No luck for me :(
I am absolutely gutted - follies still much too small - waiting for 'the call' this afternoon to find out what's gonna happen now.
God this sucks.
:(
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No luck for me :(
I am absolutely gutted - follies still much too small - waiting for 'the call' this afternoon to find out what's gonna happen now.
God this sucks.
:(
Hi Ladies
I've been reading but haven't posted in a while. Anywayt thought I too would offer some advice
fatgirlslim don't stress that your body isn't ready yet. Take that as a positive that its doing what it does normally so hopefully when you do get to have the EPU you can get some really good eggs. I remember for one of my cycles it took me 17 days to ovualte and I too thought will they miss it etc. i ended up having 3 scans and 3 BT and I really think all the stress I was putting on myself probably didn't help
WaitingAwaiting I'm sure that most of us on here have had the same thoughts about how do other people manage to do it so easily etc. Like Rob said your time will come. I remember asking my FS why isn't it happening etc and she said something to me that made a lot of sense. For years I had been conditioning my body not to get pregnant and now all of a sudden I want to have a child. It takes time for your body to readjust and do what you want it to do. When I'm feeling down I take comfort from this. She also pointed out that when I have my EPU they took out 20 eggs of which 7 fertilised. I could have been trying for well over a year to get pregnant natural and it may not have worked.
Rob it's lovely to see that you are still offering some really sound advice and words of wisdom.. Hope everything is progressing along nicely for you
AFM well I'm on a naturally TWW this month. It's funny though I don't feel any of the emotions I usually go through when we are doing and IVF cycle maybe it's because we are just leaving it to fate and also because I know that I didn't have and embryo put back
Fatgirlslim - I'm so sorry :( Thinking of you today.
Terry - It's true what you said about our bodies needing to be reconditioned from trying not to get pregnant to trying to get pregnant however I've never been on any type of contraceptive. When I met my partner I was 16 and I was a virgin. He always used a condom and that was that. So it's not as if my body needed to rid itself of anything - it just needed to get UTD!! lol
Hello Everyone!!!
I will catch up on personals when I read a little more its been soo long since I have been online!!!
I am back from our break from all our fertility treatment I am on the pill and start sniffing on the 18th then start injecting the week after that its soo soon and our first IVF cycle we have done everything and the FS said after 3 years of seeing her its time to start moving onto the IVF train no more clomid, surgeries or injecting and hoping to fall naturally its finally time to put my body in its place!!
xoxo
Oh FGS I am soooo sory to read that you have not had much progress XXX
Rob is right, our bodies all react different to the drugs, I had 3 IUI's and my body was acting completely different to the puregon each month, on my third try, I was still injecting puregon on day 21 of my cycle, I was going completely off the rails whereas the 1st, I was ready by day 13.
What a rollercoaster ehh? Sometimes there seems to be more downs than ups, when we are on an up, the downs seem to be forgotten for just a while, until we have to turn another darn corner. Sweetheart it will work out in the end. We are all here for you, just remember to take is easy, have they called you to let you know what is going to happen next?? Thinking of you XX
Rob I live in Robinvale Victoria, about 5hrs from Adelaide....loooong drive!!
You are right about the sonographer, they shouldve kept quiet if they were not sure, their job is to scan and send, not give a half prognosis to a patient. No matter what, I just hope that you and bub(s) stay happy and healthy.
Danyelle I say go for it with the accupuncture, I am too. After I MC in March last year, I began accptr and it got my cycle back to normal within 35days, I have continued to go eversince. Sometimes I find it a little pinchy, but all in all it is painfree X Good luck with it!
MitF Congrats on your Pregnancy!!! I'm pretty sure I met you in the TWW a couple months ago and I am so glad things have finally worked out for you!!!XXX
WaitingAwaiting IKWYM X As I said to Rob, the sonographers job is not to diagnose, or make a Pt feel uncomfortable, you would have been going nuts you poor thing X Glad everything seemed to be ok though X Internals are awfull, what us girls need to go through huih? It does suck big time. I do beleive that we will get our luck in the end of all this, but why us???
Jaki80 I loved watching my IVF scan too, and it was the first time DH came in to have a look, he was amased!
Terri fingers crossed for you on your Natural TWW XXX Glad you feel a little more refreshed and the stress levels are at a low, I don't know what it is like to endure an IVF TWW yet, but I'm sure it will be agony.
MissK congratulations on begining your journey to IVF!!! Sorry you have to go through the rollercoaster of it all, but I'm just glad for you that you feel like you are finally going to get somewhere XXX Good Luck with it, and keep us posted!
AFM, well EPU yesterday was interesting, woke up after sedation very queasy, and never got to leave untill 730 last night!! So many girls came in after me but seemed to walk out so easy before me!!! I stumbled back to motel hanging off DH like I was still on cloud 9!!
Out of 9 eggies collected, (4 ICSI and 5 Natural ) (3 ICSI fertilised + 3 Natural fertilised)
so today we have 6 embies so far!! They are going for blasty stage, so won't know exactly how many will keep growing until ET on Friday.
