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Ouch on the bruise BW, ive never taken Lucrin so i have no idea but wishing you all the best for no more bruises!
Lou - this must be very frustrating, was it the same FS that did the lap last year? Did you have a left tube in the scan.. maybe he got his left and rights mixed up? I have no idea but hope you get your answers!
Lou I just read you post and am sitting here with my mouth hanging open. Have you received an explanation about this?
BW, youch on the bruise. I never bruised with the Lucrin but I did get a bruise from the trigger once. I'd love to see a pic of it.
lou hun, i know from our chat last night how much this situation is stressing you out - i trylu hope you can get some answers today - harrass mac, harrass the nurses - get yourself some answers hun. thinking of you today
BW - ouchies on the bruise! i've only had one nasty bruise (and it sounds similar to what you've described) - i too was standing up to do the injection of antagonist at work - and i bruised something shocking (after bleeding a nice amount and stressing i hadn't actually gotten the antagonst into my system!)
as for me - i just got the call from the nurse, giving me the green light to start stims on friday - woo hoo! isn't it funny, given that i've never had a problem in all previous cycles - hormones have always been at the perfect level - and yet i have spent the past 48 hours stressing that they wouldn't be where they were supposed to be! it was the huge cloud hanging over me, the "maybe we can't start" thing.... it was obviously playing on hubby's mind too, cos he heard the nurse say it was fine, and his eyes just lit up - and they haven't stopped smiling since!
ok i now have a zit and a sore neck- signs that AF is nearly here - damm you!
still not physically here- but preparing myself@@@@@@
can someone please do up my straight jacket a little tighter!!!
odette
Ok, first job when I get home is to find some batteries for the digital camera and get a photo of my impressive bruise. I had a lovely bruise from my trigger first cycle, but this is even bigger. And I'm definitely not standing to do any more injections! It's the only thing we're doing differently to last time, so I guess we go back to planting my butt on the floor or a chair and injecting that way.
Lou, I hope you have success in your search for answers. I'm still really baffled and have no idea what's going on - as BG said, harrass the doctors, nurses, everyone until you get an answer on this!
BG, it's a great feeling to get the go ahead! Hope it's all smooth sailing from there.
Odette, know the feeling. I'll get your strait jacket nice and tight if you return the favour for me in a few weeks. Hopefully AF doesn't arrive and this is it for you. I'll be keeping everything crossed until there is irrefutable proof that it has not worked.
And now for another silly BW question... if the puregon is working this time, just when would I expect to start seeing EWCM? I narrowly avoided a minor freakout this morning because there wasn't any... but surely 12 hours after the first injection is too soon. But when is no longer too soon? I'm just stressing about things going haywire again like they did in the first cycle.
BG, we make a great pair of stress heads!
BW
i would think EWCM wouldn't show til you're getting decent levels of estrogen hun - so certainly NOT 12 hours after first shot. from memory, it was about 7 days in that i started to get a bit of EWCM - but not massive amounts even then... remember, it's likely to show at your most fertile - which won't be til trigger time...
and yes, we'll be stress heads together! odette is gonna have a tough time in a few weeks - we've got it easy - we can hold one arm of her straight jacket each - she has to deal with BOTH of us at the same time! hope you've got lots of arms odette....
Ok, now that I'm home... here is the photographic evidence of my horror bruise: ouch!
How much sympathy can I milk it for? :p
BW
ouchies babe!
OMG BW, what HAVE you been doing to yourself!!??? Ouch!!! Lots of sympathy heehee!! Im sure you will get lots more. Good luck with your cycle, hope things go well this time, and that you are able to have a fresh transfer, fingers crossed for a awesome chrissy present!!
Hi to everyone else, there are so many new people in this thread, have just read through a bit, but too much to catch up on. I wish everyone best of luck with their cycles, hope for lots of BFP's!!
Slyder- hahaha, well i was looking for "rols" and couldnt find the name anywhere, thought, hmmm, where are you... Well, congrats!!! You have lots of wisdoma nd advice and this is a great role for you :) Im sorry about your FET, i hope things go better next time. Do you think you will try transfer before xmas?? Best wishes to you and DW.
Ellie, cant find you in here either, but big hello!!!
xx Mel
Hey Mel, great to hear from you. Hope things are still going great guns!
The name change tricked a few people, but hey, everyone's doing it!
No transfer before Xmas as it doesn't work for the clinic so we're hoping DW can do a natural cycle with two transferred next time. She's really not keen to do a medicated cycle but up until now that's all they've offered. So for this month at least, it's trying the old fashioned way :)
and loving every second of it i'm sure Slyder!
