Lise- Yes that was me!!! For some reason when I was reading the posts yesterday I didn't see that one you posted. I guess I take so long to write the posts by the time I submit there could be three or four more posts.
While I was sitting there waiting I was listening to hear if you name was called out
Who knows we may cross paths again, my pick up is estimated to be Monday or Tuesday next week.
Hope you are coping with the headaches, I was on oragultran when I did iui so I understand what uyou are going through.
juniper ~ so sorry to hear about your situation Hope you are doing ok.
lise ~ I know how frustrated you felt yesterday when you typed your response and then your computer froze - it has happened to me too! GL with your scan this Thursday!
Nix76 ~ Thanks for the interesting facts on blasts v's 2 day transfer - I believe you have put a few people at ease including myself about trying to achieve blast stage.
mitf & lise ~ Thanks for the feedback on the EPU procedure. It sounds like a painless process and recovery is relatively fast!
motherhoodhereIcome ~ I believe you are right when you say that we each present a unique test case for the FS and our dosage levels vary accordingly. I will wait until my scan on the 7/10/09 and see what happens !! GL with your cycle and agree that time is going so slow....
tracy ~ GL with the FS tomorrow - FX cycle #2 gives you that BFP!
calin ~ GL with your first cycle. If you are like me you probably have a million questions and don't know where to start. The lovely ladies on this thread offer some great advice and information and it seems there is no dumb question.
loops ~ welcome back to BB. hope you had fun at the show and it took your mind off ttc for a little while and you get well soon!
Hello to everyone else !!
Me 33 DH 32 & 1 cheeky furbaby
ttc#1 since Nov 07
IVF#1 Sept/Oct - Taking synarel - down reg scan 01/10/09
Juniper - sorry I just read your last post - I am so sorry to hear that. Wow that must be hard to take - but you are good to think that you did get one step closer cos that is so true. I hope that it is all learning for you and your FS to go towards a BFP next time.
ok..gonna try and catch up, sorry if I miss someone!
melttc - Hellooooo cycle sister - I have a BT on first day of AF, no scan. This checks
all the levels where they want them. Last pill was today but I've passed enough
to consider it day 1 of AF, so gonna get BT form faxed tom. Hope your
headaches pass. I normally have a couple at the beginning of synarel, but sofar
so good. I took a massive sniff last night and think I burned the inner lining of
my nose!!!!!!! whoops. done it enough times to know not to do that.
I ended up totally blocked up within 10 minutes...it was like I had the flu! slept it
off all good today.
People have probably responded to your question but if Puregon is like Gonal that
I take (the drug that stimulates/grows the follicles) then maybe they adjust it
after you've taken it for a while and they've scanned you. My clinic doesn't
alter the dose once they've started you as they told me it will start new follicles
growing, it won't increase the speed of the existing ones growing..if that
makes sense!! You can always ask if they're being conservative..I did after my
2nd cycle failed to work.
lise - thanks m'dear had a lovely dinner, nothing fancy, but yummy and great company!
good luck with your follies....fingers crossed they grow nice and juicy
calin - what a pain you have to drive soooo far each way! I guess my best advice would
be to put some cracking tunes on and sing your heart out!!!!!! I watched a
woman doing that in her car the other day behind me and was craning my neck
to see her when she changed lanes at the lights!! It was sooo funny, I even
changed the radio station to see what she was singing. Told DH, and he just
laughed and said...that's what you do!!!
juniper - simply
Loops - hello m'dear how are ya!!! hope you feel much better and DH looks after you
a bit more!! bit of TLC needed! I'd love for you to introduce your furbabies on
my 'our furbabies' thread in the Long Term Assis Concep forum
Emerald - good luck hun....focus on the wee ones that are gonna try and stick before \
thinking about no. 3 ..... I even talk to them! How ridiculous is that. More
so in the fact that they didn't work out, but you know... I feel connected
and it helps me!!
motherhood - you're on a crossover too!!!! good luck!!!!!!!!!! keep crossing days
off the calender!!
