The BESH Republic Of Rulvakia

Grr at dictator's off day cave and a night off is fine fee. Our first minion at the hospital told us to the sechsing every other day. I can tell you that did not produce a baybee win, but it was sound (?!?!) medical advice...

Btw how are you and TOM doing about the diffedness now, laura?

Although a foot massage I could cope with. Maybe start with a shoulder massage, they are always still. Do you woo-ers believe you can tell anything from shoulders? On the woo topic, I got stopped by a fortune teller the other week and he promised me the terrible two years were about to end. He freaked me out somewhat...

Sorry about droid, that sucks!Shred I am on my way over and in a bad mood, so worn him to get out of here.

Lalala seems perfectly fine as an approach euro. Glad you get to skip the pill, I was not happy on that either...

I'm a woo sceptic too, although acupuncture seems the least wooey of the woos.

Northey that's what I do. And it is a nice relaxing experience. I don't expect it to get me pregnant though, even if the woman I am going to see is the same one my friend saw and she got pregnant the first month

SD sounds like it is having an off day cavey. I say get to it! I'm on CD12 and about to start on the pish sticks myself.

Sorry about droid Shred [hands over [large gin]

Well Shag Dictator has dropped to "low" this morning, but my OPKwas the darkest it has been so far . I can only presume that SD got fed up of 9 days of "high" with no "peak".

Come on ovaries! Lay already!

Gah! Metal fucker is here after all. Damn it!

I have previously been a woo sceptic, sinky and north still can't believe people sell fertility spells with a straight face but will be signing up for some acupuncture this month Last time I had acu was when I was a student and had done something nasty to my shoulder. It flippin hurt and I got a big rash, so am hoping for a less extreme treatment this time. I hope it will help me feel like I'm doing soemthing, especially as "regular" medicine has told me to stop bothering them for the next 6 months.

I'm a woo sceptic too. But reflexology does sound fun, and I can always tell myself it's just a foot massage...

Hmmm. Just me out there as a woo sceptic...

Having said that, I would give it a whirl - god knows I lurve a good massage- but just never seem to have the time. I can barely remember to take the folic acid tablets (I remember once every 2 weeks or so, then take a handful. Don't tell the TTC police. I figure after 3 years I've got to have pretty massive stores by now)

I really enjoyed my reflexology. Like Faith says, it was amazing what she picked up on just by rubbing my feet!

I might look into it again as something to help me relax a bit more - too much of a stress head!

I liked acupuncture for the same reason. I am not sure it helped me conceived but I love the fact that it made me feel relaxed.

I'm not very woo but am definitely open to the idea that things that stimulate you or relax you can help your body. When I had reflexology the first time I was at all she could tell me about my body from squishing my feet. I also felt luffly and warm and relaxed after

I like the woo woo - whatever it takes and all.

Euro, it will be worth it. I know someone through work who just gave birth to her second IFV baybee girl and she's said that the time spend on the front end (shots, hormone insanity, general medicallyness of the whole process) was more than worth it for the long term returns. Baybee steps.

That euro, I can take. It must do something even if it just induces a relaxed state of mind.

I just can't quite cope with wavy hands, mystic meg style ramblings.

Anyhew. I'm still at work, still in droidal no-mans land and just being a grump. Ignore me.

(but really? Bad hip woo?)

Mine didn't mention anything about bad woo leaking from my hips. She just said that reflexolgy induces the same sort of brain wave patterns as meditation and having occasionally managed to meditate at the end of a yoga session before, I would say that is what I felt, only more so.

I was very thirsty and needed to wee a lot afterwards though, so it definitely did something physical as well.

Bad woo leaking from my hips?

In one sentence, the reason I can't bring myself to embrace the crazy.

still a work. Boooo.

Sounds like the woo has helped euro. When I've had reflexology they told me to drink plenty to help flush out toxins and avoid alcohol. I got a headache that only eased with plenty of water too.
I think a lalala approach is fine euro.

No smiley here yet, despite some snail like pant snot and I'm feeling pretty rough so think I'll take tonight off the sechsing if MSB is happy and go for it over the weekend then I'll try to really go for it! House is looking good now all the carpets are in. Came home to find MSB had taken time owing and cracked on with rearranging furniture and emptied boxes :) He's a good'un.

Still hoping the blood tests and your ovaries sync up shortly cavey.

Euro I had some reflexology ages ago and the lady told me that you will feel thirsty and must drink lots of water to help flush the toxins out. You'll also feel like your hips ache, which is apparently normal as you store a lot of bad woo (if that's the right description) there and the reflexology disturbs it.

BTW, I still feel like I want to cry when I think about it. But I am going to do the mental equivalent of sticking my fingers in my ears and singing very loudly so I just don't!

I don't have the protocol, but I think it's generally:

Pill from days 1-21
Downregulation from day 21 until they decide your ovaries have "switched off"
Stimming drugs until you have mature follicles
HCG injection to make eggs ready to pop
Egg collection
Make embryos in lab
Embryo transfer if you get that far
2ww

So it's basically a 2 cycle process (or for me one and a bit cycles as I am skipping step one). The precise timing depends on how you respond to the drugs. One of my friends was on the drugs for ages and ages because she wasn't responding as she should have been.

I found I was very thirsty afterwards and needed to wee loads. It was incredibly relaxing. I am going again next week. :)

Bugs it's arbitration so we are waiting to hear if the clients on both sides consent to make it public. If they do, I will PM you. I warn you, it's not very exciting though!

Unfortunately I had to take the tube back to work after my treatment, but I felt properly spaced out for a few hours afterwards. I would have liked to have gone home to snooze instead!

lemons no Pill for me. They decided I should skip that bit as it hasn't agreed with me in the past. So instead I start downregging on day 21.