BW - the type of job i have the union is pretty much useless. another friend is in a similar position, so we're looking at our options as to what to do
i'm thinking of taking it further to site (or region) manager - there are a number of other issues too (privacy is one of them - one supervisor has discussed my situation with other people at work - not happy - and putting in a formal complaint about it). i love my job, but yesterday i was so hurt and angry that i seriously considered giving my notice!
so much for trying to reduce the stress in your life whiel you're TTC, huh?
BG sorry to hear that your having a hard time with work atm. Some people can be just so rude.Sending a your way.
BW I have to say thanks for the advice about the book. I'll have to look at getting me a copy and btw I love your new ticker.
Michelle I'm pleased to see that you and alf are diong so well.Wow how time flies.
Willow I'm glad to see the injections are a piece of cake for you. I hope evrything goes the way you want it to and you end up with a bfp before you know it.
Ktgirl Hi and thank you for your kind words. You are truly an amazing woman.
Milly,Chelle and anyone else I've missed HI.
As for me I'm still plodding along. The funny thing about my situation is that dh hasn't even commented on my appointmet yesterday. He was at work when I went. Oh well like you've all said men do deal with things differently to women so we'll see what happens in the near future.
Bummer, BG! It seems that one of the most frustrating things with this whole TTC thing is the way you end up putting things on hold... I'm sticking it out at a school I essentially hate, just so I can be sure that I'll be eligible for maternity leave. I do hope you manage to sort something out, BG, it all just sounds so nasty.
Mako, I cannot recommend that book highly enough! I dug it out of some things I had taken away over Christmas and put in on DH's chair just as I went to bed last night, intending to tell him it was there... but I forgot. I was pleasantly surprised to see DH reading it voluntarily tonight. It's not the kind of book that you read straight through - but just go to the sections you need most at any particular time.
Michelle, sorry for being so caught up in my own stuff... Thanks so much for dropping in. It is great to see you and *alf* still going strong, and I'm feeling so much more positive about things now. You are right, it is a plan, it is moving forwards (even though my brain keeps screaming obscenities at myself for going back on the pill! I understand WHY, but it just feels *so* wrong!), and in many ways, we are probably more in charge of things now than we have been at any stage since my diagnosis back in March.
The new ticker... I'd had that other one for so long, I'm glad to see the end of it! And this way, the specialist appointment just seems so much closer than just thinking the eighth of February. Other funny and peculiar things... my acupuncturist is desperate to get her hands on DH, DH's bowen therapist is desperate to get her hands on me... DH has also made an appointment with the GP to get a referral to a different urologist... There's definitely progress, even if I do feel like I'm going backwards by being on the pill!
Thought i would pop in and say hello, i normally hang out in the LTTTC threads, but as of this cycle i have gone from an IVF girl to a Clomid/IUI with donor sperm girl after having a HSG and confirming that my tubes are indeed clear, so i am taking a step back and trying to conceive this way for a while.
I started on 50mg of Clomid on Tuesday which was day 3 so last tablet tomorrow...Have an ultrasound and blood test next wednesday to see whats happening in there...
Just wondering, when do you start to feel the effects of the Clomid, do you have any of the nasty symptoms after you finish the tablets because apart from the odd hot flush, i cant say i have had any bad side effects...
Hi Twomums... looks like you're taking the opposite step to a few of us from here.
I guess my experience with clomid isn't normal, but I felt the effects of it for several weeks afterwards. The hot flushes in particular continued for a while after taking it, and from day 14 of that cycle, I had such a severe reaction to stressful events that I ended up having to take a week off work and be medicated quite strongly for the anxiety attacks. It's difficult to say how much of it was the clomid, and how much of it was just from the stress I was experiencing, but that was *not* my normal way of reacting to things. Some 90 odd days later, I had also never ovulated nor had AF. I'm now taking the pill before getting started with IVF. Again, this is NOT a typical response at all!
BG, so sorry you're having trouble at work, you're right, it's the last thing we need.
