Hi ladies
Sorry I've fallen behind too hope everyone is keeping well. Just a quick question I'm going in to see my FS on Wednesday to go through the plan for next year. We have unexplained infertility is anyone else in the same boat and have you done any additonal testing that might provide some clues. I don't want to go into next year and just go through the motions again and waste all my little snow bubs
Im currently jabbing puregon and will be having a scan on the 18th of Dec. With IUI roughly on the 21st ish. This is my first cycle I have been on a donor sperm waiting list. Whilst we are waiting with our first clinic we are trying IUI with a second clinic that doesnt have a waiting list.
Redlady.
Hi Redlady,
Welcome & hope you find this site full of fantastic information. Better than what you get from FS & nurses at times!!..the boards saved my sanity. You really DO have to take control during your cycle and sometimes not rely on the nurses to get back to you etc - my nurses have forgotten a number of things as they are so busy but once your know the routine you will be fine.
Good luck for your scan this Fridays. I remember how exciting the 1st cycle is (ok..so by my signature you can tell I'm not so excited but I still feel a positive anticipation when I start:).
I think its great you have 2 clinics - one waiting & one you go with. I have also 2 - sort of happened when my original FS wasn't available unfortunately after a failed cycle and I really needed to talk to a FS so saw another clinic. I have sent off my police checks etc to both so atleast if I need be I have the option of going back to the first one.
Not sure if this happens to you but some advice I wish I knew before my first cycle - don't eat too much..hehe!!..truly the stims gave me a huugggee appetite and I put on 4kg in less than 3 weeks, no amount of exercise got it off. My metabolism just was asleep!...and 6 weeks after the fluid went down I was still 4kg up...so mine wasn't water. The next cycle added another 3kg so I've now taken it easy since i'm up to cycle 5:(
Goodluck with your cycle - hope you get some good embies ready for a xmas romp:)
Terry, we're unexplained too. We haven't done a lot of extra tests, just the antiphospholipid antibody testing. If this cycle doesn't work I'm thinking I'll push for him to investigate endo (if nothing else I'm totally over the painful AFs).
Trubabe, did you get your IUI done at the QFG day theatres? I can't imagine there's too many women with 5 new born shar peis. If it was you, I was in the bed opposite you. :shhh:
So, I'm home from EPU. I've had more pain this time than for previous cycles for some reason, so I won't be online long. But we also got a record haul of eggs - 7!! FX for a good fertilisation rate so we can get a few to blast. :pray:
Lmao juniper, yes i did. damn i woulda said hi if i had realized it was you :D had my girls just round the corner being sticky beaks lol.feeling like hell at the moment since cervix wasnt being co operative and dr had to grab it and move it :S and managed to pierce it in the process so just resting at the moment
oh and great news you got 7 eggs juniper
Trubabe, I promise, I wasn't trying to eavesdrop, but I did hear him saying something about that (brought back painful memories of my last tranfer, which was why I noticed and so I completely empathise!). I thought about saying something but wasn't sure if you'd prefer to maintain some anonymity and also didn't want to call across the room.
its cool.it was a first for me and something i hope doesnt need doing again.had a bath a while ago which helped. and you would have been the one that said that the results from pick up were your best yet??? DP sent a wtf text when i told him about what had to be done to cervix.Dr de cracked me up when i was in pain saying what he was doing was equal to him having his nuts in a vice lol.DD1 had been peering through window, they loved the recliners lol.it would have been nice having a friendly face from on here there :D whens your BT? maybe we may cross paths then too
Yes, that was me. 7 is our best haul (previously had 6, 6 and 5, so I'm excited over 1 extra egg!). :) I think the pathology section is closed over Christmas and re-opens on 4 Jan? I need to talk to my Dr about when to get a test done. We're normally told to come back 15 days after transfer, but that would be the 2nd. It won't matter if we don't need to continue the progesterone, but if we are supposed to continue it I'll run out. You'd probably be due to have yours a week before?
i was told i have to wait 16 days for BT so thats 30 dec.when i rang about bt form when i got home i got told that will have to get written on it for pathology to ring me direct with results.
excuse the blonde moment for a min i forgot it was pick up you had today not transfer.duh (smacks self with half eaten crunchie bar lol)
Trubabe fingers crossed for you sweetheart, sounds like it was painfull this time ouch!
:fertilise::crossfingers:
I had a peek at the pics you posted of the puppies, they are so cute and tiny!!!
I hope they help you pass the time for the dreaded wait you are about to endure!!!!!
