Sharee ~ Awesome, well done hun! Its amazing isnt it - enjoy being PUPO & GL in TWW!
Juniper ~ thanks heaps for the birthday wishes and for your help with the excitment concerns
Terry ~ thanks for the party and follie wishes. Sorry it was a neg for you and I hope you can find out what's going on ASAP and continue your TTC journey confidently.
Juniper ~ All the best for the lap, hope you get rid of the endo!
Bj*81 ~ Well done, all the best in TWW. Try and relax and be keep your mind occupied if ya can. FX and
Miss K ~ Hi. 1st jab down, about 11 to fo LOL. How about you? We are very close my scan is Fri 5th and then probably EPU on 8th or 9th. It would be excellent to be pg together! Will you be doing a 3 day or 5 day transfer?
Emerald ~ Yes lets see who's 1st hey and then the ball will be rolling in 2010!! 8 follies sounds pretty good so far hun, you still have time for them to grow. F and TX!!
Trubabe ~ Looks like we'll be in hospital together. Hope you get some answers and can start IVF journey soon.
Wishingbaby ~ thank you. I sure will have fun on Sat, ta. GL on Sat with your IUI, F and TX!
Sharee and bj*81 - when are your BT's Due so i can put you guys on my "awaiting results" list !!!
wishingbaby - thanks for your positive energy!!! GL with your IUI sat, and could you please let me know when your BT is as well...
trubabe - congrats on the birth of your nephew.. it will be our turn before you know it!!
Loops12 - thanx babe....keeping everything crossed for you too...have you heard any news from mitf??
AFM - as you all know i have another scan tomorrow... that those follies have grown...i will probably have confirmation tomorrow on when EPU will be...starting to get a liitle excited now...just hoping it doesn't come with a big fall in the end..
Emerald Star - BT is the 10th Feb. Let's hope my sanity lasts til then
Sorry everyone I'm just on the way out so I'll pop in again tomorrow but I hope that everyone is hanging in there wherever you are in your cycles, hopefully we can get some more over in the 2ww and get some BFP's!
trubabe - I hope you get strength to visit your new nephew though don't force yourself to go till your ready if you find it will make you too upset just hold of a day or so I am sure they will understand
wishing baby - Only 2 more sleeps till the IUI
Sharee - Good luck in the 2ww
Loops - I will be doing a 2 day transfer my first jab will be going down tomorrow lol!
Emerald star - I will be that your follies are growing really well and that your EPU will be here soon!!
AFM : Start jabbing tomorrow watch out hehe!! I have read that doing the injections of a night time is best... Has anyone else heard this or no??? I generally start jabbing of a morning but if nights are going to be better I may do that?
Hi lovley ladies
Emearld ~ no probs and thank you. Yeh get excited, great to see. Still for ya. No I havent heard anything from Mitf for a while come to think of it, I might try and PM her. Good job on the List for Feb!
Miss K ~ 2 day transfer that means you will be PUPO first LOL. Im having a blastocycst (5 day) transfer so I'll be waiting a bit longer for the transfer.
I do the needles at night but don't really have a choice with my clinic, unless for some reason night is no good. So perhaps there is evidence of night being better - ive never heard that before though.
All the best with the jabbing today and on.
all
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Emerald - How did your scan go today? Hope those little follies are growing big and fat. Just take it one day at a time, try not to think too far ahead. So far everything looks good right....so just focus on that.
Miss K - I've never heard of doing the jabs at night. I have always been told the morning. Do you know why they think it's better? I would be interested to know. Anyway hope your 1st jab went ok, very exciting...it will be your EPU before you know it!
Loops -How's the injections going? Only 10 days to go before your EPU. Hope it flies by.
Juniper - Hope your appointment Monday goes well. you can get the answers you need.
Thanks so much everyone for your well wishes and I am trying to keep myself busy, calm and positive in my 2ww....but really tired and brain dead! Keep walking into a room and forgetting why I'm there! I think Monday really messed me up. But I have next week off (not sure if that's a good thing yet) but might head back home to Byron for a few days and recuperate on the beach.
