Jane, how was the trigger shot??
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Jane, how was the trigger shot??
Megan - I am happy to admit I was packing at the thought of it, but it really wasn't that much more painful than my puregon shots. I did feel the drug making its way in more but nothing compared to say an antibiotic job in the bum. DH said it was a tiny bit harder to administer, he thought the actual needle was slightly thicker but other than that all went well. They really are quite tame as far as needles go, that being said I am really glad that DH is doing them for me, I am sure I would hurt myself more as I would definately hesitate.
Good luck with your scan in the morning.
That's good to hear because I am really dreading it. i did my own injection on Friday night as DH was running late and I thought I would give it a go. It was much easier but he feels like he's been sacked and is a bit sad! lol
THanks for the wishes for tomorrow's scan. I'm hoping it's all going ok. Feeling more twinges in my lower belly and quite a heavy feeling.
Have you lost your appetite at all??? I have been struggling to eat the last 2 days. Even a glass of water leaves me feeling full and bloated.
Yep, my appetite is woeful at the moment, I felt so sick yesterday and didn't feel like eating much, I think I am sort of all over bloated. I just had some lunch before and didn't feel like finishing it either....bring on tomorrow I say.
It sounds like you won't be far behind me Megan
hi girls hope you are all doing well! hope all the jabbing and pick ups over the next week goes well for everyone.
Had my IUI last Thursday all went well. I did post that morning but I think my post got a little lost in amongst all the IVF going on.
Oh Well so offically in the tww. We will see how it goes. If this doesn't go well Am thinking of giving this whole ttc a rest for a while way too emotional. I find myself overreacting over the tinest thing these days.
Enough about me
Take Care
Racheal
Hi Racheal....so sorry I missed your post. I just went back and realised we posted at the same time which I would say is why I missed it. I hope the TWW goes quickly for you. It's completely understandable having a break from TTC if you feel like it is getting too much emotionally. IKWYM about over reacting at small things because I have been doing the same and some times I just feel completely out of control.
But.....with a little bit of luck and lots of baby dust you will be celebrating your BFP in a couple of weeks and moving to the land of preg buddies! Good luck! :D
Good luck for the morning Jane. I hope Lyndon gets a good number of super dooper eggies and they all fertilise for you!!
Thanks Mel, I am soooo nervous.
Will be back online tomorrow or Tuesday to let you all know how many we get.
Oh Zap, how many IUI's have you had now?? I am about to embark on the road of IUI's and i am trying to not set myself up for dissapointment every month, so am giving myself 12 months to get pregnant before looking at IVF again. So instead of having a TWW i am looking at a 12 month wait. I picture myself trying to get on with life as usual, just every month going in for the IUI! Like going to the dentist every month or something and forgetting about it. HAH! Probably wont turn out that way as soon as i get the first BFN.......Hope this one is a BFP for you!!
Jano .. any news yet.. I am sure you will get some great quality ones... leis xx
hi everyone
All went well, we got 7 eggs which I was pleased with, although a bit surprised as there were 17 follies. As I said to DH, 7 is my lucky number (my birthday) so I am taking it all as a good sign.
It was nowhere near as scary as I thought, I was fairly nervous going in, but they sedated me nice and good, DH said at one point I looked over at him and then went straight back to sleep. I have been snoozing all day and feel pretty sore so will be having an early night tonight.
Leis - let's hope they are good quality, I won't know the fertilisation rate until transfer on wednesday, so thinking lot's of calm happy non-worrying thoughts until then.
Jane - seven is good and you only need one really good one (though of course I hope you get seven good ones ... enough for frosties). I've been hanging out all day, dying to know how it went. Now I'll be on tenterhooks until your transfer day. Rest up ... you've done well.
Hello to lovely Leis, Melbel, Rachael and others. Good luck everyone.
Love,
Mel
Seven is great Jane.......one for the oven and some to spare...hehe.....now we wait with baited breath till wednesday.
Well done Jane! Hopefully you will get a few frosties out of this cycle! :)
Well, I am ready to go as well. Had another scan this morning and have 19 follicles, of which they think 12 are a good size ranging 18-20mm.
So, I am triggering in 20 minutes and pick up is Wednesday. I just want the trigger over with!
Melbel it sounds like baking, one for the oven and the others straight into the freezer for later on LOL
I am hanging out til Wednesday and hoping like mad I get a good fertilization rate, it would be nice not to have to do this every time and I take my hat off to all the lovely ladies that don't get frosties, it's a big process to have to go through.
Megan - we posted at the same time, well done with the scan today and good luck with the trigger, you will be fine. Hope you get lot's of eggies on Wednesday.
Good luck with the trigger Megan :crossfingers: I hope your EPU goes well on Wednesday.
Thanks Cherie! :) It wasn't tooo bad. Probably would have been better if DH got the needle in the first go! lol He went to jab it in and it just bounced off my stomach!! The look on his face was priceless! lol Second time lucky though and all was ok. So glad it's over
wow look what happens when i dont post for a few days - its all happening in here!