Take care all XX
Murraycod very promising results. Bugger we are near Mannum so perobably won't get to catch up *sigh* LOL. Did you use Repromed and if so which FS did you see?
Yeup Repromed, My FS is Bruno Radesich, he is wonderfull, so are the nurses there X
Hi everyone,
Well I'm over sulking and have got back up on the horse again.
Was a little upset with Hubby after our BFN, his answer was, "so is that it now". IF looks could kill, he would be dead. :o
He got a little confused with what I said at the end of last year, when I said that's it for this year, he thought we were quitting :doh:
I was talking about for when the new changes for medicare and how it was going to cost us a lot more.
Lets just say he was in the dog house for a couple of days.
I agree with Rob and Murraycod with regards to everyone is different, on my previous FET I didn't ovulate till day 28, my longest time ever last year was day 30, my body is just on a go slow most of the time. Hope its not going to be the same again this month.
O.k. I have decided to do Acupuncture but I want to go to somewhere where someone from Belly Belly has gone and would highly recommend. Does anyone out there have any suggestions. ?????
Good luck everyone, I have my fingers & toes crossed for you.
I saw Angela McLean, she was awesome, always positive and a great inspiration and support to stay positive. She was the one who said about the "steps" and it really helped in so many ways.:
Like in weight loss instead of focusing on lets say the 20kg lets focus on the 500g steps. I lost 8 kg this weigh.
I really believe my positive result was cause our consent ran out the day before. We saw her at 12pm and transrred that afternoon, but she really helped me feel so good that day. She noticed the 8kg without even knowing. She was awesome.
The nurses were a bit odd actually. A couple were awesome. But I also had a couple that weren't. One all but said why are you here when you already have 4 kids. I am not joking. Put me off that much I didn't go there for my pg ultrasounds because I just couldn't cope if it were her that had to do it.
I got a lecture before my previous transfer from a dr I didn't know about putting 2 embryos back. We were ready to walk away after that. Seroiusly I was naked from the waste down couln't leave the room and he was horrible. And no that transfer didn't work. I went back and saw our dr after that and she was going to take it further. So I am not sure if that it what caused the issue or the act we already had kids but
after talking to our dr decided to use thses embryo's up first. We were catually contemplating going over to linders iv this year i it hadn't worked but i guess thats history now.
The wait for our next scan is killing me but I seriously couldn't go back there.
atsligirl I am so sorry sweety. Just remember the next step is to find out why. It may mean different meds or increasing the dose for the next cycle. Who knows. At least you can start looking to the next cycle. Take care and keep your chin up.:
FGS have you got any news yet babe??
Thinking of you XXX
Hello ladies.
Wow, there's just so much going on right now isn't there?
FGS, I'm so sad to hear about your follies. I've been thinking of you for the last few days. Will keep you in my prayers. I hope that your FS can offer you some good news this afternoon.
Juniper76, very sad to hear of the cancellation. Hope you are doing well and that you have an excellent, supportive group around you. I’m sending you big :hug:
Danyelle, I’ve heard that acupuncture is great for getting your body to ‘realign’ itself (for want of a better word). Let us know how you go with that.
WaitingAwaiting, how’s it all going? Loved your rant! Sometimes I feel just that way too. I have to say, I can care less about what sonographers and drs think about the ‘keptness’ of my hoo hoo. ;) I had a sonographer the other day who was attempting to give me a vaginal ultrasound and was pressing completely on the wrong bit! A actually had to tell her she was up about 5cm too high! *sigh*
Miss K, good luck with your cycle. It’s an exciting time for most. I have spent most of my cycle being really angry and I sure hope you don’t suffer this way. I’ve been angry because I just wanted my body to do what it was made for. I hope that you remain happy and that it goes really well.
Terry, I hope you also stay happy and positive and I’ll be praying for a natural conception for you.
(I’m all about encouraging ladies to be happy as I wasn’t and it really affected me and my DH – would hate to see it happen with any of you.)
Rob, hope all is going well with you and yours.
Loops 12, I see that you are doing your 2nd IVF. Are you doing a long or short cycle? When do you start with the meds? :crossfingers: for you too!
Jacki80, I agree, seeing my follies is freakin’ amazing! I said to my DH my way back to work earlier today, how lucky we are that we’ve seen these things. Sure, everybody else in my family got to conceive naturally but none of them have seen what we’ve been privileged to see.
MC, nice to see you have done well with 6 embies. Not sure if you saw my PM, but I got only 5 harvested. Out of that only 2 were any good. My FS originally told me I would go for ET on Sat but moved it to today. So I am currently incubating the 2. The other good news is that one egg that tried to do the right thing and failed has given it another red hot go overnight and has begun to divide. Crazy! That one clearly takes after me. ;) They will let me know on Sat how it's all going.
So I guess, technically, I'm now in the TWW. I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet. Weird...
Hey Ladies...
Thanks so much for al your support and lovely words-of-wisdom. I think part of my battle is that this is our first IVF try - and even though having such a great site, with a great support network is such a blessing - in some ways it's also a curse - because you get a feel for what to expect - and what's the 'norm' in situations... but - wouldn't give this up for the world! definitely more a positive than a negative!