It's brilliant.
Lol good luck slyder :)
BW- Once again well done on a fantastic bruise... we should start a wall of fame im sure we would get some good pics :) Hope its not causing you too much grief.
WEll just a quick one from me tonight! Saw FS and absolutely nothing is happening with my ovaries.. i think they are on strike and well i dont blame them. So provera for 10 days to bring on AF and the boost cycle. We changed our minds and upped the dose to 200 so hopfully that does the trick to give us more numbers next time.
Anyone have any advice on provera? What side affets should i be expecting here?
Thanks heaps... Shan
The only advice I have for provera... run and hide! I turned into some sort of raging hormonal mega-b!tch. It really wasn't pretty at all. Cranky, short-tempered, generally nasty and biting everyone's head off. Of course, I do have some pretty extreme reactions to some drugs which are completely different to what other people go through. Clomid, for example, had me off work for a week because it triggered a complete breakdown. It took ages for me to get my anxiety back under control again. I think I'm learning that my experience is pretty much going to be what not to expect. I'm sure you'll be fine with it, Shannon.
BW
Still no word from FS - he was not the one who did the op so may have to contact that FS too as i am ver confused.
Isnt it funny how they are always busy when you need them, still day off tomorrow and so much to do - im still very stressd with it all at at the point where i dont know if this is the right thing to do IYKWIM??
just finished my enrollment for uni - so offically broke all next year and for the rest of my life lol
Shan - dont think i have ever been on provera? hope it all goes well
Ellie where are you ?
Holly - tried to call but my phone went dead
Ann - how are you sweets?
BG - thanks again for last night
Just reading through the recent posts:confetti::happybirthday::happybirthday::conf etti: Annxx
Not a bad effort on the bruise front there BW... I award it about a 7. Mine was pretty similar just a bit more elongated so you get extra points for symmetry!!
still hanging in there-day 27 today - 12 days Post.Ovulation
feel like AF is gonna happen all day- even had period pain- but no show!!
this is torture!!!!!
Zit is gone, but headache is still hanging around- but no AF!!!
never like this for so long beforehand!
i am seriously going insane
when i have had BFP before- no signs of AF coming- this is just crazy!!!!
anyone got any ideas!!!!??
odette
wasn't it you that said you have a 26 day cycle? i'd be champing at the bit for a HPT about now odette!
i have resisted temptation and haven't POAS yet!
day 28 now its after midnight!
still a bloody headache and STILL NO AF!!!!
Now going totally insane!!!
maybe if nothing on Sunday might POAS but b/t is Monday anyway!!
gotta get through tommorow with no AF and i will be feeling a bit more positive
I have never freaked out so much during the TWW as much as I have this time!
girls you have to help me and Lenny the emby get through the next 24 hours
BG and BW tighten my jacket pls!!!
odette
*pulls the straps just a little tighter*
Odette, it's starting to seem awfully promising. Was this a natural FET, or medicated?
Not that I'm going to encourage anyone to use an evil pee-stick... but... :p
Anyway, hang in there, Odette, you're doing fine!
I'm sorry, I appear to have slept through Ann's birthday. Hope you had a great day, Ann.
BW
GL Odette.
its a bust- AF just arrive- i hate that witch!!!!!!!!!!!
so sad . ..
I'm so sorry to hear that, Odette. :cry: :hug:
Do you know where you'll go from here?
BW
HUgs Odette...what a bummer!!!
Oh Odette im sorry hun :hug:
Well provera throwing me around a bit but not too much, not as bad as clomid yet, and i lived on that for 18 months so just taking a day at a time :)
odette, i'm so sorry hun - this just wasn't supposed to happen
thinking of you...
injection number one down - woo hoo!! 300IU can DEFINITELY be felt going in! :lol:
one down, lots more to go...
Odette, I'm so sorry about the turn of events, It sucks and you deserve better than that.
BG, yay on the first injection!
Could have told you that, BG!
I'm just excited, because after all the pain I have inflicted on myself with slightly dodgy injection technique and severe bruising... I was getting so tense with the injections that I was getting more tense, and then having them hurt even more. I've given myself so many bruises (none as impressive as the one in the gallery, fortunately!) that my tummy looks dreadful... and tonight I finally got it right again! My lucrin injection I didn't even feel. I can tell you that you can still feel 200IU of puregon going in, but tomorrow night I'm back to 150IU, which should be easier.
