Long Term TTC & Assisted Conception - July 2007 #2

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[traceylee]

Diva - a DVD!!! Wow. Your thread was so funny LOL! I watched a birth dvd once & nearly passed out myself. DH said he thankful he wasnt a seahorse! If I was given the opportunity to watch an IVF DVD, I wouldnt. I dont want to know what they do to me. I just luv the "pre-med" drugs they give you before an operation. Did they show you that? I luv that!! I dont take drugs but I if I did, my choice of drug would be the "pre-med" hehehehe. I get so excited for an operation!!!! I luv that 3 second "fading out" before the big sleep, just dont tell me whats going to happen! Has DH left for the Krispy Kreme shop yet? Maybe while he's there you can get him to drop some boxes off to Brissy's Girl! She's not near a shop either.

Sonya - hoping all goes well for you this morning & you have a great phone call! Thinkin of ya hun!

Loula - any news yet?

Take Care All.
Tracey

[Loula]

Hey TL how was your TF?

Mine is canciled - my FS said that i have the biggest ovaries that he has ever seen.lol

Was told today that i have 6 blasties in the freezer and maybe a few more tomorrow!

Im ok with the choice that my DFS has made and didnt want to end up in hossy

So now just waiting for af and boy im ready for her.lol

[briggsy's girl]

it's funny how sometimes all you want is af!! hoping she makes a speedy appearance and you're feeling better soon Lou! ouchy on the huge ovaries though!!

[Loula]

TMI - but ive been feeling heaps better since ive opened my bowels!!!may have a little more room for the KK but DH ate it last night!!!as well as his own!!!

[Mrs_eeyore]

I was hoping to join into this section if that is alright ladies?
I am not sure if there is a procedure or orientation/hazing I need to experience first? *grin* But I have pure intentions and PLENTY of questions and stress. So.. please with lots of chocolate syrup could I join this area?

Dh and I have been trying to conceive since late 2005, but it has only been in the last say 6ish months that I have really started charting, asking questions and paying attention to all those subtle changes. FF is actually making me a little paranoid, but that's a whole other issue..

Today is CD72! My cycle has never been clockwork, but it sure wasn't creeping me out this much. So, climbing this high.. as you can imagine I am going a little squirrely..

I saw my doctor last night to check some blood results and the joker thought it was useful to tell me that I could wait for AF for over 6mths without worrying. HUH!?! Do you ever want to just shake someone till they rattle! I mean I was nervous enough, but then he thought it was useful to give me that lil tidbit.

I have been sent for *blood-tests and a HSG (don't ask me to spell or pronounce that word either ) But.. my cycle is taking a break from AF (without my written permission!!) so I apparently can not take that test until things level out again. I have also been sent for pelvic ultrasounds. When I do see my doctor i spend much of my time trying to figure out what he is talking about.. (thick Indian accent).

What I am wondering is this: How has every/anyone else coped with having an evil extra long cycle? And should I consider forcing AF to rear her ugly head?? Or wait things out and continue to go mildly loopy??

[Loula]

HI Mrs E - and i hope we will be able to help you with any of your Q - they are a great bunch in here so pull up a chair. Most of us are on, starting or considering IVF/IUI so whatever Qyou have ask away
xx

[Mrs_eeyore]

welcome mrs eeyore

hun, you don't have to go through any sort of hazing to join us (wlthou bribery is always welcome!!)

Oohh.. well then I try to remember to bring chocolate when I come visit this section

was the doc last night a gp or gyne? i found my gyne triggered AF when tests and things needed to be done if i'd gone longer than the normal amount - maybe it's worth getting a referral...?

Twas a gp - He refuses to refer me to a FS/gyne until I the results from the HSG come back. Which is kind of frustrating because I can not do the test until AF rears her ugly head again, which could be (according to super doc) six months.

Heheh. I would really like to change doctors, but although there are four different doctor surgeries in the immediate area, they are all Indian doctors. And part of my frustration is the fact that because they have such thick accents i can not understand a word they say. Which when you are going in for a flu shot is one thing, but when I am trying to find out about my future fertility it can get a little *insert growl* Heheh.

HI Mrs E - and i hope we will be able to help you with any of your Q - they are a great bunch in here so pull up a chair. Most of us are on, starting or considering IVF/IUI so whatever Q you have ask away
xx

Thank You Loula! *Jumps on the nearest table and sits cross legged*
DH and I are not considering IVF yet, so hopefully I do not bore anyone with my beginners questions In the meantime. Thank you again, and hopefully talk to you soon :P

[briggsy's girl]

welcome mrs eeyore

hun, you don't have to go through any sort of hazing to join us (wlthou bribery is always welcome!!)

was the doc last night a gp or gyne? i found my gyne triggered AF when tests and things needed to be done if i'd gone longer than the normal amount - maybe it's worth getting a referral...?

good luck hun

Lou - i can't believe that your DP stole your KK - send him back for fresh ones for you!

