LT TTC & Assisted Conception May-June 2010

[sarah newman]

Hi Ladies,

Havent been on for a few days, but have been lurking, been trying to decide what to do!

We've decided to forgo the Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening path for now (mainly because of the expense, $9300 upfront!, and from what ive read on the net about chromosome testing not necessarily being that accurate as they only test about 8 chromosomes...and apparently something like almost 90% of all embryos have some form of chromsome abnormality, yet they can still go on to be a healthy baby).....so jurys out for me on that for now....anyone here gone down that path?

DH and I eventually, after what seemed like ages of indecision, but what was probably only a few days decided to go with another FET cycle, rather than another EPU. FS in going to put me on HRT with Colorado Protocol.....i'll be on proginova, aspirin, clexane, augmentum, prednisolone and the pessaries! yay these are all new to me....except the aspirin.

Also going to give the accupuncture a go with IVF Support in East Vic Park - anyone tried them?

Waiting for AF so i can start - probably not for another 3 weeks......going to tassie for a holiday next weekend for 10 days, so hopefully time will fly.

Porchse - hahaha dildo cam....thats gold! On the follicle front - im assuming no DOMINANT follicles means you still have one or two in there? a friend of mine only got 1 embie (from one lonely folli) on her last ivf/icsi cycle - that little emby is now a 3 month old little boy. So don't be too discouraged. Our bodies all react differently to the drugs. I like to think that all the good stuff went into the one folly and that gave it the best change of survival! On the O front, Syneral stops ovulation (i think) and you have the trigger to O when they want you too (so you stop the syneral after youve taken the trigger)...that way they can work out exactly when to do EPU, so that when they do the follicles are mature. Thats what they did for me anyway (i think!)

K78 - ive got a few prices on pessaries in the perth area...im at hollywood and was advised not to get them from the pharmacy there....
Hollywood $83/bottle of 15 - $5.53 per tablet - RIP OFF!!
Leederville $3/tablet
Floreat $2.65/tablet, but only $2.10 if you get 100 tablets
Spearwood $2.30/tablet
hope that helps!

Lairdoz - thats AWESOME news, goodluck!

Mummawannabe - it sounds like you must have more 'normal size' follicles underlying the 'huge' ones. I'd say they'd want to focus on maturing those ones so that you get more at harvest. Not sure if the others would be overmature by then?? I know that with my last EPU I had something like 18 follicles, with a few of those much bigger than the others, and they only took 12 out.

Good luck to those in the TWW

Sarah

ME(31) DH (39)
TCC early 2009
2009 ICSI - BFN, 2 FET BFN
2010 ICSI - BFN, I FET BFN
FET - JULY 2010 FX