Just a quickie - EPU is tomorrow morning and if we get 'normal' embies the transfer will be Sunday.
Morning ladies.
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Just a quickie - EPU is tomorrow morning and if we get 'normal' embies the transfer will be Sunday.
Morning ladies.
Hi Sheree,
How has the process been for you Sheree?
I hope it all goes well for you!!
:o)
thank you - for all your wonderful wishes and support [-o<
been anxious all morning as not sure when they thaw our little snowbubs - nurse seemed to say it would be Sunday but others I heard said day of transfer - she was so not that 'understanding' :smt102 when I was asking her questions - 'I don't know' you need to ask the scientists ](*,)
I didn't want to get any phone calls IYKWIM
Sheree - I knew you must be close - thinking of you and wishing you 'everything' for this cycle and best OPU ever .
Hi Angelique - that is quick but we all feel that way when the OPU is close - wow 20 follicles is great - keep drinking water and goodluck to you too.
You can read positive outcomes in sticky thread at top of forum and pop into pregnancy after LT TTC and see all the BFP from IVF - so many in last few months
Hi Baby-amore,
Thanks for the good wishes. I hope all goes best for you too!! Keep us updated.
By the way, may I ask why should I be drinking loads of water? Will that or anything else help along the way?
Drinking water is supposed to help with OHSS - preventing it that is but ask your nurse what they recommend
Easy said that done but try not to worry too much - and ask you nurse as many questions as you want - silly or not we are paying them a lot of money and they there to ask away.
I had my transfer and the only thing to do now is pray - only 1 and 2 cell embryos and thawed 5 to get 2 (so 1 left)
LOL - SPRUNG - ( Moral - should not stop to support chocolate fundraising my DH said) MY dad is back in WM hospital and who should we see in main corridor of this HUGE hospital on our way in to ET - :shock: Mum & Dad (who we haven't told) and they know we work together so one of us is always there( actually both during office hrs)
Had to make some excuse ( I am good lying to my parents years of practice as child ;) )
Lucky we weren't in huge hurry and then said going to Eye Dr (I have bung eye since childhood)
We had to go and see them afterwards - they seem to have accepted it or too polite to ask ...or they think I am still an O:)
B*gger the no smoking policy - and my [-X Dad shouldn't be smoking or Mum taking him out for one.
On the way in car I keep making this plan with DH and he said no way would we see them ... but MR DARLING RIGHT was wrong ...
After, He keep making a joke - tell them later they saw us moments are we got pregnant :crossfingers:
Gee it is so quiet in here today - where is everyone ?
Yay Trish welcome to the one big happy waiting and praying family of TWWer's
fancy being sprung like that but least the cat was not let out of the bag i hope your dad is feeling better soon
Huge stickies for you Trish!
Good to hear all went well Trish. So do they thaw one at a time till they get a good one? I'm sure those little guys are burrowing madly as I type. Now you just need a diversion to get your mind off everything - as if!!! Rest up babe and
GOOD LUCK!!
Tam – Hoping AF arrives soon for you!
Hi Angelique – I was close to over stimming in my first cycle. I had a lot of bloating but generally felt ok. Second cycle my dosage was higher but I drank a lot of water and wasn’t in danger of over stimming. And I agree with Trish – if you’re not sure, ask away. My motto is that there’s no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to IVF.
Sheree – best of luck for your EPU and transfer!
Trish – LOL to getting sprung!! Nice work getting out of it though! Glad to hear that the t/f went well. Lots of sticky vibes for you sweetie!
How was your birthday Cazz? Hope you got lots of nice surprises.
How are you doing Shazz? Keeping yourself amused during your TWW? Wonder who will be the first to crack & try out a pee stick..
Keen – how are you keeping?
Cheers,
Trish - YAY on your transfer and I can't believe you ran into Mum and Dad at the hospital ... what are the odds? Westmead must be huge! Good that you can wriggle your way out of a sticky situation though.
Cazz - hope you had a great birthday.
Angelique and others - welcome and good luck with your IVF journey.
Sorry I haven't posted much but I haven't been online a great deal. Have been thinking of you all though and hoping things are going well.
Love,
Mel
Blue ~ Lol ~ i declare that there will BE NO PEE STICKS entering my house any time soon ](*,) What about yours ????????
