had any hope of getting pg but clinic pushed me to put them back then and low and behold both stuck! The subsequent loss of one of twins has been soul destroying but the choice of which embies to put back was the right one
sara - what great news on your follie nos,,,, Yipee!! When is your next scan?
kel - hope your follies are a great size by Fri and stay away OHSS!!
WLAB - Not long to go to find out. Hope you are holding up ok
Meredith: Nice to hear from you, hope things are going well - you should be close to the 12 weeks scan now?
WLAB; with BT today, thinking of you.
Buliej: Hope you are well, saw an article in the AFR yesterday about SafetyNet plus other family payments - it's looking pretty dark out there, I say.
CP: Really hope you went well yesterday and are happy with the decision you made and your embie is settling in nicely
Kel: How are things, you should be very close to EPU now?
WTH: Hope things are well and you don;t worry too much, saw your other thread, hope some girls have good advice for you. I am using your bag of tricks, have an egg every night now.
Manhatten, California, BW, Lisa and everyone out there.
AFM Scan went well this morning, there are six follies between 10 and 15mm, 10 in total. Picked up some Pregnyl as LH was only 0.6 on Monday, see what FS says, think it would be a good idea for me to start on this.
Still can't believe that things are looking a bit better than last time. Really hoping I grow some nice Eastereggs.
Sorry for being slack, all I want to do yesterday was lying down. Had an Acupuncture session after the TF. I did went with my gut feeling and proposed to FS my thought of transferring 5-cell and let the 8 cell keep developing. He is fine with it and he said normally they wouldn't do that but given the number of embryos atm he is happy for me to do that. Also the embryologist supported my rationale and she thinks there is fairly good chance of the 8 cell keep doing what its suppose to do and the 5-cell on day3 is definitely not a no-hoper.
Well, now it is really in God's hand, I am happy with my decision, and for once, I made the decision, so I feel good about it. Wait till later on it all crashing down on me...
We will hear the result for the 8-cell on Saturday whether it is frozen or not, but I am not too stressed about it. I think Im pass the point of being devastated for this cycle. Obviously it did not yield the best outcome and for future planing, I will go back to down-reg protocol unfortunately.
While I was at SIVF, I've also made an appt with FS in late April just to plan what the next step is, I will suggest to do more tests such as implantation etc etc. How efficient I am and how negative I am towards this cycle!
At the same time, I do hold on the hope that uterus is better than the lab and the dish and I hope my 5-cell will flourish and give me a surprise!
Sara, so glad everything is progressing nicely, yeah, I hope you will have lots of Easter eggs collected. by the sounds of the follicle size, maybe another couple of days of stim and then it will be EPU soon....good luck hun!
Sara - I am so happy for you. I just picked up a prescription for compounded DHEA in case things don't work out with my. I'm having some thyroid issues that you can read about it that thread - popped up out of no where and I'm panicked (seems to be my usual state of mind these days). Also, I skimmed the Fin Review and couldn't find the article - was it today or yesterday? I have both copies here, so let me know I'd like to read it. I have a feeling that things aren't going to go well with the Safety Net. I've signed up for my citizenship test so that I can vote - I've been procrastinating even though I don't have to give up my US citizenship.
Hi Meredith, WTH, Butterfly Warrier, California and anyone else - have to get back to work now.
CP: so glad you went with your gut feeling and are happy with decision.
Julie: it was yesterday, on the cover "Middle-class welfare", the safety net issue is mentioned on the second part on page 4.Thinkign of applying for double citizenship myself. Glad that you went for the DHEA I have some side effect mainly greasy skin in my face but really think it worked for me. You realise obviously that you can't take it as you're pregnant I will have to stop before EPU.
Thanks Sara - I did see that about Middle Class Warfare and saw the Safety Net mentioned - nothing specific about IVF though. Thanks for the reminder about DHEA - I do know not to take it when pregnant. Where do you have citizenship?
California. You will find great support from some wonderful girls here. I don't know how I would have got through this whole mysterious PGD journey without them!
GL hun with your Day 3 results 
Manhatten, California, BW, Lisa and everyone out there.
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