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Keen,
As per usual Aunty Suziq has hit the nail on the head.... take some time to get your head together... if you feel like crying, cry... if you want to scream do so... Time my sweet is the only healer in this situation. Follow your heart and keep your head high....
Love Leis xx
Keen, what a shame about the results. It is a kick when they say 'everything looks right' but it's just not happening. Do you have a lot of communication with your Dr/nurses to discuss things. After last cycle (m/c) I lost it when I went in for my Anti-D (rhesus factor) & a nurse sat with me & then we looked over my file. It felt good to have a good look & suggestions made. I feel I am at a good clinic, very understanding. I hope you get the same support from your clinic.
My BT yesterday finally showed some stim action so I now have a BT & u/s on Monday to see how many follies I'm growing. I've got a bit of a bad feeling that I might not have many since my stimming started off slow. Just have to wait & see.
Also am getting anxious about the PGD already. I think I want to go into the clinic when the results come in rather than get it over the phone. I thought it might help to get the details at the same time. I'm starting to gather some questions already.
Hope you are all having a good weekend.
Take care
Keen, :hug: and :flower:
Tam, that's so right, you really need to have a good relationship with your doctor and clinic.
As has been said before, it only takes one good egg, so don't worry about numbers.
I've never had PGD but all I can say I suppose is just try to take one step at a time and don't get yourself into a tizz worrying. I think going in to get the results is an excellent idea and you can never ask too many questions =D>
Good luck tomorrow, will be waiting to see how you go.
Keen, hope you're taking care of you. :flower:
Take care
Sue
Keen.
I know at times like these there are no words that can help, but just knowing that there are many of us that know exactly what you are going through. Our love and wishes are always there for you. Take the time if you need it, just to get your head around things. (God knows we have all done it in the past)
Well for me, I've had the bloody flu for the past week, have just ventured out of bed today. My GF has just come down to have her baby (a boy on Friday) and I can't even go and see her.
I start jabbing on the 6/5, something I'm looking forward to (?), at least we'll be doing something.
Hope everyone is taking care.
Luv Ann
Keen- I am soo sorry honey. I truly prayed that this time was the one for you. I am sending you so many hugs. Please look after yourself and we are all here if you need us.
Keen - I'm soooo sorry, I had everything crossed that this would be your turn............ I'm thinking of you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Alicia xxoo
Hey guys, enough about me hey. Lets look at the girls in here who are our next big hopes.... Tam good to hear things have started happening and Ann you are not far from the stim.
In response to those who asked about my clinic - well, pretty much they suck. They practically refuse to give results and as the clinic and doctor are two separate offices on opposite sides of town, you can hardly speak to doctor and nurses and they dont have any answers anyway. They basically just say, it hasnt worked, when do you want to go again? DH is very much over them and if I had another option where I live I would go elsewhere....
And that is all about me for a while.
:hug: Keen,
you will be a mum, I know you will be. I'm so sorry that this cycle wasn't the one for you.
love
sushee
Keen, I know you said enough about you, but...
I know the travelling is a pain in the ar$e, but could you change to a clinic in Sydney? It is doable, I did it between CC and Sydney and CC is probably about the same distance away as SC. I used to have my BTs done at my doctor's surgery and it was couriered down (labmailers it was called). They used to courier my meds to me. Obviously, that was in 1995 - 1997 but surely it must be possible somehow? There would have to be a better way, one clinic shouldn't be allowed to have the monopoly in an area these days.
How do ladies living in remote areas do it - can't possibly be expected to travel to the clinic for every BT/US surely?
I know who you're with and I was originally with them, they don't sound like they want to 'investigate' things, just hand over a few more $$ please! You don't sound happy with them either and that's so important.
Shutting up now. :oops:
Take care
Sue
:smt022 Keen,
I know you said that was enougha about you, but I have just really had a chance to get on & I came here full of confidence for you...
But now I have read & I somehow dont think it is true!
I was so absolutely positive this was your turn....
I hope your Ok darlin'... As usual worrying about everyone else & putting everyone elses needs first...
I hope Suzi Q's advice is something worth thinking about for you, I dont know how far you'd have to travel etc... But if your not happy sweetsheart, then it might be worth looking into...
I just dont want you to let their treatment of you hinder any future plans, as such...
Please know that we all really care about & love you...
I wish I had someway of giving you a RL hug... Coz I think I really need one after your post... Take care of yourself, my precious sweet friend....
I am here, we are all here if you need us!!!! :grouphug:
Sue, that is true what you say. There shouldn't be a monopoly & also too I think we're far enough in time that things to save travel, etc can be done.
I know I can do my BT elsewhere, I just choose to go into the clinic so if I have questions, or need reassurance it it there.
We pay a lot of money for this & even though it sounds strange, we should get service, which generally means answers or help.
Also the cost is high you can't afford to go on & on & on.
