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hey ladies, AF finally arrived today!!! 4 days late. I rang the clinic and im going in tomorrow to pick up medication and for a BT, im doing a antagonist cycle this time (first one, usually do long down reg) so its all happening very quickly for me as im used to staring on lucrin but this time straight in for stimulation. Does anyone have any benifits over doing the shorter cycle rather then the long down? just thought id try something different this time?
hey oneday-the benefit is its a shorter cycle lol! Nah, I think they say you get less eggs but better quality ones somehow, but the shorter cycle is good too-only down side is more injections but its worth it I think. My FS told me they do this ( antagonist)for everyone now cos Syneral has been discontinued.
Hi everyone else, I am doing an FET as soon as AF comes and she is due soon, I have already started spotting so shouldn't be too far away, hope 2011 is the year for us all who have waited so long, I'm coming up to 2 yrs since I got pregnant and miscarried, can't believe that I still don't have a baby.
hiya girls my name is Kathryne 33yrs old mum to 3 kidlets (11,9 & 2) our 2yr old is an IVF bubba (our first cycle, 2 eggs 2 embies but only 1 survived, embie split resulting in twins but lost other bub at 6 weeks) currently going through our 2nd cycle in hope of 1 more bub currently injecting lucrin and gonal f pick up somewhere between the 24th-28th jan
going through westmead fertility centre
Dont stress, it's only in Victoria that you need both Police checks and Department of Human Services checks. It's discriminatory and it's sooooo wrong but I have no choice but to abide by the law
Fingers crossed it comes before AF does!!!!! (perhaps if I use a cork?? )
yea, it is kind of wrong...i just see so many druggos and people who dont want children popping them out, and DOCS being involved and it makes me so mad that they can just keep having kids, no responsibility and we cant...and then people like us and you who want it so badly and then they make you get checked up and might stop you...
It's nearly as good as ppl telling you that there's a reason you can't get pregnant, god intended, the universe... Blah blah blah. The surrogacy debate at the moment infuriates me.
Ladies i cant believe they are doing police checks, who are they to say we cant have a baby because we may have a criminal record! but its ok for the drugos to have them and all the bad parents that have them naturally! they really need to be doing checks on those kinds of ppl. Even with my clinic you have to have your rubella and HIV checked every 12 months otherwise you cant do a cycle! WTF so if i had HIV would they not let me have a baby? i know you prob shouldn't but i dont see the reason they have a right to deny us treatment, after all we are paying for it.
Nothing to lose to give you a bit of hope if AF does turn up before the police report, my nurses always told me you can start a cycle a few days after she shows up too? so this could give you a few extra days to get it xxx
oneday: i can understand to a degree why they are doing this but maybe they should screen all people who want to be parents, or we have to do a test or something. maybe a childcare course, may help us mums. good luck to you.
melindann: hi to you.
teirae: this is a real debate, but yeah i see so many people who i just want to take their kids off them and this is just at the supermarket,. but i wouldn't do it. sometimes things just aren't fair.
nothing2lose: hi to you
katones and kass: hi to you both
AFM: well i made my FS app for end of feb so we are one step closer. woohoo
Just a little question? How do you cope with certain family members? A close family member, 5 days after our first failed cycle told me that she feels my pain as much as I do but I need to deal with it so she doesn't need to walk on eggshells around me (WTF???????), she has been telling the whole world how selfish DH and I are because we needed to get away by ourselves for Christmas, pulled me up in front of a whole restaurant of people yesterday cos I was hardly eating cos I had THE most massive hormone headache, that night on FB she is going on about what a lovely evening she had and listed everyone who went except for me and says the most crass and hurtful things around me quite often and I am certain they weren't just casual comments said without thinking . . . I am trying so hard to stay calm this cycle but every time I see/hear of her, it sets my teeth on edge. I know the most sensible thing would be to just stay away but why does she have to be such a b!tch?
Sigh, little rant over
melissa ~ hun my MIL is one that irritates me BIG time....i DON'T want to talk to her about our cycle BUT she insists on asking me questions....i quite simply answer her question then clam up....i think she is getting the message now....
had to have a final blood test this morning.... three jabs later 2 in one arm and afew digs in the other.....now i look like a junkie
all set for tuesday morning 7.00am i have to be at the hospital and i am first on the list 8.00am
i actually have 8 follies BUT one is too big and they are now calling it a cyst and the other 4 are smaller...and the three that loo promising are of good size...maybe my smaller ones have grown??wishful thinking huh??
i am starting to feel really nervous and sick thinking about my trigger injection at 8pm....
Hey guys, been hanging out for my FS appointment in two weeks. Fortunately I have to cancel it as I noticd things were a little different. Wasn't going to do any tests cos well, I need IVF, not so, BFP!!!!!!! Good luck ladies, my thoughts and prayers always have and always will be there. All my love, me.
Hi ladies do you mind if i stick around in here for a bit longer? im having a really tough time mentally. Im 6 weeks pg on tuesday but i just dont feel pg at all and i just feel like its not happening and keep thinking how much i just cant go through this journey anymore but at the same time i just dont know how to give up when its everything iv wanted my whole life. Im sorry and i know this should be the happiest time of my life but i feel like there is something wrong, i have had some slight cramping and i tiny bit of brown blood yesterday, everyday iv had sore boobs on and off but nothing today?? i know how selfish this is and im sorry i just needed some where to vent, i dont feel i belong anywhere at the moment. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jayejaye - woohoo, what an AWESOME egg haul you had!!! Yay you! FX for lots of great quality embies from it. Hope you are feeling ok now
Blossom - wow that really sucks about your NK cells. However, hopefully, this cycle will be the one seeing that now there will be no little nasties hampering it. Best of luck for EPU, bring on lots of lovely healthy little eggies
Williever - we have done one FET and we had no jabs. We did a medicated cycle, where I took progynova from the time I got AF and when my lining was right, we were scheduled for transfer. Before the transfer, I had to start the lovely progesterone as per a stim cycle plus keep up the progynova (oestradiol) tablets. You can also do a natural cycle where, correct me if I'm wrong ladies, but you will be monitored for ovulation via peesticks or blood tests and when it is O time, you will be ready to go. As we've only done a medicated cycle, I'm not as familiar with a natural cycle - think they are done if you have no problems with your cycle. Which I don't but for some reason, my clinic decided medicated was the way to go for us. In any case, it is way way less full on than a full stim cycle. HTH Good luck for your EPU and polyp removal - hope you can get lots of nice little embies to freeze
Melindaann - huge big yay to you on your BFP!!!!! Fingers, toes and eyes crossed that it is a lovely little sticky one for you
Blossom - try not to worry about the steroid side affects too much - like the weight gain. I gained about 15 kgs but during my pregnancy I have pretty much stayed the same as the fluid weight I lost was taken up on my belly so it comes out pretty even in the end. And at the end of the day it works - we tried for 7.5 years with no success and after finally being diagnosed with elevated nk cells was put on pred and on the third transfer using pred which was upped to 30 mg I got pregnant and am now nearly 39 weeks and counting down the days.
Good luck - and to any girls who have unexplained infertility, recurrent miscarriage and/or recurrent IVF failure I can't stress enough to get your levels checked!!
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my name is Kathryne 33yrs old mum to 3 kidlets (11,9 & 2) our 2yr old is an IVF bubba (our first cycle, 2 eggs 2 embies but only 1 survived, embie split resulting in twins but lost other bub at 6 weeks) currently going through our 2nd cycle in hope of 1 more bub
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