Well we're back from our Day 11 appointment and the scan revealed only one follicle and it was only 12mm. Our doc said it wasnt a very good response considering last time she had 3 follicles at 1 x 16mm and 2 x 14mm. Her lining was a little thin as well. We umm'd and ahh'd and he ended up giving her a jab of 100iu Gonal-F right there and then and gave us the rest of the vial to take home. She is to have 100iu each morning for the next 2 days and then we go back for another scan on Friday to see if the follicle is going to get bigger and maybe if we are lucky, get another follicle happening. He thought he saw another one there but wasn't real sure. She had bloods done so that will be helpful to see how mature that little eggie is at this stage.
Kim was a bit disappointed after she had read alot about being super fertile after a miscarriage. But as he said it only takes one egg and the powers that be say to only aim for one follicle if doing IUI with FSH. The extra fertility is more attributed to your body being more 'accepting' of another pregnancy if you have recently been pregnant.
So after Friday we will either trigger that night for IUI on Sunday or trigger Saturday night for IUI on Monday. I just knew this cycle was going to drag out. My gut tells me this cycle probably wont work and the next one will be better. I truly believe that after you have been stimulated with either Clomid or FSH, the next cycle delivers a better response. Like your ovaries have to be kick started and they are ready to perform the next time. Kim's first IUI she only had one maybe two follicles. The very next cycle she got 3 follicles, so i really think its a little bit accumulative.
Hope everyone is going well, i just finished night shift and am off to bed now, i hope everyone has a great day!
Clairable - so sorry to hear of your loss. Hope this 2WW flies by with a wonderful result at the end. How many DPO are you??
Sharon - Hope your DS's G/F is ok?? Sounds like a pretty yucky environment to be in Hope you managed to catch up on some sleep. How are you feeling otherwise?
Pash - Good luck! Any sign of anything definate one way or the other yet??
Megan - Hope the rest of the cycle goes ok. Long cycles are frustrating. I'm doing a Clomid FET, and I've only just got my surge today, so won't O until tomorrow - which is CD19 (about standard for me, on the odd cycle I do O). Good luck!
Kiwigirl - Good luck! Sounds like you had all days covered, hope the 2WW goes quickly for you!
Salt - :hugs: Just lots and lots of these for you hun.
Finally got my surge this morning, have to ring the clinic Thursday arvo to get time for Transfer, which will definately be Friday. I was sooo excited - just because I O'd..LOL! Drank my pineapple juice this morning and have been having green tea, fingers crossed it helps!
Salt - so sorry to hear that you have been down. I have missed you! I hope you are feeling better now. I also get so sick of having to start over again when AF arrives. I hope you had a good long weekend.
las - woo hoo! Good luck with the FET.
Twomums - good luck!
Sharon - sorry to hear about your DS's girlfriend - how terrible. I would be so angry at DH for saying that! My DH said recently that maybe we keep m/cing because I am too light! You just can't win, can you? I am 173cm tall and 60kg, which is not underweight, it's in the healthy range. But I bet we would have the biggest whinge if I put on weight, so I don't know what he wants me to do! I don't think weight actually has much to do with m/c anyway!
satya - how many DPO are you now? It is all sounding very positive for you this cycle!
Lee - how long do you think you will hold out before you test?
pash - woo hoo on AF being late! Sounds good! I think that was really insensitive of your friend, esp since he's a nurse!! I found that too with some friends. One friend's boyfriend, who we had last seen when we announced we were pg, when I next saw him after m/cing, didn't say a thing! Not even an 'I'm sorry', nothing! It's like a big, fat elephant standing between us and he just ignored it! You do get to know who your real friends are when you go through this - I have been quite surprised by how much better some people were at dealing with this than I would have thought, and how bad some 'good' friends have been.
cherie - woo hoo! Have you tested again?
ttbp - I had a long cycle after each m/c, I think it can mess things around a bit. Also, probably the stress of it all can delay O I suppose. I hope things get back to normal for you soon!
Hi to everyone I have missed.
I am now 11DPO. I have sore bbs, very creamy cm and my face has broken out sooooo badly. I am wondering if my symptoms are just AF symptoms though. I have never noticed sore bbs before AF, so I always see this as a pg symptom, but am wondering if perhaps I have just never noticed it before, as I wasn't looking for symptoms. I know it is quite common to get sore bbs before AF - for those of you who do, when do they start to get sore? Is it right before AF, or sooner? Mine seem to get sore at 9DPO. I am supposed to have my pg BT for the clinic on Thurs, at 13DPO, but I don't want to get it done! I know it sounds silly, but I would rather not know for as long as possible if I am pg, and that is soooo early. Maybe I will change my mind, but I would rather wait until I am a week late and then test. I am feeling quite calm about it all atm, and I am sure that it will happen, if not this cycle, then at some stage, so I don't see the hurry in finding out. And I am sooo over BTs! They always want me to get a BT done, when to me it makes more sense to wait a couple of days and if AF doesn't arrive, then do a HPT, and then if it's positive, do a BT. They are just so keen on drawing my blood all the time! It has been really nice to have a break from BTs for the last couple of weeks, and the bruising on my arm is actually starting to heal!
Salt - you are such a lovely woman. Connecting with everyone here, despite being a bit low and blah blah blah at CD6. Thanks for your kindness. I'm 7 dpo now, and you are right - it seems to take forever. I'm minding my friends 3 kids for two nights, as well as my own two - so 5 kids under 10 years is keeping me busy - never done so much cooking!! It's heaps of fun though. Wishing you a BFP this cycle, another week or so and you will O again, and off goes the roller coaster ride again, this time to the destination you want huh!!
Bun - Well I'm only 7dpo, so no point testing yet. I really want to wait until AF is a few days late this cycle, no point getting disappointed over an early BFN. Interesting you say your skin has broken out. Yesterday, I had a BFZ (lol - my new acronym - big fat zit!!) turn up on my chin, and my face seems a bit blotchy. I'm kind of assuming it could be AF symptoms. Is a skin outbreak an indicator (potentially) of pregnancy? My BBs are a tiny bit tender. With my last pg, I conceived overseas (on hols in France) and was staying pretty remote and couldn't test until I got back to Australia - which was 2 weeks after my missed AF!! Hence to say I got a very very strong double line on the HPT. At this same time, my BBs were not just sore, they were pretty painful! So much so that I had to wear a bra to bed and it hurt to roll on them! So, I guess in my history, the really strong true preggers symptoms did not appear until 2 weeks after the missed period, then the morning sickness also hit with a vengance. Right now I'm actually looking forward to morning sickness, bring it on I say!! So, to answer your question, I have to wait another week (if AF doesn't show meantime) before testing. Sigh sigh sigh..... Can't wait to hear how you go at the clinic!
Sharon - 3 days BD before O - still got a fighting chance!!
Pash - Excited for you - and praying the wicked AF stays away, and a beautiful fertilized egg stays instead!! Fingers crossed for you!
Satya - how are you feeling, you are a day or two ahead of me past Oing. I seemed to O later this cycle. How are your symptoms - I detect an air of calmness around you this cycle, you are more relaxed - when do you think you will test?????????????????????
Las - great you O'd!!!!!!! Fingers crossed for you this cycle too!
Well - not much more to report here - just stuck in the abyss of the 2WW, and trying not to physco-analyse every little thing
Hope you managed to catch up on some sleep. How are you feeling otherwise?
I hope you had a good long weekend.
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