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Fertility Appointments and Beyond.... the journey continues

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Gracie2021 · 09/12/2021 07:45

New thread for us to continue our fertility clinic appointment progress...

Some of us are waiting for initial appointments, some are having tests and some are starting treatment!

@tillybabs
@thislittlebird
@kay00
@jeaniej
@PurpleUnicorn01
@paintfairy
@dogmam
@flutterby8
@Ughmaybenot
@dancingfairydreams
@beckycarlos
@jkjellyhead
@juno231
@decaffe
@bumble44
@BritinNZ
@tinkerbell098
@pinkginpls
@thedaydreambelievers
@everymumday
@wanderlust16
@lori23ttc

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Sofasogood1 · 01/03/2022 12:00

Well it's midday and I'm still waiting for the 9am call from the consultant.... Grrr.

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Gracie2021 · 01/03/2022 11:10

So glad you have that friend @magnoliasinbloom they're like gold and should be treated as such. I have one of those too and she's just amazing. There every step of the way for me. Thank god for good friends. I always get very down those few days and am convinced it's a progesterone side effect. Know it doesn't help when you are feeling down but know it might not be all you and some of it could be the progesterone. Glad you have support though. I keep forgetting about the session I have set up for next week. Yhinj I'm going to cancel it. Re the discharge.... yeah it's nasty.... will keep the fingers crossed for you for Saturday. Plenty of people say they have no symptoms so you're not out til you're out 🤞 I'd be delira if I still had my eight on Friday tbh, not even hoping to have more. Just don't want to lose any.

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magnoliasinbloom · 01/03/2022 10:56

@Gracie2021 thanks, the friend whose shower I'm not organising (it's for her second child - we've been friends for 20 years, I'm godmother to her oldest child and organised that baby's shower) has been incredibly supportive and tactful throughout, how she told me she was pregnant was basically the gold standard in supportive friendship - very lucky! Other pregnant friends less so, either not very tactful or just don't ask. I'm 10 dp IUI here and no symptoms at all (except progesterone suppository discharge - wasn't prepared for that!)...so just presuming it hasn't worked? But can't test until Saturday. I feel pretty down, we have an appointment with the fertility counsellor tonight (we get one NHS funded session per treatment cycle) which is good timing. Glad the stims are going well and I'm sure more side effects are positive - I hope on Friday your haul has increased even more to your initial 8!!

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Gracie2021 · 01/03/2022 08:52

Well done @beckyCarlos the first one is by far the hardest. You'll be a pro by now. I'm with Becky on this one @Kay00 my hands were shaking the first night but it's so much easier than you think it is. I don't even think about it anymore. I'm also no help on the low doses I'm on max levels of everything 😂🙈🙈

@magnoliasinbloom definitely worth going to get ready for the shower attendance then and definitely to avoid planning one. So glad your friends understood. Are they being sensitive to you during all this? I've had a friend just announce. Used to chat about my infertility stuff the whole time but since she found out she's pregnant she hasn't asked once even though I ask about her pregnancy and how she's doing. Know she could feel awkward about asking etc but imho that's a cop out and not a good enough excuse. How are you feeling on the IUI cycle? This is the part of the month I usually find the toughest side effect wise, hope you're not the same. All quiet here. Just doing the stabby stabby every night and hoping for the best for my scan on Friday.

Hi @Sofasogood1 and welcome. Hope your meeting with your consultant goes well 🤞

@thislittlebird how's the patching up going? Stims going ok, dizziness is back and having more cramping than last time so hoping that's a good sign 🤷‍♀️ how are you getting on with your FET cycle? Do you have a scan coming up?

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beckyCarlos · 28/02/2022 22:55

@kay00 I promise, once you figure out the pressure/angle you need its easy (she says, one injection under her belt haha) it genuinely didnt hurt though. I made my husband look at/hold/fill the syringe with air after ans ge looked decidedly peaky! Im definitely the 'jabber' in our house 🤣 Im afraid I'm no help on low doses, need all the help I can get here lol x

Kay00 · 28/02/2022 22:01

@beckycarlos exciting times! And well done for injecting yourself... im genuinely terrified about this 😅

@sofasogood1 welcome!!

I got my IVF application paperwork in the post today... eek! I haven't had a huge amount of time to read through it, but the letter says I'll be taking a low dose of FSH 150 IU. Has anyone else been on a milder-IVF protocol?

beckyCarlos · 28/02/2022 14:52

@magnoliasinbloom that sounds like a hard weeked but you were strong!

@sofasogood hey 😊 good luck with your appointment! X

magnoliasinbloom · 28/02/2022 12:59

@Gracie2021 thanks! We ended up making further plans on the weekend so it was 3 social outings with 3 pregnant friends in the end...but largely felt okay during it all. Hopefully this is good and I can completely desensitise myself before their baby showers kick off next month haha. I have excused myself from helping to organise one of them which everyone was very understanding of.
How are you feeling on all the meds? When is your next scan?

