Yippee Kiyay - it's the BESH Action Hero Thread

Mr and Mrs Smith is quite fun.

IOTO Rie. IOTO. One egg, one swimmer, one cycle. But you might not even need to get that far. Your tablets might do the job before you get to IVF.

I love Mr and Mrs Smith! It's funny and brilliant, and Brad Pitt's face in the counselling session is superb.

HOTB was talking to MIL the other day - she is all excited for our first IVF appointment, and is impressed with the speed as apparently back in the eighties it took FOUR YEARS between ILs referral and first appointment! Makes me grateful, that our wait is so much shorter.

I will be having just the one (of IVF that is). Will try my best not to pressure myself and just think "Well come what may..." if it doesn't work.

We picked up the DVD of Mr&Mrs Smith (which is sort of action-y) in a charity shop the other day, so will be watching that later.

My boobs are immense! It's the progesterone, but my God, they are exploding out of my very biggest bra.

Die Hard 2 was on the tellybox last night. Unfortunately, after nights of insomnia, I only managed to watch about 10 mins of it before sparking out.!

Rie the poor couple. It must be awful to have all that pressure on the one cycle. They still have loads of time thought (to try naturally and save). Unless there is an absolute mechanical problem (like both tubes gone or something) then it could still happen for them naturally. You hear of so many natural pregnancies after failed IVF.

If you have a pre-filled pen, it quickly becomes very easy. The ones where you have to mix up drugs though, they stressed me out till the end.

OOooh

I have just had sad news from a friend. Her IVF failed and they can't afford private now. They're only early 30s so I guess there's still hope, but it's hit them very hard :(

Yes, don't forget it's an action hero fred, frank. We all have massive devices aimed at your kidneys. Be afraid, motherfucker.

rie, I found some stabbing videos on YouTube were a helpful reminder, when I was sitting and flapping with the needle in my hand.

S'all go innit?!

I'm Faith, 31 and married to MSB (Mr Squidgy Baby) for 4 and a bit years. Started trying to win a baybee Christmas 2009. Futile shagging, couple of ??chemical pregnancies and muchos testing revealed male factor ishoos (growth on pituitary gland sending hormones out of whack, hence the poor swimmers). Started treatment in December 2011 - 11 months after starting investigations - and got diffed in August 2012. I blame the Olympics DC1 due April 23rd :) Will have to stay in for 48 hours after laying baybee because I'm taking codiene for chronic pain but I'm pleased to say with my needles input (acupuncture) I've nearly halved the amount I'm taking!

Frank I'm saying nowt either

Go Embarryos! Rooting for you Norf.

rie do you have a revision class booked?

It will only be popping pills at first. Stabbing will come later.

And I'm Jethro or more commonly Jeff.

I'm 36 and married to SSG (spreadsheet geek) who is 39. TTC for 3+ years, SSG has a rare chromosome abnormality which affects his sperm count & movement & I have ridiculoulsy low AMH - affects my ovarian reserve, basically hardly any eggs. We got lucky on the first round of IVF last month so like Euro I am tentatively diffed. First early scan is a week today. Currently shitting it.

5 days Rie? Bring on the stabbing

Frank..... not saying nuffin.

Exciting stuff, rie! Also cheering encouragingly for norf's Barrys.

navis, I'm draf, I'm 30, as is HOTB (him on the bike). We've been TTC for three years and a couple of months now, passed all tests with flying colours so are "unexplained". Scans before Christmas, however, showed a large cyst that doesn't want to go away on my left ovary, and my right ovary as polycystic - none of which was the case with the first scans last March. I've been having fortnight-long droids for over six months, but am currently CD9 and it's looking like it might be going I've never been even close to pregnant, but we have just been referred for IVF and go for our first appointment on 12th March, so with any luck they will crack on!

Five days, rie? OoooOOOOooooh!

mavis, I'm Northey, boyfriend is A Man Named Horse (hangover from our wild west fred. Fred=thread, btw). Unprotected sechsings since 2005ish. A whole host of interventions resulting in nothing more thantwo ectopics. Now mid way through our first ivf cycle.

Level temp?

I am Ariel. Sometimes they call me Aries. I am 37 and 38 in April (how the fuck can I be so fucking ancient?) TTC for three years without even a sniff of a diff. All looks normal test wise, even though it clearly isn't. MrA's swimmers are legion, though a large %age of them are going round in circles. Even so, that's still more than average, simply because there are so many of them. (Incidentally I never saw anyone look so pleased with themselves after he was told his sperm count was 160million). First round of IUI to start, oh, in about five days , after delays due to allergies and ill consultants.

Before that I need a stabbing refresher course.

Mavis. I'm happy to oblige. I'm 37, as is KFZK (kung fu-zombie killer, after past and present hobbies). Started trying in December 2010. Went through 27 cycles of futile fvking (with some IUI, superovulation and a disasterous cancelled IVF cycle thrown in) before getting a TFP on our first natural IVF cycle. We are wholly unexplained, i.e. medical mysteries. I am currently terrrified and waiting for something to go wrong because pregnancy is just not something that happens to me.

norf at east you are outsourcing now, so you never need to dtd with Robin of Sherwood man again.

I quite like Phil too. But tbh I think it might be the ppty porn getting me most hot under the collar.

faif I think they do actually centrifuge the sperm. It was explained to me when we had IUI but I was legs akimbo with several folks peering up my chuff so I could be wrong - I wasn't exactly in a position to take notes.

Interesting, frank, very interesting....

moll I have had every test under the sun and KFZK's samples came back at the low end of normal. I think "unexplained" is actually the biggest cause of subfertility.

I crashed out at about 9.30pm last night but still had another absolutely sh1t night. The insomnia is starting to take its toll now.

morning!

Faith - intros could be useful - I have been poking my nose in following every so often for a while, but not completely sure where everyone is at

Moll - good luck for the results

Faith - you are quite right re one step at a time. It was more out of curiosity really, as it has crossed my mind before now anyway that it's something I'd quite like to do. I tend to want to confront all possible options as early as possible so I can see wood fer t'trees IYKWIM

Northey - I do, in that the scans and tests done on me so far have shown up nothing that might explain lack of baybees, and BE has been going through a phenomenally stressful time both at work and with family, and he does no exercise at all. I'm anticipating a low count at least. (He also had an operation on his bits and pieces when a very young child, so I'm aware there's a chance that scar tissue etc may mean there's blocked tubes in there somewhere.. )

Nope, they leave them undisturbed today don't die, barryos! so I won't know anything more till tomorrow.

Temp holding steady, you say? Interesting...

Now Maid Marian and Her Merry Men I could definitely cope with!

Is there any reason to think BE will have a bad result, moll? And even of he does, like faith says, there are all sorts of natural and medical things that can be done to help - the important thing is finding out what the problem is so you can work out what help is needed.

One step at a time moll. My fella's (MSB) first SA was not good. No rapids at all, low count. They eventually established a medical cause for it but even with those stats they said we'd be candidates for IVF because they could 'spin' the sperm (centrifuge anyone?) to concentrate it and get any good uns out. Last time he had a sample done was June, it was low side of normal but I got diffed in the August :) so don't panic even if its not great news. We're here to advise/support/slap you with a kipper.

norf I think you're pretty invested so I think you need to try to educate this man by making him watch Maid Marion (and her Merry Men).