Megan - can't wait to hear your official results tomorrow.
Well as you ladies know I have been having some 'maybe' symptoms & then yesterday I felt sick all day & than again this arvo.
If I'm not pg I must be coming down with a virus but I have so much CM still, which I don't normally have at this time.
Does anyone know if chlomid can change this?
Jo - 27 (treated endo)
Dh - 33
TTC #1 since June 2005 this will be the year!
Good luck for transfer tomorrow Loula and Megan Godd luck for your beta test.
BW I just realised I am just one day ahead of you so we are real cycle buddies this time around. Re the bleeding, you kinda actually do want a bleed believe it or not. When they do the down reg scan on Fri (Sat prob for you) they will be looking for a nice thin lining so that they can get a nice fresh healthy one producing with the stim drugs for bubs to implant into. I took my last pill on Friday and have started to bleed today....so far everything is like clockwork for me......absolutely no symptoms on the lucrin which I am not sure is a good or bad thing....really not looking forward to getting up a the crack of dawn on Friday to drive an hour to the city for a scan at 7:30 in the morning. I told DH he could just bundle me in the car and wake me up when we get there....I am soooo NOT a morning person.
Big Huge Congrats to Megan, wow how unreal do you feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yay it is so good to see someone get their long awaited BFP, makes you feel that it could happen to us aswell.
Good luck with your transfer tomorrow Loula. Fingers crossed for you as well tomorrow Willow, you did get your test bought forward to monday?? Cant remember.
Well Kim and i went for her ultrasound and bloods on Saturday and she had 2 follicles at 14mm on CD11. So its back on tuesday for repeat scan and bloods and possibly trigger injection that night depending on the results and IUI on Thursday morning.
Our FS and i were joking and saying wouldnt it be funny if this works!! He said he is leaving town if it doesnt. Anyhow Kim has been watching House of Babies on Foxtel and shes declared she is having an elective ceasarian LOL!!! I really have a big job on my hands supporting that girl throughout her eventual pregnancy!!!
Mel, suddenly I feel so much more relaxed knowing there's someone only a day or so ahead of me. I've never had a cycle buddy before, but that's mainly been because my body has completely refused to do anything normally. I figure if I do bleed, it won't be very heavy - there's only been 10 days of active pill tablets between the last breakthrough bleed I had and yesterday when I stopped. The FS mentioned that as horrible as the bleeding was, it was what they wanted/needed anyway. There just won't have been much time for anything to build up significantly since.
DJ, I so hope this is it for you! Same for Megan and Kim. Hopefully our other Megan has got the ball rolling and we can have a mass exodus from here very soon.
Had a very emotional conversation with DH last night, about how many embryos we may get and what to do with them... There was some discussion of only fertilising 3-4 eggs regardless of how many we get, but I think we are now leaning towards my preference of fertilising them all and seeing how we go. The clinic will go to blast stage if we have more than 3 on day 2, I believe, and I suspect that if we get to that stage, then we'll probably have a lot drop off. Donating our unused embryos to others is a very real possibility for us, but I do know that we could both feel entirely differently about that when we actually have embryos and children, so we'll see how it goes. Was a very long, emotional conversation and I'm still feeling a little unsettled by it. It's one week today until I start injections! In fact, this time next week I need to be at the clinic, and that seems really scary! You wait so long for everything to start, but when it does, it really races by!
YAY MEGAN - Can't wait for official news today but am very excited for you. Sending you lots of
Fingers crossed for Willow and Lou as well.
BW - DP and I has a similar discussion about embies and freezing and how many to use and the like the other night and it left me a bit unsettled as well. I think that most of it was because he didn't really understand the process of it all (in his eyes he just does what I tell him when I tell him and otherwise ignorance is bliss). His problem as I see it is that he just assumes that it will work first time prefectly and all will be fine so we won't need more than one embie anyway. While I adore his positive approach I don't want him to be overly disappointed if it does go quite as planned.
Boo - af for me is due this Saturday which seems crazy because I have been having 'symptoms' from very early on.
I can't help getting a little excited but I also don't want a huge dissappointment.
I have just never had so many symptoms before especially the cm, there is just so much all the time it's embarrasing!!!
How are you going?
WOW, I've been away for the weekend and I've missed so much!!! I'll try to cover everyone...
Megan - congratulations!!! It's so good to hear of one of us getting a BFP - it can happen!! You must be thrilled, although probably still anxious for the b/t tomorrow. GL
Willow - GL tomorrow for your b/t. I've got my fingers crossed for you! Let us know how you go.
Loula - GL with your transfer tomorrow!!
DJTTC - I really hope that all your symptoms mean you're pg. Fingers crossed for you. I hope AF stays away & you get your BFP!
TwoMums - I hope all goes well & you have your IUI on Thursday. GL
GL to everyone else that I've missed. I hope everyone had a good weekend. Our meeting is on Friday to start IVF... I'm not sure how I feel about it. Anxious I guess. I can't quite belive that we're doing it. I still hope that a week later we'll find out that we fell pg naturally this month, but I doubt it! I'm trying not to think about it because I'm sure I'll be thinking about it 24/7 once it all starts...
