So jealous Vic, hope you have a great time.
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So jealous Vic, hope you have a great time.
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2 June April 2012
Waiting for EPU/O/IUI/FET or just something to happen!
Joeve -
Jane - CD1
myturn - CD4 Stim Down Reg
Ree*Ree - CD4 FET
PlanetSashet - CD11 Stim
Andie78 - CD14 FET
Mrs P - CD16 FET
Miss B - CD19 Natural
Mrs Mac - CD41
Waiting for Transfer
Hanging out in the TWW (stalk them here:https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...180508-17.html
Bee27 - CD31 9dpt 1 x day5 embryo BT 06.06.12
Blossom73 - 7 day post transfer
Vic261 - CD23 5 dpt 1 x day 5 embryo BT 12.06.12
Vic, sounds like you're having a lovely and relaxing time! Enjoy hun :)
Hello to everyone else :)
I will be picking up my meds on Monday for cycle 4. I have been sick for the last 2 weeks so my body better get back into shape pronto! I'm on CD19 I think, so will start jabbing in around 2 weeks. Can't wait for all the craziness to start again.
Vic sounds like an awesome weekend away.
Welcome back miss b.
Joeve, mrs mac, anything yet?
My turn how are you travelling.
Hi to everyone else. Sorry on phone so its hard to do persies for everyone. Hope your all having a good weekend.
AFM ive had a crap week but thank god AF finally arrived today after 6 days of spotting and false alarms so im cd1 starting a fet with hormone replacement. Vic can u add me to the list hun. Please god may this be the cycle.
Miss B hope you feel better before jabbing!
Jane nope no AF.
Twiddling thumbs here....
That's so funny about AF going missing in action before a cycle, mine has done so before every cycle too. Do you think our bodies are trying to tell us something? ;) I betcha this AF will take it's time in arriving too, lol.
AF is scared of the gonal f.....
or of jabbing in general! lol
joeve - crossing my fingers for you xxx
miss b - we are back on the wagon together.... at least yours will be a quicker trip than mine.... about 6 weeks till EPU & ET for me.... that means we will have our blood test at around the time of our 1st wedding anniversary.... lets hope it's a nice present that's waiting for me.
Jane - I'm doing okay.... feeling a bit.... overwhelmed, I'm not sure I'm ready for this... but :dunno: not sure I will ever be....
vic - I hope you are having a lovely time at venus bay :) enjoy it!
actually... I think I'm dwelling a bit on him telling me the ovarian reserve test was a bit low... and that was 18 mths ago that it was tested... so.... I think I'm worried about what that means and how long I've got and when is menopause going to rear her head...??? My mum was diagnosed with early menopause at 42.... and it went for ten years...
yeah... I know I've got time..... it just surprised me, I didn't think there was anything else except the PCOS.... :(
Myturn, did he give you figures (for FSH and AMH)?
no :( and then I felt stupid for not asking.... he said it was "a little low" so I don't think it's that bad.... I know it's nothing I can change, but... bleugh.... it's just another 'crap' thing...
Try not to dwell on it too much. I have great ovarian reserve and it hasnt helped me! In the meantime, loads of women with low ovarian reserve have come and gone from this thread.
All it means is get moving....And you're already doing that. Not much more you can do.
put it out of your head xxx
thanks n2l - I know..... I know.... I'll try....
N2L what is your AMH?
MT - I think once you start you will be in auto-pilot and its definitely a bit easier then isn't it :)
I am watching superman, reminds me of when I was a kidlet!
Last time I had it done (about two months ago) it was 9.
I was upset because it was 17 when i first got it done a couple of years ago. Until my FS told me most women my age are 1 or 2.
Wow that is great :) mine was a bit lower, mine was 8.
Have you done any more POAS??
I totally agree with n2l, myturn. I had a reasonable reserve 6 months after Cam was born (so I was already 40) and when I say reasonable I mean 12.3 or something close to that, and back then my FS said it was 'average' for my age. Then around October 2011 I think (so I was 41) it dropped to 3.8 which was a massive slide but the FS has warned me of that. So I had great embryos from that 2008 cycle when my AMH results were OK, which resulted in 2 pg and I would have probably gone to term with the first pg if it wasn't for that fibroid, but then my recent cycle which resulted in my m/c I was already aware of my low AMH result. I wouldn't necessarily put it down to a low AMH result though, as the embryo implanted in my last cycle was a grade B embryo (same as my two previous ones) which still resulted in a pg, only the fetus had the trisomy 16. My FS said that this type of chromosomal abnormality is the most common among women of all ages.
Chin up hun, I think if your level was really low he would have told you. But then (and this is the good bit) a close friend of mine that I used to work with, had a very low AMH level (below 2) and she got pg around the same time as I did earlier this year and is now carrying a very healthy bub. So don't lose hope hun and don't go to a place in your head (and believe me I have been there myself many a time) where it's unhealthy to go when you're TTC, because everybody is different.
How old are you Joeve?
I did one yesterday arvo, not doing any more.
one year less than you :)
Pee sticks make me go EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Im 41 in two weeks :o
Poo to 41. I actually just turned 39 .. poo that too. How did that happen I was glugging back a yard glass of beer at my 21st just a few years ago I thought:redface:
i think 39 deserves a poo. 41 deserves two poos.
what does 42 get :rofl:?
three poos and a wee
44 gets a fart with a follow through
Oh stop it you two! I reckon I will be there in a blink! Speaking about farts and following through.....;)
:rofl:
:o
Loving the poo talk! Which thread is this again? Old ladies with relaxed pelvic floor and rectal muscles?????
