Also adding my best wishes for tomorrow for you Tania
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Also adding my best wishes for tomorrow for you Tania
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Lots of fingers crossed for you Tania, let us know how things go...
Big hi to everyone. I hope we all do well this month and get our longed for sticky BFP!!
Kim is on CD4 now so Day 4 of Lucrin and Day 1 of Gonal F. She is on 225iu of Gonal F and starting a day early because she is normally a slow grower. Last time she was only on 150iu of Gonal F, so hopefully she will get more than 7 follies. She is on Lucrin this time instead of Synarel, because the sniffing didn't work for her, she ovulated before egg pick up last time. So we went with the Lucrin because it will work for sure according to our Dr...
So every morning I have to give her 2 injections. One small syringe for the Lucrin and the Gonal F pen injector. The first day she said the Lucrin injection was painless. But every needle since then she says has hurt. Maybe i am rusty with giving the needles, so do you guys have a method so it doesnt hurt so much??
Hopeing you guys have some handy hints on injecting issues...going to post this as a thread as well so everyone can see my post, i really hate hurting her with the needles.
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TwoMums, what perfect timing with that question! I was just handed my first lot of pugeron drugs with the epipen this morning and am supposed to start tonight once they call my with today's blood test results ensuring my levels are suppressed. I'd be interested to hear any injecting tips too. As keen as I am to start injecting so that I can feel like I'm really doing something to make things happen I know my first time wont be easy!!!!
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Girls I'm on the epipen. I dont' really have any issue with it. Sometimes you feel a little '*****' but that's as bad as it gets. Maybe just make sure you pinching a good amount of skin around the belly button......sorry i can't be of any more help! It might be because i'm a little 'chubby' so there's a little more padding!!!!!
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Thanks Baby2Bee.
I just received a call from my FS. Apparently the synarel hasn't worked!!!! They want me to come in for an ultrasound tomorrow morning to rule out any cysts (which I'm sure I don't have as I just had an ultrasound two weeks ago and it was all clear and I don't have any history of cysts). They think they may have to try lucarin instead. I feel so bummed out as I was just given my pugeron drugs this morning and was so psyched to be at that stage of my cycle. I know it's not the worst thing that could happen. I'm just so impatient!!!!
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Hi
True Blue - Been thinking of you today and hope your appointment with the FS went well. Sam and I would love to come and see you one day and have a BBQ.
Hugs to you x
Jaxi - Hi and welcome and good luck with everything
Tania - Hope today went ok for your EPU. Been thinking of you.
to everyone else
AFM - just waiting until the 2nd March for next IUI cycle and struggling along today at work because it would have been my 'late' sister Maggie's 23rd birthday today.
tania..thinking of you to hun xxoo
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hi ladies
tania thanks for the info. hope everything went ok.
Loops- thinking of you at this time.
afm- went to Fs who spec in endo. When he removes he end he said i will go from 1-2% chance of concieving to 15-20% of concieving. I dont think this is a very good % increase, i am very upset by it. Is this good odds? what do you all think? I feel i have no hope at all.
Everyone else good luck with everything
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Well hi all, feeling a little , I dont know blah after meeting new FS today. He was very concerned about my weight and has put me on a lets say diet. Carbs til lunch time then none after lunch and an hour of walking after finishing eating for the day, no sugar whatsoever. He has put me on a drug called reductil which cost over $200. He also talked about metabolic syndromes and metaformin and that I am going to die young and We have to have another month of because of the rubella needle and to top it all off we have sperm issues too. We always had them just the other clinic didn't pick up on them so the 4 cycles of OI were a waste of time. Sorry for the vent I am feeling a little overwhelmed and very teary at the moment. Sometimes I wonder if it is all worth it. Sorry in a very down place at the moment, will come back when I feel a little better.
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it's all worth it in the end saph. I too am overweight however my fs is yet to mention it yet!!! I'm waiting for it though!!! I think of it this way. I'm overweight now, imagine how big and uncomfortable I'll be pregnant and carrying around all that extra weight! It would be nicer to shed a few kilo's before the strain on your body. Keep your chin up. Feel free to chat to me anytime about weight venting etc!
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Hi Toby,
A healthy woman would only have a 20% chance of successful natural conception, so I would say your chances are good.
Good luck everyone with your cycles.
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Hey All,
Toby, you will find that assisted conception methods will give you higher success rates but as Kahlan said, 20% is normal for a fertile couple. Sometimes it's hard to focus on anything else but the statistic and I know 20% does not sound too encouraging but when you compare it to 1-2% it is a HUGE difference. Stay positive hun!!!
AFM, received a bit of a blow this morning at the FC. They did an ultrasound and while they were able to confirm there were no cysts they again confirmed that the synarel hasn't done a thing (not sure why AF hasnt come in all her glory then and I've had zero premenstrual symptoms!!?!) they think there's a big possibility this cycle will have to be cancelled altogether. They did some more bloods and will call me this afternoon for the 'where to from here' but were under the impression this morning that they'd have to cancle this cycle, allow all my levels to normalise again post ovulation and get me on lucarin from CD22. I bawled for about an hr after realising the possibility of my cycle being cancelled before even starting but I guess this is the best of the worst case scenarios right? Did anyone else feel like they were a big pin cushion/guinea pig when going into assisted conception?
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Tania hope your EPU went well have been thinking of you.
Sara
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