Lou, I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you as test date rolls around

Summer, instructions for you to remember later - paracetamol and codeine are fine to take when on an IVF cycle, and while you are pregnant. I was taking enough panadeine to make myself constipated for the first week of the synarel, but everything since has been pretty ok. Feel free to talk to me any time about increasing metformin dosages - I've got so used to juggling doses of different meds over the years! Generally, if you increase by one tablet per day when you are free of side effects, everything should be ok. It seems to be something your body does get used to in time, so it won't be bad forever (although, I do have to admit that I was pretty lucky as I didn't get many metformin side effects). Anyway, you know what I'm like with talking about stuff - pretty much everything will be here so you'll know pretty much every step of an IVF/ICSI cycle before you get to doing your own.

Kim, I didn't really have the same thing, but I did have an AF which was heavy for 2 days, then eased off and on the third day had pretty much dried up to just some brown gunk, and then on the fourth day it got heavyish again, and has finally ended on day 7 (YAY!). I know it's horrible, but the FS told me that while bleeding will make me freak out, it really doesn't mean much or bother their side of things at all. And yes, I did want to thump him when he said that after the issues I had with the breakthrough bleed on the pill! I just thought it was AF being contrary and not really wanting to let go, but I guess now that it was to do with the synarel.

BG, I'm glad you enjoyed your weekend away as much as you could. Sometimes a short break away from normal life is very refreshing and just what you need, even if you don't think you'll enjoy it at the time. I hope your relatives behave tomorrow and the FS has some positive answers for you. Will be thinking of you

DJ, how are you holding up today?

Me... I had another one of those "holy crap!" moments today. Our church is organising to send a small team to a church in the country and try to help them out with their worship teams and just generally encourage them. My DH is the sound guy here so he's involved in the trip, which I'd very successfully forgotten about after figuring that it was late enough that it wasn't likely to have DH away while I'm going in for EPU. I found out tonight that the person organising the trip has been assuming that I'd be tagging along with DH. The trip is on the weekend of the 17th and 18th of March. Count along 10 days from today, then two weeks from then and where do we get to? Add in a couple of extra days if the puregon dose needs to be fiddled with, plus the day between trigger and EPU and where do we end up? Yep... That weekend could very well be the one where I find out if it's a BFP or BFN for us. I'm not sure I'd be wanting to go if I just got AF (but I also probably wouldn't be wanting to stay home by myself), and I'm also convinced that a 6am start and a 5 hour drive is probably a bad thing in the early stages of pregnancy... I'm really stuck with what to do! But I do know that if things get delayed even further and I'm still on crinone pessaries, then I'm definitely not going!

Meanwhile, we're preparing for what is shaping up to be a 5am start tomorrow to get ready for work and then go to the clinic and then race back to work... I think it's a blood test and injection lessons for tomorrow morning - it's all just a little bit daunting! The good news is that I've figured out how to juggle the synarel time with being at church, and I even managed to take it while driving the other night. I think I should warn my clinic that when they say something has to be taken exactly 12 hours apart that this is what happens - the perils of being a maths teacher! Approximate isn't good enough, I must have the exact amount/time/weight/whatever. Crazy, I know.

Desperately trying not to freak out too much here. I've stayed surprisingly calm, but I can feel a rising sense of panic/excitement/terror bubbling up, so I think I should go take my tablets and stuff and head off to bed to get as much sleep as possible - it's going to be a long day tomorrow... and it's staff meetings at work tomorrow after school so I'll be home really late, too. Don't panic if you don't hear from me until ridiculously late.

BW