Long Term Assisted Conception - 2010

**JBM** · April 16th, 2010, 12:28 PM

becd: such great news, good luck to you

AFM: well we've had to postpone our cycle due to finances, arggg.

but the good news is that we won't have to pay as we had only just started synarel.

bit dissapointing but am looking forward not back. we learn from these trials.

so next month now for me. fingers crossed. anyway.

chat soon

**Samandpoppy** · April 17th, 2010, 11:14 AM

JBM - good idea to look forward, great that you didn't have to pay.

AFM - lots of things going on. We are moving house on 6th May to our own little house and will renovate it! We love that so am looking forward to it. Moving from a 4 bedroom into a 2 bedroom so will be a bit squeezy!! Will be ruthless in the packing, anything not used will be going! Luckily we have a huge shed, like that ad where houses either have a good shed or a good kitchen. I am off to Ikea for kitchen cabinets to tide us over. Very fun.

**JBM** · April 20th, 2010, 02:53 PM

samand poppy: have fun packing for the move, sounds like you're excited.

taking it slowly. got darn AF. i hate her so much !!!!.

feeling yuk.

next month for us now. counting down.

**Samandpoppy** · April 21st, 2010, 09:25 AM

Yes am excited. Little stressed. Selling one house and moving into the other. Closing our business I think, dealing with mum who expects a lot of help with dad who has alzheimers, told by his friend last night she thinks he is not long for this world, fading away, still got a terrible cold 3 weeks later. Got a bit on.
But the most interesting news is that my dear cousin has offered to be surrogate for me! Wow how cool is that. I don't know if it is for me, but wow! We will do the research and see.
wow

**JBM** · May 1st, 2010, 09:41 PM

wow samandpoppy: sorry i havn't replied, havn't been ob BB for a little while.
the surrogate thing sounds a bit scary for me but do your reasearch and it may be an option for you.

as for all the other stress, i know how you feel. another month wait for me while we finalise all this bank stuff, but hey i think i'll get some better quality eggs if i am not stressed out to the max.

chat soon

**dreamrise659** · May 7th, 2010, 06:15 PM

Hi everyone,

Well I have egg pick up booked in for Monday (10th May). This is my first IVF cycle (after 13 months of donor insemination) so I am nervous and excited.

I had a scan on Wed which showed I had 4 large follicles and then alot around the 12 to 16 mark so the fertility nurse recommended we wait for them to grown (though the larger ones will be no good by then). I did have the option of going in for egg pick up today to get them and lose the smaller ones... I hope I made the right choice. It is scary isn't it... all these decisions and you think "**** I hope I made the right choice... I hope I won't end up wishing I had gone the other way."

I had my cycle put on hold for a month whilst I was reimmunised for Rubella and when I had the down reg scan for it I was told that the smaller the EMT lining the follicles the better (as this shows synarel is working well). Well that month I had 0.1 EMT lining and largest follicle was a 6. This month my down reg scan showed 0.4 EMT and largest follicle was a 9 (and I was told if I had any 10's at that time they wouldn't go ahead). I asked the nurse why there was such a difference and she said it just means my hormones are having a party!!!

It made me even angrier that they stuffed up my last cycle by not telling me about the rubella test results earlier as I feel that maybe that cycle would have been more successful. Anyway I have been lucky in that I haven't had any side effects from any of the drugs but I'm so nervous... I just hope it is all worth it and works.

I am doing this on my own and have found that hard in that there is no one to discuss decisions with. I concieved my daughter (now 13) by accident (when using contraception) so never had any of this stress. I split up with her father when I was 16 weeks pregnant so have raised her as a single mum her entire life (and she has never met him) but I didn't go through the early pregnancy stuff on my own. I thought the donor insemination stuff was hard mentally but this is just so much harder.

Are there any other single women on here going through this on their own?

Lori
DD - 13
Started donor search Dec 06, Donor insemination Jan 09-Jan 10 with known donor, now IVF with anon donor sperm.

**Possums** · May 12th, 2010, 03:54 PM

Just a quick post, to say we are back from our month away and we had a fabulous time and feel refreshed!