Congrats on 7 Jane you must be thrilled - i know its confusing when you have so many more but they only take so many (does that make sence?) was dh in with you when you had epu? at monash they fully sedate you but i read somewhere at Melb they only sedate you as much as they need to? and now ive changed clinics its all like starting anew PS Sending you very sticky vibes for your tf when is it by the way?
Megan i hope the trigger went well and that your all set for 2morrow - when do you start the horrid pesseries ? Hoping for lorry loads of eggies for you
well im going for my scan today to see how many follie i have so hoping i can have pick up thursday as my gyn is away sunday and im really wanting her to do the tf
girls are you having day2,3 or blast tf?
Ive tryed all three i was hoping to have day three but i think gyn can only squeese in a day 2!
BBL to let you all know how i got on
And a BIG THANKYOU to SEZ for coming with me today and getting up early on your day off.Your the best
Megan- LOL about the needle bouncing off your stomach!!
Jane It only takes one good egg so I have everyting crossed for you!
Cherie Nice to see your bump growing!
As for me i have to have another trigger injection again tomorrow. Dr Gronow said it was to make sure I do not bleed early. Does anyone know if it helps thicken my linning??
Take care
Racheal
Megan - DH cracked up about the bouncing needle and said he wasn't surpised at all, apparently he thought he was going to do the same thing, I got him to do mine in the rear so I didn't have to watch as I am sure I would have put him off. Good luck tomorrow, sending egg-filled vibes your way.
Racheal - not sure if the trigger shot helps with thickening the lining, from what my FS said the other day at my scan he sort of indicated the lining was the right thickness for me so it wasn't something I asked.
Lou - it is confusing with the number of follies vs number of eggs. DH did come in with me and apparently the dr talked about what he was doing the whole time but poor DH must have been a bit freaked because he can't remember what the dr was saying. He did say it was cool when they took the eggs into the lab, he watched them on a big plasma screen as they checked them under a micrscope and said they looked like grains of sand so that would have been good to see. They gave me the option of as little sedation as I wanted and I opted for as much as possible without a general anesthetic as they make me sick usually, plus I wanted DH to be involved as much as possible as I think it's important that he doesn't feel like it's all me and he doesn't have an imput. Good news is I didn't feel a thing, I was fairly out of it, sort of felt like a was dreaming and floating.
Well only today to go and tomorro I have my transfer (day 2) and will know in the morning how many fertilised, I get the transfer time after lunch so I am going to find a nice distraction this morning. Perhaps a little retail therapy might be involved.
Big Hi to everyone, have a great day.
Yay Jane on the excellent number of eggs, though I know it's a little wierd having 17 follies but only 7 eggs. They likely didn't all mature at the same rate, and some came up empty. But 7 is a lucky number indeed, so will be watching for your transfer tomorrow!
Megan, my DH never did bounce off me, that's coz he always seemed to relish making sure he got the needle in nice and firmly. I suspect he enjoyed it a little too much.
Rach, if you're doing another HCG injection, it's likely as support for your lining!
Hello everyone! Sounds like loads of cycling going on here! Very exciting!
Dear Megan and Kim,
Congratulations on not throwing in the towel. I think it is wonderful that you are both so dedicated to this plight and to each other. When this blessed babe is sent to you, it will be luckiest babe alive to have such devoted parents.
Pauline
Well ladies i have just had my scan and will go in either next mon or tue looks like i have about 8 - 10 eggs that are good to collect which the gyn is happy for.
One prob - DH is on antibiotics for an infection in his finger so this may affect our outcome. they are dicloxacillin 500mg hes on 4 a day so if anyone knows what effects may be caused pls let me know.
Now feeling very sad and not wanting to talk to anyone sorry sez if i was alittle away with it all b4 you left but it does make me feel like it may never happen and finding it hard to hear everyone elses pg worries and joys right now.
My nurse just called back and she said that it shouldnt be a problem. she said its sometimes a worry when partners start meds with steriods but that antibiotic should be fine
Great to read that your husbands meds will not effect the ivf loula.
Take care
Racheal
hooray for jano.. 7 is a great number matie.. with any luck you will never have to stim again, as this 7 will be your whole family... can hardly wait until tomorrow to hear the news.. leis xx
lou that is great news, I had a feeling it would be ok, but didn't want to give out un-founded advice, sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a very dangerous thing and I would hate to do that to you.
I am being so slack, I told DH I would finish my uni assignment and I have been @rsing around all day, I even scrubbed the shower to get out of it PMSL, I should get back to it and stop day dreaming about baby related topics.
Oh yeah forgot to tell you all - transfer is tomorrow morning, I can't wait to hear how we all went.
good luck tomorrow jano.. i can't stop thinking about you!!! leis xx
Wow, so much for me to catch up on in here! will try my best :)
Racheal - hoping you'll be announcing a BFP in the next couple of weeks.
Jane - YAY for 7! Goodluck with your transfer tomorrow, will be thinking of you. :)
Megan - Will also be thinking of you tomorrow with your pick up. Great to hear that you feel good about telling your mum. I have been thinking of telling my mum that we will be hopefully seeing a FS soon, just don't want her fussing etc..
