IVF with PGD # 9

Hi girls

BT today showed my levels are baseline so I start my last ever stim on sunday!

Elle - Where are you up to are you cycling with me?

Andie - When is your scan? How are you feeling? Any symptoms yet?

Joe - Any luck talking DH round?

Hi Minnie and J.Bear

AFM - Off to my bestie up on the Sunshine coast tomorrow.

great news, sunbeam! i have everything crossed that you will get some lovely embryos to add to your stash. have a great time with your bestie today, sounds like fun. xx

my scan in on the 11 dec... seems like such a long way away. im feeling fine, only thing ive noticed is a bit of tenderness/soreness on the side of my boobs. peeing a bit more, but then im drinking a bit more. hopefully i will have some reassuring nausea soon. ;)

hi everyone else, hope you are all doing well.

Hi girls!

Andie - I'm so thrilled for you! Bring on the 11th!!

Sunbeam - Yay for getting started! And double yay for bestie time!!

Hi to everyone else - minnie, J.Bear, JoeSpratt - hope you are all doing well.

AFM - I don't quite know what to make of things at the moment. I ended up taking progesterone to end my last cycle and then to start IVF cycle. I have had a lot of very annoying phone conversations with nurses at the clinic I go to recently and it's all doing my head in. There seems to be communication issues and it is driving me insane. Under my FS's orders, I took the prog to end my last cycle and was told to come in and pick up new meds. When I called to arrange a nurse appt to come and pick everything up, I was told that an application has just been put through to the RTC (for me to continue with embies frozen) and they are not meeting up til the 18th, so probably no orders coming through til then. Um, why then have I just taken prog and been told to pick up meds for cycle beginning in the next couple of days?!? I won't go into the annoying phone calls that followed that... including a couple of "oh hi, so you are wanting to do a cycle are you?" (as if it's suddenly news to them). Grrr... Anyway, where I am at now is... I have been told I can proceed but the cut off date for biopsies being sent for PGD is the 18th, so the timing has to be just right. Based on all the timings from my last cycle, I should just be ok but it is a gamble. I will be hit with a PGD cancellation fee if I proceed with the cycle and don't make that deadline. Or, it could go beautifully and it could all happen just in time with a fresh transfer being possible the week(ish) before Christmas. In the meanwhile, I ended up having a last minute BT this morning to see if my levels are baseline, so if I do proceed, I can start injecting tomorrow (snap, sunbeam!). I basically have to make up my mind today about proceeding. If my levels aren't baseline, then I guess that will make the decision for me. Hmmm...

Well, the decision was made for me. My progesterone isn't baseline so this one is not going to happen for me. My FS is on hols til end of Jan so I have a wait ahead of me now. I'm so disappointed.:cry:

elle: oh its so hard to try and make decisions in all this, you don't want to make the wrong one. It sux that your levels aren't what they need to be and now you have to wait. Im not having pgd until the end of jan and hopefully you will be doing it then too :hug:

sunbeam: yay for starting tonal f tomorrow, part of me wishes i was doing it to but i hope it works out better for me to wait

andie: good to hear things are going well :)

afm: nothing happening here, just taking the pill and waiting patiently (taps foot lol)

sorry, elle. how frustrating for you. : (

hi girls,

just wanted to let you know there is a show on the abc tonight at 930pm that appears to be about pgd, this is what the description says (i hope this is ok to post)
its called Opening Shot
Love Heart Baby

Synopsis
Shalom wants a baby but has inherited an eye disease that leads to blindness, and doesn't want to enter a random genetic lottery. She decides to embark on the painful, expensive and morally fraught course of embryo screening.

thought you might all be interested in watching it :)

thanks, minnie. I'll check it out. : )

Stalking you Sunbeam :)
Good luck!!!!!!! X

Hi Girls

Elle - That is sooo frustrating you poor thing :wall: How is it that this journey gets harder and not easier?!? I hope the wait gives you a nice break after you get past the total annoyance of it :hug:

Andie - I'm so glad things are going well still sending truck loads of :stickyvibesboy::stickyvibesgirl:

Murrycod - Thanks for the stalk babe ;)

