Just wanted to pop in & say Hi!
Welcome, again to everyone new, I hope you are starting to feel at home here! (Don't get too comfy though, we don't want any of us here for too long! )
I just wanted to send out some thoughts and hugs to Butterfly Warrior:hugs:
I've just been catching up on some of the posts, and you just sound so stressed and down... to reach IVF after such a long time of trying other things is so hard to deal with initially.
I remember feeling like you do now, and with all of your problems with work on top of everything I just want to say that you're doing great keeping it together!
I am a teacher, too but in a different situation to you - I teach piano privately, so I'm only dealing one on one with students, but I do have my fair share of 'trying' parents!!!!!
I don't know how your clinic works, but definately look into how early you can make appointments once you start IVF - we did all of ours first thing in the mornings, because DH wanted to be at every appointment, and has changed jobs so much during the last 4 yrs (real estate, gotta love it) he wasn't in a position to ask for large amounts of time off work.
I'm not sure whats best for you, but I did tell most of the parents of my students... not so much specifically about the IVF, but just that I was having a lot of medical treatment done, and that seemed to allow everyone to be understanding, but at the same time to back off a little because they weren't sure of exactly what we were having done. (It also stopped the way too constant question of 'When are you going to give Luke a baby brother or sister?')
I realise teaching in a school full of gossipy teachers is a lot different to my situation, but I definately had my share of those parents like that as well!
The only time I really had to take off was the day for EPU and transfer... I just left it till the day and got DH to call my students that morning to say I wasn't feeling well.
I know this is such a long post, but I was also reading through everything else you are dealing with involving your body being all over the place... just wondering if you have had any alternative treatment to help? (Acupuncture, chinese herbs, etc?)
I only ask because I was all over the place, too and after having the natural therapies on top, it fixed all of this.
The acupuncture worked miracles for my mood swings, and my ability to deal with children, which is one of your major concerns.
If you tell the acupuncturist this is a concern for you, they will work on specific points for calmness and control. I don't think I would have got through it without it!!!!!!
Anyway, I'd better stop writing before I end up with a short novel here!!!
Hope any of that helps you xxxx
Holly xxx
Quick Hi to all and just wanted to say to Butterfly warrior not to be concerned about needing to take the pill, Ive been on IVF for some time now and have been asked to take the pill for periods of 8 weeks in between IVF cycles. In fact i am taking it now. You will probably find they will give you a low dose one. It generally just gives your reprodcutive organs a rest - particuarly from the things that cause the PCOS to get slowly worse each month. Apparenlty the old wives tale of the pill staying in your system for months meaning its hard to fall pregnant is a load of rubbish. So dont worrry about it - its a common part of IVF protocol.
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