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Muppet - i hope you got my message re ap? i can give you more details if you need them
S&P - HRT is hormone replacement therapy! (yes the same thing they give to menopausal women) i think this is to help build up the lining so the embie can get a chance to stick. It makes me very emotional as usually with IVF they give you double dose! then when P4 get thrown into the mix watch out! lol dont think that it is a waste of time to wait out a while, i have had several TF cancelled due to possible OHSS and infestion. and the following cycle got a BFP! rest you body. wonderful news about you purse too!
CP - hold you head up hun. when is your appointment?
Molly - how you holding out in the TWW - are you going to POAS? i am hehehe
MsP - is your FS open to try new things for your next cycle? i always feel like i am progressing when i am trying something new - hope that helps?
Meredith - you are in my thought and prayer.
Sara, Mel, hope and all others xx
As suggested i am in my TWW! one embie on board. felling so so, not overly confident, but what will be will be, after 12 cycles you kind of think that this is never going to happen! will keep myself busy next week, and i too have stacked on the weight and am hungry all the time (blaming the HRT again)
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hi ladies, just want to drop in to let you know I am still around...but currently my headspace is not good for personals...
Appt with FS is next Tuesday I haven't even thought about it and tomorrow (Monday) I need to have this big talk with the director at work about the prospect of this position they are offering me...I need to play tough ball in order to get 'what I have in mind', ie. either 4 days like I am now or full time with 25% increase on salary, which I don't think they have the budget for. DH is making his point about 'security about being permanent', I know he just wants me to take it...but I can't increase my days and still take the same salary, at least give me SOME incentives to go back to full time with extra responsibility. I don't want to go into a job with resentment. Anyway, this is catching up on me and I don't know what to do yet and how I am going to position myself tomorrow...
Loula, well done for having 1 embie on board, will be praying this is the sticky one.
Meredith, I hope you are ok, thinking of you.
Hi to Sara, Ms. Pink S&P and Hope...hope you are all having a good weekend.
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Hi Girls,
Sorry for no personals but need some urgent help.
Went for BT this morning and my FSH came back with 13, my doctors says she thinks I should wait a month and see if it gets better but it seems that I can go ahead with the antagonist cycle if I want to.
Last time my FSH was 9.8 which they considered borderline but advised to go ahead, it turned out I had three eggs, one blastie, the blastie was affected and I didn't get to ET.
I am wondering if I should go ahead anyway as I am afreaid the FSH might come back even worse next month? Was thinking that as soon as I have the first ultrasound we'll see anyway what the situation is and can cancel then if it's bad?
Please let me know what you think, also has any of you a tip on how to influence the FSH so that it goes down? I think I might have heard something oabout Sharkey's herb somewhere but don't know anything about this - does any of you take it?
I'll turn 40 in June and don't feel I have can loose any more time.
Hope you all have a good weekend and thanks for letting me know your thoughts.
Sara
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Sara - im sorry i dont know what advice i can give you. have you tried any natural remendies to help?
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Thanks, S&P. Sam's doing pretty well despite the move and all the medical appointments he had in the same week. We still don't sleep through, but DH is sharing the load there, so it's not a great problem. We moved all of 4 blocks from our old house, so we managed to keep the same phone number... I just hope it takes a while before my (ex)students start popping up on my doorstep again!
As for the quality of embryos - I'm told if they can make it to blast and then survive freezing and thawing then you're in with a pretty good shot. Let's just hope the uterus is as young as the ovaries!
BW
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Hi Ladies...
Sara - a tough decision for you ahead. I have been doing a quick squizz on the net for you. Look - some clinics will do it if you are under 15, most seem to want it max 12 and some under 10. I had mine only tested once or twice and it was more up one month then another. My doc at the time and the nurses told me it goes up and down monthly. I can only tell you what I would do..
