Hassles and Frustrations with IVF process

[justjuice]

Hi all.
I'm curious to know your experiences managing your IVF cycles, and what aspects you find to be a hassle or frustration. For me, the annoyances I have are:
1. Forgetting to administer my medication (and ending up giving it late or not at all)
2. Difficulties contacting my nurse
3. Having to rummage through piles of paper to check what was done in previous cycles.
4. Losing my cycle instructions

Maybe I'm just not organised, but I would like to know if it's just me with such problems, and if others have managed to get around these types of problems, and if so how? And are there other problems that you have? Maybe we can help each other out with little "tricks" that we've developed.

Thanks!

[nicoleh]

Hi Justjuice
For medication times I set the alarm on my phone - as soon as it goes off I know its jab time! I keep all my papers in a folder in one spot and the current cycle instructions live on their on my coffee table in the lounge. Luckily I never have trouble getting the nurses.
hope this helps
Nic

[Saffy]

Hi, I'm the same, I put all my alarms on my mobile phone, when I do one jab I set the alarm for the next one. The cycle instructions are up on the fridge, and the rest is in a file which is easily accessed ( on the dining room table). For big events, ie stopping the pill etc, I write it in my diary also, cos I can forget stuff easily. When i was on syneral it was good because they hed the tickoff sheet so you could also tick when you had done the sniff, that was another safety net. I'm only on my 2nd cycle tho, so plenty of time for it to all fall apart lol. Why do you have problems contacting the nurse? Do they not get back to you? Thats a bit slack.
Good luck darl.

[Kaybee]

Hi,
I know - it can be such a pain. The thing I've always found the hardest is those pessaries that have to be 'inserted' 12 hours apart followed by half an hour of lying down. It's so hard to do that around normal life / social events and stuff. Sorry no new tips though - I just use my phone and the fact that I can't get my mind off it once I'm on an ivf cycle.

Good luck!!! Hopefully you won't have to sort it out for too much longer.