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Very quiet in here just wondering how you are all doing?
Buliej: have you decided which FS to see for a second opinion and when will you start the cycle with your current FS?
Kel: hope you're going okay, not long now till your appointment.
Lisa: hang in their hun, hope the results will come soon.
WLAB: hope AF stays away.
CP: Cyclecbuddy - looks we'll be doing the antagonist cycle at nearly the same time, I'll probably be a week later than you.
WTH: Are you back from your holiday, hope your little one is going well.
Meredith: Hope things have settled down.
AFM: Not doing much at the moment apart from taking Wheatgrass ( starting to get used to it) and DHEA and trying to relax. Sailing last weekend was really nice was watching the sunset over the lake and taking an early morning walk listening to all the birds.
Just want to hot it up this thread and showing off my new avvy...
Not much to report from my end, waiting waiting and waiting for the next antagonist cycle. Sara, the Org. drug sounds so expensive I am scared. Lucky I am over safty net now so at least the cycle fee won't be too huge.
to everyone and I hope the two pregnant ladies are doing well...
I just started my next cycle with my current FS - it's a "natural cycle" assisted by clomid. That's it. I'm not very optimistic and really already dreading the retrieval and the phone call about the egg not being good. I guess the one good thing is no jabbing or sniffing.
I also was "told off" by my acupuncturist for not waiting. She thinks I should not do back-to-back cycles - I told her my FS is very concerned about the tickety-tock of the biological clock, but the AP didn't care - she did explain that Chinese medicine looks at things very differently, and my body has to be tip-top to produce good eggs. Meanwhile, I've been spending tons of money on AP and horrible tasting herbs and, other than relaxing while there, it hasn't helped. I don't think it's her skills, she is very good - but I think it's my body. She also didn't like that I haven't been having all my herbs which she knows because I have left over and then don't want to spend more on new herbs. She explained that they are different formulas depending on where you are in your cycle and that I need to "commit" to the herbs.
I do have an appointment with a new FS on 22 April at a different clinic - I figure, I might as well change 2 variables. By that time I should be on the DHEA as well. I hope to start DHEA shortly after my next appointment with the "anti-aging" dr which is on 1 April.
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Julie: Good luck with your scan today, I hope the clomid is working well for you
Sara: Wheatgrass, is that the little shots, you get in a Health Food Shop ?
Cuddle: I too, have cut down on all the extra's, I am not even doing accu this cycle
Hi to all you ladies I have missed
Julie, I could of bumped into you today, I am going in to pay for my Flare cycle today, and pick up my brown paper bag of goodies ... CD 2 for me ... These embryo's have to stick, or I will be out working two jobs
LOL about working two jobs, yeah, soon I will send DH to drive a taxi at the night
I do feel guilty about worrying about $$$, its not that we can't afford it, but its not that we have a money tree in the backyard either...its a fact all the expense is adding up and sometimes I wonder how much money I will save if my body is behaving itself.
Buliej - I think Clomid worked wonders for BettyBoop who used to visit the TTC after MC thread. She was in our age range. I was looking into it before IVF because the higher estrogen levels it causes may improve egg quality. Good luck
Lisa - you are going to put a hole in the wall Surely, not too much longer....?
Sara - that wheatgrass sounds yucky - must be one of those no pain, no gain thingos right? Read positive things about it - it was the next thing in my bag of tricks to try.
My scan was fine - still early days - lining looks good and 2 follicles are showing - now I just have to hope that there's at least 1 good egg. I have another scan on Monday. The whole issue with this kind of cycle is catching the eggs before they go on their own as you don't take anything to stop ovulation. (Sara - the clomid is just a pill - it's actually a really easy cycle as far as drugs are concerned)
WTH - thanks for that info about Betty Boop - it's encouraging!
You should see our kitchen bench - wheatgrass, vitamins, CoQ10, chinese herbs - the list goes on - sometimes I think what a wonderful business for all these people who support fertility - all of us will do almost anything to give ourselves a boost and they just have to say something may help and I jump.
CP - I wonder the same - we are very fortunate that we can afford to do however many cycles we can stomach - but I just looked at how little our savings has grown over the last 6 months compared to the 6 months prior and the only real variable is the IVF (and the many accupuncture sessions, vitamins etc.). It's rather depressing - if I knew there was a baby at the end of this journey I wouldn't care - but that it all could be for nothing - well, we don't need to go there yet.
Wouldloveabub - we very well could have seen each other - I was in the chemist at Freemasons refilling the Clomid right after my appointment - must have been there around 11:30-ish (I did not have to go back to the clinic after my FS appointment since all I needed was to book a 2nd scan with her)
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?
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to everyone and I hope the two pregnant ladies are doing well...
Kel & Lisa
for my Flare cycle today, and pick up my brown paper bag of goodies ... CD 2 for me ... These embryo's have to stick, or I will be out working two jobs 
Surely, not too much longer....?
for you this cycle, hon
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!
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