Long Term Assisted Conception March 07

hey ellie - i am a ICSI girl as well!
Let's make a resolution to get out of this forum hey - All if want for xams is a b.f.p!!!!
what do you think
odette

hi ladies - i'm thinking i might start popping into this thread a little more often - have just sent off registration paperwork for ivf after attempting 5 cycles of iui and four of clomid before that - i think i'm starting to feel that this thread might be more for me - even though i've not actually had an ivf cycle yet, i feel like i've ben going through this for ages - and you girls are sure to understand that feeling!

oooh yeah - understand that feeling well brigsy girl!
which clinic are you with? I am with melb under Dr Mc Bain - the clinic and my FS have been fantastic. Rang up to book in for my FET yesterday and told them what had happened with my m/c and they were the most emapthic out of everyone i have come in contact with - offered me, if i was OK etc. far more than i expected! They actually acknowledged what had happened rather than just saying better luck next time
when is your appointment b.G?a
thats all for me- DAY 2 today - waiting waiting waiting!!
odette

Yay...BG's here!!!

Odette, I'm with you...BFP's for Xmas for all of us...that would be soooooo exciting!!!

appointment with FS is november 8th - and hoping to be able to kick off straight away as the last local EPU's are late november - otherwise it will mean travelling to melbourne all the time and i'm not real keen on that!! i think i'm technically under monash (mac talbot) though the IUI have been billed through melbourne assisted conception and all my letters have been coming from gippsland assisted conception - so really - who knows??? i just go where i'm told when i'm told to go there! lol

feeling really ordinary today - have the worst UTI i have ever had in my life and am so sore and uncomfortable - hoping it doesn't last too long - got in to doctor this morning (surprise of surprises) and onto antibiotics already, so hoping for relief realllllly soon!

how's everyone else feeling this wonderful weekend?

Oh BG that sounds horrible...hope things settle soon. Great news about fitting an IVF cycle in before Xmas. If you're anything like me it has alot to do with the medicare safety net too $$$.

My weekend was going great until DH busted his back...again...so have done the dash to the chemist for the anti inflam's and heat rub...all while we're on a mission trying to finish the garden off in case I do get a transfer and we need to rent this place out...all happening!!! So looks like I'm brick paving on my own...I even mowed the lawn for the first time in my life...woo hoo!!!

woo hoo! i used to love mowing the lawns before i moved out here - and realised that two full house blocks that are very uneven is no fun for mowing!!!

and yes, the medicare safety net is one factor - but also not waiting until feb next year is another one - i'm sick of "waiting around" for something to happen

You and me both! I just want to get on with it now...feeling really positive today. I think this new protocol might do the trick. Not 100% on the day one transfer but I guess I have to trust FS and embryologist and give it a go. I'm determined to stay really positive this cycle and try not to worry until I have something to worry about..IYKWIM? Step by step...

yeah for safety net- that is why we are going again now and not waiting till next year!!!
i love mowing the lawn as well- can't hear anything and get lost in own thoughts!
hope all good
odette

still waiting

Oh Lou that's so frustrating. Hope the GP can do something to help things along :)

Hi Odette and BG...hope you've had a great weekend. I've spent today brick paving!!! Mowed the lawn yesterday and today paving...I'm so proud of myself lol!

OK so when you coming to the working bee at my place?xx

we got our first raised vegie garden finished today (with the help of my bro) and planted lots and lots of vegies - the next one should be started tomorrow night and finished soon (i hope) so we can plant everything else - yum yum yum!!

whoo hoo sounds like we are all getting the jobs done whist it is safe to before we start the TWW and our cycles.
Day three here- waiting waiting
feel so positive still- more than i have before!!!
bring it on
gotta love the vegie garden thing- got ours in a couple of weeks ago and now just gotta water it!!!
hope all is good
odette

I was wondering if we should have raied our herb/veggie garden!!we have only just started. i know it would work better for our backs but do they look as good, we have a small year (compaired to BG!!lol) and i have made DH do brick edging around a little lemon tree and will section it off to grow the herbs and veggies underneith

Wow! What a busy little bunch we are!

Hope you all had a great start to the week. I exhausted already :)

come on AF - dont know if i will get a cycle in before going to London now!!

is there no way you can call mac about something to trigger her visit babe?

I guess I'm coming downstairs to join you all if you'll have me...

In many ways, I still feel rather new to the IVF thing, but I think I've had just about everything that possibly can go wrong actually go wrong - from severe bleeding as a reaction to the pill, to failing to down regulate with synarel, to developing quite a bad case of OHSS and being unable to transfer on our stim cycle... Now I've got a successful FET and a miscarriage behind me as well as a failed FET, crappy thaw rates and the knowledge that my body's going to be doing everything it can on the immune front to make this as difficult as possible...

We see our FS again next week (Thursday) to work out the plan ahead and hopefully get in another stim cycle before the end of the year. It sounds really bad, but I'd like to get another one in before the safety net resets. Also, being a teacher with year 12 now gone and my load being lighter than normal, it works really well... I'm kind of not used to having things work out the easy way, though...

I guess you can consider me another chatter box to make things noisy around here again if you'll have me.

BW

whoo ho more to party with BW- which clinic are you with?

