mitf, my acupuncturist is recommending doing acu for 4 months before our next IVF. The reasoning is that it takes 4 months for eggs to grow from start to finish so that way the eggs that start growing now during the acu will be the ones collected during EPU. Until we do our next cycle I'm going once a week. I've only been twice so far, so I'm still learning... Sorry to hear about the endometrioma. GL on Friday!
Bubless, glad to hear it went smoothly and you're doing well. I got 5 last time too with my unbalanced ovarian response... FX you have some top notch embies today!
jasminstar, we gave our clinic permission to do "rescue ICSI" (there's other names for it too) - basically if they didn't fertilise naturally they could try ICSI. We didn't need it in the end thankfully. But I had a cycle buddy on another forum who had no eggs fertilise naturally and two-thirds of them fertilised with rescue ICSI 24 hours after EPU! Given the delay they weren't hopeful about them even fertilising with ICSI so they were thrilled with that.
Miss K, I hope this cycle goes a bit easier on you.
Thanks again for all your support. Things are looking better after every scan and today I had 7 follicles measured (up from 3 on Friday). They are 24, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12 and 7mm. So the 24mm will be a goner and unless the 7mm has some tricks up its sleeve, it's not going to feature either. The nurse called just now to say we're getting really close now and they will call me tomorrow afternoon with instructions for my trigger Wed pm. So EPU is definitely Friday now and i'm just glad to have gotten this far.
At home today with disgusting conjunctivitis, a rash around my neck and sneezing and sniffles . All caught from a child who came to school last week for 2 consecutive days with the same. I asked for her to be sent home twice and when the school rang her mother to ask her to come and collect her, the mother cried that she couldn't, principal felt sorry for mother and returned child to my classroom So as a result, my health and the health of the other children in my class was compromised. So cranky because principal knows that I am doing IVF. If you're sick, stay home!!! ANd one last vent - it has meant that I had to cancel seeing a GF and her 2 kids tonight who live in Japan and are back ATM.Now I don't have another opportunity to see them before they go back. Grrrrrrrr........
Bubbless - 5 sounds like a good result. I am glad that you're not in pain really and hope that my experience is similar as we had the same amount of follies. Have your clinic called to let you know how they're getting on?
Emerald Star - thanks for sharing your experiences re EPU and you were right - trigger is Wed. Hope nothing has changed for you in terms of AF. Only 1 more sleep for you
Jasminstar - I hope the 4am start was OK and really have my that you somehow manage to avoid the OHSS. You must relieved to be getting those eggs out and I really hope the pain is not unbearable for you. Take care of yourself - thinking of you.
Miss K - Welcome back! 30kg+ of fluid!!! That's unbelievable and I really wish you all the best this time around. Good luck with your scan on Fri and look forward to seeing you around here a bit more.
mitf - It's official! We are on the same schedule. Glad you're looking into acu - I think it's really beneficial and as you say, we're already broke, human pincushions. What's a few more $$$ and needles among friends? Hope you're well and good luck with trigger. Mine will be Wed PM.
Loops12 - I really hope the pain is implantation related. I hope your summit in Bendigo manages to give you a few distractions. We're all thinking of you and hoping for your BFP.
Juniper76, Seph, Tantee, Daisie - hi to all and any others I have missed and hope you're well.
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Emerald Star - I'm hanging out to hear your results tomorrow. I really hope it's a BFP which would be the best birthday present ever!! Good luck.
Bubbless - I think you asked if I was doing IUI (sorry I haven't been on BB for a couple of days). But no, I'm doing IVF (FET). I'm also doing acupuncture, so I'm hoping it's helping me too. Good to hear your EPU went well. Fingers crossed for good fertilisation and cell division.
AFM - Turns out I ovulated on Sunday (CD15) which was about 3-4 days earlier than I expected. Based on U/S from Thurs last week with a 12mm follie, if I ovulated on Sunday then it would've been around 18mm (which is not too unusual I guess). I had a BT and U/S again on Monday, and BT confirmed I'd ovulated. So did U/S as she couldn't find the follie but found fluid instead, so said it looked like I had ovulated. The best news though was that my lining was 8mm!!! I was stoked, because I had worked myself up and fully expected that my cycle was going to be cancelled because of my lining being too thin. I know that other girls can have heaps thicker lining (like 10-12mm), but for me, 8mm is pretty good and that's all they're looking for, so here's hoping it's good enough. And I'm hoping that on the Progynova, my lining will continue to thicken up to ET.
Speaking of ET, I'm booked in this Friday morning for a day 5 blastie FET, and we'll be transferring 2 little embies (well assuming that they can get 2 thawed properly). We have 5 frozen and my clinic have said they have a pretty good thaw rate, so fingers crossed that continues.
Jasminstar - Wow, that's fantastic news about all those follies. Fingers crossed that you escape OHSS and can go ahead with ET this cycle. I feel your pain about all the waiting. It's so frustrating. My DH has low sperm count and motility is not the best, so we went straight to ICSI. Wanted to give ourselves the best chance from the start.
mitf - good luck for ET this Friday. Hope it all goes well for you. And fingers crossed for a successful ET next week.
loops - how are you hanging in there hun? The TWW is the worst, I hate it. Hope AF stays away and you get that BFP. Technically I'm in the TWW at the moment, but not doing ET til Friday.
Taurean - great news about your follies. I"ll be thinking of you for your EPU on Friday. Good luck.
Sorry for no more personals. Hope I managed to cover everyone, but sorry if I've missed anyone.
Hi ladies,
Hope you are doing well.Though i am not posting i am thinking of you all and keeping an eye on this page.
Congratulations to Williamsemma.
Emerald star-Wish you a very happy birthday and that you get your very special gift tomorrow.
Jasminstar-GL for wednesday.
Taurean78 ,Mitf & Wishes-GL for Fridays EPU and ET respectively.
Loops- take it easy.
Tantee, Juniper76,MissK,Bubbless and anyone I have missed GL to you whatever stage of TTC you are.
AFM-Well, since I did not hear from my Gynae.for two weeks regarding my appointment I rang her secretary yesterday only to find out that they had not received any referal for me from the FS("lost in the post "can you believe this?).So i spent the whole of yesterday on the phone trying to sort this and made sure a fresh referral letter reached the Gynaec. Now i need to wait for them to give an appointment.
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So as a result, my health and the health of the other children in my class was compromised. So cranky because principal knows that I am doing IVF. If you're sick, stay home!!! ANd one last vent - it has meant that I had to cancel seeing a GF and her 2 kids tonight who live in Japan and are back ATM.Now I don't have another opportunity to see them before they go back. Grrrrrrrr........ 
that you somehow manage to avoid the OHSS. You must relieved to be getting those eggs out and I really hope the pain is not unbearable for you. Take care of yourself - thinking of you.
till BT....it will also be my 41st birthday 
I hope I get that 
i'm waiting for!
to you for tomorrow
to everyone, hope you are all doing well. Things have been hectic 
Will try to post some personals in the next couple of days....
).So i spent the whole of yesterday on the phone trying to sort this and made sure a fresh referral letter reached the Gynaec. Now i need to wait for them to give an appointment.
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