Long Term TTC & Assisted Conception - June 2007 #4

Megan, I do have to say that it does sound very promising... the hunger/nausea thing and the fatigue... all you have to do is add extreme sensitivity to smells and horrendously sore boobs and you have me in the last few days of the TWW after my FET. Possibly some more hope for you, too - I never got a positive on a pee stick. At least not anything that I'd call a real positive... I'm sure it would show up now, but I've decided they are evil and should be avoided at all costs. I'm going to be turning myself into a pretzel for both you and BG this next week. :crossfingers:

BW

you can do the pretzel thing hun - on the proviso you and the caterpillar are comfortably pretzelled!

:hello: I have been reading daily but have only just got my butt into gear to write so hi to everyone.

Last weekend was a bit of a mess as I had to take one of my ****atiels to the vet...to cut a long story short we thought it was a "he" turned out to be a "she" & she had an egg causing her heaps of pain & making her sick so she had to go under anaesthetic to have it removed. It was that or put her down and as sad as it sounds they are part of the family. She pulled through & is slowly getting back to normal.

So weird that DH & I are going through the infertility thing & here my bird has an egg she doesn't need!!!I laugh about it now but I was a mess on Sunday!

Ellie..sorry to hear about the Strep B...sounds uncomfortable, hope it clears up quickly for you. Just what you didn't need!BTW I would be fuming if the ppl at my work did that.
I'm with BG - don't think they'd want to mess with the girls from BB!

Megan - sorry to hear you got a BFN...sending lots of :bluedust: your way. We all have poor me days so no need to apologise. Heck I sometimes have poor me weeks!

DH & I are off to see new FS tomorrow. Feel a bit weird as not sure what I will think of FS. Hoping if I have all copies of results & ultrasound showing PCOS that he wil support us trying IUI or IVF. FIngers crossed. I keep thinking of what a great Chrissie present it will be to have it finally happen.

Will keep you posted with how we go...

Have a good night everyone...shame the weekend is ova :(

Yes BW, don't go twisting yourself in knots if caterpillar isn't comfortable! lol ;)

Had a nana nap a little while ago. Lasted all of about 15 minutes, but I made myself lay there for an hour.
The nausea is still hanging around, but is coming in waves every 5-10 minutes. Luckily dinner is just a quick pasta dish tonight that takes just after 5 minutes to cook. So, as soon as the next hunger wave hits, DH is going to put it on and feed me! lol I've only had toast, a banana and two cups of tea all day. I just wish I knew what I felt like eating!

good luck with your appointment tomorrow Ali! hope you get some good support from your new FS and can move on with treatment in the near future

Hi all,
Hope everyone had a good weekend.
Just wanted to send Ellie some big :hugs:. I was away all weekend, so i couldn't give them to you when you needed them, but thankfully Lou and BG have been there with you. Aren't they lovely :)
Fingers crossed we all have a good week ahead of us :crossfingers:
Jo

Thanks Jo! It is going to e a great week...lots of appointments..BT's...all busy around here..and by the end of the week I will be WELL (power of positive thinking!) and only days away from FS appointment...YIPPEE!

Caterpillar seems to be all happy again. :) I'll have a word with him/her and have them cross their fingers as well.

Still watching you all very closely... probably always will. :)

BW

Hi girls i just wanted to ask a question for those girls who have already been thru atleast one IVF cycle already. Do you get a choice of weather they put one or two eggs back in or do they only put one back in????? Also so is there a program where you can donate your eggs to help others??????

mumof5, it does seem to depend a lot on the clinic. Mine didn't give me the option of putting back more than one, but they also prefer to grow to blastocyst which has a much greater chance of sticking, so it's all about reducing the risks to babies and mother with multiple pregnancies. However, I have had contact with someone from my clinic who managed to get two put back because there were only two that were suitable for transfer, and neither were suitable for freezing.

Other clinics do it differently, and I've spoken to people who used another Sydney clinic who had the option of putting two back right from the start.

It seems to vary a lot - which clinic do you use? Perhaps someone who has also used that clinic will be able to help you.

BW

thats interesting!! Has anyone been throught monash at Sunnybank Qld?
well my temp dropped today so our hope of a miracle natural conception looks spoilt again, oh well couting down till we can start ivf
all the best to everyone xoxo
our first app is in August so i am hoing to ba able to start ivf sept/oct but i still have lots to learn so i realy dont know.....praying for some good news before xmas

Hey BW.... Im going thru the one at Westmead fertility centre

Good morning everyone,

Chez - where are you? How is it going with you?

Well, i've been jabbing for 3 days now, and i'm hoping everything is growing nicely inside. DH finishes his shift next Monday night, so we have fingers, toes and everything else crossed that EPU is Tuesday or later. Then we don't have all the hassles of the last cycle trying to get someone to cover him. I'm more anxious about that than the EPU.

Hope everyone is good today :hello:

Just wanted to let everyone know that I may be MIA a bit over the next month or so.

Long story short, we've decided to sell our house and move. Our family is a little smaller with my two older teenagers no longer living with us, so we've decided to downsize.

Our house goes on the market in 3 weeks, so between now and then, we're madly trying to get it ready. Right after it goes on the market, our family is going on vacation for 13 days in Egypt.

When we get back, we hopefully would have sold our house and will then be looking for a new place.