Sorry to everyone I missed. Hope everyone is doin ok
Just wanting to let you know that EPU is on Monday! Follies have not grown and still have only TWO at this stage that are mature ( hopefully they contain an egg!!! a viable one at that!!!!!!!!!) Nurses called me today to ask what i wanted to do??? Shouldn't they be telling me what is best!!!....so after a 45min chat with the nurse, i decided to go with EPU and see what they get...(the 2 that are there might over mature and i end up with nothing!) i am really bummed out!! anyway i'll see how it goes Monday....
GL girls!! and i will start mourning my follies from now and start getting my head around IVF # 5!!!!!!!!
AWAITING BT RESULTS
bj*81 - 10th February
sharee - 11th February
emerald star - 16th February (pending)
The Hall Of Fame for 2010:
January - NIL
February - ???
sorry to bug you guys like this...however, i really need advice , as i am making myself depressed with these follicle numbers. I trigger Saturday nite...will the 20mm and the 25mm be tooooo mature??? would you guys have cancelled with these follicle results? If follicles grow approx 2mm a day then at best my 2x 13mm will be 17 - 20mm by EPU, correct? the larger ones would be too mature, the 25mm one will be around 30mm and the 20mm will be around 25mm? i really need some pepping up..i don't mean to make it all about me, but i was so excited in the last few days and this result has hit me hard, as i always had better results with the Antagonist Protocol...any feedback would be much appreciated.
Emerald Star, I can understand your concern. I was in the position last time of having my follicles grow more quickly than expected and being quite large at trigger. I think you should have at least a couple at the optimum size there. The trigger can actually give the follie growth a bit of a boost so your "almost ready" ones can catch up a bit. It might also make the biggest one a bit dubious, but my old FS was comfortable with anything up to 30mm (although I remain skeptical about that). If it helps, I have a friend on another website who went to EPU with 1 follicle, got 2 eggs and is now due in May... A smaller batch of eggs doesn't mean you can't succeed, it just lowers the odds. And if there's one thing I've learned through all of this - odds mean sweet FA!! It will work or it won't; there's no point worrying about statistics because you never know which group you'll fall into...
Hmmm, does that help or stress you out more? I hope it helps. I think it might be time for me to go to bed...
My point is, I think you'll be fine. GL on Monday!
Emeraldstar Juniper is spot on don't stress the results may be totally different by the time the pick up on Monday and whats to say that the smaller ones aren't going to turn out to be better performing. My FS also told me that in a way its good that you get some that don't mature because if you were trying naturally then it wouldnt have worked either. This was after I questioned her on why only 7 of the 20 she has collected made it. I will that you at least get a few viable ones on Monday
Loops & Mrs K hope everything is going along nicely for you
Juniper good luck with your new DR hope that you cant get back to TTC very soon
AFM well I'm off to get a BT today 36 days without AF is very strange so now I'm starting to worry and I've been ready that some women have gone that far but POAS too early got a BFN but were actually pregnant. Not that I think thats me but I just want to know I'm ok even with all my IVF cycles the longest I've gone is 30 days. See even when we are not cyclying we can still sound crazy!!!!
I am new to this forum although have been lurking. I wish you all the best and fingers crossed for those in the tww and that all goes well for those waiting for follies to grow and egg collection.
AFM: We are thinking of going down the IVF/ICSI route next cycle. I swapped FS due to about $1500 difference for each cycle. My question is, is that with my new FS he wants to do an transfer on day 2 or even day 1. He said it was due to my age -44 and that he believes that our body is better than anything they can do and this will give us the best chance rather than waiting to blastocyst. Has anyone heard of this??
Also the one thing they do differently to my previous FS is that during the injections of Gonal -f you also inject a small dose of HCG every 2nd day - until trigger. Does anyone else do this or heard of this?
Loops - It may all change though and we end up having transfer at the same time hehe I thought a 2 day was weird?