Loula - Great that your DH's meds won't have any affect on this cycle. Lotsa hugs for you.
BIG hello to everyone else. AF has left...finally, so let the BDing begin!
Nic
Racheal, another trigger? Lucky you!! ;) Let's hope it does the trick. As for if it helps thicken your lining, I'm not really sure? Hopefully someone else will be able to tell you the answer to that one!
Lou, sounds like you're going well...8-10 eggs would be great. How are you feeling? Glad to hear that DH's meds should be ok.
Jane, good luck for transfer tomorrow!! Here's hoping for a big fert rate.
DH has just served me dinner so I better go....thanks for all of the well wishes for tomorrow! I'm a little nervous already. :eek:
Hi ladies,
Wow it's all happening in here!!!
Megan & Jane I am so glad that you guys are doing this together & can talk about it together.
I'm not up with all the lingo yet but am trying.
Zap - what is IUI - hope I don't sound silly not knowing that?
Good luck to all you girls this month, you can't say we're not trying eh?
I am feeling better from the endo scrap out (laparoscopy) still getting extremely tired though.
My Dr has said to give it 3-6 months of unaided trying first, if we are not pg we are to go back to him & either go some fertility drugs or do the washing the swimmers & giving them a shortcut to the egg trick or of course ivf.
I have a feeling I will be back in 3 months not 6 that is of course unless we strike it lucky.
Praying for all of us.
Jo
Yeouchies at all the trigger needles bouncing off bottoms and things :eek:
Thankfully neither DH or I had to do mine - I just fronted up at the hospital at the nurse-in-charge did it for me. It's way different that the puregon pen, so I'm not sure if I could have done it myself.
Jo - IUI is intra-uterine insemination. It's what you talked about later in your post, where the swimmers are spun and washed, and then inserted directly into your uterus via a catheter which goes through your cervix (don't need an anaesthetic or anything!). Personally, I'm a big fan of it, since it worked for us when IVF didn't ;) oh ... and it's way cheaper lol.
Thanks for the kind wishes everyone, it means a lot to have such a fantastic support network
Megan - will be thinking of you tomorrow, good luck - it's nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be and you will be great.
Best wishes for both Jane with tf and megan with epu i will be thinking of you both all day today.
Hi everyone
Well I am officially in the TWW.
Out of the 7 eggs, 6 fertilised which was a great effort I thought. Dr thinks we should get 3 to 5 that are good enough to freeze, they are going to watch them for the rest of the day but at the moment some of them are still 2 cells. The one that was transferred was 4 cells, actually it had split again by the time they put it on the screen which was fascinating and it was grade 2 so the dr was happy with that.
He was a bit disappointed that we only got 7 eggs but said our fertilisation rate was fantastic. He said if I need to go to full stim again they will modify the drugs a bit and take me a little longer to try and get more eggs but fingers crossed we might get a good result from this stim cycle. We find out on Friday how many will be frozen. So now we wait.
So now we wait, I am hoping that the next 2 weeks will fly by, my sister is away at the moment who I constantly chat to on the phone, and yep you guessed it, is away for about 2 weeks, not that she knows what we are going through as I haven't told them the particulars, but she always has something happening to keep me amused.
Now I better go and do this assignment, which I have left until the last minute and have a presentation on tomorrow night at uni. IVF and uni is not the best combination, especially for a serial procrastinator like me.
Will do some personals after I get some work done.
Jane, congrats on the transfer of that embryo and I hope he or she decides to stick and go all the way!
The first cycle can sometimes be difficult because everything is such an unknown quantity. One of the positive things is that they can find out how your body responds to the drugs and then modify or tweak the dose or treatment schedule a bit next time if necessary. Fingers crossed that this won't be a consideration of course.
Oh I'm with you on the procrastination. I have a small pile of rubble in every room at the moment and all I want to do is eat and surf the net. Good luck with your assignment!
Megan I hope that OPU went well. Wishing for great results for you!
Hi to all the other lovely ladies.
Mel
Yay Jane on a great result!
Mel I'm with you on the eating and surfing the net scenario! In fact, am doing both right now!
Oh Jano.. this is such good news.. i am so happy for you... God i feel like you have just told me you got a BFP..... all the best for the 2ww and a fantastic result.. i think this is it though hun.. your on your way... love leis xx
Jane, 6 out of 7 is fantastic! It's great that you will have a few to freeze, that's the best possible outcome.
I can't believe how good I am feeling after EPU this morning. They had a bit of difficulty because my left ovary was sitting above my uterus (they knew this after the last scan as she had to scan that ovary abdominally as it was too high up). The dr told me it was hard work but they managed to get 6 eggs. I'm happy with this for my first cycle. i ring tomorrow for fertilisation results and time for ET if everything is going well. That general anaesthetic was great! lol I looked at the clock at 10.10 and then next thing I knew it was 10.45 and it was over!
Feeling a bit sleepy now and just some mild cramping (AF pains are much worse). DH is looking after me though and I might go and have a bit of a nap!
Thanks for the well wishes everyone.....I will be back tomorrow with my results.