Ttc / Icsi #1

:) I am so glad that I have read some of the posts, I am a newbie and my husband and I have been trying to start our family for 5 years now. We have recently been told that my DH has a morphology problem and ICSI is the road for us. Before we found this problem we were told that we had an unknown fertility problem, so we have been trying a number of things and in 2003 we conceived on an AIH cycle however 9 weeks in we miscarried.

We are now into day 3 of our first ICSI cycle and I am / we are so nervous. My DH is so supportive and helps where he can. I have been on the Lucrin now for 12 days and started the Puregon (150) 2 days ago, I have my first blood test on Tuesday to see how it is all going and then egg pick up is at the end of the month.

We have our fingers and toes crossed and trying to keep positive and I am so glad that I have found this forum as for me there is nothing better then to talk through this whole process with ladies who have been there or are doing it. So what I am seeking is maybe a support group of others that are doing a similar thing at this time as well. :help:

Hi and welcome to belly belly!

You'll find women going through similar things in the buddies threads. this one has a lot of women doing IVF at the moment. I hope you find all the support and information you could want.

BW

Hi macca

I am fairly new to this forum as well. I have found it really helpful and supportive already though :)

I am going through my first icsi cycle as well at the moment. I had my egg pick up on Friday morning. Would be happy to discuss stuff with you. I have found it really helpful to talk to people who understand what you are going through.

Hope all your levels are good with your blood test on Tuesday :)

Thank you Fig and it would be great to walk through this process with someone also going through it at the same time.

All the best with your egg pick up and transfer, how many did they manage to collect?

Fingers and toes crossed for you :)

Macca,

you've come to the right place if you're looking for a great support group. Come introduce yourself in the monthly thread here. The girls are great and I'm sure they'll be fantastic for you at this exciting time!

Fig, been waiting for you to turn up there too! Don't be shy!

Hi Sushee

Thanks for the invite have posted there now :)

Macca; I posted a reply in the thread Sushee suggested. How are you finding the Puregon? I felt a little weird on it for the first couple of days then my body setteled into it.

Fig: - What can I say about Puregon, I am not feeling to bad but I guess today is only day 4 on it, so maybe in a few more days I might be saying different. I feel weird giving myself two injections each afternoon, and I am not sure if this is something I will every get use too :)

I guess after 3 AIH cycles I kinda knew how I would react on Puregon but then I was only on 58, now I am on 150. So I am not sure how I should be feeling.

The nurse at the clinic said to expect to feel a little emotional. They explained it to me as if you have PMS symptoms then it is like that.

So at this stage feeling a little bloated and I guess a little nrtvous at times, but over all better then expected.

How has Puregon affected others and does it mean anything if you are feel OK or could I say normal? :)

I think the thing that is on my mind the most is the egg pick up, I am not sure what to epect there or how many eggs they would like to harvest and then how many will survive after 5 days.

:crossfingers: Hope all are doing well, where ever you are up to in your cycle.

:confused: Day 5 BT today. My results from today where basically looking at my Oestrogen, which where 2400, the nurse said at day 5 they should be around 400 or 500, so they have reduced my Puregon to 100 instead of 150, to slows things down a little and then another BT and US on Friday. They said a reading this high can mean either I have lots of little follicles growing or some rather big ones and at this rate if I don't slow down I could over stimulate. I really don't want to over stimulate, would rather nice healthy eggs, really don't want to waste this cycle.

Has anyone been in this situation before, and if so shed some comments from their experience?

Macca - I have gotten to the point of overstimulation previously and it is very important to rest as much as possible and have HEAPS of fluids. Hoping that it sorts out for you and you have a great result!

I would like you say a BIG THANK YOU for your positive words on the over stimulation topic, it helped heaps and calmed me down as well, thank you!

Well Another UPDATE: Day 8 BT & US today. Today was basically looking at my Oestrogen again and also seeing how many follicles are there and what size they are. Looks like reducing my Puregon to 100 has slowed things down a little which is great, so my Oestrogen was 4640 which they said was good for this stage in my cycle. The US show 17 little follicles, 11 on the left and 6 on the right, but at the moment they are still a little on the small side and still need to do some growing so another BT & US on Monday.

I was also told not to expect all these follicles to have eggs and they don't always make it through to egg pick up, however I still was rather surprised at the number, I was really only expecting to see half that. Now this explains the bloated feeling and tight feeling in the lower stomach

I am feeling much better from these test results today, was feeling that I was going to over stimulate and they were going to cancel the cycle but now all seems to be going good again so now we just have to wait and see!

Hope all are doing well where ever you are up to in your cycles and :crossfingers: for and I we get to see some :bfp: soon :)

Hi macca

Great news about your estrogen levels. 17 follicles WOW thats fantastic, hopefully you get lots of nice eggs from that.

Hi Macca

Just wanted to wish you lots of luck. My husband also had a morphology problem and we had "unexplained fertility" for about 7 years. I am now 27 weeks pregnant after my first ICSI cycle. Just wanted to give you some encouragement to keep positive, looking forward to hearing about a great outcome for you soon.

Cheers
Char :D

Hi Macca,
Also, just wanted to wish you luck!!
I was also TTC for about 6 yrs. We did IVF ICSI - got only one egg and as a result we now have our beautiful girl. I really hope it goes well for you. Just remain and think positivly!

