kel82 i know how you feel but i just assume its going to be negative because that's the result i always get since ttc #4 it's driving me insane surely ttc should not
be this b***** hard. It took 3.5 years with ds3 i dont think i could handle ttc for that long again its already been 12 months this time it's just so depressing.
Hope you dont have to wait much longer for your BFP xxx
Hi rai, wow that is a long time, you have done so well to keep going cycle after cycle and not give up but I suppose it is not something you can't give up on. I need this cycle to work more than ever as we have no frosties left, we had 10 collected, 6 fertilised, but only three transfers the others didn't survive the thaw. It is not that we can't physically harvest again we just can't afford $8000 again to do a full stim cycle
kel82 i'm keeping everything crossed you get your BFP this cycle, I completly understand i would love to do icsi but we just cant afford it that is why i'm doing iui's
which from what i understand does not have a high rate of success but then i think its the luck of the draw as someone we know got pg there first iui cycle. Really hoping you
get your BFP xxxx
kel82 i will try to explain but i'm sure there is someone on here that can give you a better understanding but i will try. You can either do clomid or injectables it just depends on
you i respond really well to clomid i just dont fall pg on it so i have so far had 2 or 3 cycles of clomid then this is my 2nd or 3rd cycle of injectables i have heard injectables work
better but i think that just depends on you and your circumstances. Once your follies get to 1.8cm they trigger you on clomid i got triggered day 11 but on injectables i
get triggered day 7 they then inseminate you, I'm using my dp frozen sperm as his away alot working and it cost me $400 to freeze and $150 for the insem and then perseries
cost me about $160 for 2 weeks worth, i'm doing 2 insems 2 days in a row so it cost altogether $460 and i get $46 back from medicare. I know i have proberly not explained too well but that's the gist of it.
IUI is a step back from IVF. Instead of taking the eggs out of you and fertilising them in a lab, you ovulate and the washed semen sample is deposited in your uterus, so you rely on natural fertilisation. We're in the same boat as rai - we'd rather be doing ICSI, but we can only afford IUI at this time, so that's what we're doing. If you have no male factor problems, the IUI doesn't increase your chances all that much over timed intercourse, but if you do have male factor issues then it can help a little (but overall success rates are typically significantly lower than IVF).
Thanks rai and juniper, I know I shouldn't be thinking ahead as though I have got a BFN but it is really hard. My BT is Monday and I really don't know what the outcome will be, I had sore heavy breasts and a little nausea during the week but that has stopped today ??? I have a AMH level of 1,1 so our FS said to just go straight to IVF as we don't know how much time I have. He did say we could try that sperm washing technique but he wasn't very hopeful of the success. Oh well, I guess I just have to wait to more days and then see what happens!
Kel, my AMH is similar (1.5 last July), so IVF is certainly the better option for us from a medical perspective, we just don't have the money for it, so we're doing what we can instead...
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