I got the call from one of the nurses at Repromed... she actually caught me mid-way through a breakdown.. I spent the WHOLE day yesterday in bed bawling my eyes out...
Anyway.. she said that at this stage - they are going to keep me on the 225 Gonal-F because they think that maybe 2 follies might be responding to the dose... and by increasng the dose - they wont be "recruiting" any of the smaller ones. She said that my estrogen level increased to 0.9 - which means that there's some egg activity going on in those stubbourn ovaries of mine...
I have another scan first thing on Friday morning... if there's no more progress and if my E-levels haven't risen, they will cancel the cycle.
She said that at best I might get 2 eggs... and then she did the whole "quality not quantity" and the "you only need one" spiel...
Oh well... I am finding it tough to deal... but not ALL hope is lost right?
MURRAYCOD - what a brilliant result for you!!! Hope your transfer goes brilliantly - and looks like you may have some snow-bubs in waiting too!! lucky girl!!
ROB - you're in Mannum? We have a shack in Cowirra... :) we go up there often just to get away. Just accross the ferry from Mannum.
MOONFLOWER - how exciting for you too!!! You're 'incubating' - sounds so funny - yet so cool!!!
DANYELLE - I am doing acupuncture at the moment with my first cycle - if anything - it's RELAXING... but!!!! Make sure you pick the RIGHT acupuncturist... I changed mine because he was awful - made me feel terrible about everything, said terrible things about my FS and tried to push all these 'supplements' on me that I didn't even know the ingredients off... The new guy I go to was recommended by Repromed - and he's great...
TERRY - thanks for the advice - i know i'm probably overreacting - it's only my first try and I expected smoother sailing!!!
sigh.
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Fatslimgirl we are on the same side as cowirra LOL, just up at Ponde ... small world he he maybe we can catch up :)
Hey Moonflower!!! Sorry havent got your PM, but I am sooo glad to read that you are incubating a couple of fighters!!! And great to see you mabey have another with the fighting spirit!!
Good luck for your TWW, I will be joining you on Friday if all goes well and I too have some fighters!
(you also wrote such a lovely post to everyone, thank you babe XXX)
FGS well I'm glad your still in with a chance sweetheart, I hope that your scan on Friday brings you good news, and your anguish is over for this stage! I'm feeling for you that is for sure, could happen to any one of us, I know I have sailed smooth up to date, but by biggest fear, is that I get a phonecall friday morning saying "dont bother comming up they didn't make it'. Soooo nervy.
I understand to expect a few casualties getting to Blastocyst stage, but for once I want to be completely greedy and keep them all. :D
Danyelle, sulk all you need to babe XX We are all here for you. PS tell your DH he is a GOOSE!!!!!! ;>
FGS, if it helps, I know someone who went to EPU with only 1 follicle, got 2 eggs and is now pg from that cycle. I know that doesn't mean the same would necessarily happen for you, but it just proves that miracles do happen and there's no reason for you to give up on those eggies you're growing! :crossfingers:
murraycod, yay for the great EPU and fertilisation results! :goodluck:
Thanks to those who have offered their support. I'm starting to feel more normal again now. I'm still upset about our cancellation and it's just that extra bit harder with the Medicare changes making another attempt less accessible. I haven't been able to do anything about the suspected endo thing yet because my FS is on holidays for another week and a half... :doh:
FGS - You poor thing!!! Your ovaries are stubborn just like mine, my prob is I don't produce any on a certain dose the minute they turn it 1/2 a turn up bam OHSS for me straight away don't you wish you could just poke the hell out of them and say WAKE UP AND DO YOUR DAMN JOB OVARIES!! I am wishing you all the best and will be praying those follies turn into wonderful big juicy eggs!!
Moonflower - Thankyou for the welcome I went through a depressing time thats why I stopped our fertility treatment as I was worried I was going to be put on medication but for now I am happy and hope it stays this way :)
Juniper you're still here!!! Someone I remember!! I was told by my FS that the medicare stuff has been canned and will be staying at the 80% well thats what she told me 2 weeks ago?? Cause she was concerned about the drop then told me that no need to worry its all going to stay the same if not get better! I hope your feeling better after your cancellation I am soo sorry to here!! BIG HUGS xxoo
ASM - Well I have had horrible side effects from Levlen ED headaches, nausea,tired, indigestion, put on weight (6kgs and counting) but FS said to me only 7 days left then no more but I really feel awful... Has anybody else had this ?? I start sniffing in 2 days then start injecting day 3 of cycle but yeh just soo weird..
Hello everyone else!!
MissK you poor thing! I hope you start to feel better soon X Good luck for this cycle, and give those sleepy ovaries a good poke for me too!!!XXX
FGS, good luck with the scan tomorrow sweetheart, I hope those couple of follies have fattened up X
Moonflower, how is the TWW going?? I will be joining you as of tomorrow....My first ET!!!
So darn excited, I wont sleep tonight!!:o