Eggcellent egg buddies - a thread for all those IVFing in January, February and March - Volume 2

Possibly me in April if we go for cycle 2 and if I've had a period in march.
I've been off progesterone for four days and no sign of anything. Slightly worrying. Nurse said to phone them if nothing by next Tuesday.

However given that it turns out we have crap sperm and not great eggs (How? How did we conceive ds? How?) combined with my absolute certainty it won't work I'm not sure if we will go ahead or not. I've started chucking out my baby stuff from ds this last week. No point hanging on to it anymore. :-(

Me res!! Scratch on 21 march, start my cocktail if pills, patches, jabs and Viagra (!) around 25 March x

Morning Bad DM=Daily Mail. I try not to click on their links, especially the sidebar of shame!

Wish Fingers crossed the buserelin does the job. Try to do something nice and distracting this weekend.

Brooker Did I see you pop in above? I've been a bit lame on keeping up to date on here too.

AFM, AF 2 days early, hope that won't bugger up Natural FET which I'm hoping will now happen in March, or maybe April. Depends on what immunologist says next month. Going away with DP for weekend so will hopefully forget all about it for a few days.

Happy Valentine's to all Egg Buddies (and lurkers )

Wish - am keeping everything crossed for you that things work out.

One - thinking of you lots too. Take your time to find a clinic you are happy with but only if you want to put yourself through the trauma of another cycle. And don't feel bad about avoiding the pregnant lot. They will understand and your friend will come round, I'm sure.

Nobeer - how are you? What is a DM link?

Stars - how are you feeling today?

Still - welcome!

Marypops - hope your little one is better now.

I am rubbish at writing all the personals, so hello to everyone I have missed and hope you are all having good Valentines' Days. Xxx

Res I'm not sure if I'm irritated, inspired or impressed. A bit of all if that's possible! I'm glad she admitted it was gruelling process. I unfortunately clicked on a DM link, so had to read the comments. Adrian from London made me snigger with "Too much information."

(((One))) Do give yourself time to get over this. I thought I was fine and then burst into tears in my review appointment.

I think it's a good idea to check out the other clinic too. We went with the second one we went to, just felt more comfortable with them.

Yeah you're right Turquoise. I think it's more the uncertainty that's getting to me. I was so confident on Tuesday! That was the easy bit that all went wrong still. I hope they bugger off too x

Wishwash it's better to wait and stay on the buserelin to make sure isn't it? I understand you feeling down though. Hope the cysts bugger off!

One give yourself time to get over this before deciding anything about further treatment or other clinics. You're allowed to feel down before you pick yourself up again. Feel free to rant on here.

Hugs for all the blue buddies

Hey ladies,

My oestrogen results came back after finding the ovarian cysts and they're boarder line so I have to stay on Buserelin until Monday to check they have gone down before I can take my oestrogen tablets. If they haven't I think it'll be cancelled.

I'm feeling very low

Have texted pregnant friend and asked if we can meet in a couple more weeks. Just need a bit of time I think then I will be ok.

I feel not too bad. I wasn't expecting it to work. I don't expect it ever to work. It just doesn't seem possible.
Dh keen to jump back into another cycle ASAP but I don't know. I'm not sure what I want to do. I want another baby but I cannot see it ever happening and because of that I feel reluctant to put myself through it again and waste another £5k.
I'm not keen on my clinic but the next nearest one is twice as far away and I'm not sure how doable that is. I don't think I will have success at the clinic I'm currently at.

Ah One I didn't know it had been properly confirmed. That's utterly crap for you both. How are you feeling?

Don't meet the pregnant friend. Be kind to yourself and don't put yourself through that.

Thanks res
I'm glad there have been lots of BFPs but I do feel a bit sad.
Going to the clinic tomorrow to chat about next cycle. I'm meant to be meeting a pregnant friend on Saturday and I just don't feel like it. Would it be awful of me to put it off until it feels a bit less raw? Our first children are the same age and it just feels hard at the moment. I'm not sure I can cope.

Except me turq - I'm a BFN. :-(

B4by - you may find they up your dose if you get to day 8 and they haven't got much bigger. I stimmed got a couple of extra days because I had a similar number to you at day 8. They upped the dose for the last two days and I got 9 eggs, 7 mature.

Need some advice! Went for an internal today. I've done 6days of stimms and I'm on 112.5 Gonal F because of my age, size and it is my first IVF. The nurse counted 10-11 follicles on each ovary, only 1 on each side that is 10mm in size. The nurse told me to carry on as normal, but I'm really worried, because only 2 follicles have grown to the size that they should be at this stage. Does that mean there are only 2 eggs that will be any good? The other follicles where only like 3-4mm.

Cwtching have you tested yet? You are the next one due to test I think. We are all doing well on this thread so far.