Shazz,
Pee sticks are evil. I suppose enough time has passed that I can admit that 3 days before my beta this last cycle, I succumbed to the pee stick (I can hear humphrey saying I told you so!) despite swearing black and blue that I wasn't going to.
It came up -ve. Even after an hour, it was still -ve. It was just as I expected, so I threw it out, did a mental shrug and figured it was here comes cycle #9 for us.
I used the ultra sensitive ones too, the ones that detetct 10iu or more.
The day after I got my +ve beta result, I used the other peestick in the packet and it took 7 minutes to come up with the faintest faintest +ve.
Pee sticks are evil. And they don't seem to work for IVFers in their TWWs (unless you're having twins!) Lol!
I'm hoping that you, Cazz, blue and Trish are holding up in your TWWs. And Sheree, even though I saw you at Concept this morning, here are some more :luck: :luck: :luck: vibes for your EPU this morning!
love
sushee
I KNEW IT SUSH!!! :smt043 :smt043 :smt043
Good on you for confessing your pathetic willpower like the rest of us.
:smt081 LOLOLOL!!!! :smt081
Of course I have pathetic willpower! You knew I couldn't resist! I remember someone saying that I sounded so calm through this last cycle and all I kept thinking was "no, now my neurosis has just begun to look normal to everyone!"
love
sushee
Ugh I did a post before and it got lost!!!
Anyway thanks for the birthday wishes I had a nice birthday.
How are all the 2WW'ers doing?
I am trying to stay nice and calm and not strss over this 2WW, even though I have been through 104 of them this 105th one is and IVF one and so totaly different.
Is anyone one Crinone? has it had any effect on you. Any of those nasty side effects it mentions on the pamphlet?
Also a bit of a funny question............. where do you all stand on sex in the 2WW after a transfer??? Does it have any effect on the outcome??
Cazz
Ummmm sex? What's that again? Sounds vaguely familiar.....
Cazz
FYE only- I personally wouldn't (or didn't #1 though I love it LOL ) though in RL (Real Life) people do all the time because they don't know IYKWIM that they have conceived.
On Crinone - I had a few cramps but not much -raw/ burning pain towards end of 2ww when spotting started.
ON SEX ...I remember someone posting (somewhere on net) they were told not too and then to check with Dr afterwards BFP to see what he says up to 12wks (supposed to safe mark).
I would ask my Nurse if I was keen though - she must have had this Q asked a few (or 1,000 000 times especially by DH's)
Humphrey - LOL Sushee - yeah we are all human - I am vowing not too though this time - [-X we will see !
On The 2 ww -it's part I hate most - waiting ....
I have taken up my large cross stitch I started 13 yrs when we 1st started TTC - the Australian Flora & Fauna alphabet - making for our 1st child - maybe get finished one day :D
LOL at the peestick discussion, we should have all taken out shares in Clearblue or something seeing amongst us we practically own the company!! Sush I thought you were exceptionally controlled on your last cycle but you had us fooled!!! Waiting with fingers crossed to see if anyone caves in and POAS before their BT. Just goes to show like with Sush, Mel and a few others I think that you can't really trust them anyway right in the beginning!
Good Luck to all you TWW'ers. [-o<
Sheree - Hope your EPU was successful.
Ali, Ann, Bee , Janee,Keen,Kelly, Leisa ,Lynny, Ness - how are you ladies we miss you and send you massive :grouphug:
Ness - what are you up now ?
Ali - how is your dad and FIL too ?
Sheree - thinking of you for OPU - too - hope you are feeling okay and got a good healthy harvest [-o<
Hi Amy - love your belly
afternoon all,
i have just found out that we have NO frozen embies so this is crunch time for us this either works or i forget about being a mummy again ](*,) i had such hopes we would get at least one to freeze but it is how the cookie crumbles i suppose
Shazz
I am [-o< for your miracle (s) and that your dreams are fulfilled - can you not do another cycle ? I am thinking of you :hug:
Take it easy and concentrate on positive affirmations - you embie was the best the DR has ever seen ... I have a good feeling for you
I have been chanting positive affirmations all afternoon - ( #-o nutty ) I don't care if customers see or hear me - they come in sometimes and I don't hear them -LOL
Did you know 1,000,0000 seconds = 11.5 days but who is counting -
:
I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who
passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back.