I've been so fortunate, my work has been fantastic over the past 12 months. I'd only just come back from mat leave part time and had to have a few weeks off after my m/c, then again for my surgeries and they have supported me the whole way.
I'm also lucky that I only work 2 days per week, the rest of the time I'm at home with my DD. So it is easier to schedule appts but I still have to consider my DD.
We've had a few issues with my DH's work though, so I do know how difficult it can be when they aren't supportive. :hugs:
i think the thing that drives me nuts the most is that i had my second m/c in 2005 only a week or two after i started there - i spilled my guts about what was going on to my supervisor at the time in case it affected me - she is now one of the managers that is saying that they won't allow me to do what i need to do - she started off now and is being nothing but a prat now! she was so understanding at the time (or at least pretended to be) - but now....... arrrrrghhh!!!!!!!!!
i have to agree with BW that she's been REALLY unlucky in her response to clomid. frm my own experience (and from what i've read from others), there's not really a lot of side effects - a heap of hot flushes and the occassional dizzy spell - but really only for a day or three after i stopped taking them - not long term at all
Hello!
I'm popping my head in here to introduce myself.
I have one adorable clomid baby (well i guess he's a toddler now - 18mo). Concieved him on the second clomid cycle (first time i O'd in about 10yrs!). And now TTC#2. Have been on clomid for 4 cycles now and no luck. I have no idea when I O! My cycles are usually 30-31 days long. Blood tests on CD21 never showed O, but BT on CD24 do.
This time around I'm using OPKs but trusted them too much this cycle and haven't BD'd since i've not had a positive result (CD20 today:frown: ). Have been testing since CD14. So i don't know if these tests are just inaccurate and have missed the O, or if i haven't O'd, or if it was early Oing, or if I haven't yet (my last hope!).
Getting frustrated with the whole ttc thing now. Everyone else in the world seems to be pg!!!!!
So I hope its ok, if i join in here
LG, glad to have you here! Your blood tests and cycle length would suggest that O is occurring around day 17... Just like I don't have a good relationship with clomid, I also don't have a good relationship with OPKs! (but that could be down to never actually having ovulated, really ). Can your specialist organise scans and/or blood tests to help you know when to BD? Good luck, in any case!
Hi
BW Would you please be able to let me know who the author is of the book? I went to a book shop this morning and could not find it. Maybe I should go to the library and have a look.
LG Hi and welcome to you. It sounds like your having a hard time atm. Hang in there hun and know that we are all here for you. I pray that you'll have a bfp soon.
TwoMums Welcome to you. I have to say that my time on clomid has been quite good. I've ovulated each month and have had mild side effects such as a headache every now and then, a bit more emotional at times and the only major thing I had was I hyper stimulated one month and ended up needing a lap to have an ovarian cyst drained but that wasn't too bad. The only other thing now is my fs seems to think my mucous is now too thick to let dh's sperm through and this is why she has suggested we try IUI soon.
I wish you all the best and hope the side effects aren't too bad for you.
Monnie It's great to see you and your bubba are doing well. Please pop in more often to let us know how you are
Here is the link to the thread where the book was first discussed. The authors are David Rawlings and Karen Looi. I've never looked for it in a bookshop, I ordered mine online. If you google "swimming upstream the struggle to conceive" it will come up as the first link, and you can find out a bit more about the book.
Thanks BW! I thought also i was O'ing on CD17, but the past 2 cycles we BD'd on that day (and the surrounding days) and still no BFP. This cycle i was waiting for a positive opk result but hasn't happened so i'm not trusting them next cycle!!
your way.
The new ticker... I'd had that other one for so long, I'm glad to see the end of it! And this way, the specialist appointment just seems so much closer than just thinking the eighth of February. Other funny and peculiar things... my acupuncturist is desperate to get her hands on DH, DH's bowen therapist is desperate to get her hands on me... DH has also made an appointment with the GP to get a referral to a different urologist... There's definitely progress, even if I do feel like I'm going backwards by being on the pill!
). Can your specialist organise scans and/or blood tests to help you know when to BD? Good luck, in any case!
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