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Vic - I hope you are surviving the tww and that is the last one you have to sit through for a while. One more week to go, do you test beforehand? Also wanted to thank you for the list - to be a pain though I was a day out, so I'm actually cd8 now. Thanks.
N2L- Hopefully that little embie is getting nice and comfortable and all those cramps are for a good thing. Are your DP and DD back today? Hpefully a full house will make the tww go a little quicker, although having had the house to myself this past week too, I have to admit that it can be peaceful and relaxing. Only for so long though, and then I start to go a bit batty.
Jane - good luck for your scan on Friday. Hopefully your body is play the game and it will all be good news.
MissB - How are your headaches going (hopefully away!). All the best for todays scan.
Bee27 - welcome to the thread. Wish that you didn't have to be here but can't recommend a better place if you are going to have to go through assisted conception.
Myturn - sorry the scan wasn't the best. Here's to hoping that your body will start to respond quickly and the ball can start rolling. The times when your left waiting are just so frustrating aren't they. I usually feel like even though, jabbing, bt and scans before work (especially when that is an hour drive anyway), etc. are exhausting enough, but waiting to get things going is just plane frustrating.
Liseyt - It is so hard when you realise others have started trying and the feeling that is likely to come if it is easy for them. I would never wish for it to be like this for anyone, it is just that when others fall quickly/easily it just reminds me that it sucks that its not the case for us. My SIL told me they will be trying for number 2. I'm nervous and hope they announce over the phone so that I can hide the intial stab of jealousy. It generally doesn't take long for me to find a way to feel happy for people, and then the baby comes and it starts all over again. Our time will come though, and I'm hoping that LTTTC will mean we will cherish every moment, even the morning sickness and sleepless nights
Kerbear - all the best with the two injections and todays scan.
Mia - I know what you mean about feeling like a junkie. I'm a bruiser, so my arms have great bruises from all the bt's and my belly is polka dotted. Not exactly making it easy to hide that we are doing another cycle.
Amy_Jellybean - How are you going? Hopefully getting excited to start your next cycle once af shows.
Saffy - I know you haven't been in here for a while. I think you were back on the pill until your next cycle? Anyway, hope you are going well and enjoying the lack of pressure from TTC - that was definately a bonus for me last month while I was on the pill.
Hopefully I didn't forget anyone but if I have I will come back later and apologise!
AFM - not really much to report. Bt tomorrow but I think I will still have another week of stabbing to go. starting to feel a bit bloated but otherwise no symptoms (I am on a really low dose though). It feels funny to wishing the opposite of th most of you, which is only one-two follies. Hoping a scan will be scheduled soon so I can find out what is going on in there. It has been strange this cycle, I have no positive thoughts of this all resulting a pregnancy and am just getting my hopes on getting the right number of follies. Then I start thinking about the next cycle and when we can get started on that. How pessimistic of me!
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Hi ladies,
Sorry for the me post but feel a bit flat today. I'll come back with persies later.
First of all, thanks very much for your well wishes. I got my scan done and it looks like my right ovary is doing a lot better than my left, which surprised me as all my pain is all on my left side. Now I'm thinking either the ovary is struggling or coming to it's end????? :( Anyhoo, there are 6 good sized follies, one is quite big at 23 mm. The rest are of good size, I didn't really ask how big, I was quite shocked to hear there's only 6, so was a bit stunned. The nurse said it's not always about numbers, which I know, she said someone can get 10 eggs and not have any good embies from it, and someone else can get only 4 eggs but have one or two good embies from it (if not all 4). I suppose it's reflective of my age now (41) and the fact that my AMH level plummeted from 12.3 to 3.8 in the space of 10 months :o I feel disappointed as 3.5 years ago I had 13 eggs collected, 11 fertilized but only had 2 goods ones at day 5. Now the number of eggs is lower, quality is probably not as good naturally, so I'm so nervous whether I will have any good ones at day 5 (that's assuming they will fertilize). So waiting for a phone call now, the nurse said I might go to theatre on Thursday. Yaaaaayks! Will keep you updated.
A quick question to those who have had multiple cycles.........did you ever have more eggs collected to what they anticipated at your scan? The nurse said the follies on the left side were all about 6 mm, so they don't expect any from that side, but I'm wondering if some others are just hiding and when they do go in there they find some bonus ones?
b xoxo
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MissB, sorry your scan didn't go as well as you hoped it would :(
It still isn't a bad result, although it may seem like it is. To answer your question, this current cycle I only had three mature follie and I got four embies which all fertilised (as you know :) ) Last stim I had 12 good follies and I only got three embies at pick up. Until you have pickup, there is no way of telling. However, a follie needs to be at least 18mm to be considered mature so your nurse is correct about the ones on your left :(
Your lead follie is great at 23mm. How big are the others? They like them to be a uniform size because they are the same maturity for fertilisation. I reckon you will go Thursday! It sounds like that one is about ready! How exciting!!! Did they do a blood test checking your LH and progesterone??