AFM..I finished the pill today ..whoohoo..and AF started to arrive ...whoo hoo...
we're on our way. Please please please let it be lucky no. 3
Calin- I am sorry you have to travel so far, I know the feeling it takes me close to two hours to get into the city when it is peak hour. Because all my app have been in the morning it has been peak hour every time!
Juniper- I am sorry that this one didn?t stick, I completely understand what you are going through. I had the same situation where I had a positive test at 4 weeks HCG 136 then the following Friday it was 45. They told me it was an inevitable miscarriage. I miscarried a couple of days later. I hope that you are able to get things sorted out and another cycle is started soon. Take care of yourself.
Nix- Regarding transferring 2 embryos my FS said that if you don?t have many embryos they like to transfer two but if you have a good number than they will transfer one at a time. We are seriously considering transferring 2 no matter what the result.
Emerald- Good luck with the transfer I am sorry that the results weren?t what you hoped. But you got two! And they are both A grade.
Loops- Sorry you have had a bad week, hope the sunshine today helped you feel better.
Nix- You must be over the scans by now hope you get some good results on Friday.
Meltcc- Not long now and the injections will start.
Airline- That?s interesting about the new follicles growing, I had never heard that before. I hope that means I have a few more growing, we can only live in hope.
AFM- Acupuncture session today, it was the first time the needles in my stomach hurt, as my acupuncturist said it is a bit hard to avoid the war wounds. I do both lucrin and Gonal F injections in my stomach, I am thinking of switching the lucrin to my thighs. Has anyone else done this?
Hello to everyone else hope today was a happy positive day for you.
Just popping in to give Juniper some big hugs. I know that there is nothing that I can say to make it better, but just wanted to let you know that we are here for you if you need to vent. Look after yourself and I hope you are feeling a little better soon.
A quickie before bed. A WARNING if you will! Took our good old mate who's in his 70s and lost his wife quite a few years ago, to see the film UP. His choice and it was good.
HOWEVER...who would've thought that a childrens animated film (although it's good for adults too!), would have the whole 'not having children' as part of the storyline. A small bit but part of it none the less!! I won't give it away, but there's a synopsis of the old man's life, and it shows them getting excited and painting a nursery and then her being consoled by a doc and her husband in a clinic room with a diagram of a pregnant woman in the background, so you get the idea.
Sooooo of course, inspite of it being an animated childrens film...I shed a few tears!!! Every film, tv show and flippin' book I watch/read has the children storyline. I've just finished a book that said Nothing about infertility on the back .... but there it was. Anyway, just to warn anyone who's not prepared. Wish my girlfriend who saw it the other week had told me.
hopefully this will be a much shorter post than my last, though still seems to have been a bit of action in here today.
Calin - I do like your idea of writing good/positive thoughts done to refer to later. I know when i'm feeling down I can never think of anything good, so I must start the same!
juniper - so sorry to hear your news. I don't pretend to know how it feels, but I hope you're taking care of yourself. Good luck with the further testing, I hope they find the answer for you and can use the info for your next cycle.
Nix - I was a little surprised too when FS suggested transferring two. He was dead against it the first time round, but he said if we have three or less embies then we'd transfer up to 2, so we'll see what happens. I'm secretly very excited and feeling a bit bad that i'm hoping we might only have 3
Loops - sorry to hear you got sick during your week in Melbourne and are feeling crappy. Hope you're resting up and staying put on the couch.
Emerald Star - tomorrow. Will be thinking of you and praying it goes well. I'm not really up with the differences between advantages/disadvantages of transferring cells at different stages, but I know that MIVF mostly does day 2 transfers (maybe always???) and have success so you never know what could happen.
Tracy - hope tomorrow goes well and FS says you can start straight away! And thanks to Emerald Star for answering your question for me! I'm still learning about all the other protocols as I only know about mine (antagonist cycle) so apologise if I expect everyone to know what I'm talking about!