@Kay00 glad telling your mum went well. I was so scared to tell my parents too but it is so much easier not having to keep it a secret anymore!

@beckyCarlos yay for starting the downreg! :)

@Sofasogood1 welcome! Most of the ladies on this thread are at various stages in the IVF process (I'm doing medicated cycles and IUI but no doubt I'll end up there too at some point this year) so you're in good company!

Sofasogood1 · 28/02/2022 12:47

Hello all. Can I join please? The kind @thislittlebird was chatting to me on a thread I started during stims (I've name changed).

Just done my first round with two 'very average' embryos in the freezer. Appointment tomorrow to talk to the consultant about frozen transfer. I have no clue about any of it!

Will have a read of the thread.

beckyCarlos · 28/02/2022 12:38

Eugh @thislittlebird youve not had a good week!

Ive started my downreg today! Christ its weird trying to pierce your own skin then working out how much pressure to put on the plunger! But, I was a brave girl and only needed a 2 minute lie down afterwards 🤣 roll on tomorrow! Downreg scan to check gor quiet ovaries on 13th 🤞

thislittlebird · 28/02/2022 10:16

@beckyCarlos bloody migraine didn’t go until about midnight Saturday! Very annoying.

@Kay00 I’m sure, I could definitely have done a better job! We just keep finding weird patches he’s made a complete botch of.

@Gracie2021 banking rounds sounds like a good idea! How’s the stims?

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Gracie2021 · 27/02/2022 15:51

@Kay00 so glad telling your mum went well and hope it's one load of anxiety off your shoulders having that done.

@thislittlebird that is shocking work but hopefully it'll still be quicker for ye to shine it up and do the touch ups than if you'd tried to tackle the whole job. Fingers crossed our get rid of the migraines for any pregnancies and hopefully a while after. Would be a nice benefit. Our plan is to keep doing banking rounds until we have a few frozen as much AMH is dropping so quickly that if we want any hope of a second child think we have to gather embryos now so really hoping for even a couple blasts per round. Would love to be able to try for a transfer after these back to back rounds.

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Kay00 · 27/02/2022 08:41

@thislittlebird wow! How awful! I'd expect better from my 16 year old brother who has never decorated anything before in his life! Like you said, he's done the donkey work, so af least you can just do the repair work and the final coat xx

@beckycarlos I'm glad for you too. It's nice to have someone rooting for you xx

beckyCarlos · 26/02/2022 22:21

@kay00 glad telling your mum went ok! I was weirdly scared telling mine, but slept so well after!

beckyCarlos · 26/02/2022 22:20

@thislittlebird eugh that's not good! Hopefully now hes buggered off you'll be able to relax and the migrane will go!

@gracie2021 hope the stim injections are going ok! X

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thislittlebird · 26/02/2022 22:10

@Kay00 check these photos out just to show how shit he was. We were very pissed off by midweek but decided between then and Friday to just cut our losses. Yes we could argue or ask him to do it again but he’s done the donkey work, we’ll just spend a few days doing another coat, sanding what he’s been too lazy to sand properly (luckily we have a sander) and painting the woodwork much more carefully. Can’t believe how sloppy he was. And messy. Ugh.

Pretty sure this guy didn’t help the migraine situ either lol!

Really good your mum received the news well. All our in laws now know, having the freeze all took the pressure off of giving updates too IMO.

@Gracie2021 that’s exactly what happened to my friend. I think they disappeared between her first and second pregnancy and then came back again after the second. I’d love that! I will admit I’m worried about how il cope with a baby when they’re very bad. I said to dh he’ll just have to stay home on those occasions I guess?

With fertilisation we went in with very low expectations tbh. Said if we can get one embryo then it’s a success. Obviously more is ideal but you just don’t want it to be a complete cop out so if it’s one then that’s ok, and anymore to freeze is brilliant!

I’ve got this month off, will be calling them around a month from now!

Fertility Appointments and Beyond.... the journey continues
Fertility Appointments and Beyond.... the journey continues
Fertility Appointments and Beyond.... the journey continues
Greyhound999o · 26/02/2022 21:56

Yes

Kay00 · 26/02/2022 21:42

@thislittlebird 😳😳😳 that decorator!! Omg! Well done for getting rid, hopefully nothing a quick sand and repaint can't resolve. Sorry to hear you're having Migraines too... they are so nasty 😖

@gracie2021 woohoo! 8 follicles is excellent! Great to have some good news ☺️

I told my mum yesterday that I'll be getting IVF this year. I was so worried about telling her, but it went well... although I was difficult to read how she really felt as she kept a poker face and, being a nurse, nothing phases her!

