Kitkat, sorry, I completely missed your post because we were posting at the same time! Congratulations! That's a brilliant number!!
Kimbe, sorry to hear you had a painful transfer, but FX it's all worth it!!
Justina, I've got a link to a site with typical hormone levels on my blog. The catch is that it's an american site the they use different units, so there's also a link to a site for converting between them.
murraycod, wow! 27 eggs! How are you feeling? How are you feeling about the diagnosis as well?
I would love to join u if u don't mind (i was posting in another thread but this seems to be place to be).
Quick rundown of my situation:
I had my EPU last wednesday. 8 eggs retrieved, only 6 were suitable for ICSI.
Only 2 ended up fertilising normally. On saturday I received call to say that both embies were doing well, one with 8 cells and the other with 11 cells. They were graded good and fair. Was booked in for transfer on Monday.
When we got to clinic on monday, we were told that both embies were downgraded to poor as they had only reached early blast stage. They advised us to transfer both embies as neither would survive being frozen. Blood test is tomorrow week. My doc was very honest and said that she wasn't that confident & that she had to manage our
expectations. To be honest I am more prepared for a BFN, I think it's because we have been trying for nearly
18 months and you get used to being disappointed. At the same time, I am trying to be positive. DH is cute, he
keeps talking to the little embies and telling them to hang in there!
Murraycod - I know exactly how you feel with the NK cells diagnosis. Some people think it sounds strange to be 'happy' about having something like that but after 8 years of the old gems 'it's a numbers game', 'there's nothing wrong with either of you', 'you are what we call unexplained infertility' I was over the moon to finally have a reason for my inability to hold a pregnancy, especially after we are very lucky and produce loads of great quality blasts. We are currently in our second transfer using steroids to treat the nk cells.
Have a read of Dr Beer's 'Is your body baby friendly' if you can and it is very interesting and explains loads about unexplained infertility and how there is ALWAYS a reason. He also says in there that sometimes you will have a better chance with an FET because after a stim cycle your bodies estrogen is so high that this can in fact make your bone marrow produce more active nk cells so we are hoping that this FET will be the one for us.
Congrats on the number of eggs - here's to loads of great embies to follow.
Just wanted to thank everyone for the kind words. I really appreciate hearing them from my LTTTC girls! I am keeping my fingers crossed for a spate of BFPs from all of you doing your cycles this month. Bring on the BFPs!!!
Murraycod, congrats on finally getting a diagnosis. That must be such a relief to finally know what is wrong and that there is a way to fix it.
Justina, I wish I knew how to interpret your levels, but I don't. I hope they and your future BTs are exactly where they are supposed to be!
Trea, hope your TWW isn't getting to you to much. Sticky vibes! Go, BFP!
Kimbe, agree that your ET sounded awful. You poor thing! Fingers crossed that the little frozen blasty sticks!!
I probably won't be posting in here too much anymore, but please be assured that I'll definitely be lurking and praying that you all have the best of luck with your cycles.
Hugs,
Kitkat72
Last edited by KitKat72; May 20th, 2010 at 11:01 AM.
KitKat - Congratulations!! So nice to see a BFP here, gives us all some hope!
MurrayCod - nice cache of eggs there Well done. Feel better soon!
Hi to everyone else.
AFM, I am just waiting. DH won't let me out the house, or do anything - I guess I should take advantage of him doing everything I normally do But it is a little boring. And the waiting is aweful. You want to hope for the best, yet you are still anxious about everything.... Arg, I just hope next week and weekend go by fast and uneventfully.... Every time I pee I look for signs of bleeding/spotting!
Hi Ladies
what are NK cells. In the information I have received from the different centres they talk of Embryo Glue. Have you ladies used this in your attempts. Just wondering how common the use is. Adding up all the costs.
Thanks everyone, I'm doing really well. The nurses from Adelaide keep ringing me to make sure I don't have too much pain, but to be honest, I feel fantastic. Am a little achy in my ovary reigon but hey after what those poor little things went through this past 2 weeks I don't blame them for being tender!! I keep telling them 'I'm Foine!!' but they are still stressing.
Embryologist called earlier, out of the 27, we have 19 perfect quality fertilised embies ATM which is a great fertilisation rate. I am over the moon! Can't wait until Monday.
Trea, thanks hun, yeah my MIL thinks it's weird that I am happy about the NKcells, she has no idea!!!
And lucky enough, FS decided to treat me for the NKcells before we got the results back, as a precautionary measure which means I am already being treated for it with this cycle.
I was taking Doxic which is an antibiotic from the day I started the stims, and had the last one day before EPU. The day of my trigger I have been taking 5mg prednisolone 3 a day, and as of last night, am on 1 asprin a day. So will see if it makes a difference. Hoping it does.
It's also nice to know of someone else that has it. So thanks a million XX
Purplechick, NKcells are Natural Killer Cells found in the uterus. In short, if anything foreign enters the uterus, they multiply, attatch themselved and destroy it. Great if you wan't to prevent Cervical cancer or tumors, not so great if you wan't to have a baby. I read in an article, that they mainly target tumors and cancer, and when the cells attack, they actually turn themselves into a form of Chemotherapy drug. Hence multiple misscarriages if you have them and aren't treated for it.
Babytruj enjoy being spoilt while it lasts!! IKWYM about getting a little bored though! Good luck X
KitKat, love take care and best wishes, do drop by and let us know how you are getting along XX Don't think for one second you don't belong here chatting to us, you have certainly done the hard yards, and have made great friends here (huggs) XXXXX
LisaB, thanks, how are you XX
Babydownunder, sweetheart please don't be disheartened at all, there are many clinics that dont even do the extended culture to get to blasty stage. And if you look around on the net, the majority of girls in America don't go to blasty stage, and they are having babies! So please, keep positive, because you have every right to feel confident that this will work. It takes quite a lot for our embies to get to extended culture, and hey, being in their propper environment now in your tummy, is the best place for them to grow XX So take a deep breath, smile, and bellyrub from me to you X
If you scroll down, you will see that Kimbe had a 2yrold Daughter from a 2 dayer! (well done by the way!)
Juniper, you will have to stand in line behind me to give Kevin bloody Rud a smack in the gob, wonder what he would've done if he were in our situation!
Justina have you had any luck finding any info on those levels you were asking about? Sorry I'm not much help! X
Kimbe oh darling am so sorry your ET was not the greatest experience, honey thats awfull X So glad you got some retail therapy in after it to help make you feel better XX Good luck !!
JBM, Dreamrise, anybody I forgot to mention, I hope you are all well, thank you all for the support, you are a great bunch of girls to chat too XXXXX
Well done. Feel better soon!
I'm doing really well. The nurses from Adelaide keep ringing me to make sure I don't have too much pain, but to be honest, I feel fantastic. Am a little achy in my ovary reigon but hey after what those poor little things went through this past 2 weeks I don't blame them for being tender!! I keep telling them 'I'm Foine!!' but they are still stressing.
IKWYM about getting a little bored though! Good luck X
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