First of all huge to you Keen....just know that we are here for you what ever the outcome.

Too Many personals for me to catch up on so I will simply say good luck to everyone who is cycling...oh and to Twomums.....IMHO get a fresh opinion. They have no right to make those judgements about your fertility on the basis of the cycles you have had without further investigation.

Well I have to have a small personal woohoo. Since our first miscarriage in July 2004 my cycle has stretched out to 56 days:eek: . Three and a half weeks ago I started seeing an acupuncturist and a naturopath to both aid in the IVF treatments and also to see if they can help out with a digestive disorder I have which leaves me with constant nausea and tiredness. Anyways they have not even attacked the fertility side yet, have just been focussing on my digestive issue as they reckon I have problems with food stagnating and not absourbing adequate nutirents and this could have been affecting my ability to nourish the embryos. All made sense to me so I said I would give their ideas a try. So for the past 3 weeks I have been making minor changes to my diet. I have cut out diet coke and pretty much all processed food. I have swapped the foods I eat for organic varieties and anything that has additives, preservatives etc has gone. BTW I have also saved heaps on the gorcery bill......I thought it would go up but because it is all fresh stuff has ended up saving us heaps. And it has really been little changes like cutting out bikkies (they have some nice organic shortbread though) and using organic raw sugar instead of bleached white sugar, stuff like that.

Okay If you are still with me.....here's comes the huge payoff....After three and half weeks of this and no actual fertility treatments as such I got AF today......A 33 DAY CYCLE.....WOOHOO. Eating differently has almost halved my cycle and I have barely started on it!!!! I can't believe it....I don't even care that I am not pregnant ths month...I am just so happy to have an almost normal cycle back that I am jumping for joy...Also no pain, no headaches, better digestion and more energy to boot. Just goes to show how closely related what we eat is to our fertility.

It has all left me looking forward to this cycle with a great deal of positive energy especially as it will be our last before we start IVF (we are just waiting for our genetic karotyping results to come back in about 3 weeks time). Anyways yay for me and if anyone in this forum gets anything from this post...Yay for you too. I just can't believe diet can make such a huge difference. BTW I am a type 1 diabetic and as such I have a very healthy diet anyways it was just getting rid off all the artifical chemicals that has made the difference.

Happy Happy Days to all