Also starting to be aware of my ovaries - particularly when my bladder is getting full! I'm still on the hunt for the EWCM that will tell me everything is working properly, but I'm confident enough that things are actually working to some extent at least this time!
Shannon, I'm glad you seem to be coping ok with the provera. Neither provera nor clomid were at all friendly to me.
Odette, still sending you lots of hugs. :hug:
BW
BW your E2 will spike closer to O, so you'll probably notice ECWM near O and then for a while after. So don't worry if you don't start seeing it until later.
I'm just being a stress head like usual, Sushee. First cycle I had nothing after 5 days on 150IU. But after only one injection at 300IU I had heaps the next day. I'm becoming more and more convinced that they just needed more time at 150IU to wake up my ovaries after they were completely flattened by the 20IU of lucrin. So I'm really not going to see EWCM until much closer to EPU? If I can get that idea through my head, the next few days are going to be so much easier!
BW
Odette,I am so sorry, it doesnt matter what any of us say at the moment it just doesnt seem to help.
BW good luck sweetheart.
Loula go girl go.
To those I have missed I hope your bodies are doing what it is supposed to do.
Me. Just hanging until AF arrives, hopefully Monday. Then the fun begins. Cycle 6 underway!
Thank you for your Birthday wishes. The big 40, wasn't as bad as 39. Had a hectic day at work, but received so may flower arrangements for awhile there I though I must have died!
Off tonight to works chrissy party, I will be letting my hair down and having quite a few drinkies. After all I will be pregnant in December so I wont be able to drink then. (break out the panadol for me tomorrow!)
Luv as always
Ann :D
Od - im so sorry hun - holding your hand xx
Ann you are funny - you go too girlfriend.hehe - have a few on me hehe i remember your post after my big night out at the races. hehe
I'm scared, and convinced I'm going to hyperstimulate again...
I had my first blood test today... and it took ages for them to get back to me, which is always a sure sign that things aren't good and they've had to get hold of my FS...
After 5 days of stims (2x300IU, 2x200IU, 1x150IU), my E2 is already around 3000. I got the nurse that likes to round off calling me today, so I don't know what the exact number is. They said this was a bit higher than they wanted to see, and I'm terrified that I'm not going to get to transfer and I will hyperstimulate again. I'm trying to focus on the fact that she said it was on "the higher end of normal". Unfortunately, I'm fixating on the "higher" part of that statement rather than the "normal" part of that statement.
I've got to go back for another blood test tomorrow morning. Daily blood tests already! Ouch!
Can anyone with more experience and more wisdom than me give me some idea of just how much trouble I'm in at this point?
BW
BW,
By no means am I any expert, but on my last full stim cycle, I was having daily bt's and I was at the high end of the scale. After hanging around Lismore all day, (transfer was supposed to be 1.00pm), they called to say that it was a no go. Happy I was not. I called in to see the Dr, and he told me that we shouldnt go ahead with transfer as levels were just too high. But I got my way, signed some forms saying I was going against Dr's wishes and had transfer at 4.45pm that day. I was sore, but not that bad. sadly that was another disappointing cycle. I would suggest if you are in heaps of pain, do as your Dr suggests, but if you are feeling ok, pressure him a bit.
I was given strict instructions though in case something went wrong. I had forms already filled out by the Dr, and instructions for the Dr's in case I had to go to hospital. Wishing you a truck load of luck BW.
Had a wonderful night last night. Yes had plenty of drinkies, but hey, no hangover, yeeeeh! Also recieved wonderful chrissy bonuses from the boss.
One more omen for me. AF arrived this am, one day early. rang ther nurse and she said transfer was going to now be on the, yes you guessed, the 6th Dec.
6's all around.
Ann :clap:
Loula,
Only 2 days to go! yipppeee!!!
Ann :dance:
sorry BW - i never ask for my levels sometimes the little you know the better, but i hope everything works out for you hun, wait and see tomorrow then maybe email your FS or give him a call about your concerns
Ann - woohooothis is sounding great to me hehehe. cant believe it keep me posted
Oh ann we posted at the same time lol yep two days, im a bit up and down about this cycle one min im so so so so [ositive the next im thinking why am i bothering IYKWIM, still a little worried about this fluid.
BW, DW was at the higher end of normal for the whole thing, and towards the end went beyond what they wanted, but ultimately there was still a transfer and strict instructions about 3L of water. She was certainly on the brink - couldn't bend over, difficulty walking, making a good impression of a balloon etc. Sorry, I don't know the numbers though.