Long Term TTC & Assisted Conception - February/March 2009

[Ella'sMum]

Hi girls,

New to this just wondering if anyone here is going thru Monash IVF Gippsland and if they could tell me about their experiences??

Thanks

Ellasmum

[Bengal]

Miss Magpie ... 450 !!! Wow .. Lots of lovely fat follies with that dose I presume

Ella's - I met a lady yesterday who went through Monash Richmond, and was very happy with them, so I am sure the satelite clinic will be great as well, good luck with your cycle

[barney]

just saying hi and i hope you are all well.
im thinking of you all and hope you all have a great week
BRING ON THOSE BFPs

[xx Rob xx]

Evening everyone,

Well I round out today we are going natural, so it's all up to me, no drugs, just me and little "George" Sheesh the pressure. I guess the positive is that I will found out where my body is at.

I do have a question though, should hubby and I still DTD as per normal or abstain totally. What has anybody else done. To my knowledge we are putting 1 back so what's the chance of twins?

Take care and bring on those BFP's xox to everyone.

[xx Rob xx]

Evening everyone,

Well I round out today we are going natural, so it's all up to me, no drugs, just me and little "George" Sheesh the pressure. I guess the positive is that I will found out where my body is at.

I do have a question though, should hubby and I still DTD as per normal or abstain totally. What has anybody else done. To my knowledge we are putting 1 back so what's the chance of twins?

Aleenta ... How did your scan go sweety ???

Take care and bring on those BFP's xox to everyone.

[Loula]

Hi ladies sorry to jump into this thread! Just wanted to post to Molly - Im having TF on Friday too!! Join you in the TWW xx

[TaRhLi.]

Hi Girls

Just dropping in to wish you all luck with your cycles, I know BFP's canl' be too far away for you all.

And a special hello to my fellow birthday girl Miss M . I hope that this next cycle does the trick for you and that you get your belated birthday BFP.

Be strong girls, I'm thinking of you all.

[Bengal]

Dutchie : Best of luck and sticky vibes for you today

Best wishes for all you lovely ladies

[Dutchie80]

Hi to all the lovely ladies in here

Again no personals just popping in to check up on things and spread some and . Wishing all the ladies in here whether your cycling or not!

AFM- well i had my epu on monday and it did not go at all like I expected, I think we really bombed out actually. I only got a few eggs with majority being immature and the one or two that were mature were of bad quality (last cycle we transferred a grade 1 embryo). So the nurses called on tues to tell me that they didnt even do icsi on my eggs and to my amazing disappointment had nothing to transfer on wed . Im so so sad as I should be pupo right now over in the TWW thread sharing the experience with everyone. So Im just taking the time to grieve and will regroup and formulate a new plan with the fs at my appt on fri. I still have some positives to focus on its just hard sometimes to not lose a bit of hope with each disappointment. I havent been on since Monday I think I just needed to step back fom BB for a lil bit and not be SO focused on TTC but I do still like to check in and just read sometimes, an announcement of a BFP always brings a smile to my face. I hope to start cycling again asap so Ill be back on again for sure (couldnt keep me away) but I think some time out might be just what I need. I wanted to thank you all heaps for your support and encouragement, it really helps tremendously.

[Loops12]

Hi girls,

New to this just wondering if anyone here is going thru Monash IVF Gippsland and if they could tell me about their experiences??

Thanks

Ellasmum

[Loops12]

Hi
Yes I am going through Monash IVF Gippsland. Through Dr Talbot and he is fantastic as is the nurse I am seeing down at Sale for all our IUI. Not pregnant yet but I am very confident they will get me there. And they are just so comfortable and lovely to deal with. I have not had any problems at all.
Hope that helps. Goodluck

[toby]

loops21 - i also see dr T in melb at the Mercy he is good and straight to the point - no mucking around

Good luck everyone
postive thourghts become things!

[Bengal]

Oh girls Mac Talbert was the first FS I ever saw, and should of stuck with , he is gorgeous, and I will be going to see him again if my next cyle does not work.

[Bengal]

True Blue : Ralph Kuhn is at MIVF - I havent seen him/her, let us know how you go

Hugs

[Sara69]

Hi Girls,

Sorry for no personals but need some urgent help.

Went for BT this morning and my FSH came back with 13, my doctors says she thinks I should wait a month and see if it gets better but it seems that I can go ahead with the antagonist cycle if I want to.

Last time my FSH was 9.8 which they considered borderline but advised to go ahead, it turned out I had three eggs, one blastie, the blastie was affected and I didn't get to ET.

I am wondering if I should go ahead anyway as I am afreaid the FSH might come back even worse next month? Was thinking that as soon as I have the first ultrasound we'll see anyway what the situation is and can cancel then if it's bad?