Keep your chin up gorgeous woman :)
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17 January 2012
Waiting for EPU/O
Liseyt - CD5 BT 24.01.12 US 27.01.12
Kerbear - CD6
Mia01 - CD8
Miss.B - CD
Keta - CD8 BT 18.01.12
Myturn - CD4
Jane - CD BT & US 20.01.12
Hanging out in the TWW
vic261 - CD25 7 days post transfer 1 x day 3 embryo BT 25.01.12
N2L - CD 22 3 day post transfer 2 x day 3 embryo BT 27.01.12
Amy_jellybean 22.01.12
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Hi Girls
Far out, so much is happening in here. Looks like many of you are ramping it up getting ready for some pick ups. Yippee!!!!
Miss B - It does sound like Thursday for you. I assume that will mean that your going for day 5's if your clinic is not open on the weekends. I had 8 folicles, 4 mature and they managed to get 5 eggs although 1 didn't survive. Must have been a bit too immature. 6 follies is still good, and as they say it only takes 1. I am stunned that your AMH dropped to much. Mine was 15.8 back in September, so may have to watch that after hearing that yours dropped quickly. I will be 41 next week.
Ker - How did your scan go?
N2L - You have POAS already? LOL, gosh I wish I was that brave. I hate seeing the BFN, and this time my DH says I have to wait till I come home from work before ringing the clinic for the news. I really, really hope that your faint line gets stronger and stronger. It would be great to start a run of BFP's in here.
Jane - Glad your BT went well. Its alway reassuring when we get good news that something is actually happening inside like its meant to be.
Hi to everyone else.
AFM - DH has gone away for work this morning and should be home on Friday. I am starting to get used to him working away and the sofa and I have become great mates along with DVD's of McLeods Daughters. Yesterday I was going on about no symtoms but late yesterday afternoon I was feeling really sleepy and then really nauseous for a couple of hours. I know its way too soon for that sort of thing, but DH was so happy. Still tired today and slept really well. Probably all in my head. lol.
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Miss B - sorry your scan was dissapointing to you. My nurse told me not to look at the number written on anyone elses arms when I get the eggs removed (I know I will anyways LOL) as its about quality not quantity of the eggs you have. So to me 6 is great but I know sometimes we expect something more in our minds. Put it this way you got more then 1! :hug: In NO way am I wanting to make you feel like you shouldnt feel the way you want just hope to make you feel better that you had quite a few and sounds like good size too ;)
Keta - goodluck with the stabbing and BT for tomorrow :hug: I bruise easily so am not looking forward to all the BT's and stabbing but has to be done :)
Vic - yay re the symptoms ;) :stickyvibesboy:
AFM - nothing to report just waiting till me next appointment on the 27th of Jan (next Friday) to pick up meds and make payment OOOHHH LOL
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Missb- sport your scan didn't go as well as planned, but yay for your huge follicle, I am crossing my fingers it all goes well for you.
Vic- tired is good, hope that is a positive sign for you, rest up and let the sticky vibes hit you :-)
N2l- hope you are feeling better today, I am an obsessed poas person lol do I to would do what u have done, anything to help get you through another day, goodluck, stickies for you to :-)
Sorry it's a short one for writing to everyone.
AFM- not a good day at all, needed DH today and he is at work, do cant wait for him to get home as I need a cuddle.
Scan did not go well, we have 7 follicles but they are small and not where they need to be at this stage, FS has doubled my dose of gonalf and has said not to start cetratide as they are not where they need to be. She has told me if they don't get to where they need to be we may be canceling this ivf and doing iui so that we don't waste money. This news absolutely devastated me this morning, I took the day off cause I couldn't stop crying. I just got the realization today that you can only stay positive for so many knockdowns and then you crumble.
DH has said don't worry they might have a big growth spert from more meds and if not we have next month, I know he is right, but it's been next month for 2.5 yrs :-(
Sorry for my ranting. I am still not dealing with this and really don't know how to pull myself together, everytime I try I start crying. My mum sounded sad for me when I told her but as she said my FS aired on the side of caution as we didnt know if I would end up hyper stimulated and now she can set a plan for next time of it doesn't work.
Well enough about me. Hope everyone else is doing well. Hugs to you all.
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Kerbear, just a quick one...but don't worry. Those follies can grow. I have had a cycle (or maybe two) where the follies were small and the gonal f dose was upped. Everything turned out fine in the end. They usually grow approx. 2mm a day.