JBM- sorry you have had to postpone...hope the time goes quickly for you, must be frustrating

samandpoppy- wow, that's quite a gesture- good luck with everything and with thinking about whether its an option for you

dreamrise- sending you the best of luck- it must be very hard experiencing it alone

**JBM** · May 13th, 2010, 04:31 PM

possums: welcome back from your holiday. i've been a bit slack on BB lately as just been so busy. glad you had a fab time

AFM: still having a break, not long now. feeling very relaxed

chat soon

**dreamrise659** · May 13th, 2010, 06:22 PM

Hi everyone,

Possums, thanks for your best wishes. It's good to get away and come back feeling refreshed isn't it. My daughter and I went away for 8 days around Anzac day weekend and it meant I came back feeling very lucky for what I do have (my daughter) though still wanting another child.

I had 12 eggs at pickup on Monday but only ended up with 3 fertilized. Had one transfered yesterday and the other 2 apparently aren't looking good (I've been told they will let them grow for a few more days before deciding whether to bother freezing them or not). So I just have to hope this one works as I really don't want to go through the full stim cycle again. I was really hoping I'd get more embryos then I needed and then if I got pregnant I planned on donating the left over embies to any other couples that need them.

Still feeling pretty bloated... talking to my belly... trying to tell the little one to hang in there and attach to the womb wall... hope it's listening to me.

Lori
DD 13
Blood test scheduled for 26th May.

**Lenny** · May 21st, 2010, 02:51 PM

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**Loula** · May 21st, 2010, 04:28 PM

hope everyone is going OK, wishing you all the best

**~BecD~** · May 21st, 2010, 04:54 PM

Hi all,
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Jo

Thanks for the link Jo, I wouldnt have seen it otherwise.

How is everyone going? Im chugging along, got my script for provera today, hope to start that and then get onto our IVF cycle. Im really looking forward to doing it, just not looking forward to EPU! Am petrified of getting OHSS again, and am starting to think that this could be our last stim cycle. I know that sounds a little dramatic considering im 23, and never say never, but this is our 11th cycle, and will be my 6th egg collection. There has to be a point where you say, its just not working. Just thinking aloud right now, DH and I havent talked too much about it but are on the same page i think

**Mia01** · May 21st, 2010, 07:06 PM

Hi Ladies

Not sure if anyones read my post? Actually I cant even find where my post has gone ??!! Anyways I have been ttc with dh since Dec08. We have tried Clomid and Metphormin I've had the internal U/S where they put dye in your tubes to check for blockages or endo but all clear. DH's boys are all good aswell. Where doing A.I started my injections (which I have to do myself ouch!) today. Has anyone gone through A.I here? Any info would be great.

**~BecD~** · June 2nd, 2010, 09:17 PM

Mia not sure if I saw your post - you might be better off looking in the general Long Term Trying to conceive section, it is a bit busier there.

AFM - I have started our 11th ivf cycle (7th stim) and am trying to be as positive as i can about it all. Although I have a lot going on, i am staying focused and i just have such a strong feeling that this is going to work. day 6 is friday - having bloods and scan done in the morning, so will have an idea of how i am responding to the provera then.

**Loula** · June 3rd, 2010, 06:55 PM

Bec i read your post last night from my phone so couldnt post.

It's very exciting to be starting a new cycle but i completly understand the fears as well. dont put too much pressure on yourself to stay focused. goodness knows you have a lot going on and as i was talking to someone today it all seems to happen just as you do a cycle!

watching this space!

I hope everyone else is going ok

DR im not sure if you have had your BT yet i hope all is good. x

JBM not long hun

S&P hope you are able to enjoy the break and have some 'me' time

Poss where you at hun?

still keeping an eye on you all in here.

I went to a shop today and was talking to a lady about how we did 15 cycles of IVF in 7 years, i was shocked to hear here reply we have and still are trying after 12 cycle in 20 years. i wanted to cry. sometimes the world is so mean.

**~BecD~** · June 8th, 2010, 12:55 AM

My positive mindset is starting to slip, am on day 9 today and my estrogen level is already at 5000 putting me at high risk of ohss... my lead follicles are only at 12mm so I am heading back in for more bloods and a scan tomorrow morning. Hopefully the follicles get bigger quickly without lifting my e2 levels with them.