Gotta ring tommorow and book my first scan for monday - could someone remind me as i know it will slip my mind- lolol - satellite clinic is only there mond, wed and frid!

and my corn is growing!!!
hope all is good sound like november is the month for us all!!!
bring it on!
odette

Odette, I'm with Next Generation Fertility here in Sydney - with David Knight. I've also seen Gavin Sacks with IVF Australia about the auto-immune problems I have. It's an odd situation - David quite happily ignores the prednisone I take for arthritis and wouldn't do further testing for us after the miscarriage. We got the wonderful Dr S to look into things further - there's evidence that I have too many NK cells as well as the PCOS (and DH's varicocele - we can't catch a break!)... David continues to ignore that aspect of things while Dr S advises me what to do with the prednisone. For now, sticking with David for the simple reason that he's one of very few doctors who uses letrozole, which allows me to do natural FET cycles... Feeling a little discouraged today, so not sure how much longer that situation will stay as is. Seriously contemplating a switch to IVF Australia so that I can at least have Dr S communicate directly with my FS, rather than trying to juggle the advice of two FSs, one rheumy, one GP and an acupuncturist! It's a tough move, as I really like the other staff (nurses and scientists) at my clinic and they have been absolutely brilliant through everything...

And no vegie garden here! I can't even keep mint alive!

BW

Hey BW! Mmmmm...another plan hey...sorry to hear that...but great that you can fit one in before Christmas. What a great thread this is becoming!!!

so sorry BW

.................................................. .......cd61 and counting ..............going to see Gp on Thursday

far our Lou
are you going for the world record for the longest cycle ever!!!!lolo
hopefully the doc will give you some answers- no chance you are UTD?????
is it normal for your cycle to be this long???
odette

hope you can get some answers from GP lou - and maybe get something to force her to visit so you can have FET soon

well, things are finally starting to happen down here - after much messing around, it appears i'm finally "booked" in for IVF in November!!! yay - it's only taken about 30 phone calls in the past 10 days, but woo hoo!!

i have an appointment for counselling on Nov 7, FS on Nov 8 (where we get confirmation we have to do IVF, and work out what dosage of meds etc) - appointment with the IVF coordinator on Nov 12th - and she believes we'll be starting injections on or around the 16th - so it's all go!!

it took a lot of convincing the ivf coordinator to let me in - she started talking about the pill, the synarel and all that stuff - until i could explain to her that i had antagonist cycles so none of that rubbish up front - just puregon, and when the time comes, cetrotide to stop me ovulating too early and allowing those follies to plump up nice and big for lots of healthy eggies!

the freaking out has started a little already - but i guess that's part of the deal for someone that suffers from anxiety issues - i am worrying a little (ok, a lot) about what dosage of puregon i'm going to have to be on considering a dosage of 200iu got only 3 ripe follies (and 21 immature ones - plus mild OHSS) - i guess i just have to wait to see if they'll use cetrotide for longer to push the immature follies along, or whether they'll increase the dosage - but i guess either way, i'm a prime candidate for OHSS again... hmmmmmm. the things we do to achieve a dream...

Know that freaking out about OHSS feeling, BG - all too well!

BW

hehehe - thought you might BW!

No - but i think it may have something to do with me not taking the metformin - NP recomenditions but am thinking of starting again very soon as ive put on 4 kg!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Girls
Have had the craziest week...have missed you all!
Lou hope AF shows...Bg & Bw, I'm already stressing about OHSS coz we're doin a different protocol...got the results from the fasting insulin..'8'...whatever than means but apparently that's fine so no metformin for me? Start synarel on the 3rd Nov then wait for CD 1 for the 'real' games to begin!!! Hope to catch you all over the weekend if not before xxx

yay ellie - i'm glad you got the insulin results in - at least now there is an explanation as to why you're not on metformin!!

as for me - OMG - how much paperwork do you need to fill out to kick start this stuff?? :lol: yesterday i got a "welcome to monash ivf" pack - not biggie there except that they'd sent the wrong receipt and cards to me so spent almost an hour on the phone finding someone with half a clue and an ounce of compassion to get it rectified! wasn't happy at all - i know where my ID cards ended up (gotta love finding out from someone that lives locally that THEY received my cards - considering we only realised last week that we lived close and had been chatting on BB for ages!) so just waiting on them to turn up

got the account and proposed treatment plan for the anagonist cycle next month - and there are things that just freaked me out a little - firstly - i have to mail my blood samples to melbourne - how freaky is that?? - i have to go and ask the local path lab to collect the sample, then send it to melbourne - weird! :lol:

i now get to have fun filling in LOTS of forms ready to post off the afternoon after i see FS (i refuse to post a form saying "please take $4400 from my credit card" until i get confirmation that i have to go through the damn process!)

apparently CD1 for me will be Nov 15th... gotta love knowing that they can pull any dateout of thin air and label that as CD1 for me!

hope everyone else is having a good day

Ellie, did they test your insulin levels after a glucose drink? From memory (I would have to look up the exact numbers when I get home), fasting insulin levels under 10 are ok. Mine was 12, which didn't cause too much concern. However, after the glucose drink, insulin levels shouldn't get above 60, mine hit 279.3! If we'd just stopped with a fasting insulin level, we'd never have known how bad it was.

But of course, I'm not a doctor - so perhaps they know that if your fasting insulin is fine, your insulin after a glucose load is also going to be fine.

I'm thinking I probably should have started the pill already... the prescription is still in DH's car! Must make sure he gets it for me today and I'll start tonight.

BW

did you call your clinic BW?

Have been on class all morning! Spent most of my first lesson out trying to sort out a student welfare issue... second lesson now, and I'm sitting at my desk trying not to let on to the kids that I have severe stomach cramps and can't really stand up! Not sure whether it is AF pain or wind... passed a few nasty clots this morning - so not really wanting to think about it too much!

Should be off class and able to call very soon.

BW

Just dropping in to see how you lovely ladies are going?
Missing you all, of course and wishing like mad that you can all escape from here soon.
If you ever have any questions or anything at all, always feel free to PM me anytime; I am still very much aware of what we go through to have success...

wishing you all beautiful chrissy presents that each of you SO deserve

Thanks Keen xxx

New thread time everyone. We haven't had a new one since March!