Long-term TTC & Assisted Conception - December 2009/January 2010

[Emerald Star]

Terry - You are on the "waiting List" GL hon!!

Juniper76 - Glad to see you back...well you know what I mean...Hopefully this is the one!

sonyalouise - I hope i haven't jumped the gun but I have put you on the List!!!! CONGRATULATIONS babe....i wish you a H & H 9 months and smooth sailing from now on!

Loops12 - Nice to see you lurking in here...

babytruj -

AFM - started jabbing on thursday...1st BT on Monday...this jabbing is getting tedious..i just wanna get to the good stuff..( EPU and ET ) i feel i'm starting to lose patience and that's on the Antagonist (short cycle)!!! Imagine doing the Down reg ? It would seem like aaaaaages!! Don't know how you guys do it.. I'll probably start the orgalutran on Monday as well, so that will be 3 shots a day until EPU.....any way bored you all enough..i'll go now and let someone else get a word in...


THE HALL OF FAME
JULY - springvalley
AUGUST - Krikkit, Taurean78, Muppity, Jasminstar and williamsemma59
SEPTEMBER - Cass180, Persephone1, JayJaye
OCTOBER - Lise, Mitf and Emstar
NOVEMBER - Coral73, Airline, Belle333, Wishes, LondonMiss, Sonyalouise,

Awaiting results:
Motherhood here i come - BT 19th November approx.
Rob - BT 30th November
Terry - BT 3rd December
Leabie - BT 4th December

[littlemissmoo]

Hi Everyone,

Hope you're all travelling well with the jabs, the sniffs & whatever else we have to do for the next couple of weeks!!

I had a blood test yesterday & levels are rising nice & steady so I'm to go in on Wednesday for another BT & scan. I also picked up another lot of drugs to add to my regime, Pregnyl 75. It's the same as the pregnyl booster shots you generally have during the TWW, but it's just drawing a smidgen out in a little needle, it seems such a minescule amount I hope it does what it's supposed to!! (something to do with increasing LH levels). We had friends stay last night so I confirmed with the nurse that it was OK to partake in a glass or two so I felt guilt free whilst sipping my yummy sem sav blanc!!!

[juniper76]

Sorry, I'm out of the loop as usual. Work is still crazy busy and I'm having trouble finding more than 5 mins to check in. For example, right now I really should be doing something else, but stuff it... I'm going to be so relieved when Christmas gets here!

So, apologies for no personals, but here's an update on me.

We saw the FS this morning and we can just fit in our cycle before Christmas. But only if AF shows up on (or very close to) 30 Nov. Apparently our FS is on holidays from 19/12 on, but he said he'd come in on 21/12 for our transfer if needs be. But, if AF shows up on time and I need my usual 12 days of stims, we should have EPU around 14/12. He did suggest I may stim quicker with the Orgulantran, but not necessarily.

So, the big changes from our previous 3 cycles:
1. Antagonist protocol - no synarel! Not sure how the orgulantran shots are in comparison to the ones I've done before (puregon, ovidrel, pregnyl), but hopefully there'll only be a few (especially with the $$).
2. I asked about combination FSH/LH meds and he said we may do some low dose hcg starting halfway through the stim phase, but he'd think more about it.
3. We're adding low dose aspirin prior to and after EPU (except for a few days before EPU). He said we could start this now in case we caught an egg this cycle.
4. We may try for blastocyst transfer. That could be difficult if we get our usual crop of 3 decent embies, but DH & I have a couple of weeks to work out what we want. I've been thinking about this for a while and am tempted to try for it in spite of the risk of having nothing to transfer.

Oops, that was more 5 mins, but that was only because work intruded.

Anyone who's done low dose aspirin, when do you take it - morning or night? I didn't think to ask the FS if it mattered.

Ok, my spreadsheet is beckoning... Hopefully I'll have more time tomorrow.