[diva-n-dan]

Traceylee - I'll pass the DVD your way if you want ... they show all the big needles and where they go (or go through! EEK!) and show you all of it via the ultrasound ... I honestly thought Dan was going to pass out ... then I almost did when they tried to down play it by saying something (which I won't say for fear of having the entire LTTTC thread running away). But it certainly had the desired effect, Dan now reckons that any guy even thinking of doing IVF with his lovely wife, even if they're not TTC anytime soon, should watch that video. He's now treating me like the goddess that I am ... not that he didn't before but he's certainly raised that pedestal just a little bit higher ... now I'm just trying to work out a way of making it last ... I don't think I can keep playing the DVD until bub's is 18 just to keep him in line!!!

As much as I'd love the premeds and the anaesthetic they play merry hell with my body ... last time I was under I came out and had to be immediately admitted to hospital ... I was outclassing the exorcist in barf production!!! That's the bit that I'm going to hate more than anything ... I'm not a good girl under anaesthetic ... I always come out feeling like death warmed up ...

Mrs eeyore - I can only tell you my experience, when AF went MIA on me they made me wait more than six months before doing anything about it ... I didn't find her from January until September, and she only showed up 'cause the OB/GYN who was now treating me forced her to show up ... as for loopey ... I think by the end of it all I could have had a chain or rollercoaster rides I was that loopey ... but unfortunately there wasn't a gosh darn thing I could do about it, so waited I did ... that's the joys of LTTTC ... we wait and we wait and we WAIT!!!

[Mrs_eeyore]

Mrs eeyore - I can only tell you my experience, when AF went MIA on me they made me wait more than six months before doing anything about it ... I didn't find her from January until September, and she only showed up 'cause the OB/GYN who was now treating me forced her to show up ... as for loopey ... I think by the end of it all I could have had a chain or rollercoaster rides I was that loopey ... but unfortunately there wasn't a gosh darn thing I could do about it, so waited I did ... that's the joys of LTTTC ... we wait and we wait and we WAIT!!!

I guess I am just tired of waiting. *little kiddie pout*

But then it is entirely my own fault for waiting to ask questions and get these tests done! Heheh. I spent too long just assuming that my body was going to step up to the plate and do what nature intended. Now I have finally admitted that I need help I just want answers.. not more tests :P

Better just get used to feeling like a science experiment tho, i am only at the beginning of what may well be a very long road.. so the sooner I just accept that the poking/prodding is part of the journey the sooner i can get swollen ankles again.

[Loula]

Gosh its not up to your dr if you want to get a referal i would go in there and say i WANT A REFERAL -Even tell him what FS you want to see. doesnt he know it danger to mess with a hormonal women !!!!!

[briggsy's girl]

i'm with you lou!

i can't work out why a gp would be ordering a hsg anyway? mine did the u/s and some bt's only...

[Mrs_eeyore]

Gosh its not up to your dr if you want to get a referral i would go in there and say i WANT A REFERAL -Even tell him what FS you want to see. doesn't he know it danger to mess with a hormonal women !!!!!

Yep! DH has been enjoying my mood swings!

i'm with you lou!

i can't work out why a gp would be ordering a hsg anyway? mine did the u/s and some bt's only...

That is what i was expecting.. This guy is driving me a little mad!! I am not walking in there after TTC for 3weeks.. We have been TTC for quite sometime now, so we are looking for answers.. not "just going to send you for another blood test to check something else" He's sent me for bloods (which came back saying that i have not gone thru menopause yet.. DUR!!) asked hubby to do S.A and given me about an inch of requests for pelvic exams.

He changes from telling me i have secondary infertility to forgetting which patient I am!

I have been pregnant previously, (many moons ago) but the assorted joys of mc and just plain nasty pipes put a end to those.. and he keeps thinking that I have children now. Inconsiderate, idiotic man! Look at your screen.. Figure out who i am.. THEN speak..

Does anyone know a good Gyno/doctor/fertility specialist around southern Brisbane or the Northern Gold coast area? I am getting pretty fed up with this bloke.. We have waiting this long to ask questions I just can't stand him buggering about any longer.

*grins* Yeah, I know.. Demanding! Hormonal woman!! *grins again*

[Mumof8]

Hey Mrs Eeyore,welcome. I know a good fs on the Gold Coast his name is Dr Brian Mullins hes in behind the Pindara private hospital (pindara place). He's real good, i used to go there when i lived on the Gold Coast. Hope this helps you in some way.

[Loula]

TL - where are you ??? how was TF??

[butterfly_warrior]

Mrs_eeyore, we were all beginners once, so ask away - it's how the rest of us learned. The girls here are always happy to welcome newbies, and they are nice enough to tolerate the graduates who are still somewhat in denial continuing to hang around, too.

I also had AF disappear for long, long periods of time. Once I took provera, and it's something I'd really rather avoid doing again - turned me into some sort of raging, hormonal mega-b!tch! The second time my FS put me on the pill and once again I had issues with break-through bleeding that nearly had me hospitalised. Hopefully you won't have anything near as dramatic as that happen! I'd be demanding a referral to a specialist (and I'll say that an FS is much better than a gyn, make sure you get an expert!), and if that GP won't give you one, find one that will.

Good luck, and welcome!

BW

[sonya1]

TL - hope it all went well hun.

ME - YIPPEE!!!!!!!! my first embie thawed 'really well' and is an early blastie which they assured me is very good.

fingers crossed

4 more hours to go and im so excited.what an emotional roller coaster!!!