Hi Macca,
I too wanted to wish you all the best, when we did IVF each stim cycle we often had about 40-50 follis and never really had hyperstimulation but as Keen said keep your fluids up and take it easy. The cycle that hurt the most was a pick up of 10 ! My DD is also a ICSI baby. Good luck hope it is a great cycle
Bec

:hello: all, thank you so much for all your positive posts, they have been great and really appreciated.:hug:

:bluedust: and :stickyvibesgirl: to you all and hope all is going well, where ever you are up to in your current cycles

Update on me: Day 11 BT & US yesterday. Everything is looking good, found 27 follies, which I was surprised to see, as only seen 17 on Friday. Another BT today and it looks like EPU will be on Thursday. Now a little nervous as I keep thinking what if they pop all the follies and find no eggs, but I am trying to stay positive and think this will be fine, but I guess time will tell.

Macca

Good luck for tomorrow with your egg pick up. I am sure they will find lots of eggs with all those follicles :)

:hello: hope all are well! Thank u for your support and kind words, it made the last few days a lot easier to deal with, thank you.

Just a short update on me; yesterday was EPU and I think I was more concern about the eggs that would be collected, I didn't really think about how I would feel. Well on a good note 16 mature eggs where harvested, and should find out today how many of those have been fertilised :crossfingers: , however my tummy is so tender and I have been told to keep an eye out for OHSS, as I am at risk. How long does this feeling last for? I was thinking before hand that I would be back at work today, but really I can't get off the couch, but because I am drinking so much water (they said to drink 2-4lts a day for 3 weeks) I am up and down to the loo .

Anyway I am sure this feeling will pass, as I start Gel on Sunday and Transfer will be Tuesday, so then I will be able to join others in the 2ww period.

Enough complaining from me, I knew I would never make a good patient.

Anyway :bluedust: n :stickyvibesboy: for you all

Macca

I completley understand what you are going through with the pain from the egg pick up. No one told me it was going to be painful either. I think i remeber 'its a simple procedure that shouldn't take too long'... I think they forget to mention the afterwards part :)

For me the pain was pretty much gone after the first couple of days with just slight niggling after that. Well that was until the last couple of days anyway. I have started bloating and am in a lot of pain at the moment. They suspect i might have OHSS.

So, you got 16 eggs thats fantastic. Fingers crossed for you that they all develop. I am guessing from your dates for embryo transfer that you are having a blastocyst transfer. Did you decide that or is that just what your clinic does? I did a blast transfer and was terrified the whole 5 days waiting for them to mature.

Anyway enough from me, goodluck with fertilisation.

Hi again and it is great to here others have felt as I am right now! I feel if you put a pin in me I would pop.

Fig - Sorry to hear you are in a little pain again. It is true what you say, you don't get told about the effect this all has on the body after. I just hope I don't OHSS, as I have heard it is worse then what I am feeling now. Hope you feel better soon and you don't have OHSS.

The clinic called this moring to let me know that we have 10 fertilised eggs. 4 didn't fertilise and 3 not muture enough. Now waiting to see how many make it to day 5, as the clinic has said that we will still loose a few in the next few days , but at the moment numbers are on our side, whcih we are really happy about.

We didn't get a choice on embryo transfer the clinic just does a blastocyst transfer. I am not really sure what the advantages or disadvantages of this are as I really don't know any difference. But I am glad they do blastocyst as I sort of know they are putting the best of the best back and I it sort of feels like increases our chances, but really this could be just my mind telling me this :)

Thanks again and I must admit that my DH is waiting on me hand and foot, which I am enjoying. The next 5 days will be trying and it is harder when all you are doing is laying on the couch and resting, my mind just never turns off. Thanks again

Resting up is really important, so your doing all the right things - although it is so much harder than people think to just stay still (like you say, especially when you are drinking so much fluid!). Each stim cycle I have had well over 40 follies and I tell you sometimes it feels as though my ovaries were going to pop just from treading too heavily! But they didnt and I am fine, as Im sure you will be - just look after yourself like you are (and keep enjoying that being waited on, too ;) )

Fingers crossed for you and your transfer - hope all goes really well :crossfingers:

Hi all, hope we are well. Baby dust and sticky vibes to you all :crossfingers:

Update on me: Well finally in the 2ww as of today. Had my ET this morning and seems a lot of ladies are trying to get in for christmas as well so the clinic is very busy. We only put 1 embrio back, I asked for two but was told due to some law and my age they are not allowed to transfer two, so one went back in this morning and we got our first pic, so cute. We got 17 eggs from EPU and 10 of those made it to stage 1, then on day 3, 6 made it to stage 2 with the other 4 a day or two behind. Today we are not sure how many made it through but it looks like the best of the bunch was returned and maybe we might have 3 to freeze, but they are giving them an extra day for further growth,so they will confirmed on on there staus on Thursday. I hope they can freeze some as I am not in a hurry to go through another EPU but I guess if I had to I would just do it. Now I ma in the scared mode, the Dr told me if all goes well we are 2 weeks, 5 days PG today and PG test will be on the 16th, maybe santa will bring an early christmas gift? I am taking it easy and trying not to lift a finger, need to occupy my mind with something else otherwise I will be counting each day. I am happy to say to my family and friends that I really do have my babies first pic :pray:

Good luck, Macca.

I hope we hear good news from you very, very soon.

BW

Fig - How are things? Just wanted to say hi and see how everything is going for you?

Macca - you may want to see this post if you are looking to see how Fig is going....
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...385#post534385