Excellent Egg Buddies continued! Anyone having IVF/ICSI in Jan, Feb and March 2013 please join us!

Hello dildals. I haven't had a chance to read about sex on there yet cause I'm holed up at work. Not sure about that xx

How's the litter today? Do you feel sick at all? How far are you now?

Blimey I'm bored at work!

Tilly that is amazing. A positive! Well done and congrats. I'm intrigued as to whether you are going to fake surprise with lord toffee tonight or are you going to fess up? Either way it's positive and that's fantastic. So exciting.

Noks my will power is usually exemplary but for this it is indeed pants. I'm desperate to devour any information I can lay my hands on. How are you today? I wish I was at an art gallery.

Re the pessaries. Apart from the gunk I think that it might make me need a number 2 more often. And DP has suggested that I'm abit moody.....Hhhmmm

Someone has just made me stressed by suggesting that I should limit all travel unless absolutely necessary. Including our little holiday by train. I'm thinking that this is extreme. He says I should minimise any jostling and movement. What do you think? The morning commute is full of women on the bus and train. I can't see that Eurostar to the continent is going to harm shazlett is it?

Xx

Tilly A positive is a positive, faint or not. On the blood test, yes, they would do 2 to see if there is a rise.
ANYWAY! CONGRATULATIONS!

noks fantastic farting that's the main side effect!

shazza Does this you checking this site mean Mr Shazza is allowed sex again? ;-)

Euro Haha @ "Growler". There's a man in our office that everyone calls Growler. I can't tell what my side effects were from the progesterone because I pretty much always feel like shite from endometriosis. The bum bullets made some of my trumps sound a bit dangerous I suppose.... Enjoy!

How's the trip going?

Shazza

I didn't tell Lord Toffee, no. I asked him, did he think we should maybe do a little test? And he said NO. A very definite NO. So I didn't tell him I'd already done one.

I did another one this morning, which was also positive. It wasn't big or fat, but defo a positive. I read somewhere that it shouldn't really matter how strong or faint the line is because the dye in test can vary - does that sound right?

Can't believe I've got to wait until 5.45. I would like to do a pee test AND a blood test. I doubt the Flintstones will offer both. If you have a BFP, how do they measure your HGC levels going up? Do they make you go back a few days later for a second blood test?

Keep Have you decided whether to test early or not? It's tempting isn't it but I know what you mean about the Bday Vs Result issue. Have you got any nice plans for DH's bday? I say just enjoy the day, and use it as a distraction from the wait.

Big hugs to everyone else x

shazza you are so funny. Your willpower is rubbish ! Love it. I am at home today but contemplating going to a local art gallery to see a sculpture exhibition and NOT googling stomach aches 1dp3dt and ivf failure. I shall have a little look on your website though .

euro when is your holiday pet ? Are you going to slow down for a bit ?

Now then girls, these pessaries - any side effects (apart from a decidedly waxy growler) ?

keeps how is your resolve ! Can you make it till Friday ?

Noks x

Me again ok I lasted about 1 hour with the googling but I found this and it has lots of reassuring facts week by week along with percentages of the number of woman who also worry about these things. We are not alone!

www.fitpregnancy.com/pregnancy/week-week-pregnancy

Right back to work now xx

Morning girls

I hope you are all ok.

Keep do you think you can hold out? You don't have long to go. Gosh it's so hard isn't it? I'm not sure about dates so I don't know if it's too early for you. Good luck whatever you decide to do and happy birthday to mr keep!

Tilly how are you today? Did you tell lord toffee? Have you retested? I've got everything crossed for you. Great news

Any news on the Noks clan? How long are you off work for? Will you know if you have any frosties today?

How is everyone else this morning?

I've decided to really try to remain calm today. And not google anything. (yeah right!) I'm seeing the doc tonight to get that ball rolling so hopefully that will be a mini reassurance fix although we all know only too well how helpful GPs can be.

I watched abit of a programme about birth last night where the husbands were taught by midwives how to cope. Oh my god that looked painful! DP had his face covered at one point when the camera was 'business end'!

Have a good day everyone speak later.

