Long Term Assisted Conception - 2008

My husband & I have been through the ivf process about, 4 times, our last one wasnt a very good one at all. Yes I did the whole cycle m as well, which took me a week to recover from it to. Sunflower girlie and I think one of people here, her names rach, you will know what I have been through. This is what happenend with our last one, I did the whole antagonist cycle, this time, and I had a really good vibe for it, unfortunately one of the scientist l disgarded all 25 of our embriyos, wow that was soo awfully upsetting for us, and yes I did cry for like a few days or more it was soo painful and hurtful. I still am finding it hard to go back talking about it, even though I have gotten through it till now, at the moment I am finding it hard to write about again on here now. It feels very scary, and my heart rate is beating soo alot faster to, which i am sure you all can understand. The good part about it all, is the company is paying for our next cycle, they are paying for our accomadation to. My husband & I we are planning on starting the next on Feb 2nd all that week. This next place its also affilated with same place, where we live their success rate is much higher, and the do blastocyst, they grow it out f days longer which they also helps them to pick the best eggs out of that lot, we are really hoping for one of those embriyos to imaplant so I cam become preg. I have also had a very high response each time to, the 1st I had 36, then 33, ended up in hospital with hyperstimulation that wasnt fun at all.
I think with the next one, they are definetly going to look into, taking my dosage back so I dont overespond, also so I wont get as sick either. I just felt better comeing here, to tell you all, as Sunflowe_girle suggested for me to come here, to post, wish my husband & I all the best I just want this one to be a yes, its our turn to be pg this time, after all I hve been through. :crossfingers: I am saying thank you to sunflower_girlie for telling me about this forum, thank. is this place also good to come and write things out, if your feeling upset & angry you need to post to get moral support to. I need l tend to get stuck alot at times, let me know if this place is ok for that to. byee all from a hopefull cherry for this next one to work out pleaseeee ps sorry if my posting is a bit out of whack, as in may have mis spelt some words wrong, bad sentence construction to

I know it has been quiet some time since I last posted here, and I notice that many LTTCer's have crossed over, but I just wanted to wish you all the best in 2009.

I hope all your hopes and dreams come true this year.

Luv always Ann

Lots & lots of love to you too, Ann ;)

May 2009 bring a year full of happiness & much longed for surprises ;)

may this thread have a flux of happy activity in the first half of 2009 - and then get closed for good!

good luck to you all ladies

BG

Hi Ladies
I hope you dont mind me joining you. I have been hovering around for a few weeks now and I think I am feeling strong enough to start BB again. Sudnay was our EDD for our angel. I'm a little relieved now that that has passed, and feel that I can truly move on.

We start meds again in early Feb for another ICSI cycle...ohhhhhhhhhh h

I wish you all in here the very best of luck for '09. You are all so strong and I know from my previous experience with the girls in BB that you are all such a great support to each other.

Hope to chat to you soon

Cheers

:):):)

;)hey girls,
well im coming in here to join you girls i hope you all dont mind but im finding it way to hard in the LTTTC thread there is to many girls in there and i figure ive now done 3 x ivf-icsi i should moove into here anyway.

so march im doing my 1st FET with 2 embies and cant wait i had my second ectopic in november 08 so i no i can get pg it just needs to be in the rite place lol.
so for now good luk girls and ill be lurking ;)

Me too following Smithy if you don't mind, my FET will be in Feb.

But I truely hope that we can get this thread closed soon like BG said! :dance:

Sending many hugs to those who have made the step across... it's a hard place to find yourself, but in some ways, it does help to be amongst like-minded people who share the same frustrations. :hug:

Hope your stays here are surprisingly short.

