Waiting to start third IVF, feeling isolated

[smllon]

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone out there feels like they have nobody to talk to who understands IVF... (TTC for 2 years, unexplained infertility, two failed cycles but good results both times, about to turn 37). Had several good girlfriends to go through cycles one and two with but they've all fallen pregnant (on their first go!) so feeling very alone and like it will never be my turn. Any advice?

[DameSylvieKrin]

I felt exactly like this before my third cycle last month and thought that there was almost no point in trying, especially as I had very bad results (nothing to even put back the second time, nothing to freeze the first). The only reason I went ahead was because we had agreed at the start to give it four goes and then accept that it wasn't to be if necessary. Now I'm 5 weeks pregnant.
There's always a good chance that it works. There is always a good chance that it doesn't. That's what makes it such a massive mindfuck.
This round was the easiest because my expectations were so low. I didn't think about it, didn't join a group on this board. I had to set alarms to remember the injections — the first two rounds I was thinking about it so much that I never would have forgotten. I didn't even think about it once in the first week of the 2ww. In the second week I didn't think of testing early because I knew without doubt it had worked as I had so many symptoms.
The nice thing about the third time round is that you already know how everything feels, such as the side effects of the progesterone, and you can relax a lot more.