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Yep,I get to inhale the yummy vapours for 3 months. I'm sniffing twice a day, left side in the morning and right side at night. I switched to just the right side since the left was blocked far worse, but I thought it was all good this morning so attempted the left side..
Diva - I haven't been on any other nasal spray before, we have just found out about my endo and one twisted tube. FS put me on the synarel for the endo, then he said in 3 months we can jump straight into our injections. What a story you have there! Wishing you all the best for you journey..
Sonya - Hoping that you stop being a pincushion soon
well my levels are now 1700! seems like a huge jump to me. my LH is 8. so working on it was pretty well zero yesterday and they are aiming for around 20 hopefully i get to transfer my blastie about this time next week...
Holly - thanks very much & got your PM reply (it works yay!) - I will look out for it in the post late this week.
Sonya - good luck with your levels - I have no idea what they should be either (something else to learn about in the future I guess )
Jo, Jo, where are you? Hope everything went well today and you are feeling okay enough to post and let us know what is happening sometime soon. Some of us are living vicariously through you at the moment
To everyone else, hi and I hope all is going well with your appointments, cycles, jabs, pills and sprays!
Take care all,
Cherylxx
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Sonya - Sounds like it's all systems go for you, just a quick question, what's an average time between EPU and ET??? Is it more likely be days or weeks???
Sparkles - Thanks for the warm welcome, feels really weird at the moment, we've gone from months of intensive scrutiny, to nothing at all!!! Feels weird not having any appointments to go to anymore ... what on earth do you do to past the time??? I go from quiet confidence, to climbing the walls wondering why the days are creeping by sooooo slowly!!!
Diva, the time between EPU and transfer is usually 2-5 days. Unless you're like me and seem to want to do things differently and wait 2 months. Long story - basically my levels were too high, I hyperstimulated and was too sick to think about transfer, all my embryos went to the freezer. It all turned out well in the end, though!
Glad things turned out ok Butterfly, I have heard all about the scary stories of OHS and how transfers can be cancelled because of it ... glad you're alright now and things turned out so well ... fingers crossed we miss that bullet!!!
Nic - Hey, Im blocked up too. Only been on the Syranel since 13 June. The only nasal spray Im allowed to take is Fess. Its a saline solution & is safe and I can have it whenever I need. It doesnt effect the Syranel. Be careful with other nasal sprays, some are detrimental. If I was you, I would check it out, just to be sure.
Diva - you certainly have been down a busy road. All the best for your up & coming appointment.
Sonja - We must be nearly on the same track. Im still hoping to get my blastie soon too depending what happens at tomorrow's appointment. Im never told my levels. Should I be told? Im going to ask them tomorrow morning 500 questions about it hehehehe.
Chez - hope you're doing well and that your week is going ok. I think its a good idea to focus on the next one. I'll take a leaf out of your book.
Me - My BT & Ultrasound is tomorrow morning & everything depends on the results. Im drinking 3 litres of water to control the hyperstimulation. If its bad news, it will be cancelled. Good levels means Im still hatching my eggs to maturity. I cant help but worry. Im still on the nasal spray. It was the first morning I have wished I could take my needles.
Do they still take eggs when you have OHS? My clinic told me they may cancel the procedure depending on BT tomorrow. Was it your choice to wait 2mths or was that to ensure your levels went back down? Hope Im not bombarding you but I really want to be prepared tomorrow. I was happy to hear it all turned out in the end. Do you know what levels I should be looking for?
Hey girls,
For sinus issue i use a tissue/cell salts, Ferrum Phos. It is brilliant and really helps.
Hope you are all well and having a laugh.
Talk to you soon.
Traceylee, I was told that it would all depend on how things looked at my second scan. If I had enough leading follicles (the big ones that are likely to contain nice, mature eggs) then we'd be able to go ahead with collection, but the nurses were preparing me for the likelihood of not going to transfer as soon as they saw my levels were sky rocketing. If I had heaps of tiny little follicles, they wouldn't be able to get enough mature eggs from them and would have cancelled. It was such a relief to hear them tell me that my huge blobby ovaries were exactly what they wanted to be seeing at that point! In the end it was actually a relief to wake up to see freeze all on my hand. I'd just been through a couple of months where I'd had a lot of bleeding (30+ out of 50 days - at one point so bad I narrowly avoided being hospitalised), failed to respond to synarel, failed to respond to a trigger shot, failed to respond adequately to primolut, and then initially failed to respond to puregon... then going into daily monitoring with 5am starts because of the hyperstimulation. I was physically and emotionally exhausted, and I guess I knew within myself that there was no way my body was going to hold on to an embryo at that point in time.
