IVF with PGD #8

J.Bear - Whoooooo!! :leap:Congratulations I'll be quietly excited for you. When's your bt?

jbear: congrats :happyforyou::stickyvibesgirl::stickyvibesboy:

Thanks lovelies BT is tomorrow...eek!

minniemouse: so sorry to hear of your bad pgd results...you would have been on an absolute rollercoaster going in to see if you were going to get any ready to transfer. Can't imagine what you must be going through but sending you huge hugs :hug: Hopefully the FS can get some info from the tests and hopefully try to get you some healthy ones next time.


JBear: huge congratulations!!! :happyforyou: I understand you still won't be able to really believe it until you get that BT result tomorrow :crossfingers:

Welcome Elle - hope your time here is short and sweet

AFM: got my BT results. HCG was 71 @ 8dpt and 100 @ 11dpt. They were happy to just let me be until I get my 7 week scan which is still 2 weeks away (too long). Still just want to see a little heartbeat and then I will really believe it is true!

Hi to everyone else, hope you are all travelling well xx

Just sneaking in to say a BIG congrats to Joe! They are great numbers, well done!!!

JBear - have you had your results back today??

Minnie - I am so sorry to hear you had no embies to transfer, it is just so unfair. :(

Hi to everyone else!!

AFM - 7 week scan on Thursday. Feeling very sick so pretty sure all is well, but I'll feel better at about 10 am Thurs!!

Hi ladies

BT results are looking good hcg is 400! Yay! Still a little afraid to get too excited. DH had to take the call & the nurse was a bit disappointed with his reaction lol she said that she expected him to be more excited!

Hey BF good to hear those symptoms are strong & ease any worries. I hope u get a bit of a break from the sickness & get to enjoy the day on Thursday.

Joe those hcg level sound like they're rising nicely & it's good to hear they're happy to leave it at that until ur 7 week scan.

Minnie how r you doing? Have u made plans for another cycle? Xo

hi ladies - hope you have room for one more in here. i have booked my first PGD cycle today, with EPU around the first week in november. i am a total newbie when it comes to PGD, so would love to hear any advice you may have, or have learned along the way (my counselling/info sessions arent until mid oct/start nov, so i am relying on google for my information at this stage...).

long story short - dh & i are unexplained, although recently we have had nk cell biopsy which has come back with elevated uterine nk cells. we have had 2 seperate blast transfers using a protocol to address this, but no luck yet. we stim quite well, get better fertalisation rates with icsi, although we do not have a sperm issue. we have always been told our embryos look great, so i guess we are information gathering at this stage and trying to find out why its just not working for us. i am of course worried that we may not get any to biopsy, worried we might not get anything to transfer - just worried all round. but i am happy to be doing something different that will hopefully give us some answers. hopefully...!

congrats to joe & jbear - wonderful news. :)

Great news, J.Bear, b*f, and JoeSpratt!! How exciting!!:D

minniemouse - How are you? I hope you're okay.

Andie78 - Hello! I am new here, too. And I am driving myself crazy with the worrying and the googling and the trying to plan the unplannable. I hope we're both here for a short but sweet time!

AFM - I am in the process of an assessment cycle (have a history of no cycles/ very long cycles) and it looks like my body is finally doing something on its own so hopefully I can get this out of the way and start my IVF cycle very soon. I have been through ovulation induction in the past so I am familiar with the injections/scans/BTs but I'm pretty nervous about what's coming up with an IVF/PGD cycle. I just hope things go smoothly.

Just a quickie to say WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO to JBear! Awesome beta, I bet you and D are just thrilled!! I know what you mean about still being a bit afraid, I feel like that every day and will until this baby is on the outside & healthy!

Welcome & best wishes to Andie & Elle.

Hi Girls,

Hi Andie - Sorry you needed to join us but glad you came over, it's been very quite in our old thread. Sounds like you me and elle will be cycle buddies as my epu is booked for 26th Oct. :dance:

J.Bear - Great HCG numbers whoooo. Stick well little bean :stickyvibesboy:

BF - So great to be having strong symptoms I hope thursday's scan is fantastic!!

Joe - I hope the time flys by to your scan.

Minnie - Hi sweetie.

Elle - I hope your body plays nice so you can start your cycle soon.

AFM - Found out yesterday that my acupuncturist/TCM will be away for 3 weeks right over my EPU and ET :rolleyes: He has recommended someone else but I might go see them for a session soon to get a feel if they're the right person for me, bloody typical timing! I have been working hard at my diet and exercise but TCM guy says this is putting extra strain on my liver, I just can't win! I'm still going to keep it up, he'll just have to work hard to support my liver! Bit excited I'm on my last pack of pills (hopefully ever!) and start my Lucrin next tues, it finally feels like its starting.

Sneaks in to wish you luck sunbeam and how exciting you are finishing up the pill and you are on your way x sneaks out

Sunbeam best of luck for your EPU, I'll be watching!!

jbear and joespratt: great news on the blood tests, hope things continue to go well :)

brightfuture: good luck for your scan thursday, i will be thinking of you and looking for your update

elle: good to hear things are progressing for you !

sunbeam: not long now :hug:

andie: welcome, i hope pgd will provide some answers for you

afm: im going ok, been in a bit of a fog the last few days, i'll see my specialist in a few weeks to discuss the cycle and results again

Thank you darlings! So hard not to get a little excited and ahead of ourselves but i'm just trying to remain calm and take it a day at a time. I have another BT next week so hopefully my numbers are growing as they should.

Minnie your in my thoughts lovely, i hope the next appt helps and the next cycle you get lots of lovely eggs to choose from.:hug:

Hi Andie, sorry that you find yourself here. I would say that the biggest concern with PGD are the numbers of eggs that are collected and can be biopsied and then how many are suitable. But it's good that you stim well and have good sperm. It's really just one day at a time. I hope that everything goes well & you have some to spare and it's good that you'll have a few buddies who are doing it at the same time.

Sunbeam that's a bit pooh about the acupuncturist/TCM being away, mine was away during epu & trf but we had his daughter continue the treatment. I hope your happy with his recommendation.

Elle. i'll be keeping everything crossed that it all goes smoothly for you.

Brightfuture: thinking of you & hoping your scan goes well today (or that you have already had it done & its great)

How was ur scan today BF? Hope everything I looking good x

Has anyone heard anything from BF, I'm really worried about her.

No, I'm guessing she's just been too busy.