AFM - I'm over it!!! I have totally run out of emotional energy for the year. I'm negative and teary and emotional and I just want to hide in my room. It makes it really hard to do my job when I get like this (which happens about this time at the end of every year). It's so hard sitting doing counselling when I just feel like I don't care and I don't want to be there. I had acupuncture today and just wanted to cry the whole way through it. I haven't been taking my herbs, I've been drinking alcohol and coffee and eating badly and I just don't care, I just have nothing left and just need it to be Christmas already. Sorry for the negativity I hope it wears off soon :cry: I don't suppose all the hormones are helping!

hug, sunbeam. you've got a lot riding on this one, so probably feeling the pressure a bit more? and you're right, those hormones definitely aren't helping atm... i hope you're feeling a bit better tomorrow. xx

Sending big warm hugs to you, Sunbeam! So sorry you're having such a rough time. I hope that the ill-feelings wear off very soon and you can start feeling a little better (and much more comfortable in your own skin). Do your herbs help restore depleted energy and/or internal balance? Maybe it would be a good thing to start taking them again (I don't know what you take so I could be way off base here, so sorry if I am). Be kind to yourself.xx

Hi girls[
Thanks for the hugs and support. I went back to my old acupuncturist this morning and I am feeling a lot better this afternoon he really is very good whew it comes to increasing energy levels. I hope it lasts.
E2 today was 2454 I was due for a scan on Tues but FS has moved it to Monday so I'll let you know how I go. At this stage EPU is next Friday.
I hope everyone is travelling well.

Elle - How are you going babe? I have not carried on the herds but I will do them again for my FET I'm not sure they'd be much help at this stage anyway.

Andie.- How's those symptoms coming?

Hi Minnie.and Joe.

Had my follow up with FS after m/c. All is good, pathology showed no abnormalities so am right to go again. Yeah! Even may have convinced DP as well which is even better!!! unfortunately have to start from scratch as no more frosties which will mean we are a few months off from getting anywhere close to cycling :( They are using a new clinic for the PGD so have to do feasibility testing again. At least that will give me a bit more time to lose some more weight!

Wishing everyone a great weekend...be kind to yourselves xxx

sunbeam - glad to hear you are feeling a bit better, looking fwd to hearing how your scan goes on monday. my symptoms have eased off mostly, trying not to worry too much. scan is next week anyway, so will know for sure whats happening then. xx

joe - bugger about having no frosties, but at least you can enjoy christmas carefree and get cracking in the new year. :)

hi everyone else, hope you're all well.

Hi ladies!

Thanks for asking after me, Sunbeam. I'm ok - I've been struggling a bit. Things just have not played out the way I thought they would and I have basically been kicking myself for the past couple of weeks for having been so optimistic, and ultimately setting myself up for disappointment. I don't know how I feel about things in the new year. I feel as though I am suddenly very aware of the fact that this might not work out at all. Not quite sure where that leaves me?! Sorry, sounds a bit gloomy, huh..?! Anyway, I just need to get on with it and one of these days realise that what will be will be... On to you, though! So glad you are feeling a bit better (great about your acupuncturist). Fingers crossed for awesome results today - let us know how you go!

Andie - Good luck with your scan! It's tomorrow, isn't it?! Can't wait to hear about it. Take care!

JoeSpratt - That's great news - about normal pathology and about your DP. Start fresh in 2013 and fingers crossed it will bring much happiness to you!

minnie - Hope you're well!

just popping in quickly to wish Andie good luck for your scan tomorrow, i hope its booked for early in the day so you don't spend the day stressing like i would ! update us asap because im sure a few of us will be stalking :)

Hi Girls

Andie - Very best of luck tomorrow sweetie, like Minnie said please update us I'm sure we will all be eager to hear your news :crossfingers::goodluck:

Elle - I so hear you on the fear of it never happening. This is my last stim ever and getting so close to the end of the road is terrifying, part of me wants it to drag out as long as possible so I can delay knowing the final outcome. :hug:

Joe - I'm glad FS and DH are both on board. I know it is frustrating to start over but good luck with the weight loss.

AFM - E2 today was at 9300 with 8 good size follies on each side so looks quite like last cycle and hopefully similar numbers at fridays EPU.