If it were me..I would probably skip the month. I am saying this because I know how devastated I would feel going thru all the needles, scans and BT only to 'maybe' find a dud batch - if any. Now..this is NOT saying you wouldnt get any. I just know me and how I just have this big build up of tension thru the needles to the end. I really don't want to influence you.. but if you're anything like me..you like opinions and even if they are from both sides of the fence. For me..well I guess I like to make a more informed opinion and hear it all.
I did Sharkeys and sadly it didnt help me. There is a thread on here somewhere and a couple of people swear by it and others dont. I know CP tried it as well.
I have sent of an email to my lovely AP friend who also does Chinese herbs and will let you know what she says.
Sam - I neglected to tell you that my friend that had OHSS is over 1/2 way thru with twins!! Her symptoms were not sooo bad till she had transfer and then it was horrific. With this in mind - I am so glad you froze.. Hope the corner is in sight!
Molly - you're a few days down.. hope the next week flies by quickly for you and you have some good news at the end.
Loula - may I ask if the 12 cycles on your sig are full cycles or some full cycles and FET's? Very much hope you're TWW doesn't send you too mental and that you have that long deserved result this time..
Hope - glad you've started another cycle..I know the long one sucks..it's what my FS has made me do for the last 3.
CP - my lovely..hope you're doing ok sweetie..
BW - hope you're recovering from the move - I sooo hate them!!
AFM - went to the FS this week trembling as always. I have made him swear that he will tell me when it's time to call it a day..so everytime I go there...it is with trepidation.
Anyway - he said as we know my embies are not perfect.. but still good enough to make a baby (yeah.. right..still waiting!!).
So I know he is totally running out of options with me as i did the HGH last cycle and it didnt seem to do much. Anyway he said if I am willing to try all options, let's try Prednisone. I didn't show signs of NK cells, but do have an autoimmune thyroid issue. He said worth trying as NK dont always show up.
I am pretty nervous about the Prednisone cause it starts on day one of FSH and goes till end TWW or if PG for the first 12wks. I have seen how it can affect people as my Dad used to have to take it on and off for years. It's a nasty one this is..
But - obviously I said..bring it on..
So BT on 2 Mar to see if I have O'd then start Lucrin.
Phew - so sorry for the longggggg post chickies..
Hope you're all having a lovely weekend..so sad it's almost at an end..
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MsP my 12 cycles consist of 4 stims and the rest FET's all medicated in some way or another!
For my last cycle is did th edreaded prednislone and am sure that is why i got so far before i mc, good luck with it, i hated weaning myself off and it felt like it took forever.
AFM
Last night i had this sudden wave come over me and a terriable thought that my embie was gone, stopped growing - only time will tell, still 11 days to go!
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Oh Sara, sorry to hear about the b/t result. I can't give you any advice on that but I did had some experience with Sharkey, which you can google their website online. I did the questionare online then ordered consultation. I took their herbs about 6 months, I think it did helped me to regulate my hormone levels. At the time I was also doing AP and doing my temperature. The charts showed improvement so I do think it worked to some extent but as you know I am still not PG yet. It also takes at least 3 months to start working as they say. I have been quite slack lately and stopped last November while I was on stim cycle and haven't picked up since.
Let me know if you have any questions that I can help with. Good luck for making the decision, I know its gonna be a tough one as I know how much you want it to happen this month. Why things can't be simple? *sigh*
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Hi girls,
Ms Pink: thank you very much I like opinions also for the advice and asking your friend. How are you going - hop eyour appointment shows you a way forward and that the predinisone is not as horrible as it sounds.
CP: Thanks so much for yoru support. Keeping fingers crossed for you for your work appointment tomorrow. Can understand you DH talking about the security of a permament job, it's quite tough out there at the moment. Hoping your appointment with the FS on Tuesday is helpful and gives you some answers.
Loula: thinking of you, hope you your dream wasn't ture, you are in a very stressful situation, be gentle with yourself.
Molly: take care and hang in there, not so long now.
:hello: BW
S&P reassuring to know that there are still some good people out there who returned your wallet. Hope your frosties will bring you the deserved result.