Bj have fun in Byron!!!
Terry - I hope you get some answers soon!!! And you do go crazy with a break too LOL
Jilly - Welcome to BB!! I am having a day 2 transfer this cycle I didn't question it I just go with the flow though and let my FS tell me what to do... I have heard of the HCG being done I was always thought it was to help with the following :
Induce final maturation of the eggs
Cause the resumption of meiosis
Loosen the egg's attachment from the follicle wall
Allow for the timing of the egg retrieval
well thats what I read anyways! I hope all goes well with this cycle for you
And girls the reason for injections of a night time I read off IVF Australia, we normally suggest the evening is a better time to do this, so that when we do blood tests and ultrasounds in the morning, if we need to change the dose then the dose can be changed that same day.
Mind you I am jabbing of a morning still as I was too scared to wait till night incase it meant it put me back a day! I read into things way too much I think lol!!!
Jilly, I speak to a lot of Americans doing IVF and many of them use a drug called Menopur which is a combination of FSH and LH, rather than just straight FSH. I asked my old Dr about it for our last IVF cycle and he said it wasn't available here but we could do low dose HCG during the stimming phase instead. Since LH and HCG are similar in structure (which is why we use HCG for a trigger as a substitute for our natural LH surge) that seemed a logical alternative. We didn't end up doing it though. The reason I asked about it was because I'd read that it can work better for poor responders (which is what I am) than just straight FSH. Your Dr may expect you to be a poor responder due to your age and be taking steps to maximise the chances of your cycle succeeding (which sounds great to me!).
ive been reading up on all your posts very interesting
a little about me and my story so far, started seeing my FS in december 2008 got pregnant in feb 09 and MC in march 09 then tried IUI due to hubby working away and tried it to get the timing right. This didnt work then i had ovarian drilling and tried the IUI again with no luck.
After talking to FS it was decided IVF was my next step and seeing as i had no response to all the IUI meds i would be better using an egg donor - which im very lucky i have a wonderful cousin to help me out.
So now we have started the process and have ultrasound appointments this thursday to see if we can do the egg retreival on the monday.
Im wondering if you know how long you need to wait inbetween IVF cycles if im not lucky first go?
Tammara, GL with your cycle. I hope 1 is all you need. I think Medicare only covers each cycle as long as its more than 30 days between starting the FSH injections (ie Medicare won't cover you if you start the FSH injections for cycle #2 less than 30 days after you started for cycle #1). If you do the long down reg protocol (ie starting synarel or lucrin the cycle before) that won't be a problem because it takes about 2 months anyway... I'm not sure how it would work with the donor eggs though? And that's only for fresh IVF cycles; if you wanted to do a FET the following cycle then I don't think there's a time requirement.
it will be our turn before you know it!!
that those follies have grown...i will probably have confirmation tomorrow on when EPU will be...starting to get a liitle excited now...just hoping it doesn't come with a big fall in the end..
Hall Of Fame for 2010:
for ya. No I havent heard anything from Mitf for a while come to think of it, I might try and PM her. Good job on the List for Feb!
all
Shouldn't they be telling me what is best!!!....so after a 45min chat with the nurse, i decided to go with EPU and see what they get...(the 2 that are there might over mature and i end up with nothing!) 
i am really bummed out!! anyway i'll see how it goes Monday....
, as i am making myself depressed with these follicle numbers. I trigger Saturday nite...will the 20mm and the 25mm be tooooo mature??? would you guys have cancelled with these follicle results? If follicles grow approx 2mm a day then at best my 2x 13mm will be 17 - 20mm by EPU, correct? the larger ones would be too mature, the 25mm one will be around 30mm and the 20mm will be around 25mm? 
i really need some pepping up..i don't mean to make it all about me, but i was so excited in the last few days and this result has hit me hard, as i always had better results with the Antagonist Protocol...any feedback would be much appreciated. 
and that he believes that our body is better than anything they can do and this will give us the best chance rather than waiting to blastocyst. Has anyone heard of this?? 
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