Jo - things are ok with me, just plodding along - hanging out for the end of April to arrive! Your symptoms sound very promising - I'll be looking out for your BFP announcment at the end of the week!
Taffy, my DH is completely different - he seems to want to know how everything works, and which drug does what and how long do I take it... In some ways he's been the more optimistic one (thinking that 10 embryos would = 10 kids!). I'm quite happy to just go with the flow for now, and start getting stressed if it looks like I'm going to get some ridiculously huge number of eggs. I'd still like to have them all fertilised, as I know that not all will fertilise, not all will grow to blast, and not all will survive freezing and thawing, and it seems to me that letting natural selection decide which eggs will make it that far is better than us deciding to only fertilise 5 eggs. How do we know that the 5 we choose will be the ones that can make it? It's a really huge thing to comprehend, and it's pretty much a role reversal here - normally I'm the one who freaks out and must have everything planned and DH will sit back and go with the flow. Strange.
Boo, April will be here sooner than you think! It feels like the year's just started, and we're already half way through February!
Sammi Jane, good luck for Friday! It's an exciting step, but very scary at the same time. I find I'm doing really well not thinking about it 24/7, as work keeps me extremely busy. Just remember, we've got Leah working for us as well, and I feel so much more relaxed about IVF because of that, and I think perhaps a little more hopeful, too!
DJ, those symptoms are very promising! that AF stays away for a very long time!
Willow, hope the wait today hasn't been too hard on you. I guess tomorrow is test day - not long now!
I'm feeling a bit spaced out so I haven't caught up on everyone's news - sorry. I hope you're all well and fingers crossed for those who have got BTs this week, and of course transfers.
We went to see our FS today, and I must admit that I was expecting more of the same, "it's a numbers game, at your age after 3 attempts you should get a BFP", but actually, he didn't say that at all. He said that my overall egg quality has not been good, and as none of our embies have stayed, it is likely due to chromosone problems, so he wants us to test for genetic problems. We ahd the blood tests today and it will take 6 weeks to find out if there's a problem or not.
If there is they're going to use the Polscope to get past the spindle and avoid causing any problems with ICSI. It all sounds very confusing! If there is a problem we'll also have to do PGD.
So, this means a delay in the next cycle, hopefully we'll start in early April, on a different protocol called "Antagonist", which is 2 weeks shorter. If we get enough embryos the FS also wants to take them to blastocyst.
I am feeling drained and totally information overload. I was really expecting him to put us straight back onto another cycle. I am so worried about the test and if it brings up anything untoward and scary. 6 weeks seems like forever!
Well just thought id pop in after TF which went really well although my FS left one behine and so we had to go twice but she said that was an extra sticky one.lol
Girls can i ask why is it the on our day of TF dh and i have the biggest rows and i always feel like ****. must be that harmony thing hitting me again
Well the BT came back and it seems I am pg but they want to check my hcg levels on Friday to make sure they are still rising as they are a bit low. I don't know how I am going to get through the rest of the week at this point.
Sushee, you had low hcg levels with your last pg didn't you??
I think you did a blast trf didn't you? These usually have a lower hcg than most pregnancies because of the lateness of the implantation. My level at 13dpo was 73, which was considered relatively high for a blast trf, believe it or not. I had another BT done 3 days later, and it had gone up to 260+. That was when the coordinating nurse reminded me that you can't tell by one hcg reading how things are going. What you need to see is if your levels are doubling every 48 hours.
If you like, hun, PM me your levels and dpo, and let me have a look. I also have a reference website that shows hcg levels for IVF (taking into account age of embryos) that you may like to have a squizz at.
Megan - congrats on te positive BT - hang in there - it's only a few more sleeps til the next test.
as for me - BT this morning brought some not so good news - seems even on the higher dose of the injections my body isn't responding and i still have drastically low estrogen levels, so FS has stopped everything - no more injections, no more synarel - and no more hopes that we migt have IUI in the near future. i'm just devastated. found out while i was at work, and had to try to keep it together - survived, but only just. have to go back and see FS next week to try to work out a different plan of attack. i feel terrible - DH has been so interested in this whole process, and when i told him i could hear how much it hurt him - so i'm feeling even guiltier than i did last week
sorry, would do more personals, but i've just got home from work, and think i'm gonna go cuddle up to DH for a while and just try to block out the world.
Oh BG, I'm so sorry hun. Are you going for a FS review soon to decide the next plan of action? Hoping you have a long, much-needed cuddle with DH tonight.
I'm so sorry to hear that, BG :hugs: I hope there's a plan out there that will have you with a BFP real quick!
Megan, I hope those levels continue to rise nicely... it seems that first positive test isn't the end of the battle - something we can so easily forget in this whole process.
this will be the year!
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