Shazza xx

till I would say that's 100% a bfp at 9dp5dt. That is when my clinic makes OTD. Congratulations!!! :) I don't believe you'll have kept it from dh...

euro not surprised you're tired, you've had a hell of a 6 weeks, both physically and emotionally. How lovely to meet a10+er. I was on there briefly ages ago but it was a bit busy, I couldn't keep up!

karbea well done on starting. I had amh done, it was I think 2.8, but that's a different scale was normal. They do everyone here but I think just to make money...

I want to test, but too scared. It's prob too early at 6dp5dt anyway, though I'd considered today as its dhs bday. But if it was neg I'd have to hide I'd done it, and am no good at that. Want to hang on to the possibility a bit longer. Three days...

I could definitely do with a nap. The mc has really wiped me out. It's only 3.30 here but I am flagging! I have consumed more coffee today than I did through the rest of 2013!

I'm travelling with colleagues, but I think we are all pretty knackered. we have a big client dinner thing on Thursday, but I hope the rest of the evenings will be my own to fall asleep in my hotel room in front of crppy US tv shows. One of the 10+ers is an expat where I am so I am going to meet up with her one night if I can. I met her on a previous trip out here and she is lovely (and a very good tour guide). :)

Tilly isn't your OTD tomorrow anyway? Then surely it's a bfp? are you going up act surprised tomorrow or fess up to lord toffee? Sorry about the frosties. Fingers crossed for you for this one.

Choco you sly thing testing without telling! Mind you so did I ! How are you feeling now? Did you test today? Well done on the nap. I'm on my way home. Mr s has got the dinner on then it's an early night for me and shazlett. I cannot fall asleep at my desk tomorrow.

Karbea good news re cycle well done. Good to get going I had my AMH done 7.8 I'm 42. Didn't have FSH tested. I don't know about fragmentation either. I'll read up. And good old mr k getting his orders in.

Noks mr Noks sounds quite a character, I hope you both enjoy your yam whatever you choose to do with it. How are you feeling today? You have obviously been out and about so you didn't take to your bed alla Tilly then!

Euro I hope you get some rest. Do you know people where you are or are you a lone traveller? When I used to go away for work sometimes I used to like to retreat to my hotel room and not have to do small talk. I find that exhausting.

Dildals you have inspired me to research Amsterdam before bed tonight. Thanks for the reassurance today.

I'm sorry about the stressing today. I had a nice trip on the sunshine bus today but I'm really going up try to trust my body and little shazlett more tomorrow. Otherwise by the time she pops out I'll be about a 100 years old from all the worry and I'll look crap at the school gates.

Xx

Oh thanks Euro that's reassuring. Even if it's BFN tomorrow, somehow, then I'd at least feel better knowing that I hadn't tested ridiculously early.

How are you feeling? In the market for a nap? x

You haven't effed up at all, you've just given yourself a bit of extra menkulling! 9dp5dt should be loads of time for the trigger to leave your system. I was 10dp2dt when I tested, so two days closer to the trigger (and my OTD was 12dp2dt, so effectively where you are now). I would be 90% sure that your second line was real if I were you.

I think most clincs test at 16 days after EC (mine does it at 14), so that doesn't seem early at all.

:)

tilly you haven't royally fucked up

I've royally Effed up, I know I have. I am only 9 days past transfer. It was a 5 day transfer but even so, the trigger could still be in my system and I didn't "test it out" of me.

I just got carried away because on that transfer timeline that is on all the forums, it said that by 9dpt HGC would be detectable in the system.

Does a 10 day ODT seem a bit early?

No, DH doesn't know. I thought it would be better to go for the official test now and just see what they say.

Karbea I've long been wondering about DNA fragmentation. All of Mr Euro's tests have been hovering around the low end of normal and the volume has been very low. We're both a bit concerned that there is an infection or something so he is going for tests next month to check his pipework looks ok. He hasn't actually had the frag test, but I would like him too.

I had the AMH test about a year ago and the result was 12.something, which is in the low fertility range but not that low, so I was told it was fine.

