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.
I didnt think i would have to wait long seeing as i am only taking medication to help thicken my linings ( i have the easy part of this process) and the money side is not too bad its only about $2500 each cycle after the first one so its HEAPS better than the $9067 for the first round.
I finally get my FET tommorrow, can't wait.
I have also booked in for NK Cell Test again for the 9th Feb.
I had to cancel it on my last cycle cause I got sick again and was on antibiotics.
So I don't get sick over the next 9 days
Good luck everyone for their cycles and transfers over the coming weeks.
HI there,
Hope you don't mind me joining you - I am just about to start blood tests for my FET#3 which assuming all goes well the transfer will be early next week. I can already feel my anxiety levels growing as the days go by as I have no faith in my body or the process which I know isn't a good thing!
I have three embies left, 2 x 7 cell grade 2 and 1x 9 cell grade 3. I plan on doing one more FET after this if they'll let me and then take a couple of months off before doing a stim cycle. This is assuming of course I don't have a mental breakdown or run out of money before then!
Reading some of the posts here ladies, all of you are amazing! Infertility is a huge stress at times, so I hope this can be resolved by getting lots of BFP's in Feb!
transfer day 1 or 2?
that all goes well for those waiting for follies to grow and egg collection.
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??
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. 
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.
I don't get sick over the next 9 days 
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