AFM I am still not sure what to do, they would let me start if i wanted but with the expectation that the cycle will probably get cancelled after tthe first ultrasound late next week or early the week after. I am just really scared that the result for next month might even be worse.....will be able to talk to my FS tomorrow afternoon.
Sara
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Hey Sara - not sure which way you are leaning but if you feel a little stressed or wrung out, better to take a little break. I know is seems like a bas!tard when you first think about it, but you'll enjoy having a month off and less stress is good. maybe a step back will give you a better chance. I know the desperate feeling to get on with it.
I know of a very good herb that regulates your hormones that i use all the time, it is called chastree or Vitex and blackmores have one in Aus that you can get at the supermarket. I find it an excellent tonic, regulates and minimises period and pain, although you can't take it with stimualting drugs as could muck them up.
Loula - big sticky wishes for you, hopefully the HRT does the trick!
Ms P - prednisolone is quite a small does for IVF so hopefully you won't have too much trouble. yeah I was feeling sso yuk and if got preg would be much worse.
AFM - thanks everyone for your kind words, am still feeling crook but a bit better today. 11 of the embies are being frozen this afternoon. I expected less to survive the weekend, but they are going great guns. I keep thinking they are all dud and that I want them all thawed and grown on, and then do another stim without OHSS and that will be the magic bullet, but maybe not. Anyway don'tneed tothink about that for a while, just get better, then get back to normal. the thing of feling this bad is that not only you can't do anything but you really don't want to do anything, very boring.
We have a lovely night away in hotel in melbourne last night, was a voucher we got from a customer, so even better we didn't pay much. I didn't think I should go, but felt better once I got there and with lounging on the big bed and panadol and chocolate I actually got comfy. Had very nice dinner and relaxing breakfast. Was lovely!!!
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Thanks girls for your support. Have now decided to wait another month. In between I'll be starting with DHEA hoping it'll help.
Lots of :stickyvibesgirl: and :bluedust: to all of you
Sara
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S&M, put your feet up and you deserve a rest and 11 frosties are lovely, just think that you don't need to do stim for a while...maybe not at all...
Sara, glad you made the decision and hope the other things will also turn out ok so there will be absolute no effect on your cycle next month, only improvement!
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Sara - spoke to my friend and she said in all honesty she doesn't think herbs or formulas will bring down the FSH. Please remember that I have also been thru this. The levels don't just rise every month. They will go up and down for several years. Please don't think missing one month will mean they will keep rising.
Have also been on DHEA since end of November. They say it takes 4mths to kick in - but who knows - thats what I have gotten from the American sites. Didn't help my last cycle so I am going to hang in there with the thought that it was still too early. Unfortunately my FS seems to think they are no more powerful then a vitamin. I told him the other day that (in a nice way) I very much hope I can prove him wrong!! I am a believer!!
Keep the faith kiddo..
Sam - that's such a great result. Congratulations!! I hope you're doing a little better today.
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Hi ladies
Could you please tell me what dhea is for, or what it does ?
Thank you
No need to answer : I googled it ...
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Loula, thanks, I did receive your message. I found someone really good and close to home.
Just found out our last emby didn't survive - and I was due for my transfer tomorrow! Trying to decide on whether and when to go ahead with whole new stim cycle and OPU now....boo!
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just wanted to pop in and say hi, im hopeing to join you all again in the next couple of weeks.
my af is due around the 10th march and then i guess it all goes from there were going to do a nat fet:dance:
take care girls and best of luk to you all
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Sorry girls, wrote long reply but lost it, will post again tomorrow.
Sara
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Hi girls,
S&P: well done, that's really good.
Lulu: I agree with you in this - hopeing the DHEA will work for both of us - what dosage are you using and did you feel any side effects, I've started yesterday and us 25mg twice daily which my FS said is less than they're using in the US.
WLAB: have answered your question in the PGD thread.
Muppetshow: Sorry to hear that, take your time and take care.
Loula: :hug: thinking of you
:hello: Smithy & BW
Sara