Please let me know what you think, also has any of you a tip on how to influence the FSH so that it goes down? I think I might have heard something oabout Sharkey's herb somewhere but don't know anything about this - does any of you take it?

I'll turn 40 in June and don't feel I have can loose any more time.

Hope you all have a good weekend and thanks for letting me know your thoughts.

Sara

[TwoMums]

When do you know you are getting into the "Long Term TTC" Category? When you have to do up an Excel Spreadsheet to remember how many attempts you've had and how many follicles and what drugs you took etc etc. Well i started a spreadsheet. Here are the results.

TTC Since June 2006

15x attempts using same donor (now reached family limit)

4x Megan; 11x Kim

2x IVF; 13x IUI

1x Natural/IUI; 1x FSH/IUI; 8x Clomid/IUI; 3x Clomid/FSH/IUI

1x1 follicle; 6x2 follicles; 3x3 follicles; 2x4 follicles; 1x7 follicles; 1x8 follicles

1x Poor response to FSH (Megan's 1st IVF Converted to IUI)

1x Low fertilisation rate (Megan's 2nd IVF 2 out of 8 eggs fertilise)

2x Slow growing embryo's (Megan's 2nd IVF Day 3 Transfer 1x 4 cell 1 x 5 cell)

1x Early Ovulation prior to Egg Pick Up (Kim's 1st IVF -3 immature eggs retrieved)

1x Zero embryos to transfer ( Ki'm's 1st IVF -1 arrested and 2 triploid embryos)

1x BFP (Kim's 2nd IUI/Singleton/50mg Clomid/2 follicle/7th attempt)

1x Miscarriage at 7.5 weeks (due to a Subchorionic Hematoma)

0x Baby in our arms (One little girl in our hearts - Chromasomal testing came back normal 46XX)

Still we go on. I think we may go on until there is 1 or 2 babies in our arms. Maybe we should have not had so many attempts with IUI. But we really didnt have the money to do IVF again until now. We didnt have another choice.

We are just waiting for Kim to start CD1 (CD 28 today) to start our next IVF cycle. We haven't done an IVF cycle since Sept 2006, only IUI's and our last IUI was in August last year. So we had a break from TTC and now we have the money for IVF AND private health insurance (we've done the 12 month wait). Oh and we picked a new aussie donor. Our old donor reached his family limit.

We are going to put our names down for the donor embryo program after this IVF attempt. Even if this attempt is sucessful. I am turning 37 this year and my fertility was questionable when i was 33, hell even when i was 20. I think that will be the path that we go down to achieve a pregnancy for me. Unless by some miracle Kim makes heaps of eggs and we get some good frozen embryos that i can try to fall pregnant with after Kim. Peoples.... wouldn't that be some kind of wonderful!! Can't wait to get to know you all again!

[Dutchie80]

Please let me know what you think, also has any of you a tip on how to influence the FSH so that it goes down? I think I might have heard something oabout Sharkey's herb somewhere but don't know anything about this - does any of you take it?


Hi Sara69
I reckon thats an age old question for us high fshers, I havent been able to get a definitive answer from any of my doctors so went on the search for my own answers. In Jan. my fsh too came back at 13 and the clinic would not let me cycle preferring it to be <10. My fs did say to me that it would come down, I might just have to spend a couple of months waiting for it to come down. I started to go to acupuncture weekly and in feb when I wanted to start again it was 8.1. Its mine (& my partners & acupuncturists) belief that fsh is greatly influenced by stress and this was the primary reason I started ap - to help keep stress levels under control. For me, it helps tremendously. I have read a lot about women using wheatgrass to lower fsh, some with success, some without. DHEA seems to be another thing that pops up a lot. I would do your own research on the wheatgrass and the DHEA and decide based on what you find but I would definitely recommend acupuncture. I havent really read a lot about Sharkey's herbs just that some women do like them. Not sure if any of this is of use to you but I hope so.

Also, I have just changed fs, my new one is more experienced with high fsh and poor response & I think this will make all the difference. I think all high fshers need a fs who has atleast some experience treating high fsh because we just need a bit more aggresive treatment. I believe it can be overcome. Sorry to ramble. HTH

[toby]

Thanks for the info. Tania! how long were u in hospital? and did u need more time to recover at home?

one of the probs is that my ovaries are stuck to my bowel. all the pain ive had even just going to the loo or not going (iykwim) i thourght believe it or not was normal. thank god i have some answers now = about my health in general (sorry if tmi)

Im seeing the surgeon on Thurs.

Tania - im waiting for my boss to say something to me as well because we are not ment to have med app during day. Cant help that when the FS finishing at 12.


good luck with everything!

everyone - thoughts become things...pick the good ones.