I have a lot of confidence in my clinic.
Ooh, maybe I should get off my soapbox now!
Take care all, I'll log in with my u/s results in the morning,
Grow folies, grow
Here here - Keen I agree with Sue and Tam. there have to be some alternatives somehow.
Tam - fingerscrossed for your u/s tomorrow.
Hi everyone else.
Good luck Tam
Hoping for some good, evenly sized follies for you :luck:
Sue
Be reassured guys - it is something I am looking into (re: changing clinics). Also checking other avenues (thanks for your PM Sue).
I have to say I was also convinced this was the one. In fact is very frustrating because I still havent had (sorry if TMI) any bleed at all. I sort of wish it would hurry up and be over with.... because while ever it doesnt happen I have this tiny bit of hope in the back of mind, which is really making it very difficult, IYKWIM?
Tam - Fingers crossed sweetie for a lovely bunch of perfect follies... :crossfingers:
Keen like Sue said, I lived 3.5 hours from my clinic, but because Sydney IVF have a satellite clinic in Port Macquarie, I travelled there for scans and bloods if they were same day bloods otherwise i could have bloods done here in Taree. Only had to go to SIVF city clinic for my EPU and ET. I loved SIVF thought they were just brilliant and the nurses couldn't do enough for you... In regards to meds they used to courier them up... you always have YOUR Dr for EPU and ET
Stay strong honey, and look after yourself
love leis xx
Keen - I'm so sorry to hear this cycle wasn't the one but hopefully that 'special' cycle is just around the corner. Take good care. xoxo
Tam - hoping to hear some good follie news soon. xoxo
Ann - sorry to hear about the flu - hope you're over it in no time. This is my 3rd IVF cycle but that first injection is still scary!
Living in rural Vic I was travelling 3 1/2 hrs one way to get to my previous Clinic. I would usually do an o/night trip when I had scans but occasionally did one day round trips of 8 hours - that was tough.
My new Clinic is now 1 1/2 hours away and it is a nice scenic drive which helps! I'm usually allowed to get BT's locally but always travel to the Clinics for my scans because 'I'm complicated' coz of my fibroids!
I start sniffing tomorrow so it feels like it's really starting again now!
A big hello to everyone else.
Marg
Keen,
Remember I had to travel 3 1/2 hrs to my clinic, and I only had to go there for EPU and ET, for my bloods and ultrasounds I was having in my local town, remember I lived in the "rectum of the universe", but they only did ultrasounds on certain days, otherwise I would have to travel 1 1/2 hrs to the closest town for ultrasounds, and BTs were the same. Now that I have moved back to the coast, Ultrasounds and BTs are done locally, even though the clinic uses different pathology labs for BT's my clinic has aranged for me to use our local ones. I can't fault my clinic, they make it as easy as they can for the client.
Maybe it is time to change clinics.
Luv Ann
Hi guys
Checking in with my follie count:
5 on LHS at 1.0 and 6 on RHS varying from 1.1-1.6
So happy with those results, the u/s nurse estimated my EPU would be Friday, so I think I'm starting to get excited.
Marg, good to hear you're starting some action too (even if it is the big sniff)
Ann, hope you're all better now. I remember when you lived in the ROTU, lol
Listening to the travel stories, it does bring home what we will do for our future bubbas.
Here's to lots of success.
Take care
Hi Tam
Those follies sound great! Not too many and not too few. Well done you!
Tam - that is a great result! I have everything crossed for your success this cycle.
Afternoon all your lovely ladies.
Keen- Hope the witch visits soon. many hugs honey.
Anne- Not long to jabbing now. Dont worry about not going to visit GF yet. If she is a good friend she will understand. Go when you are ready. At the moment you need to look after you!!
Marg- Good luck with the sniffing tomorrow. Hope you dont get any side affects!
Tam- Fantastic news. Keeping everything crossed!
Shez- how is the reading going?
Chele- Where are you up too?
Sue- how the foot going? I hope it is healing nicely.
And everyone else I have not mentioned I hope you all have a great week.
Hey Tam, couldn't ask for a much better result than that - nice number and all around the same size. Lovely.
Good to see you Marg, must feel good to be 'doing something', don't forget the tictacs.
Hope you're feeling better after your last op Leis, you must be ever so tired of hospitals, especially being a nurse.
Ann, I'm really glad you've moved from the rectum of the universe to heaven...
Hi to Vicki, Kar, Blue, Bee and anyone else I've forgotten.
Spoke to my doctor today about my bone scan. I'm on another week's rest :rolleyes: but he doesn't really concur with the radiology doctor suspecting osteoporosis, thank goodness for that! So, I'm at home again and praying for rain so I don't feel so frustrated by being stuck inside.
Take care all.
