Just started to feel period pains ;(

Hello lissie!! Remember me? I was called Ammy/mummy2olivia.

Glad to see you have found some peace beyond TTC.

I am still plodding along, just had my 3rd icsi cycle. Not sure of result yet...

having started another thread (now pulled) specifically to have a pop at the lovely FOD.)

....which was really really really classy and mature of her.

Anyway.

And yes, eurochick was me!

liss I'm ok. About to embark upon IVF#2. IVF#1 resulted in a shock BFP followed by an mc at 8 weeks. I'm not ready to give up yet, but I hav reached the point where I am looking forward to post-ttc peace, whether that is a llife with children or without.

I love the way this thread has turned into an oldtimers' reunion!

(will, I think the OP is unlikely to be back to apologise, having started another thread (now pulled) specifically to have a pop at the lovely FOD.)

Ooh, its a reunion!

Duchesse, great to see you chickadee, how are you?

Euro, were you eurochick? I definitely remember you though, and thank you. How are you?

Willitbe, I've not seen you in yonks! How are you? Ikwym about it haunting you. Sometimes I wonder if the months since I had the coil fitted which was fucking agony btw were the months it would have worked. But that way does more madness lie.

Lissie - hey, long time since you were here, great to see you. And yes I think you would be the prefect crazy old professor for FOD

FOD - enjoy being a trainee! (I hope the op comes back to apologise for her insensitive comment to you) Moving on and making decisions to stop, like Lissie, is the hardest and bravest, and makes me in awe of my special comrade. It is a decision that still haunts me daily.

lis I'm glad you've found peace. I remember that you went through yet another MC on a conception thread I was on, and it was so, so painful to see. I've had one since and I have no idea how you kept going through 14. You sound content, which is great. (PS I was probably euro-somethingelse back then).

Hugs to liss and anybody else currently suffering from the pain of infertility.

Thank you, it wasn't an easy one, but it was right.

I really hope you get your bfp soon!

Good for you lis.

I think that's a great decision if you can make it and be relatively content with it.

FOD, I'll take you under my wing. Like in the movies, I'm the retired, slightly deranged professor with crappy theories

Hester, totally understand. It has to be a natural conclusion. I decided after my 14th mc, it took such a long time for bleeding to stop and pain to go, and my cycle was insane. I just thought "what am I doing? Dh is terrified I will die, ds sees me in agony... Enough"

Am glad you're happy now, Lissie. Sometimes I think we would be happier if we just stopped, but I can't yet. I need to give it a couple more tries.

Hey ho. Life goes on.

Well, if we are competing then I am a mere amateur!

Ah, I'm sorry, that's shit. Whens your nexy cycle?

Yep, 7.5 years after my first mc, I just had enough. I was depressed, had ill health anyway and so bitter. Its just exhausting, isn't it? Counting days, being scared to move, just in case and blaming yourself for not being "natural" ds is 8 now, still wants a sibling, but I explained that sometimes people can't have babies, even if they've already had one miracle.
I'm actually happy now though.

So I guess I'm a medium expert as opposed to an expert expert.

Given that it's a competition and all....

Well if you count one failed IUI progress! However I guess I'm in the system, and about to start another round, and I have four free rounds before proceeding to IVF if necessary. So things could be worse :) Thanks for asking.

You decided to get off the merry go round then?

Ariel, my lovely! How are you? I'm so sorry that you're still here, truly. Any progress?

Hello lissie, tis I Ariel

OP, I am another of those experts. I hope you never have to become one, for your own sake :(

No worries, I probably read too much into it anyway. Its been a long time since I've used this board (before I gave up ttc I was in infertility instead, after years on here) and it sort of reminds me of how fucking horrible those years were.

Oh dear... I think emotions are running high on the forum now. I've re-read my message and it doesn't sound snippy to me. Actually I have aimed for non-offensive and non-confrontational but factual. Perhaps I tried too hard to be neutral and non offensive that its gone from my usual too blunt and honest (which my boss tells me is offensive) to passive aggressive..Woops, sorry!

I've just had a quick google, and it looks like I was wrong/misunderstood. So my apologies. Please disregard the first line of the second paragraph, I stand by everything else though

Catharine, I'm sure you didn't mean to sound so snippy, I'm on my phone so no, I can't find supporting evidence, its just what the nurse told me and I've read. I may be wrong, we all have different experiences and are often told different things depending on our circumstances. But when I decided to stop ttc and saw the nurse about my options, she said that the effects of the implant can take a long time to settle down. I'm sorry if I offended.

Posting to add to the consensus of . OP I really hope you never have to experience the heartbreak of fertility problems, and I also hope you develop a little thing called compassion before you bring a child into this world.

After seeing your last post OP I decided to step away from the thread and leave the mob to descend. I'm sure you now realize how insensitive the comment was and I'm sure you weren't aware of how incredibly nasty the comment you made was until the aftermath. We all say things as throw away comments and then realize how facetious it was and wish we'd have not said it. I get that.

The only reason I'm posting now is because I believe that the previous poster may not be 100% correct. In actual fact, according to the doctor and the nurse, when you remove the implant your body returns to normal much quicker than the pill. Immediately was what I was told. So, Lissielou, if you could quote your source that disagrees with everything I have been told to date (Had 3 implants over the years) then I would appreciate it. In actual fact, I was incredibly lucky last time we ttc and we conceived within 2 months of having the implant removed.

I read in a book that you only have a 20% chance of conceiving each month. That isn't a lot really.