Enforced break from cycling...

How do you managed to pass the time??!!

We had just booked in to do a transfer, my last embryo, the decision made and all excited, started taking Clomid....and my car died 2 days ago and the verdict isn't great :(

So with lots of tears, rang the clinic today and cancelled my cycle, just can't afford to do both, and it looks like this rules out another cycle this year while we figure out how to pay the repairs of the car (or at worse, figure out how to afford to buy another one).

I had a 10 month enforced break last year while recovering from Pancreatitis and liver function problems, but that was ok, I knew it was in my best interest, but it's hard to take that break just because of money :cry: My poor lonely embie is getting on too, it's nearly 2, a break until next year will make it closer to 3 :(

So for those who've had to take a break for similar reasons, how do you pass the time without going crazy wanting to keep going???!!!

I am so sorry that this has happenned Lisa - it is simply not fair. I found it difficult to take one month off after the stimulated cycle, I am so impatient!

Please, if you ever need to rant or rave or talk, don't hesitate to post here and we will listen and help out however we can. In the meantime, is there a hobby, activity or something else you have ever wanted to do but haven't yet? Maybe now is that time and help to get your mind of it ...

I'm in a slightly similar situation... Our FS has currently stopped us from cycling until I'm in a better mental/emotional state to face things after a recent miscarriage. I'm finding it hard to be sitting here not knowing when we can go back, but I'm filling my time with other things. We've sought a second opinion from another FS and are both going through tests, and I'm seeing a psychologist to help work through my issues. I've found it is really helping to focus on something else apart from cycling. I'm aiming to pick up old hobbies that were dropped when IVF took over, and I'm also seeing it as a time to improve on physical and mental health before we go back. There's also an element of DH and I discovering sex for pleasure once more, rather than it being a mechanical chore, or something that gets avoided entirely due to the effects of all the different drugs.

It's just hard to be told to take a break whether it's for financial or other reasons. I hope you manage to find a way through this time and have success at the end of it. :hug:

BW

awwww Lis, hun I am so sorry to hear about your car! Thigs like that are a PITA at the best of times, let alone when it interupts something as important as IVF.

Hun I hope you find a way to mantain positive till is it the right time for you to try again. You know I am here for you huni.

*mwah*

Thanks everyone!

We've been busy moving the last few days, but I know I'll be going stir crazy now....and I'm nearly mid cycle and we all know what that will mean!!!

Am officially going stir crazy now!

There are babies all around me, and people getting in last minute cycles while they are still over the safety net, and I sooooo badly want to do this, but we just can't scrape the money together :(

SIL is getting married in a few weeks and she has way too many expensive pre-wedding things planned (we've had to decline half of them!) then only 3 weeks after her wedding is Christmas. I know it's only 2 months away, but it will cost us so much more in the new year *sigh*....

You poor thing. Try and keep busy with other things. That's what I'm trying to do these days.... not that it's really working though cos I still can't break my BB addiction even though I'm no longer TTCing.

Thanks :)

I had to take 12 months off last year off with Pancreatitis and Liver problems, that was hard enough but I had to do it, I just hate that this time it's circumstances holding us back :(