Now I'm not completely disappearing. I'm just going to be on every few days instead of everyday. Please bear that in mind if you are trying to contact me. Then from the 18th of July, I'll be completely MIA while in Egypt. I get back on the 31st of July.

Good luck all you lovely ladies (and Rols!) and I will be watching, even if I'm not posting. Please don't feel like you can't still email me with your ideas, concerns, needs etc as I will still be checking my emails every three days or so.

much much love
sushee

Hi everyone

Jo - thanks for asking after me. I had my scan this morning - only one follie visible on the left side at about 10-12mm. I have had a b/t to check for eostregon levels. It looks like the cycle will be cancelled but I will know more when my FS phones with the results this afternoon. I have been on injections for 2 weeks now and even if the levels are good it is unlikely that the follie will be big enough for an EPU at the end of the week, and even if it does get big enough (eventually) apparently there is usually only a 50% success rate to proceed to transfer with one follie. So, lots of tears this morning... my FS had written me a doctor's certificate but I am at work anyway just to try to keep my mind off things. And then, just when I thought today was going bad enough, I found out that I didn't get a job that I had been shortlisted for... not my day! And DF left for an interstate business trip today - will be back on Thursday night! My diet has already been ruined - I had a blueberry muffin this morning as I felt I needed to do some emotional eating... enough about me!!

Ellie - I can't believe that the people at your work went through your personal stuff! How very rude! If it was something that needed to be done they should have at least phoned you to work out a time when you could come in. You are better off without them - at least you can hold your high and know that you haven't done the wrong thing!

Jo - congrats on starting your next cycle. Hope everything goes to plan this time around :crossfingers:

To everyone else, sorry I haven't the energy for loads of personals at the moment as my mind is a bit distracted. I am trying to look forward but it is hard... when we started this journey I thought I would be pregnant at 38, then by 39th birthday, now it is definite that my 40th birthday will come and go without a pregnancy :(

Take care everyone and will check back in later today.
Cheryl xx

Oh Chez...I'm so sorry hun...I know you probably don't feel like it right now but if you can write a huge list of questions for FS when he phones...otherwise you may sit there with a heap of question buzzing around in your head until your next appointment which will drive you nuts!I always ask what are they going to do differently next time and when can we start...just for starters...it kind of helps me get some sense of 'control' or that I'm part of this rather than it being 'done' to me...if that makes any sense...I'm sorry I'm rambling...I just sooooo feel for you...I've been there and it broke my heart...let yourself grieve...you don't have to be brave...cry all you want and eat all you want...I'm going out in sympathy and having junk food for lunch...for you xxxx

Chez hun, that just sucks - i don't recall exatly what your fertility issues are, but just thought i'd ask -has the FS mentioned anything about IUI to you? i'm not sure if it's a viable option (probably not if your issues are male factor) but if your husbands SA was ok previously, is there a chance they'd still do the trigger and an IUI to make use of the follie you have at the end of the week. big hugs to you hun - i know how truly devastating it can be to have a cycle cancelled

Sushee - good luck with selling the house hun! it's always exciting (and somewhat daunting) to look at a big change like that, but it will be worth it in the end! and i'm very envious of you trip to Egypt (hell, i'm envious of someone who can find the time to have a trip to the other side of the state at the moment!!!)

Jo - fingers crossed for a super response with your jabbing hun! not too long now til the "business" end of the process. good luck!

i'm having a quiet-ish day today. have had a headache big time for a few days, so took my RDO today instead of Wednesday, and toddled off to see the chiro. combo of chiro and panadeine seems to have done the trick for now - will be taking myself off to bed soon (chiro orders) and having myself a nana nap to see if i wake up feeling heaps better (i hope so). still feeling queasy today - hoping it's going to settle once the headache is under control (although i'm also kinda hoping it's there for another reason, and hangs around for a couple of months...!)

BG...this is all sounding very promising...very exciting!!!!

i'm trying so hard not to read anything into the whole queasy feeling - but it's getting very difficult not to - must have been pretty obvious i wasn't feeling right today - chiro did some work on my neck, got me to sit up - and asked if i needed a bucket!! i'm guessing i was a little green around the gills!! i have a measure to tell how crook i'm feeling - i have to drive 40km to work (and the chiro) and i can tell by how far i get before i need a mintie to quell the nausea as to how bad i am - didn't even get to the end of the driveway! need to eat - but nothing seems at all appealing at the moment...

I love it!!!! I had to get 'sick bags' like the ones they have at hospital and keep them in my bag...and the car...I found a nice green apple cut up with a bit of sugar sprinkled on it was good...and the other thing was beer! Ginger nut biscuits are good too! It's going to be a great week...I can feel it xxx

hehehe - tried beer on Saturday - had all of about three mouthfuls (of a Crownie) and handed it to DH to finish. couldn't stomach it - drank water for the rest of the night!

have a packet of ginger nut bikkies in the cupboard, but too lazy to get up and get them - am supposed to be toddling off to bed, but this BB addiction is giving me grief...

not doing BT til next wednesday (the forth) unless i do a HPT before then and get a positive result - partially out of fear of knowing it hasn't worked this time, and partially cos i don't have aother day off work til then!

In the middle of painting, but since I was passing my puter, might as well start a new thread now!