Hey there....I tend to lurk in this thread a bit as we have been saving up for ages to go for yet another PGD cycle for what seems like an eternity now. You know it wasn't so long ago I was on the only member on bellybelly doing PGD...it's great to be able to comein here and learn from all you wonderful ladies.
Hubby and I are off to stay at a hotel in the city tonight as we are doing an IUI cycle and he has to be at MIVF at 8pm to make a deposit but I dont have to be there till 10:30am too long to hang around but not enough time for him to drive all the way home and pick me up....plus I soooooo do not do mornings. To go from home we would have to be upp at 6am and after two of those starts this week for scans I really do not want another early start.
We have decided (and our specialist says okay shock horror!) to do a few IUI cycles and see how we go. After a few failed PGD cycles and the fact that the four times I have been prgenant have been natural conceptions we have decided that we would rather be able to fork out the cash for an IUI each month and take the risk that we may have another miscarriage due to dodgy embryos. Because at the moment to be honest having to wait twelve months to save up the required $8000 out of pocket for a PGD cycle is doing my head in. We had just saved up enough to go for a fresh PGD cycle and on Easter Sunday our 1 yr old fur baby got hit by a car and there went $2500 on vets bills in three days....grrrrr. So we will IUI for a while using an antagonist protocol and the added prednisone and clexane protocol advised by Dr. Sacks and see how we go......fingers crossed!!
Yes...I am also one of those who has flown to Sydney to see the illustrious Dr. Sacks.....I think he know Belly belly quite from all the referrals he gets from here. We found out via the biopsy not the blood test that we have an NK cell issue....my blood workup was completely normal but my biopsy showed a level 6 times higher than normal, so ladies if you are having the NK test my gut instinct is to say have the biopsy dones as well because the blood test is not necessarily indicative of what is happening in the uterus....just my input.
Anyways to the real reason I popped in....I have to share this amazing book I have been reading....it has just blown me away and really cemented my gut feelings on why we have yet to produce a take home baby.
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By the way I have just finished reading the most awesome book about the pioneering work done by Dr. Alan Beers in the area of repoductive immunology. He died in 2006 2 weeks before this book was published - I tell you, it is an awesome eye opening read and I highly recommend it for anyone who has been long term TTC.....It is called "Is your body baby friendly?" and was loaned to me by of all people my acupuncturist who had just got it as she now has two patients with immune related fertility issues.
It's a great read.....basically he is/was of the opinion that women with as little as one miscarriage should think about investigations and it goes in depth to explain how the immune system interacts in pregnancy and methods on how to deal with it...also some very interesting food for thought on egg quality and how to improve it etc etc.....very non mainstream but very interesting stuff!! The stuff on his belief that we may NOT be born with all our allocation of eggs but actually be able to grow new ones based on more modern research is fascinating. And his thoughts on improving egg quality are so simple but just seemed to gel with me...maybe they will with you too!
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