Long Term TTC & Assisted Conception - October 2008

[*Paula*]

MrsP happy anniversary. I too have my anniversary, 3rd, coming up and i thought we would have had a bub by now. Oh well. All in good time.

Wouldloveabubba not sure about scan before EPU but it cant hurt. Best of luck and i hope you get lots of mature eggies.

wishingbaby you did a great job with personals...haha Well done and best of luck with your blood test on Monday.

JBM and Jodie so sorry to hear abour your BFN's

LNB not long now that you have some great news for us in a couple of days.

Smithy EPU is now just around the corner. Enjoy your time in Sydney. Its going to be hot here tomorrow so make the most of it. Best of luck, hope you get a great number of eggies.

Bub4me & DrGirl72 welcome and all the best with your cycles. Look forward to hearing your stories.

To everyone else, hope you have had a wonderful weekend and good luck with whichever part of this crazy journey you are all on.

I have my ET booked in for 9am tomorrow. I was told yesterday that our of the 10 embies, 7 were still looking strong however 3 had slowed down. I am just praying like crazy that i get some to freeze and a super dooper one to transfer.

[Bengal]

Good evening ladies,

Its 11pm and I have just had my final "trigger ovidrel " - at this point I have done all I can and now it's up to the FS to do her part, I pray it goes smoothly at the scan b4 the epu, I am not allowing myself to get excited until I hear those words - prep her for theatre ... Please ovaries be good to me

JBM: I read your post yesterday and have been thinking about you and DH comments to you, and how sad that must of made you feel, and I hope since then he has come and given you a big cuddle and you have spoken some more, DH/DP can be wonderfull caring creatures, yet sometimes they seem like they are from a completely different planet, they dont have the coping mechanisim's we do, sometimes I keep some worries to myself about this TTC journey, I dont want to over dose him with too much info, because although I live with a beautiful man who loves me and would do anything for me, it can just become too much for them, I am not speaking of course about all DH/DP, but of my friends we find this to be true at times, give him some time, he might come round, your having a rough time right now, it can only get better xx

Paula : Good luck for tommorow - I wonder if you will get much sleep tonight

Welcome Bub4me & DrGirl72 - Looking forward to getting to know you

21ttc - where are you - I hope you are going ok

ontrak - sticky vibes for you

LNB - fingers crossed for you

And to all the other ladies - so many to mention ( I need to get a printer and print the reply's so I can send more personals ) thinking of you and your journey

Have a lovely week ahead, and thank you so much for your best wishes for Tuesday, you are all so supportive

[on tra_k]

Bub4Me - welcome and thanks for sharing your story. You must be so excited to finally be starting IVF after so long TTC!
DrGirl72 - welcome to you too

You have come to the right place, there are plenty of wonderful people in here (a bit hard to keep track of at times); I'm more than halfway through my 1st IVF cycle and there are other "first-timers" in here too

Busy day Monday ... Paula - good luck with your ET tomorrow and see you in the ; wishingbaby - good luck with your BT tomorrow ... hope the outcome brings you what you want for this cycle
Tuesday is looking like a big day too - good luck to all those who have momentous events on Tues ... smithy & wouldloveabubba - hope you bag plenty of eggs in your EPU; LNB - good luck for your BT
JBM, Jodie - sorry to hear that this wasn't 'your' cycle ...
curlygirl - hope your tww is going OK, keeping busy ...
MrsM - I'm not sure because my story was different, but I think they might still want to do the U/S to make sure everything else looks good ... I hope someone else who's had tubes clipped can provide you with a better answer than that???
Ruth08 - you poor thing, you have such a long wait ... is that just the way your clinic does it? are you on any medication still for this cycle?
Possums, MrsP, Kahlan, Cuddlepie, babytruj, shelbee, KellyD, Neptune, Mels77 - hi

[JBM]

thanks so much guys, as you have notices my mood has moved from depressed to sad, so a step in the right direction.

luvabub: thank you so much for your loving words, i know men are different, "they're from mars" after all and i think when dh is tired we all feel it. good luck for your epu, not long to go. make sure not to do anything afterwards, as you feel ok but it will hit you later on. i felt so tired and drained of energy. i'll be thinking of you.

rachel: thanks so much for your support also and everything, good luck for you too.

bub4me: welcome to this crazy club?, well maybe thats just me? anyway hope you're not here long and you get that BFP very soon, good luck.

smithy: not long to epu hope all goes well for you. good luck

hey everyone else: hi to you too.

afm: well i am feeling better today and making plans with dh for next FET. i think he says a lot of stuff when he is tired and i know he loves me lots. and at the end of the day i know we will have a baby. i have to have hope.
i will be calling the clinic today and letting them know and i want to see if i can do another FET this month.

[Kahlan]

Hi guys,

This is going to be a long post.

thanks guys for all your support and well wishes but af has arrived and i did a test and got a BFN!!!!!!!!