OMG Tilly! The progesterone can't affect the test result, but HCG from the trigger shot possible could. I tested at 7 and 8 dpEC to make sure it had gone, so I knew when I tested at 12 dpEC that it was a real result. How many days past EC are you? PS Sorry about the frosties. I understand what you mean about feeling bereft.

I'm feeling really spacey from the jetlag, so that is about as much as I can manage for now.

tilly wow! How many days post transfer are you? And how many days after collection was transfer? Don't know about it being the trigger shot? I did a random mid morning test a week before OTD (secret's out) and test was completely blankety blank so trigger had definitely gone 10 days after having done it. Really hope it's your bfp, fingers tightly crossed. Also, the clinic give you a torturously long wait to OTD to make sure nothing is hanging around in your system.

I'll be back on later, been home about an hour and been snuggled in bed the whole time, must get up and help DH!

tilly you little rascal ! Congratulations. I did think there was a gap on the sunshine bus where you normally sit, and there have been sightings of a lady in a frilly bonnet approaching Asda, demanding pregnancy tests and then having a quick snooze in the bedding department. But i didn't think it would be you. That is totally awesome news, well done ! Does Lord Toffee know yet ?

shazza if you're Mr Noks, you pretend it's a willy and walk around the front room going 'have a suck on that'. Damn fool.

dildals please tell me you're not going to pimp Granny Myfanwy out.

Noks xx

He isn't normally! I'm kind of shocked actually but pleased.

read this.

We had 8 eggs and although 7 fertilised only one was really any good, two went back in on day 3, the rest arrested quickly after that, and the two that went in must have died too.

Hopefully this'll be one of the reasons.

Tilly I've got about 1 sec to post before I have an appt. amazing result congratulations so exciting. I think that false positives are rare but join choco and I with the clear blue digital addiction tomorrow just in case. Fantastic x

What's DNA Fragmentation Karbea? I had an AMH test (it was the only test at the Flintstones we had to pay for). My levels were rather on the low side.

DH sounds very proactive - good on him

Hello,

My monitoring phase started today, we had our review and we are starting, yah!
DH is going to be tested for DNA fragmentation, so if that comes back dodgy we'll obviously have to wait.

But I was really surprised they are testing my amh (argc didn't used to pay any attention to it) the doctor did say it was because of my advanced years (cheeky!). I'm really interested to see what the result is. Last year my fsh was good, so fingers crossed it still is!

Has anyone else had it tested?

Also DH went and ordered vit c and e 500mg from the chemist, he didn't really see the point in waiting - guess it can't do him any harm?

Oh god, now I'm googling properly, I wish I'd never done it! Stupid stupid girl

Hello ladies. Two news items from me:

1. Captain Birdseye from Flintstones left a message on the house phone while I was at work and said my 3 blastocysts didn't make it to the freezer

Even though, so far, I've thought of them as microscopic cells, I feel a wee bit bereft. But shall pull myself together in a non-sentimental way and soldier on.

1. As I had already left work when you lovely ladies told me not to POAS, I promptly disobeyed you and bought some First Response and Clear Blue. Sorry!I POAS as soon as I got in from work (I wanted to do it before DH came home because I not going to tell him about the POAS - I just wanted to brace myself for ODT tmw and support him better). I knew that the result would be a bit iffy because it was in the afternoon and I'd just drunk two bottles of iced tea on the way home. But nevertheless, two pink lines = up the duff.

Could it be the progesterone?

I am not getting too excited because I haven't had the official test yet, or it might be ectopic or something.

Can anyone tell me - either from experience or research - anything about getting a false positive? Don't sugarcoat it, I'd rather know if it is known issue.

Thanks guys x

Hi all

Another working day over.

Dildals I'm not sure where I got the idea about cycling. I guess I just assumed that there was a falling off risk and I'm sure someone said that you shouldn't ride a horse so I thought maybe the same applied for bikes. Enjoy Amsterdam. We are going to continue holiday planning/searching tonight. Unfortunately my skin is unpredictable. I either look like ive been bitten all over my face or I've been whipped and have welts on my body. Lovely!

So you mean that it is NORMAL not to have any symptoms at 5 weeks? Oh. Ok then. Great. No more worrying

Noks what does one do with a yam?

Xx