Long Term TTC & Assisted Conception - November 2008

[Bengal]

21 - i'm so sorry for you. you have every right to be angry and upset. hang in there... not sure if this helps, but i think you are in Qld? have you tried city fertility (they are in brisbane and gold coast)? i go to CF in melbourne and i thought they guaranteed the first appointment within 2 weeks? My DH didn't have to go to a urologist... (but we don't have a male factor, so perhaps that's the difference?). Anyway, could you just go to any old clinic and get a referral to CF to get the ball rolling? I've found that a lot of those bulk billing places are happy to give referrals without much history... hope that helps.
mels x

[Bengal]

21 - sending you a hug as well ... However, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you may have to take a deep breath and hold off till Jan/Feb as most of the specialists go on leave, I know how much that will drive you nuts, but what can we do - you are not alone waiting till after christmas, and we can all drive each other nuts with waiting waiting waiting stories ...

Have you tried calling a few Uroligist's ? And ask to be put on a cancellation list, another thing you can do is ask the GP to mark the referal as URGENT - if you get a good GP they will do that for you, I have been a med receptionist in the past and we always had to get urgent patients in pretty much immediatly - I wouldnt care if the GP cant speak english - you will only see them for ten mins, and get them to write urgent - urgent urgent

[MissMagpie]

HI girls,

It has gotten busy in here. Im losing track of everyone!

Smithy - sorry to hear your news. Look after yourself and hope your feeling better soon.

Good luck to all who are trying again before Christmas. Hope we can get some more BFP.

AFM, have decided to just wait for my BT next Tuesday and start my next cycle when I next get AF which should be around 19 December. Even if I had of started my cycle yesterday, I couldnt have had an EPU until after 19 January because of closures so this next cycle wont be much longer after that anyway.

Like Possums, we are going to try naturally this month too. Why not I say. Miracles do happen!!!

Take care all.

Tania

[Neptune]

Hello to everyone

Smithy - hope you are holding up okay

21 - to you. I'm sorry you're having so much stress at the moment. It's a frustrating time of year with everyone on holidays.

Out of time for personals, as trying to get some study done. But good luck to everyone at whatever stage you are at.

AFM: DAy 8 of cycle, been on Puregon fof 7 days, and starting the orgalutran tonight. Yukkie, two injections, Blah. Feel okay except today just AWFULLY tired....so bad I had to leave work as I thought I was coming down with something, but it's okay I had a sleep and feel better now.

[MeredithD]

Sorry just a quickie tonight as no time for personals


Scan today shows my ovaries have gone crazy in the past 3 days. I now have total of 50 follies!!
Just over 20 were b/n 12-18mm with only a few in the "mature" range. E2 -10,786 ( no wonder I am feeling so blah!)
Had my thoughts set on a Mon EPU bt with such stimulation they won't let me go any longer so trigger tonight and EPU now set for sat at 12.30pm.
I am a bit worried that most of those eggs just won't be mature enough to be of any use but my nurse still thinks I could get close to 10 "useful" eggies - which i would be happy with. Guess its better than getting 25 but ending up in hosp with OHSS or having the cycle cancelled - this was probably a close call today so thankful they caught before I got to whatever their "cut off" point is.
A touch scared about the pain I might be in after EPU. They will be jabbing my ovaries for nearly ALL those follies, even if most of them only yield immaure eggs.Even the sonographer warned me I was likely to be pretty sore... eek! Ah well, will just be happy if we get a reasonable number of "good" eggs and subsequent embies so we can proceed to the PGD

[JBM]

wow meredith 50 eggs. OUCH

hope it all goes well

afm: nothing much. got my shiatsu massage tomorrow.

chat soon

[Neptune]

Good luck Meredith!

Enjoy the massage JBM!