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Gracie2021 · 26/02/2022 21:33

Migraines are such a curse. I've a friend who suffers from them too. If it's any consolation I've heard that whatever pregnancy hormones come it can alleviate migraine symptoms for the duration so something to look forward to when you get your positive hopefully 🤞

That's so heartening thank you. Yes will all depend on fertilization etc. Because we were cancelled, still going in blind for that part of the cycle so will be interesting. Just started clomid 50mg, 450iu gonal f and 225 Luveris today. When is your first scan date this month? Do you usually have normal lining thickness?

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thislittlebird · 26/02/2022 20:55

@Gracie2021 unfortunately it’s still going but the sickness has stopped! It’s shit tbh, I had to work through it yesterday which was really hard and today was a write off of mostly sleeping because I can’t do much else. I do get them anyway, yeah. I started getting them in my 20s from what I can recall, and usually once per month right before AF or as it starts and usually lasted around 24 hours on average with nausea but no sickness. But occasionally they start later around cd2-5, sometimes over the last few years (late 30s) they’ve been absent entirely, or I’ll get two per month with one at/after ovulation too. Or, like today, I’ve had a handful that have gone on for 2-3 days with sickness. They’ve definitely got more severe in the last few years, but not every month, just occasionally. I hate them a lot, feel cursed that I get these stupid things instead of ‘normal’ AF symptoms. If I didn’t have a perfectly fertile friend who got hormonal migraines too I’d be wondering if they were something to do with my infertility but I don’t think they are, just a dumb body overreacting to hormones dropping off a cliff afaik. And I guess I had more of a drop off this month with all the follicles putting out hormones.

I think if both of us had been in a better frame of mind we might have argued but what’s the point in asking him to do another crap, rushed coat to fix it when he can’t tell there’s something wrong to begin with. Will fix it ourselves!

Yeah, I’m sure she told me I had around 10. Eight is a good starting point and you know that you need a strong protocol because of the low AMH and last cycle outcome so at least they’re aware. Eight growing is a good number! A girl on that ivf thread and another thread of mine got 5 eggs, all fertilised and all made it to embryos. It’s totally possible to have a good outcome with that many at the start.

How did the stims go? Which ones are you starting today?

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Gracie2021 · 26/02/2022 19:40

That sounds awful @thislittlebird hope your migraine has passed. Such a horrible thing to suffer from. Do you get them anyway or is it all IVF? Disaster with the decorator. Hate getting bad work like that but think you're right to just pull the plug on it at a certain point and do it yourself.

Makes me feel even better to know you started with 9/10. Fingers crossed I do as well as you. I'd be thrilled with four embryos. Definitely need to get enough to do us as it turned out to be 2.25pmol/l which equates to 0.31ng/ml and that's a drop of 73% in 7 months so the sooner we get our embryos out the better just to be safe 🤞 starting stims in the next hour though and feeling really good about things so hopefully this round keeps going well.

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thislittlebird · 26/02/2022 13:56

I forgot to say, we got our letter confirming our 4 embryos are frozen for 10 years! Seems so weird, made it kinda real.

thislittlebird · 26/02/2022 12:58

@Kay00 that sounds like a great plan! I had intended to start already but I'm on day 2 of post-IVF migraine. Definitely in calorie deficit though, since I've been busy throwing up for two days! 😩

Can't quite get over our decorator. He's gone now, we paid him and just wanted him out of our house and we'll finish the job ourselves. DH is off work 3 days next week so he can do much of what's needed then. Before he came our woodwork/fireplaces/bannister were smooth. Now they look bad, sloppy paint drips in lots of places. He was old so we thought he'd be experienced. In reality I don't think he can see very well. We did the walls in Dulux Timeless and the ceilings and woodwork in pb white. I don't think he could tell the difference???? In some places he's cut in with the white 🥴 😂. It's very ridiculous, can't get over it but at least we never have to see him again.

@EMM01 sorry you're going through this and the loss of your mum. It must be hard. Clomid worked for my sister many years ago, she has lots of kids now! I took Letrozole and it didn't work for us, I didn't haves side effects on that but I know clomid is famous for them.

@beckyCarlos this guy was so messy. I'm very pissed off but we could see by about Wednesday that this was not going to go well. I had to go to bed yesterday when he was here, and I had Deliveroo bring me some food from the co-op. Think he thought it was for hi. Like hell it is!

@Gracie2021 ahhh that's such good news. Starting with 8 is brilliant. I think I started with 9/10? Fingers crossed they grow and I have to agree that that AMH sounds like ng/ml. Even if it isn't, I wouldn't worry too much since you have a good number to start with irregardless.
Like @magnoliasinbloom in bloom mine has varied too, as has my AFC.

@beaverdiego I think so yeah. Unless you're over 35 then it's six months. I think they like you to have tried for that long in case you do conceive naturally.

thislittlebird · 26/02/2022 12:40

Ughhh just typed a long message out and my phone refreshed so now I'm trying to re-type it, with a migraine, on my laptop. Tempted to give up.

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