I am sorry JBM. I was told men have their own way of coping (or suffering). Throughout our journey, mine hadn't said much but yesterday out of the blue he said "sorry". I asked him what for and he said that it was because of him I couldn't be a mother as I hoped. I told him not to be absurd and that when we have our little child and when that child misbehaves we will curse the day we had so desperately wanted "him" or "her".

Hi All, after our first FS appt in may this year we are finally strarting our first ICSI cycle. Today is CD 1, we are doing an antagonist cycle, so I start injecting tomorrow. Am nervous and excited! This thread seemed to be the best place to post re going through first IVF cycle, thanks

Welcome DrGirl. There are those of us who have been on this road for quite some time now so if you have any questions, I am sure these lovely ladies are more than willing to help.

hiya girls
this may seem strange but i need to ask in regards to the u/s do i need to get it done if you have had your tubes cliped?

sarahxxx

Hi Sarah. I think you will still need to check out your uterus just to make sure IVF is the right way for you. Good luck

MrsP happy anniversary. I too have my anniversary, 3rd, coming up and i thought we would have had a bub by now. Oh well. All in good time.

I have my ET booked in for 9am tomorrow. I was told yesterday that our of the 10 embies, 7 were still looking strong however 3 had slowed down. I am just praying like crazy that i get some to freeze and a super dooper one to transfer.

Good luck Paula

Good evening ladies,

Its 11pm and I have just had my final "trigger ovidrel " - at this point I have done all I can and now it's up to the FS to do her part, I pray it goes smoothly at the scan b4 the epu, I am not allowing myself to get excited until I hear those words - prep her for theatre ... Please ovaries be good to me

Good luck! I hope you get lots of eggies!

Possums, MrsP, Kahlan, Cuddlepie, babytruj, shelbee, KellyD, Neptune, Mels77 - hi

How are you going? This is the best time to get DH to do things for us while we are in the TWW. My DH cooks during this time, so that I can get all the rest I need (truth be told I don't need to rest be it makes him feel he's doing something so I let him).

To everyone else, hi and hope you well. Thinking of you all.

[Possums]

Hi everyone...there are so many in here now it's hard to keep track. Wishing you all the best on this journey....wherever you are up to

JBM- glad you are feeling better...a bit better anyway.... my DH has sometimes reacted so differently from me I have felt pretty alone, but then we usually end up talking and sorting through it eventually...they really do handle things differently to us. I hope you can do a FET soon

Paula- hope ET went well!

wouldloveabubba- hope those ovaries produce lots of good eggs for you!

DrGirl- welcome and good luck...this is a supportive place with lots of good advice

LNB- good luckl! hope you are hanging in there OK


and to everyone else....sending you all the best xx

[*Paula*]

Hello ladies

Just wanted to come in here one last time and wish you all the very best with your cycles.

I had my ET this morning and now have a wonderful blasty on board. Find out tomorrow how many to freeze. So now im off to the TWW thread and hope that i have some great news to announce to all in just under two weeks time.

Take care!

[spring]

Good afternoon everyone,

I'm very knew to this so don't know all the abbreviations yet but can guess most!

Just to give you a brief overview, I have been through a rough time with OHSS and had a fresh transfer just over 3 weeks ago. I have been hospitalised twice because of my sever OHSS and after 4 blood tests, am still waiting to find out if my transfer has been successful!
My oestrogen levels were less than 350 in my last test last Wednesday and if they have not sharply increased (I had my 4th test this morning) than they don't hold much hope. I had spotting last wed and again today so I have a sinking feeling that things are not right.

If I had known better, I would have had a frozen transfer. The pain and worry of OHSS is too scary and emotional to go through again. I had 22 follicles collected, 1 x ET, and 7 more are frozen.

Is there anyone else who has been through anything similar?

Regards,
Spring

[Mumof8]

Goodluck Smithy thinking of ya darl!!!

[LNB]

Hi Everyone -

WLB - thinking of you for your EPU tomorrow - for lots of good eggies for you

Smithy - sending lots of good eggie thoughts to you for tomorrow - take care

JBM - great to hear you are feeling better and moving into a FET

Paula - see you in the TWW

Spring - welcome. I'm sorry but I don't have any experience with OHSS but I'm sure some of the other wonderful ladies in here will be able to offer advice. Take care of yourself

Neptune, Possums, JodieC65, Cuddlepie, Shelbee, Kellyd, Mels77 and all the other wonderful ladies in this thread - sending lots of good thoughts to you for wherever you may be in your cycle.

AFM - no AF and only one sleep til BT for no AF.

Take care everyone,
LNB

[Cuddlepie]

Just want to come in to wish LNB good luck for tomorrow, lots of baby dust!

[Bengal]

LNB : best wishes for your b/t tommorow -

[Bub4me]

Hi girls - just checking in to say hi.