How many days stimming have you had? How big were they??
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Big :hug: kerbear - my last cycle they werent growing either and when the meds were upped they started and I got 5 eggs from 8 follicles and all fertilized !! Okay so the 3 good ones were not successful implants or frosties. But hey... At least we knew they fertilize well and that I need higher meds for the next cycle.
There is always hope lovely!!!
But if you want to cry go right on and sook away! That's okay too! xxx
Wish we were all there with you to give you a big :grouphug:
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Thanks myturn and n2l it means so much having all of you to talk to.
I have had meds for 5 days, FS sent me home from app this morning to have another 150. They were 11.6, 9.1, 7.8, and the other 4 were all in the six range.
It's nice to know others have grown theirs up to be good, hope the increase in meds does that for me.
Well I have had a shower, cooked dinner, now it's time to chin up and wait for DH to get home from work.
Thanks again for the support, I know I keep saying it but I can't say it enough :-)))
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I can't rembrandt my exact nbers but that seems similar. I was on the puregon for over two weeks I think. I know I had scans 5 times. And they were every second day!
In fact I just checked my journal (I've been keeping a journal to have a track of everything that happens :) )
My first scan was 19/10/11 and last one was 29/10/11. So I was stabbing for 16 days! Wow! No wonder it felt like it would never end!! It's one of the reasons we changed the protocol this time as my body wasn't responding as expected. But even then it still went ahead :)
FX it all works out!!
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Just stopping in really quickly as I have a work dinner to run to!
Kerbear - Just wanted to say dont give up hope yet. When I did my stim cycle in August 10 they started me on 100 iu of Peuregon a day because of my age. I responded really poorly to the drugs and had they ended up upping me to 200 iu per day about 4 days before egg pick up and it made a massive difference!!! We had a poor fertilisation rate though which the FS said was due to my poor response with the drugs but just want to say dont give up hope just yet!!!
Hi to everyone else :wave:
xxx
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That sounds good to me Kerbear! Five days on Stims is nothing! This cycle, i did 12. My first scan on cd8, my biggest follie was 11mm. So I wouldnt worry about it too much. There is still plenty of time :) What dose were you on? What are you on now?
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Thanks myturn and amyjellybean.
N2l I was on 150 and now on 300, she has told me not to take it thur morning until after I see her as app is at time I normally take it, incase she wants to change it again.
All you info on your experience has certainly made me feel better and not give up hope :-)
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As jellybean says, that should make a massive difference :) I'll keep my fingers crossed for you x
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Oh Kerbear, all our love and thoughts are with you. fingers crossed those little guys grow like they should be!!! When my cycle got cancelled, my follicles were much smaller and it was at christmas closure times... so dont stress yet xx
miss B- any more news?
AFM- so tired and teary... but fingers crossed for all of you and start puregon in the morning, so hopefully things keep kicking along.
having a glass of wine for us all (while I still can) xx
love to all
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Hi ladies,
Thanks so much for all your lovely replies. I think I'm OK with what they've told me, I just have to keep positive as I really just need that ONE to work!
kerbear, big hugs hunni :hug: They will grow bigger with more of the meds so chin up and fingers and toes crossed hun!
n2l, thanks for your words of encouragement too hun. The other follies were between 15-17 mm, and the ones on the other ovary were all within the 6 mm mark, so none will be good. My progesterone was slightly elevated but the nurse said that was a good indication the follies were growing well. How are you going hun? Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but did you say you got a very faint positive on your pee stick? I really wish and pray your faint positive gets stronger and stronger each day!
Vic, they are aiming for day 5 like last time, but the IVF nurse said that if the embies are not going so well on day 3 they will make a decision and maybe put in the best one on day 3. I don't want to take a chance on a day 5 embie if it's not going to go the distance in the lab, but it could go the distance inside my uterus on day 3 iykwim. As for the AMH drop hun, everyone is different. They say it does drop with age typically, but then n2l's result is excellent for her age. Sounds very positive with your symptoms hun! FX for you hunni :hug:
Mia, thank hun. I keep forgetting I had a good level of eggs but that was 3.5 years ago and I was 3.5 years younger!
liseyt, forget the glass of wine, I'm going straight for a fag. Those seem to calm me down, haha.
Hi to everyone else, myturn, keta, jane, amy, bee, saffy. Baby dust and sticky vibes to all of us!
B xoxox
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Good to hear from you MissB. Those others on the right sound good! :)
Are they doing the pickup on Thursday, or are you coasting? Oh, I had slightly elevated progesterone this cycle too :)
Had another faint positive today but think it was a bit fainter. It is just the trigger so nothing to get excited about!
PS...Put that cigarette down!!!! Now!!!! ;)