BW

Ditto what BW just said - "graduating" to the LTAC thread is a big and scary step, and it takes a lot to acknowledge that you've been at this long enough to need to take that step - but as BW said, it does help to have understanding people around you

here's hoping we get another rush of exits from this thread really soon - it's been pretty "lucky" of late!

oh great! (or not so?) Now i feel like i can chat while im cycleing again too

I too feel a little strange posting in the other LTTCAC thread as there are so many ladies in there. and the turn over seems to be great but a little too hard for me to keep up lol

Welcome back ladies hoping 2009 will fullfill all our dreams xx

Also to add - its been so quiet in here of late i didnt want to be posting to myself lol but know that many BB friends are here lurking too! lol

Ok where i am at


Waiting for af!!!!!!! (for once in my life)

Due to the Christmas closure we were unable to do a cycle after my big op in November, so looks like af 'might' be here at the end of January, not great timing but when is it ever. I have however managed to stack on 5KG since my op which i don't think is a good thing when TTC

My new FS wants me to start taking metformin again but still haven't bothered to do so, i don't know why im delaying, don't want that yucky feeling in my tummy again i guess, even thought im on XR metformin? BW, BG you might be able to help with this one. My FS wants me back on 2 a day, i know to take them with dinner but can i ask did you take them together and did you start with one or start with two straight away from first dose, i know its different to take than weaning yourself on the other metformin slowly

Advise would be great

Thanlks ladies, (in a strange way) it feels good to be back in here after 10 month off

I know how you feel Loula re posting in LTTTC thread, I think my little brain just can't cope, so have been quite reluctant to post and keep blog happening really....

Feel really great to be in here, nice and cozy...of course, knowing we also get some support from BW and BG is great! Now, we can all be like little chatterbox here and tell us your plan Loula this year...:D

We must be posting at the same time Loula, and you answered my question before I even asked...hehe. Hope AF is here soon and you can start again!

Just a quick post, Lou - start with one per day, with a meal, and when you increase to two per day, don't take them both together. One with breakfast and one with dinner would be best. You should have less trouble with the XR, but it's still best to start slow just in case...

BW

lou i had half a tab for four days, up to one for four days, then up to two.

if you find they are a bit hard on your tum (thought they shouldn't be) - maybe take one tab twice a day. i was on three a day with no big issues!

hope AF arrives on time and you can get back to cycling soon - who are you with now, i assume it's not mac?

thanks ladies! just have to bite the bullet and start i guess!

My plan is to do a FET, natural (with hope). My new FS is willing to track my cycle then TF although he did want me to do a HRT cycle but i convinced him otherwise (thank goodness)

I have had af pains for the last two days and am CD 18 today! (no chance in a natural pg).

I am TFing the two day 2 embies that i have had frozen since 2006, and have never had a raised HCG with that batch so am unsure if there is any point putting them in - but i guess there is every chance with every cycle. so holding onto that. I still have 8 blasties that i tf to MIVF from Monash when i changed FS but hopping i wont need them. (fingers crossed)

With regards to my natural cycle, how does it all work? do i need P4 support as i have requested no pessaries or crione but cant remember the reply? last time i did a natural FET i used O induction and trigger and boosters so there was no need for the P4 support as it was in the boosters

Thanks

Oh what is everyone else doing cycling wise?


Oh also please mods can we have a Jan 2009 thread please. 2008 was a disappointing year for us (DH & I)and not so good for a few friends.

;)loula IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED THOSE QUESTIONS RE NATURAL FET,THATS WHAT IM DOING(oops caps sorry) and i thought i just had to go for daily bt but really i have no idea:p
hunny my embies are day 2/3 also but we also have 1 frosty blasty at sivf wich i want to have transfered over to westmead

RE: new thread great idea fresh start

LOL smithy - its been so long since my last cycle that it seems easy to forget lol

i was anxious at first about TF my embies from Monash to MIVF (like they have been on there first road trip without me lol) but everything went smoothly and the clinic arranged everything. MIVF prefer to do day 2/3 from what i can gather and Monash did advise me that they would have to provide MIVF with some other things to aid with defrosting as they freeze blasties a little different - this concerned me a little but after talking with the lab they put me at ease and i went for it.

will you be TF your to your new clinic?

Wow Loula.

I do think there is a chance with every cycle - I have to hang onto that otherwise I struggle even more to cope during the rollercoaster ride of emotions.
With my Natural FETs I think I used crinone each time.

Since our loss in June we've done two Natural FETs one had a rise in HCG one didn't. Each one was a single ET but lost 2 ie didn't thaw.

My last OPU wasn't the best. The drugs seem to effect me worse each time. However onward and upward, we see our FS at MIVF end Jan ready to start another full cycle when AF arrives in early Feb. So above all of that I really hope we get some little Embryo ?stocks? to put away for safe keeping.