Motherhood here i come - I know exactly what you mean! When I was waiting for AF to arrive I thought I would burst, I just wanted things to happen. I don't know if this is useful or silly, but I know when I was trying to lose weight (well, still doing it really) I made a list of all the things I like to do, like taking a bath, reading a book, talking to a friend, planning a trip, planning my dream kitchen renovation etc...! Maybe if you had such a list time would go a bit quicker for you?!
sonyalouise - I was sitting right in front of you with my husband on the more uncomfortable chairs! I was wearing a white shirt and grey pants, and between my husband and I we seemed to have a million bags around us!! If I see you there again i'll say I don't know when my EPU will be yet, i'll find out on Thursday. And no headaches this time round on the Orgalutran (touch wood)...!
airline - 3 is the lucky number for you. Glad you're that little bit closer! And I SO know what you mean about unexpected storylines in books/movies/tv shows etc. I read a couple of books last week none of which seems remotely like they would be anything to do with babies/conception/IVF etc. Then THREE of them had such elements and I found myself getting more and more upset. There should be a law against such things!!
Oh dear, this doesn't really seem any shorter does it? I'll sign off now.
Enjoy what's left of your evening ladies, talk tomorrow.
PS - Mel - just copied all of this into word 'just in case'...!!
airline, sorry, I could have mentioned that. I had tears streaming down my face and was all but sobbing... But then that happened again a few times later in the movie too...
Thanks ladies for your words. I know I'll be fine and it will just take time. It already feels like this is going to be painful (physically) and AF hasn't even started yet...
Wow, so much has happened since my last post! I will try and catch everyone but am bound to miss a few so if I do then I hope all is going well in your cycle!
Sonyalouise - I can't remember my 1st scan results (sorry), but I hope those follies keep growing nice and strong and 8 is a good number to have .
Tantee - Sorry again for your BFN and I hope that you have heard whether you are able to start another stim before the end of the year and that the answer is a big YES...
Airline - I had my last pill yesterday as well . Yay - we are getting closer! Good Luck with the BT and I hope all your levels check out.
Mitf - Yippee for AF arriving and Good Luck with your FET cycle!
melttc - Good Luck with the Puregon... my last cycle dose was a 150 which is not that much more than 100. Like all the girls have said, your FS is probably just being cautious and can easily increase if need be.
lise - I hope those follies grow like crazy for you! Good Luck with the scan tomorrow!
juniper - I am so sorry to hear your news and big hugs to you . At least you know that your body is trying and you are getting closer to your BFP. I know it doesn't make it any easier though....
Nix - Thanks for the link to the acupuncture thread as I didn't know it was there and sorry I couldn't help with your question. Have you managed to catch that LH surge yet? If not yet, I hope it isn't too far away for you...
Loops - Glad to hear that you had a good break but sorry about having the flu! It's horrible isn't it? Make sure you get plenty of rest and drink lots of water. How did you go with the cattle?
Emerald Star - A Big Good Luck with the Transfer today and sticky vibes to you! Fingers crossed that your 3 pick up and make it to freeze.
Tracy - I hope your appointment goes well today and you get to start cycle #2 straight away.
Motherhood here i come - Looks like we are only a week apart in our cycles.. I know what you mean about time crawling... It is driving me mad and I'll second that - Hurry up time, he, he!!!
AFM - Finished the pill yesterday and have a baseline scan and BT booked in for Tuesday, 6 so slowly getting there, yay!
Hope everyone has a great day! lol
Last edited by Coral73; September 30th, 2009 at 12:35 PM.
Just a quick selfish non exciting post about me...
Still have not caught the surge. Feels like and the pee tests certainly indicate - nothing happening. But thats Ok - I am usually about a 31 - 34 day cycle and it is day 20 now and they say after a stim cycle that your cycle can be longer. I just hope I haven't missed it at all.