Juniper YAY 7!!!!!! That is great news!!! Praying for you that they all fertilise and grow nice and strong XXXX
Terry DH and I have unexplained infertility, we did fall PG in Jan this year but unfortunately did not stick. We decided that TTC for soo long, we did not want to wait for sooo long for it to happen naturally so we are trying to hurry things along. 3 back to back IUI's Aug-Oct unsuccessful, IVF feels like our last chance.
Loops take care honey, I know how rough things can get X
Bruntte I hope you find out what has caused this enterococcus, I would go crazy if this would be a cause for a non viable embryo and that you picked it up at the clinic.
It's crap because we have to sign this and that to say they aren't liable for this or that, we never actually expect to get an infection from there bad sterilising procedures. So sorry that you have to go through this and I hope that it all works dout for you XXX
Take care everybody I missed, I havn't posted here in a few days and have a bit to catch up on!!
AFM I began taking the pill yesterday, finally got AF late Sat night on CD40!!!! Was going nutts!! So I will take the pill until 27th Dec, hopefully have a bleed by 30th so I can start my inj on 31st, talk about leaving it to the eleventh hour for this years medicare....going to be tight!
murraycod, yay for squeezing in at the 11th hour! :goodluck:
Well, the good news is that we have 6 embies! OMG, I'm beside myself here! In the past we've had 3, 4 and 3, and the time we had 4 only 2 were any good so I usually count it as 2, making 3 our previous best. When I called they had me booked in for a 3dt on Thursday and I had to point out that we want to do a blastocyst transfer this time. :rolleyes: She said she'd have to talk to the scientists and keep me posted... It was written on my admission forms yesterday, so hopefully the scientists were already aware of it? How is it that the admitting nurse knows but my Dr's receptionist doesn't?
Has Emstar had her BT yet???
Hey ladies,
Charlotte i totally agree with you about the wieght, ive had two full stim cycles and each one puts on more, its like ive had two kids!! I get around 40-50 follies each time too so my tummy stretches to fit in the ovaries and i look like ive been pg. I even had one huge stretch mark its so not fair!!! I eat well and exercise daily and the pudge just stays!
Redladie, GL with your cycle. The clinic with no wait, do you have to know your doner?
xx
I just re-read that and realised i spelt both your names wrong! LOL, sorry :redface:
Hello charleotte and Jaki80,
Thanks for your well wishes and advice. Im only on Puregon and so far I haven't noticed any urges to eat more. I have noticed an urge to go have special cuddles with DH though. I think he thinks all his christmas's have come at once!! :loveshower:
The clinic I am going to for this cycle has no waiting list for donor sperm. The donors must go on a register but I do not know the person we have picked.
With our other clinic the person donating there for us to use once it has cleared quarantine is known to us.
How are you both going???
Redlady.
murraycod I know exactly how you feel we are in the same boat. Hopefully i can get some more answers tomorrow and shed some more light on our situation for oyu too. Hope that this cycle goes ok for you try not to stress cause its so late in the year
juniper76 thanks for your advice I'll ask my FS tomorrow whether I've had any Bt for that too although I don't get much clotting normally. Hope your little embies are still travelling well :crossfingers:
Emstar hope your ok
Trubabe sending lot of :stickyvibesgirl::stickyvibesboy:
AFM will start testing for ovualtion tomorrow given we are unexplained who knows maybe we can produce our own little miracle before we get back on the IVF wagon in March
Trubabe and Juniper - It's a small world, isn't it? How funny you were both in the same room. GL to you both this cycle.
Murraycod - FX that you fit your cycle in this year before the price changes next year.
Emstar - How are you? I think I recall that your BT was brought forward from Wednesday to today. FX for you.
Loops - It sucks that IVF will be so much more expensive next year - thanks to Rudd! I have never protested against a government before, but I am going to for the first time before the next federal election. I plan to protest right outside his office in Morningside!
AFM - I got AF on Saturday and so I went in today for my BT - a BFN, surprise, surprise! To be honest, I've dealt with most of the emotions days ago when I got a negative on the HPT and then over the weekend when AF showed up. I am trying to focus on the positives - we had the best results ever this cycle so we just have to keep the faith and hope that it will happen for us next year. We will be doing a frozen transfer for the first time, so if anyone else has done this and has some tips for us I would be very appreciative. An update on the entercoccus for those interested: I haven't yet spoken to my FS but my endocrinologist was the one who picked it up in the full blood count I got for thyroid purposes. I spoke to her today about it. The repeat urine test came back negative so my body has fought it off naturally. She said it comes from the bowel, so I don't think we need to worry about picking it up from the hospital, and she said it would not have affected the embryos, so that is a relief. I'm seeing my FS tomorrow to ask a million questions and plan the FET next year.
GL to those still waiting BTs!