IVF with PGD #3

[buliej]

Sara - fingers crossed for a good FSH reading for you. Please let us know.

CP - glad things are developing on course

Hi Manhattan, WTH, Meredith, Lisa and everyone else.

[Cuddlepie]

Sara, your result is a green light to start...

Julie, left mesg in the other thread but hoping this is IT!!!

Hi to everyone else...

[Sara69]

My result is 15.7, it seems to get worse each month - I really don't know anymore what to do

[buliej]

Sara - I'm so sorry. I know you are taking lots of different things (vitamins, wheat grass, etc.) are you also doing acupuncture.

Also, here's a tale about one of my friends back in NY - she too had FSH of around 20. They monitored it each month - it fluctuated. If it was below 12, they'd do a cycle. She is now a mother of a 1 year old.

It's rough at this age to have to sit a cycle out - believe me, I know - but keep taking care of yourself, doing research on alternative treatments, and getting the FSH measured monthly. In the meantime, give it a spin au natural this month - you never know (I am assuming your FS won't do a cycle with that reading - or will they)

[Manhattan]

Sara, I'm so sorry, I really wish you'd been able to start this cycle

[Where there's hope]

Sara - Truly sorry about your FSH levels this month. I know how frustrating it is having to wait another darned month! Wish I could say something useful. I do think Buliej has raised some good points.

Take care
WTH

[Cuddlepie]

Oh Sara, sorry to hear the result. I know how much you want to start this month...don't think all the things you've been doing is in vain though, sometimes it can take a while till our body respond, I am sure they are doing the good but we just not seeing it immediately. I think Julie said it, it also fluturates month by month. Keep doing what you've been doing and monitor the level each month...

Did clinic say this month is definitely out?

[Sara69]

Girls,

Thank you very much for your support, I went home balling my eyes out in the car. The nurse said that my FS said if I really wanted to start I could, we'll just check at the first ultrasound and the cycle might get cancelled depending what happened.

I've talked it through with DP and we've decided to start. We both feel we can't dare to wait, in the last few months my FSH got worse each month, there is no guarantee it's going to be any better next month, so we just see what happens.

We can't try naturally as we need to do PGD to avoid the bad gene so IVF is our only option. I've asked my FS to call it and will talk it through with her as well.

Julie: I am thinking of you and hoping that your 4pm phone call gives you good news.

Sara

[buliej]

Looks like I won't know anything until 6pm. Oh well - nothing I can do about it.

Sara - I'd make the same decision - at least start (and I apologize for forgetting that you can't try naturally because you need to do PGD). It sounds like you have a flexible FS - I think that's great.

[Cuddlepie]

I am glad you that you've made the decision to start Sara.

I remeber when last time talked to my nurse, she said FS would like it to be below 15 and another nurse said below 10. So I think there is a range and your number is not super high to rule out a good response for sure. Remember FSH is just an indicator not definite. I learned from this TTC thing, nothing is really definite, sometime FS don't even know why some of the result.

So I think start and see what the u/s tells you. I hope all will work it out in the end.

Julie, the suspense is killing me....

[Sara69]

Thanks girls, just don't think I have any other choice.

Julie: keeping everything crossed for you.

Sara

[Sara69]

Hi,

Waking up this morning and just feeling really sad, feels like the dream to become a mum is slipping away from me. FS rang yesterday night, she thinks there may only be one follicle or possibly two or three but says lets get started and have a look. Feel like am setting myself up for failure but still think I'll do it as I haven't got another choice.

Sara

[Bengal]

Sara: Oh my heart goes out to you, I hate the thought of you driving home in the car balling your eyes out. I know that drive hun, sometimes in life, you have to wake up, look at the sky, and say "that's it, I have had enough, it's my turn, I deserve it" . Keep your faith, and believe you deserve good news. I will be praying for you.

[Kel81]

Sara: Oh, hon. Let me know if I can help you feel better.

[Kel81]

Have any of you read this crap today?

The IVF revolution is money badly spent | Herald Sun

I've replied (below) but I don't know yet if it will be published.

Ms. Singer,

I don't suppose that you have the desire for or already have your own children? If you do, I imagine that they were conceived 'naturally' and without the absolute heartbreak and shocking expense of having to resort to fertility treatments because there is simply no other option. I agree with Mr. Dowling - your article is revolting and seems specifically intended to do nothing but cause upset. When you've finished your visit to his home, I would very much like to see whether you have the courage to sit with my husband and I and explain that we're draining your "purse" and creating a "faulty gene pool".

I don't suppose that the Australian government subsidised your higher education whilst you were becoming qualified to write this offensive, ignorant piece? And you actually have the hide to imply that IVF is a waste of money? You should be ashamed of yourself.

Sincerely,
Mrs. K. Phillips

[Cuddlepie]

Sara, I know that feeling so well about the 'dream seems to be slipping away'....as the matter of fact, my head is still in the dark thick cloud...but I guess we still need to get up and give it a go, even there is just a slim of hope, that's what I keep telling myself, if you don't try you will never know. At least in the end, I can say to myself 'I've done whatever I could, the rest is in God's hands'...

If I remembered correctly, your last cycle got a blastie out of only 3 eggs, that's an indication that you fertilization and chance to get to blastcyst is excellent. So don't give up Sara, we are all here to hold your hands to get there, even if sometime the journey seems so hard...big and I hope starting the injection will give you some sort of distraction...

[buliej]

Kel- That article is horrible - I may write a response as well. You should also take a look at this thread: https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...y-net-ivf.html (I am going to post a link to this article there right now).

[Cuddlepie]

Kel, just read that article, disguisting! I am going to write a comment as well...