Ok, so there was this one time :spit:. OMG where is this thread going :ROFL:?????? I think it's good to have a laugh sometimes :) (I was serious though ;))
Ok serious hats back on ladies. Lets talk about cervical mucous and no more poo.
I have no noticable CM, just some crinone that I continue to put in...coming out. Used my last one tonight...
Anyone??? Anyone????:lol:
:rofl: to all the poo poo talk- exactly the distraction I needed :)
Joeve- I have NFI about cervical mucous, mine seems to be all over the place all the time....
I hope someone pops in with some answers :hug:
On another note-
Do you guys share your IVF journeys with anyone IRL?
I'm feeling quite isolated at the moment- nobody close to me seems to understand.
I don't know anyone IRL, who has experienced IVF.
I just feel so lonely- and I haven't even started yet.
Is this normal?
I didn't share apart from 1 person :)
I created a blog (which is linked in my sig below) and it helped to get some stuff out that was going around in my head.
Hugs Emma. I told only my very close g/f about our cycle/s as I have always shared my TTC journey with them. I guess the ones (there were 2) that actually did IVF were the ones that truly understood what I was going through. It would make it really hard not to have anyone IRL going though the same invasive treatment to share your journey with. Bellybelly has also been so good to me, all the ladies here truly understand the whole process and the madness!
Joeve, you are the poo killer! lol. Now, serious hat on, no visible c/m for me (come to think of it, in the last few cycles I have had the stretchy egg white c/m quite early on in the cycle AND not much of it at that :dunno:) and I'm not sure on the pessary thing.....are you doing a cycle now? Mine used to come out towards the end of the course......
I too have good ovarian reserve and it hasnt helped me.
Oh my goodness, you girls are hillarious. Brought me much needed smiles and laughter.
Emma - apart from DH no one IRL knows about my IVF journey. I decided that this journey was hard enough that I couldn't cope with everyone else getting invested in my cycles, asking lots of questions or getting upset when another cycle failed. It's hard enough for me and DH to deal with together. I didn't need anymore pressure. Il know that others feel differently and have found real support in their friends and family. So I guess it's each to their own.
But yes this journey can be extremely lonely sometimes. Particularly when other friends and family are having incredibly different experiences of life, family and fertility. This thread and these girls here are my source of sanity. I couldn't get through this all sometimes without them. Everyone here just gets it. Understands what is like to have ssuch invasice procedures so frequently, to experience the highs of hopes, and the lows of devastation.
Joeve - as for CM - I have no idea. I've never properly monitored changes etc. For me this journey seems more about what science can do for me rather than what my body can do for itself (seeing as my body seems to suck at this whole fertility thing - hehehe).
Emma, I told my BF but she was aware of how long we were TTC and has always been very supportive. I also told my Mum who on the other hand is full of questions and always what's to know what's happening. I do find is easier now that it's out in the open though.
AFM- still no sign at all of AF, POAS this morning and what a surprise BFN. We also just realized that DH is away on the weekend so now I need AF to stay away until at least Wednesday or I am going to have to jab myself and I don't know that I can do that, freaking out ever so slightly.
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Come on to your AF. My DH did my injections too except I had to do my trigger myself because he was at work. You can do it :) it's amazing how we do it when we have to!
3 June April 2012
Waiting for EPU/O/IUI/FET or just something to happen!
Joeve -
Jane - CD2
myturn - CD5 Stim Down Reg
Ree*Ree - CD5 FET
PlanetSashet - CD12 Stim
Andie78 - CD15 FET
Mrs P - CD17 FET
Miss B - CD20 Natural
Mrs Mac - CD42
Waiting for Transfer
Hanging out in the TWW (stalk them here:https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...180508-18.html
Bee27 - CD32 10dpt 1 x day5 embryo BT 06.06.12
Blossom73 - 8 day post transfer
Vic261 - CD24 6 dpt 1 x day 5 embryo BT 12.06.12
Emma - I did tell a couple of people at the beginning when I was doing a cycle, but like someone else said - it's just too hard to disappoint them when it fails - having said that most recently I have started telling more people that we have been "trying for 2 1/2 years" and it has been really good to let people know that this is the terrible journey I am going on. I don't always say we are doing IVF, although if someone asks I would say yes.
It's just got too hard and lonesome to be doing this alone. I don't want to talk about all the details in fact, I have purposely told my mum and my best friend that we are having a break... to lose weight.... because they ask questions and I don't want everyone to know all the ins and outs... but I can't cope feeling like I have to be strong for people all the time, and it's really hard.
Actually my psychologist made a good point last time I saw her - I need people to look after me at the moment. I have spent so much of my life caring and looking after everyone else - being the "good listener" the one who always has an answer and understands from everyone elses point of view - and I can't do it at the moment.
I told my sister in law last week - and she was absolutely beautiful, she leant over when I was crying, and just hugged and hugged me. I am tearing up just thinking about it. I just need people to care, and it does feel like my mum and BF, whom I DID tell originally, aren't there for me at the moment - probably cause they don't know what to do. But the best thing one of my other friends who know does - is every couple of months she emails or texts me saying "just wanted to tell you I was thinking about you and available if you need to chat... or not... either way is okay. I hope you are okay"
It's like she puts no pressure on me, but lets me know that she is thinking about what is going on.
think I went off on a tangent... again!!
as for CM..... when doing a stim - I can't tell any difference because crinone gets in the way.... so glad to have pregnyl next time! it holds off AF for a longer... so I don't know if it's a BFN as early - but sticking some crap up my clacker every day sucks....
Can I ask everyone a delicate question?
How many cycles are you willing and able to do before you'd stop IVF?
(this is obviously assuming that it wasn't working for you, so just hypothetical)
To put it another way, what is your cut off? The maximum number of cycles you are willing to do???