As for the wait - I was told I needed to have a rest cycle in between the stim cycle and the FET cycle, from what I've seen that's fairly standard. I didn't really feel completely better until I was about three weeks into the rest cycle, so I think it was for the best. I did get to use the drug my FS planned to use for ovulation induction (he prefers natural cycles and I don't ovulate) on the rest cycle, and that reduced a lot of stress for the FET as well, as it wasn't a new drug and I know how it made me feel already, and I knew it worked.
How high are your levels? I'll give you a run down on how mine went (and my puregon dosages) so you can compare.
5 days @150IU - 283
4 days @300IU - 2834
2 days @200IU - 9200 (Monday - this was the point they started to worry, with a week to go)
1 day @100IU - 13200 (wednesday)
1 day @75IU - 14488 (thursday)
my final dose of puregon was withheld, and I just had lucrin on the Friday night, with my trigger Saturday evening. EPU was bright and early Monday morning.
If they start talking cancelling without collecting, I'd try arguing. Yes, you'll feel like absolute hell for a few weeks, but if you can actually get some embryos in the freezer, even without a transfer, you'll feel so much better about where you're at. They do suggest that hysperstimulation can sometimes effect egg quality, but we did ok there. 26 collected, 21 mature, 15 fertilised, 12 good at day 3, 4 blasties frozen at day 5. They'd have been really happy to have had 1 or 2 blasties so were over the moon with getting 4. We had another three that made it to blast, but they were missing the bits that form either the baby or the placenta.
I hope that can give you some confidence, Tracey. Even having been there, I'd fight for collection and freeze all, rather than completely cancelling, but I guess that depends on just how your follies have grown.
You are such a wealth of info. Thank you so much for your heart. Your levels were incredible. I feel heavy, crampy & nauseous and I cant imagine what you went through. You are one determined lady to get out of that one! It is truly inspiring that you were so ill and pulled through with 4 blasties!! An amazing feat. You deserved it after what you went through!!!!!
I just came back from BT & US. I asked about previous levels. Monday was 6200 there abouts. No injections since. FS said thats pretty high for me. Need to wait for todays levels. US revealed 16 follies all around 17-21mm, there were others but small. These werent counted as you said, the eggs probably not mature. Im so happy for 16 even when all may not have eggs.
I told FS I want to continue. After reading you waited two months to heal, I decided last nite (thru a very disturbed sleep) to go thru with it and to have Ems frozen was better being sick for nothing. I can wait to heal, I have waited years already. It will give me something to look forward to & I need it.
Depending on todays levels (that I will get around 3pm), we are looking at a trigger tonight and EPU early Friday. Blastie transfer on Wednesday if all goes ok. Keeping my eye on the prize.
I can see from your thread that even though you went through hell, you got four blasties. Thats a fantastic result. It truly has helped me hearing your story. I was ready to give up & I think FS was too, and probably would have had I not seen your thread you wrote to Diva.
Thanks so much for being there with perfect timing. Your heart has given me the knowledge and strength to persist.
Tracey,
Just wanted to pop in and say goodluck with your results, 16 follies thats amazing - hope you get some good embies out of them. My thoughts are with you today - all the waiting around drives you nuts doesn't it? I know its drives me nuts - sending you and
Thanks for your concern - I was 1st cab off the rank yesterday morning, and they got 13 eggs. Yay.
If you've never done an EPU, maybe you should skip this bit - or bear in mind that most people come out of it fine.
It was quiet at Royal Womens, and again, i watch all the other ladies jump up, eat their 'compulsory' sandwiches and leave. I was hooked up to a drip, and had 2 shots of Maxilon and 5 shots of Fentanyl. Hmmm. Then DH drove me home (takes an hour and a bit) and then I ended up in the Emergency room at Frankston. Wow, i felt cr@ppy, and i had the worst pain ever. They were wonderful though and eventually i came home again, after some more pain relief. I feel like i have been kicked repeatedly in the tummy - and by a very big elephant! Ovaries were bleeding a bit, but nothing to be concerned about. And the pain is bearable today. Sorry for the self absorbed sob story...but hey, you asked!! We got a $66 parking ticket at the hospital too - there were no parks, and DH ended up in a cardio thoracic surgeons park! Ooops. It was only for 2 seconds while he walked me into the hospital, but the parking warden was watching - meany!
Still taking all the Panadeine Forte that i'm allowed, but i don't want to jeopardise the transfer...which is hopefully tomorrow!
Hope everyone else is doing OK. I will try to go back and read as much as i can - you really are a talkative mob!
Hi to everyone, and to all those who are lurking, but not posting!!
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