IVF with PGD # 9

Good news Minnie hope this is the cycle for you xx

good news, minnie. : )

Yay Good stuff Minnie!

Well the countdown is on. I start on progesterone tomorrow. On Tuesday my day 1 embies will be thawed and then taken to Brisbane on wednesday. On thurs my day 3s will be thawed and all that look good will be biopsied. I will be updated along the way but I still won't find out till Saturday when we go to the clinic for the transfer whether there are any good ones. I had a huge stress and a few tears over it all last week and created a huge knot between my shoulders (which my friend has done her best to remove but it still really hurts!) All I can do now is hope :pray: :crossfingers::crossfingers:

I hope everyone else's cycles are going to plan. :grouphug:

Hi Minnie - how exciting, good luck this cycle I have everything x'd for you xx

Hi Sunbeam - good luck for you too, here's hoping you have it in the bag! It's easy to carry tension in the shoulders, I do the same and am suffering at the moment myself, heat packs are really good for it.

AFM - I am ovulating and it seems like such a waste as we're doing nothing with it this cycle. I have my Day 16-20 Nurses appointment next week to get all my drugs and learn all about them, also have to make an appointment to speak to the scientist so I guess once next AF comes it's all systems go after that. Luckily I have short cycles without luteal progesterone support so I shouldn't have to wait too long. Just getting anxious to get going now!!!!

sunbeam - any news on how your embryos are going? i hated having to wait until i turned up for transfer to find out if any were suitable... surely you'd think they could give you a phone call to put you out of your misery?! the only plus side was i was expecting the worst, so was pleasantly surprised when i actually had one to transfer. i hope your shoulders are relaxing a bit now. xx

allison - not long to go, you will be jabbing yourself in no time. :)

minnie - hope your coping ok with your 3 jabs a day... cant be much fun. xx

Hi girls
The update is that 10 of my 13 day 1s made it to day two and have been sent to Brisbane. I will find out tomorrow how many will be biopsyed.

Andie- they would normally call before you go in for transfer and Let you know if you have any but I opted not to be called and they can Tell me when I get there, the thought of waiting for a phone call was too scary for me

Eeek! Good luck Sunbeam!!! I've got fingers and toes crossed for you. Hi guys, sorry its been a while. I have just been sitting on my hands waiting to hear about the genetic test results for the last 3 weeks. They are now over due and its driving me (and therefore DH) up the wall!!

I had a really hard conversation with a woman a few days ago about what we are doing with the PGD to screen for hubby's gene. She really grilled me about how heartless I am to be throwing away babies just because I want some designer baby. It really made me realise that I know its gotta be done, but I'm kinda not 100% ok with the idea. But she just wouldn't let up on me. I am wondering if anyone else has had an experience like this and have you come up with a response to shut down a painful discussion like that.

sunbeam - sounds like your little stash are doing well so far. it's good your clinic give you that option of a phone call or not, mine was just turn up on the day & find out then. Not sure which is more scary?! fingers crossed for biopsy day. xx

babymama - I can honestly say I have never come across such a person in my Ivf/pgd travels... I tend to get more of the sympathetic looks & the 'it will happen' comments. Also not helpful, but not as hurtful as that lady you spoke with. Sounds horrid. I hope you get your results very soon.

Sunbeam - good luck that's so exciting!!

Babymama - My gosh it never ceases to amaze me the things people say, how effing rude and inappropriate! They are not designer babies for a start, we wouldn't be doing this if we didn't have to, urgh makes me furious to hear such things. If anyone says that to me they're going to cop a mouthful!

Girls does it always take weeks to get your PGD results in? I'm o'ing at the moment so just waiting to start my first retrieval cycle once AF comes again (I have short cycles so shouldn't be far away) but then I have to have a month off and then another retrieval before the PGD is done. I am therefore assuming it's going to be April/May before any transfer happens, providing there's good eggs of course! Also, what kind of things should I be expecting with the drugs, are the injections painful? The nurse told me they're not as bad as the heparin ones I used to have. I think I'm dreading the drugs more!!!

Andy: Yeah I know the sympathy look, which I don't mind so much now :)

Alison: Thanks for the solidarity, I'm glad I'm not crazy for thinking it was horrible thing to say. My PGD results are taking weeks because we are doing PCR testing (for a specific gene) and CGH testing (for chromosome abnormalities). It is the CGH test that takes ages (I have been told between 3 and 6 weeks) and therefore your eggs have to be frozen in the mean time. If you are doing PCR alone it can be done in a day and so they can put you a fresh egg back in. I personally had no prob with the painless puregon needles and the orgalutran needles (which I was given so I didnt O to early) were only a bit of a sting. I was a bit cranky after egg retrieval, so maybe the trigger (in my case synarel) does that. All in all, the meds are the easy part... its the waiting that kills :)

Oh thanks Babymama that's really positive to hear.......could do without extra hormone issues the progesterone was bad enough lol. Oh well I'll be having mine tested for chromosome abnormalities its the reason I'm doing it as I've had 5 miscarriages and because I've got low AMH they are assuming they're to do with egg quality. My first 2 were chemicals and as I also have a luteal defect who knows if it was that or not, but my 1st late tri mc was chromosomal and then I had another late tri mc but chromosomes were normal, i had a SC bleed instead grrr.....but i've had another chemical since so who bloomin knows! I'm doing a retrieval, freeze, month's break then another retrieval and then they'll send them all for testing in one hit. If I'm lucky I might get a transfer in by mid year lolol!

Hey all!
Minnie, how's the jabbing going?

Babymamma, that lady was way out of line! People generally don't really understand & that's why we chose not to talk to many ppl about it after getting stupid responses like that one.

Alison, the waiting is the worst. It took about 6 weeks for our tests to be created. As for the injections, I hate needles & at first DH had to do the jabbing but it wasn't so bad so I started doing it myself.

Sunbeam I hope u get a good number of good emby's to put back. Will be checking in on u! xo

hi girls,

babymama: that is awful you had to listen to that, there is a huge difference between pgd & "designer" babies. If you have to deal with this women again i'd be telling her she clearly doesn't know what she is talking about and you don't wish to discuss it with her. :hug: you were made to feel about this already difficult journey

andie & bear : im going well, i'll update below. How are you girls ? Andie when is your next scan ? and Jbear how is your little man coming along ?

sunbeam: i have everything crossed for you that those embies are going well and you get lots to test :hug: not long now !

alison: its hard not trying when you know you are ovulating but its good you have ivf all set up and you are on your way soon

afm: all seems to be going well, did i tell you all that when i had my 1st injection my DH says only about 60 to go, why would you say that to someone :wall: i have my first blood test tomorrow so hopefully that shows things are going along as they should (they told me they wanted to do a scan tomorrow too but i said no)

hi to everyone else :hug:

Hi girls
Quick update. 3 of the 10 are good for biopsy and 3 of the 4 frozen ones. So 6 being biopsied all up. To say that I am terrified would be an understatement. I won't know more till saturday morning.

Sorry for no personals I just can't think straight right now.

Crossing everything for you sunbeam xx

Good luck Sunbeam xx

That's awesome! Good luck sunbeam!