From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.
Sorry I have been missing in action for quite a few days ladies. Have started back at full time work, plus all the drama of last week and have been finding it difficult to get on here.... so here goes the catch up of the past 5 pages!!
Humphrey - yep you're right. I should be doing a FET in September - cycle starting around the 6th or so... So we can go it together! Im sure your 1 little snowbub will do you proud ;)
Trish - I am SO very excited for you honey and am doing all the [-o< and :crossfingers: that I can muster! Am loving your desserts idea by the way! (hey, I dont know if you said or not but did you transfer 1 or 2?)
Cazz - sorry I missed your birthday honey, but am sending you some very belated wishes - am hoping all your dreams come true this year. On the Crinone subject I had some cramping and sore bbs, but not really any of the other effects. As for having sex afterwards - I wouldnt but only due to fear more than any factual information.
Tam - Hope AF shows her sorry face soon, so things can progress for you.
Angelique - there are pretty strong symptoms of hyperstim. Last cycle I had 48 follies at OPU, the cycle before was cancelled as I had well over 50. Im sure it will all go fine and 20 is a fantastic number. As to what helps the embie stick - well it all seems a bit of a mystery because a good thick lining can be great but people can still pg with a not particularly thick one, so.... :smt102
Sheree - Have everything crossed that all goes well this cycle and you get to transfer on Sunday :crossfingers:
Shazz - Hang in there sweetheart. Tonnes of stickyvibes coming your way right now to help you get there.... thinking of you.
Cazz, Trish & Blue - all the very best for this ever painful 2ww you are all in!
Shaz – Sorry to hear about your embies. Lots of sticky vibes for your miracle! :bluestick: :bluestick: :bluestick:
Sheree – Hope your OPU went okay :crossfingers:
Hi Mel – hope things are going okay with you!
LOL Sushee to your POAS story! I haven’t actually bought any pee sticks…yet. I know they’re evil but it might give me something to do during the TWW…. 8-[ Or maybe I can take up cross-stitch like Trish (how’s that going by the way??). Actually, I still have my jigsaw sitting unfinished from the last TWW. #-o
Glad you had a nice birthday Cazz. I’m probably just being superstitious but am trying to avoid BD this time. Last TWW we did and AF arrived the next day… but DH reminds me that the nurse said it was OK except on the day of transfer.
Trish – LOL to customers hearing you chant away to yourself! I have started singing to my embies… crazy as it sounds, its actually rather soothing.
Cheers,
Shazz - I'm sorry you have no snowbubs. I shall give my fertility stone an extra rub for you, try and stay positive.
And to Trish - stop it! You know time drags enough without you counting down the seconds. Concentrate on that cross-stitch because once you're up the duff you'll never get around to it.
Hope everything went well for you Sheree and you have lotsa beautiful embies.
Cazz - I'm thinking of you too in this bloody awful wait.
Where has everyone gone? I'm feeling quite lonely. Not for long though, my M-I-L arrives Friday. I can't stand her and she's staying for TWO weeks - give me strength. She has absolutely ZERO sense of humour and my sarcastic humour is totally lost on her. Of couse DH can't take time off work so I'm stuck with her. He's going to owe me big time! :mad:
Thanks for your well wishes. This EPU was fairly nerve wracking for me....and now we are in torture land. We have 9 eggs and are using ICSI to try and give us better fertilisation rates this time. But with PGD how quickly the numbers diminish is pure torture. I'm OK, sorry for the lack of personals - I'm going back to the couch...
Sheree - :crossfingers: :crossfingers: :crossfingers:
Hi girls
Well I know I have been really slack of late but my shifts have been an absolute nightmare.
Shazz - Sorry that you don't have any snowbubs, but you won't need them honey!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sheree - I'm sooooooooooo sending you positive vibes, here's hoping you get some fabulous embies!!!
Sushee- WOW, it was me that said that I wished I could be as calm as you during the last cycle, you certainly had me fooled. I'm so glad it all worked out for you xxxxxxxxx
Keen - What will you be up to now?