I started my injections last night. The lead-up was a bit traumatic, but in the end it wasn't that bad. I know it won't be, but I'm just not a needle person, and DH decided it would be best if I started doing them first go in case he's not here one night. Still don't like the idea of doing it myself, but it's for a very good cause - have to keep my eye on the prize!! The meds are messing with me tho' - has anyone else found that? I'm really foggy in the head, and somewhat mellow about things, which I suppose is good, except that I have a bunch going on at work at the moment that I really need to be on top of, so I'm hoping I can still do what I need to do. The spray tastes pretty yucky and gives me a bit of a headache, but nothing too drastic at the moment.

I have my scan on Monday to confirm everything, but at the moment EPU is planned for Friday 7th... the day before we move house. We have the option of moving on the 8th or the 15th, but I think the 15th is too close to FET, and I think it's more important to be relaxed for that one. Don't you think? So I won't be much use on the day of the move, but DH will have 4 helper bees, and I'll have 2 mums and my brother's girlfriend to look after me, so things should be ok. Also, DH's parents are retired and have offered to do some running around for us in the few days leading up to the move. It's only a small move too - just around the corner, pretty much. I'm not worried about it yet, and am trying to stay that way. Also have a bunch of work due at the end of my TWW, so hopefully that will give me something to do without stressing me out too much - I hear that's key to this process. I start yoga classes next week too (with MIL), and am looking forward to that.

Gee, there's lots going on in this thread - lots of BTs, EPUs, FETs... for everyone.

Have a great day everyone!!

[Mels77]

Bub4me - I was pretty tired and not up for much after my EPU (and a little uncomfortable), so make sure you have the option of sitting on the couch if you feel like it

LNB - good luck today!!! Let us know how you go!

Smithy & Wouldlove - good luck for your EPUs today!

Mels

[spring]

Thanks for everyones well wishes.

My fears turned to reality yesterday afternoon. After 2ww + 9 days, after having 4 BTs, my HCG dropped down to 45. I am now getting my period

I'm really angry. I had severe OHSS and without knowing all the facts had a fresh ET. If I had of known what I know now, I would have done a FET. I wouldn't have gone through so much pain and I might have had more success.

This experience is my first and has really opened my eyes. For those of you who have been through it time and time again, you are really amazing. The strength you must have is amazing. I am glad I found this forum. It has given me so much and makes me feel less alone. Speaking to family is wonderful, but unless you have gone through it, they will never though the pain, emotion and uselessness you feel.

Now that I have AF I am getting pains and am worried of complications. How do I know if it's not doing the job it's self?

[Mels77]

hi spring - i'm so sorry to hear your news. hang in there, you'll be ok. you had a similar experience to me (first ivf, transfer, BFP - HCG 64, then dropped and m/c within days). my FS kept getting blood tests to make sure the HCG had dropped. i had a very strange AF (not a normal period at all). i've since had a scan and there's nothing left so it has properly m/c. This month i've been told to do nothing (ie no FET) until AF comes again and we do a FET next time.

you did a great job getting a HCG on your first transfer. from what i understand from my FS, getting any HCG is very positive news - and it wouldn't have been your fault that it m/c. It is the embie that was never going to survive, no matter what you did or whether it was a FET.

i hope you feel better soon. take care
mels x

[Kahlan]

Thanks for everyones well wishes.

My fears turned to reality yesterday afternoon. After 2ww + 9 days, after having 4 BTs, my HCG dropped down to 45. I am now getting my period

Hi Spring, so sorry for you. Even in natural birth 50% of pregnancy ends early mainly because the bub couldn't implant properly or has a chromosome defect which prevents it from developing further. Most people don't get gp on their first IVF. I had the expectation that I would in my first cycle last year because I was young and the problem was not with me.. but here I am 1 year later. The good thing though is I strongly believe that it would happen one day... even my fs said so. do you have any frosties? You are bound to be successful next time. My thoughts are with you.

[JBM]

bub4me: good job
wishbaby: good luck
spring: welcome and good luck
kaydee: count down to FET
possums: hope you feeling better. xxoo
kahlan: thank you so much for your thoughts
neptune:keep on bding, at least it burns fat and it's fun.
mels: miracles have happened and they can for you too
kelly: hope scan goes well
Jodie: thanks to you too
lnblease be a BFP for you
luvabub: hi to you

if i missed anyone and i am sure i did as there are just so many of us now. i am sorry
hello to you.

afm: well am feeling much better, had most of day in bed yesterday and it has done the trick for sure. mood is fine now maybe even nearly normal. well normal for me anyway

dh has been very good and helping heaps, did dinner last night and got boys organised too. is groveling for sure. i'm making the most of it too!

we've decided to go strait onto another cycle next month so i have phoned the clinic and booked in a scan on 4 november. i figure what the heck.

but i did say to dh i'll prob get BFP on last egg just to make sure we can't have any more.
hoping it all works out. i'll keep you all informed.