Am taking chinese herbs too now - the real deal raw stuff that I have to boil and drink the 'tea'. Its pretty ordinary but hopefully doing the trick. Apparently it will halp get my system in order and make it nice and strong for "when we put baby back" as TCM Dr says! I don't like to refer to it as 'baby' tho for obvious reasons. Prefer to still think of it as 'emby' - little less personal and easier to deal with.
Hope you are all doing well and for those in Melb - hope you enjoyed that sunshine yesterday and this morning - I think we are in for more rain.
Thanks ladies for your well wishes with my flu, im slowly getting better but I have been working so its still hanging around a bit. DH has been a bit better of the last day or so. Im heading off again on Thursday after work - this time to the Deniliquin Ute Muster so Im just going to have to be as healthy as I can and stay very rugged up. Hoping I have got rid of it by tomorrow.
Coral - we did ok with the cattle. Only took two Bulls, and the Senior Bull won Grand Champion of his breed then went into the Interbreed (against all the other breeds) and was in the top ten with an honourable mention - so pretty good, i guess.
Good luck to you with everything.
Good luck everyone with your cycle, hoping we all get BFP's very soon!!
Well today i had 2x 2 day embies put back...One was an A grade 6 cell and the other a B grade 4 cell... feeling slightly more optimistic...but still apprehensive. I suppose we'll know in 10 days when I POAS...( did i just hear a "NO don't POAS Emerald"!!!) well i am, i am really noooooooo goood at waiting although i did with my first one...but now just running out of patience.
Last edited by Emerald Star; September 30th, 2009 at 03:27 PM.
just me again sorry....the other 3 didn't make it NO cell division today....so again no FREEZE EMBIES this cycle...lets hope the two in there stick or at least the one..
Sorry to hear you did not get any frosties - I can imagine that must make it feel like there is more pressure on this cycle now.
But CONGRATS on putting 2 back, I really hope you get some success from these little ones. I have fingers, toes, arms, & legs all crossed for you. :-)
Oh also here is the 2WW thread - I see you have not posted there yet so am guessing you still could not find it?
Coral - glad you've finished the pill and are getting a little closer to the scan and BT!
Nix - i'm LOVING the sunshine at the moment and hoping it lasts for more than a couple of days Fingers crossed you get that surge soon and can move forward.
Loops - hope that DH continues to get his act together, and that you continue (start!!!) to look after yourself so you can feel better soon. Have fun at the Deniliquin Ute Muster!
Emerald Star - sending lots of your way. Sorry to hear no frosties, but hopefully you won't need any more. I haven't had the pleasure (if you can call it that) of the 2WW yet so i'm certainly not going to be judging you if you POAS. I'm 99% certain i'll be doing when it's my turn too.
Everyone else - a big hello. Hope you're all cruising along nicely.
AFM - nothing new treatment wise, just waiting for my second scan tomorrow morning. Just had dinner out with DH - Wednesday night is 'date night' but I'm so tired that by 7:45 we were home on the couch in our jammies...
Hope you are doing ok.
and recovery is relatively fast!
DH 32 & 1 cheeky furbaby
whoops. done it enough times to know not to do that.
tomorrow. Will be thinking of you and praying it goes well. I'm not really up with the differences between advantages/disadvantages of transferring cells at different stages, but I know that MIVF mostly does day 2 transfers (maybe always???) and have success so you never know what could happen.
I don't know when my EPU will be yet, i'll find out on Thursday. And no headaches this time round on the Orgalutran (touch wood)...!
3 is the lucky number for you. Glad you're that little bit closer! And I SO know what you mean about unexpected storylines in books/movies/tv shows etc. I read a couple of books last week none of which seems remotely like they would be anything to do with babies/conception/IVF etc. Then THREE of them had such elements and I found myself getting more and more upset. There should be a law against such things!!
where's the 2WW forum ??....
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