Sue
112 more sleeps 'til up up and a-w-a-a-a-y
Hey Girls
Well I had my BT results today and I start (ANN check this out LOL) the big jab on Sat the 6th with a scan to be on Mon 15th. The nurse said Friday the 5th is day 1 why is this so do they not go by day of the witch for this :-k. I get sick of changing my ticker it should be easier than starting from scratch all the time LOL aren't I lazy
Chele - well done on your results. They usually make day 1 the day before you start stimming with FSH because ideally it should take you 14 days stimming before they do the OPU. In reality most OPUs happen somewhere between 11 and 12 days after you start stimming. And how exciting that you and Ann will be stimming together.
Sue - yay for no osteo. Not long now. I think I'll come with you if my FET doesn't work in June.
Daisy - hello and remind me where are you up to? Did you track down the book yet? You might be able to find a cheap 2nd hand copy at AbeBooks.
Ann - goodluck for this cycle
Marg - hope the headache monster stays away during your sniffs
Sushee - how are you and yours?
Bec G - was that you??? Where have you been hiding? How is/was #19?
Shez - how are you? How is PGALTAC going. Updates please.....
Cherie - you've been quiet but notice that you are sniffing. How are you going?
Hello to everyone I've missed.
I'm just about to O again. That means 8 weeks til FET or there abouts for me....
Thanks for that info Kar I feel like a newbie at all this :p
Tam you want to know something freakie? doedoe doedoe doedoe... twilight zone stuff here, they were exactly the numbers i had on the same ovaries!!!! Bizaro!!! Good luck honey and i hope you get some super duper great embies!!!
My best friend rang today and said, in tears to me that she is pregnant. They had only been trying for two months... she was upset at having to tell me and admitted to avoiding me although i hadn't noticed as i had been so busy with my colonoscopy and overtime with work!! But DH and i are going to God parents and she wants me to be her birthing partner, but I am unsure about this as i have never experienced this before and don't want to freak myself out... any opinions on being the birthing partner would be appreciated....
:wave: to everyone else!!!
love leis xx
Leis, same numbers are freaky isn't it. Not sure on the birthing partner advice. Not sure if I'd be able to go to one if I hadn't myself already. Also too, I guess it depends on whether you are/aren't pg & if you are, how far along. Very exciting to be asked though, & even more so to be god parents, yah for you.
Ann & Chele, same start days, that's exciting
Marg, how was your sniff, I'm looking forward to stopping I must say. The headaches are killers.
Kar, yah for setting sights on next cycle, time goes fast.
Sue, does that mean you're at home on a sickie, I guess that's not too bad.
Vicki, I hope things are looking up for you
Bec, yes, I'd forgotten, how is it all going
Hope everyone is well.
I'm back in for BT & u/s on Wednesday, hoping everything continues to grow nicely. Just trying to organise if EPU is on Friday, DD needs to get to school, I need to have a sickie at work & DH needs to rearrange his day, whew!
Take care
Hi girls
To Ann and Chele - happy cycling together!
Kar, those 8 weeks will fly by. Yes, I'm still looking for someone to do the Greek Islands in September but, I'm hoping it won't be you as you'll be pg IYKWIM.
Hi Leis, your friend sounds like a good one, definitely understanding of what you're going through. Sorry, I've never been a birthing partner so can't help with that one.
Tam, it sounds like things are moving along at a nice pace (Synarel sux). So many factors involved in all this, not just the tests, procedures, emotional highs and lows but on top of all that there's the logistics of making it all happen! Good luck tomorrow, hope those follies are ripe for the picking on Friday, I too think it's freaky you had the same result as Leis...
How you doing Keen? Silly question I guess :(
Hi to everyone else, I'm off to the lounge...
Sue
Leis - it's hard when close friends get pg around you. I have been a birth partner - I was 35 and had just started going out with DH.
Actually I was one of a whole brigade of people that my friend (who had got pg on a 1 night stand (Hmmmph!) after breaking up with her rather unreliable lover) had lined up in a semi panic about being single. At 38 she had decided that her labour would be nightmare material and she expected she would need shifts of support people over 24hours. I seemed to be the only one with any common sense however because when I arrived at 3pm I found her having contractions about 3 minutes apart and still talking right through them! (She can talk under wet cement). After I drove her to the other side of Canberra (mostly at 120kph in bus lanes with hazard lights on) we got to the birthing centre. By that stage she was in transition and bawling for her mother (who she had not invited to be there and who was stuck in Sydney). The whole thing was over by 7.45pm but I stayed the night and helped out. I would do it again any day even with no children on my own.
I was completely exhausted, and very dehydrated, forgot to drink water myself while making sure my friend remained hydrated. The reality is that the midwives do most things, I just talked to her, got her water and was ready with the pooper scooper (sorry TMI) for the bath, and got on the phone to get her mum to Canberra and to let other people know the news. I got to hold bub for a few hours while mum grabbed a bit of sleep early the next morning which was nice.