Trish - I'm soooooooooooo sure that this is your month xxxxxxxxxxx
I emailed my dr today as I was booked in to do a thaw cycle with our one little embie that we have on ice. I have been told that it is only a grade three (as were the two we put back). I really didn't want to put it back, I wanted to do another stim cycle and try get a few better quality embies to give us a better chance. Well, he agreed with me and has booked me in for a clomiphene & Fsh cycle when af arrives. Has anyone else done one of these. The drugs used are Clomiphene, FSH (prob gonal F or puregon) and orgulutron. Last cycle I did was a down reg and my eggs were apparently not all that tip top.
Hope everyone else is going well.
Love
Ali xxxxxxx
Hi guys, glad everything is going well in here.
Sheree, glad the OPU went well, will await results for you tomorrow, hang in there, there will be a transfer!!
Keen, good to see you back, it does take time to regroup. Join me in the wait for AF to start FET, it's getting longer by the day, I'm down to the last 5 days now.
Ali, good on you for being proactive, when if AF due?
Best of luck getting through the TWW, time goes so slow not long to go though
Take care
Oooh Tam - my AF is due in 5 days too, lets hope she shows up on time so we can start our FET together!
Good morning all,
positive vibes....................... positive vibes ................positive vibes...
Sheree ~ well done i hope you get some nice strong embies [-o<
and how is the Tww Girls Cazz , blue Trish are we all as mental as me yet 8-[
Trish i have been saying a novena to Saint Jude every day so if your nutty so am i:
I have been chanting positive affirmations all afternoon - ( nutty ) I don't care if customers see or hear me - they come in sometimes and I don't hear them -LOL
Okay I must say I am starting to obsess and I dont really have anything to obsess over that cant be explained away by the crinone!!!!
Well except for the localised cramping I am still having.
I just want it to be next friday already.
Cazz
Cazz - I was a complete mental case in my TWW and I honestly think a lot of it had to do with the Crinone, so you're not alone.
I'm keeping everything crossed that you get your BFP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ali xxxxxxxx
Cazz - it just sux doesn't it? Do what I do, count down sleeps to go and before you know it it will be only 1 more sleep, then you're there!
None of you sound any more neurotic than I ever was in my TWWs. Every twinge, every cramp, every slightly sore bb made me obsess. And how can you not when you know that there’s a fertilised embryo – or two - in there? The TWW is the longest period of any cycle, I reckon, and I say, obsess as much as you like! Rub that fertility stone, chant away, do whatever you need to to get past the TWW!
Ali, I’m surprised I had everyone fooled. I guess it was because I wasn’t posting much trying to keep my mind off it all. I was also absolutely convinced it hadn’t worked, so was a little down. Lesson it that for everyone! Peesticks or not, it’s the beta that counts! Though, blue, I totally understand the urge and this way, if it’s –ve, doesn’t mean it may not be a +ve anyway. So what does it hurt?
Sheree, like Tam, I reckon you’ll make it to transfer this time. If our good wishes count for anything, you’ll have two to transfer, with spares to freeze!
Hope everyone is well. So whose beta is the first one up?
love
sushee
thanks Sushee - we are different yet the same in 2ww -
F.I.N.E. (NOT !) frustrated insecure neurotic and emotional
I am not using pee stick [-(
Sheree - I am wishing same as Sushee & everyone for you [-o<
Ali- I wish you all the best on next stim cycle - tell me more is it a short cycle like Sushee's
Sushee - can you tell us your succesfull protocol
The long down reg cycle is so long ](*,)
Shazz,Cazz & Blue - :bluestick: :pinkstick: you will test before me :confetti: :cheer:
I'm having pregnyl so Nurse booked me for 10 days after last shot - even though only 1500iu - so don't get false + does anyone know how long it really lasts
chanting & [-o<
*I am going to be pregnant *
* I do believe in miracles*
*I am surrounded by wonderful friends *
* dreams do come true*
* I fall down I get up again *
:smt081
Hi girls,
I just wanted to come in and wish all the tww's :luck: :luck: :luck: and send some :bdust: and some :pinkstick: to you all, hoping for some more of you in preg after LTTTC very very soon!
Tiff
thanks Tiff :hug:
Hi Girls,
Trish suggested i pop my post in here and see what all you lovely ladies think!
I am going to my gyno on Thursday for my post op check up ( lap to remove endo and cyst). I want to explore more options for ttc and wondering what questions should i be asking? Should i ask to be put on clomid??
Also has any one heard of success stories with chinese herbal medicine??
Thanks Girls
Racheal