Hi all,
Sorry I've been offline for a while. Tried to get on last night but couldnt get the site up for some reason!
Mrs P: Sounds like your follies are on track. I'm usually around 12-14 millimetres for my first scan. Hopefully they keep up the growth rate!
Miss K: That book sounds good, I'll look into it. I also had a magazine I bought once called "Making babies' which had heaps of helpful info related to infertility (they also have a magazine out called "pregnancy and birth" which people may be familiar with). When I tried to buy the next issue I found out it was a one off print and ? havent even seen the original reprinted since- shame.
Spring: I'm not sure about sleeping on your tummy when pregnant, but I always thought you could just sleep on it as long as it was comfortable? And re the pessaries, they are horrible, I forgot how horrible they were until I started using them again last week.
Juniper: Good luck with your scan tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
Tiggerlinda and Baby2Bee: How are you both going? Hanging in there?
Mrs Zeg: So sorry to hear of your homesickness, it makes it all the harder. That's why I think support groups like this are important. I laughed when you talked about your poor DH being deprived, mine feels the same. He says to me the other day "this whole IVF thing isnt that great for our sex lives it it hon?" Poor thing, he's so patient though.
Loops12: Good luck with your first IVF. After doing 4 IUI's I was so nervous for my first IVF. But I think it's a lot of fear of the unknown, it's much less scary the second time (but fingers crossed you wont need a second attempt).
Esperan: How did you go with your scan yesterday? What's the verdict? I've nee thinking of you.
Sandygirl: Syneryl definately makes AF late. My period is always on time except when taking progesterone (injections) or syneryl. I'm on provera to ensure AF arrives, and even though I've been told by nurses it should only be a couple of days late, I have had one 3-4 days late and one 7 days late on syneryl. The 7 day one was a nightmare because I was basically PMS for 2 weeks and felt like I was going to explode. I wanted to hide form the world! Hopefully yours won't be that late!
JBM: I think focussing on getting healthy during your wait is a great strategy. It's so good for your mental wellbeing not to mention priming your body for pregnancy.
Now I hope I didnt forget anyone, I tried really hard not too!
AFM: I had EPU last Wed. Was so sick afterwards and the whole thing has taken so much out of me I've been struggling to do the basics since. But here's my results:
EPU: 15 eggs
Day 1: 9 mature, 6 fertilised
Day 2: All 6 embryos doing well, 2-4 cells, "A" grade (what does this mean?)
Day 3: 1 embryo slowed down in growth, the rest going really well, in fact a couple are morulas (ie a day advanced than where they should be- this is a good thing)
Day 4: No phonecall - was so upset!
ET yesterday: I hatching blastie transferred. They will freeze 3 others (hooray! I didnt get any frosties last time) and make a decsion on the other 2 tomorrow.
Today: They will not freeze the other 2, one is a blastie but with poor looking cells, the other stopped growing yesterday.
But DH and I are feeling very positive about the results. I guess I should move on over to the TWW thread.
I will be checking in and will be thinking of you all. And can I say I have found this the most wonderful experience being online with you all this time, made it much easier than last cycle doing it alone. Thanks girls.
Last edited by Misty77; June 6th, 2009 at 05:45 PM.
Misty77 - You mean there's a TWW thread? I searched & searched and couldn't find one. I even tried to start one but found out you can't start your own buddy thread. What's it called?
LOL it took me a while to find too. Its called ''LTTTC two week wait april may'' and its in the Long Term TTC forum. I couldnt see it so I searched the website because I knew it was there somewhere and found it's location. I tried to post the link for you for then my reply didnt go through, so trying again! See you there!
Last edited by Misty77; June 6th, 2009 at 05:45 PM.
Hi all
Sorry for taking so long to write here... Like Misty77 I couldn't open the thread last night for some reason...
Misty very good to hear from your ET! Good luck on your TWW!!
Girls waiting for EPU this week: Good Luck!!
Well, on Monday I went to FS and scan showed 20 follies... FS was fine to go ahead with EPU so I'm booked for tomorrow!!! I've been drinking fluids as much as I can... water, gatorade, juices, etc... Because of risk of OHSS, they will freeze all embryos.
Yesterday I came home from work earlier to have the trigger at 5pm.
I'm very excited but worried as well... My tummy is massive... feel very bloated, BUT it's all worth it!!
We didn't have an embryo on our first IVF cycle so we are a little apprehensive about this one... This time we decided to have ICSI ...
I will come back tomo to let you know how EPU went.
Hi All. I've been offline for the past week with my 2yo nephew harassing the #*#* out of me!!! He's divine though!!!! My sister is due to have her 2nd bub ANY day now......and she's asked me to come in for the birth.....not sure how i'm going to handle this when it happens but I guess for once it's not about me!!! I think i'll be ok and of course she is VERY understanding of what i'm going through.
Sandygirl my day 21 appt was day 21 of my last cycle before IVF when they give the drugs you'll be using, give you all the paperwork to sign etc.
Mrs P I'm jabbing away and feeling pretty good still........just forgetful which i think may be the Synarel.
Esperan....all the very best for today!!
AFM: I'm on day 9 of my cycle. No scan since day 2 of my cycle but had a BT yesterday. Levels were 670 (i think that's my oestrogen levels....how naughty that i don't even know what this figure represents) which they were very happy with and they have increased my puregon to 250 iui / day. I've got my 2nd scan this Friday (CD11) so hopefully that will be give me more of an idea where i'm at. I'm guessing mid next week.
Still feel really good..........which is a concern because I was a lot messier on only 50iui a day! And really positive too.........FINGERS CROSS THAT MY SCAN IS GREAT ON FRIDAY!!!!
Good luck everyone!!!! I have everything crossed for you!!!
Baby2Bee, sounds like an E2 level to me (oestradial). GL with Friday's scan.
Misty, congrats on the beautiful blastie and the frosties too!
So, after 12 days of stims I finally had a scan today with mixed results. My right ovary only had 1 follicle (around 26mm). She's normally my good performer, but she's let me down this time. The leftie (normally the recalcitrant one) had half a dozen-ish, all around 16-18mm. I'd have been happier if they were a couple of mm bigger, but I guess they'll do. We're triggering tonight and go for EPU on Friday morning.
Ah, yes, the trigger saga of this morning... Maybe someone can shed some light on this for me? For IVF#1 I had my trigger (Ovidrel) 37 hours before EPU. For IVF#2 (Ovidrel again) it was 38 hours. This time we're switching to a Pregnyl trigger. He said last week we needed to change the timing to 35.5 hours before EPU. Then this morning he went back to 37, then 36.5, then finally settled on 35.5 again. Reading over that, it really doesn't capture the confusion of the whole discussion... At one point he was saying 35.5 hours but telling me a time that was 36.5 hours before EPU. Anyway, 35.5 hours, so 9.30pm tonight.
About to go to TWW
Hopefully yours won't be that late!
Anyway, 35.5 hours, so 9.30pm tonight.
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