And I have a very strong bond with the little girl. She seemed to know that I was there when she was born.
So I'm not sure if that is any help to you Leis. It demystified birth for me and made me less afraid of it. But I kind of landed in the role accidently and I can understand where you might have some reservations!
Leis - I have been a birth partner, although was when I was about 21 and hadnt started down the path for a baby of my own at that stage. It was a long labour starting at about 2am with waters breaking and the bubs being born some 14 hours later.
It was exhausting, harrowing, and scary but I would do it again if I was asked. Even now.
If you were to do it, two things- take some food and at least another change of clothes! I stood in the shower holding the water on her back for hours saturated through!
Girls thanks for the advice, Kar, i think what you did was so fantastic, and I have made up my mind that yes i want to be there for Jen, the only problem being is that i am not due to have christmas off this year, so i am unsure about what to do???? I guess being Jens first she will probably be in labour for quiet sometime, so maybe i will have time to drive the 3.5 hours to Sydney to get there. She to refuses to have her baby at the local hospital like myself and make the pilgramage to Sydney....LOL!!!
Only 2 weeks until my BIG op..... i don't know how i feel, i know by about 4 days post op i will be feeling super, but at the moment, i don't know if i am nervous or looking forward to the 2.5 hours of anaesthetic sleep... love being in 'limbo land'..................
:wave: to everyone!!!
Love Leis xx
hello to everyone!
Marg, Tam, Anne and Chele- Baby dust baby dust baby dust.
Kar- No I have not had a chance to track down the book yet. I have been to busy with school holidays birthdays ect. To go to the shops it has to be a planned visit as I we only have one car. So Tomorrow is the plan. I am so looking forward to " getting out". I am still only half way though " the child within" But to be honest I have not really found it to be that helpful yet. The first chapter put me in depression for a month. I am determine to finish it though.
Leis- I was a birthing partner for my sister. Water, food, change of clothes and a charged Mobile phone is what you need. ( everything that has already been mentioned) I have an incredible strong bond with my nephew and am also his god mother. I was at the time TTC with my ex DP. To be honest I know I had monents where I thought to my self 'this will be me soon" but for the main part of it all I was really into the whole birth process. Just know that it will someway bring up some "thoughts" to you, but in the end I really dont think you will regrete it.
Sue- Hope you are enjoying time at home resting. I am hoping for rain too. only as our tanks really need it! But according to the weather reports no rain is due this week. Still you deserve a break so dont feel gulity at all.
Everyone else that I have not mentioned, I hope you are having a great week.
Ooh its so quiet in here this morning....
where is everyone?
Boo!
I've been hopping around Bi-Lo, needed some essentials then on to the chemist for a calcium supplement. This will sound so paranoid 8-[ but I do feel bad not being at work and almost felt like I had to make the limp more pronounced in case someone saw me and complained about me being able to push a shopping trolley. Actually, it was liking having a giant walker and was a big help. Never mind that it took me twice as long!
Good luck today Tam, hope your US shows those follies continuing to thrive in readiness for a Friday pickup.
Leis, I reckon focus on the big sleep. You're an old hand at ops now. Will this be the last one?
Vicki, yes I really want some rain but I can't get out in the garden anyway!
How's the research going Kar and Keen?
Hi to Blue, Chele, Ann, Bee and everyone else, I'm sure I've forgotten someone.
Ciao for now girls
Hi Girls,
Hope you dont mind, thought I would pop in and say hi as I wil be cycling soon starting our 4th FET cycle.
Looking forward to getting to know you.
Shazz.
xx
Welcome Shazz
You should feel right at home amongst us LTAC types. Good luck for FET #4. When do you expect to have the FET? I'll be FETing again in late June.
Hi Shazz, pull up a pew - but don't get too comfy IYKWIM...
I just read your story in your other thread - so sorry for your losses.
The LTAC journey is such a cr*ppy one, but you'll find lots of understanding, advice and a few laughs along the way in here.
Good luck, I hope it all works out for you this time.
Sue
Shazz welcome on board, sorry for your loss, of Chloe Jade.... I am sure you will be onto the preggie side of the forum soon....
Suziq... LOL at the giant walker, but i know what you mean, i had to do the same thing when i fell over on my leg and twisted my ankle...yes my dear this is it.. final finale finito operation for me... they weren't going to take the endo off the bowel, but it would of still limited our natural conception rate, to 4 percent, but once it is gone our rate will increase by 40-70 percent natural conception..I told the surgeon i wanted it out no ums or ahs i want it gone!!!
The next time i want to be in hospital as a patient is only to give birth, and even then i don't plan on staying long!!!
:sleeping: the big limbo land sleep i am looking forwar to but not the post op :sick: ....
love leis xx
Time for another group tantrum girls, check out this thread for more details....