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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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Gracie2021 · 31/01/2022 09:36

@beckyCarlos fingers crossed for you all goes smoothly this time and February will pass quickly. Bring on CD1. It's funny we spend so much time wishing period away then when waiting on treatment you're there dying for it to arrive.

@thislittlebird I'm actually the opposite, pump me full of drugs and get me as many eggs as possible. I'd say my risk of OHSS is fairly minute anyway with my numbers so more of a fear of no eggs than anything else. Going to be a long week waiting for Friday's scan. You're in wed?

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thislittlebird · 30/01/2022 08:35

@beckyCarlos that’s come round really fast!

It all sort of feels unreal tbh. I’m just here unpacking my food shopping and not enjoying the thought of this much protein lmao.

beckyCarlos · 29/01/2022 23:37

@thislittlebird and @gracie2021 yay for stims! Are you both doing ok?

@gracie2021 i start downregging at the end of feb (depending on cycle day 1 in a few days!) Less than a month! Eek! Because I had the whole polyp situation last time I'm a bit in disbelief that it'll actually happen 🤣

thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 22:59

@Gracie2021 next Friday? They’re chilled. I’m such an anxious Annie about all this, they’re gonna hate me. I’m already wondering when the next scan is but first it’s the blood test early Wednesday and then they decide what to do with my stims doses. She wanted me on high doses and I was like calm down lady, I do not want to risk OHSS even if you think I’m old af. I wish I could forget it all, sadly my brain hates me lol

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Gracie2021 · 29/01/2022 22:48

@Kay00 my Oh hasn't been called into action yet. I prefer having the control. But he's been informed if we ever have to do intra muscular he's being called up 😂😂

@thislittlebird think everyone is a bit different aren't they. I need my Oh there for support but feel better being in control of the needle.... I have nothing til my scan next Friday.... won't have a clue what's happening for a whole week.... think I'm going to try forget about it all outside of the injections. What are the chances 😂😂🙈🙈

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thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 22:31

@Kay00 I was literally just talking about this with the husband and saying some people do it themselves but I feel like I need the help and it takes some of the responsibility away from me. Hopefully your DH will come round 🤨.

I can feel very slight sensations in my left ovary and quite a bit in my right just now hmmmm. At least I know it’s not a super high dose, I don’t even have a blood test until Wednesday. Feels like a long way away iykwim.

Kay00 · 29/01/2022 22:16

Congrats on your first day of stims ladies!! 😁

My OH is (I hope jokingly) refusing to help me with any injections if/when we start ivf 😅 I think you're both very brave!

thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 21:44

@Gracie2021 glad you got through it! I found it harder than I thought. DH did it for me and it took us a while to go through the video and get the gonal f pen right. The air bubbles thing is kinda annoying, how did you find it? We decided to do it at 8.30, I set an alarm for getting it out of the fridge 20 mins before, then got the ice pack and it was fine, didn’t feel anything. The ice helps a lot.

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Gracie2021 · 29/01/2022 21:11

Hope you got on alright tonight @thislittlebird. For some reason my hands were shaking so bad doing them even though they weren't too much worse than the triggers I've done to date. And I was really teary doing it. Think it felt like such a massive step....

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thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 17:06

@Gracie2021 it might make no bloody difference but I’ll try lol

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Gracie2021 · 29/01/2022 15:45

Good to know @thislittlebird I'll add an extra chicken breast to dinner 👍👍👍

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thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 15:08

Plus being mostly veggie I’m not always getting a lot of protein so I’m switching up the diet to make sure I do. Protein and veg. And nuts.

thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 15:07

@Gracie2021 yeah there’s no way to know, but if I could get ten it would be great tbh. We have three transfers funded too so obviously I’d like three blasts 😬. What we end up with is another matter entirely.

I’m not sure when the CL disappears, it’s a mystery to me tbh.

The protein is recommended by some sources yeah, I think the clinic ARGC get their patients to drink a pint of milk per day. For me it’s a concern because immature eggs might be what I get so I’m making sure I’m eating plenty of it for the stims. Pretty sure it was in ISWTE but I may have made that up, I read it a year ago now.

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Gracie2021 · 29/01/2022 14:58

@thislittlebird I'm on 225iu gonal F and 225iu Luveris. I'm thinking will aim for 8.30 every evening. Tbh I think trying to guess what way the numbers will go is just an exercise in stupidity even though there's no way we'll be able to avoid it! I had three eggs release last month and two CLs were gone already so don't think it's an issue. Had it on a scan before too so maybe mine just reabsorb a bit slow.

What's with the protein? Is it recommended? I'm just trying to eat a bit healthier and have planty of veg but not doing anything special.

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thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 13:51

@Gracie2021 weird how we’ve ended up starting the same day! What stims are you on btw? I’m on gonal f with a pre filled pen thing, DH is going to do it but we’re trying to work out how to do it with his work shifts. I guess tonight makes sense, they said PM. Clearly I am also overthinking it. They’re going to reassess meds on Wednesday when I go for the blood test.

Tbh I’m quite glad there wasn’t more. I’ve had 38 follicles on day one before and that just makes me worry that more follicles = fewer mature follicles if they’re all sharing the same amount of energy. 24 is a lower figure and hopefully they’ll grow and another load of crap eggs won’t pop up too. If I get ten decent ones I’ll be happy, I expect a fair few will not grow or be immature.

Will your CL disappear soon? Mine hasn’t been mentioned on a scan before, not sure if its schedule lol

I’ve had 35g of protein so far today, salmon and veg for dinner will top that up and I need to fit in my 2-3 litres of water Confused. I’ve ordered an online shop full of protein because I’m a veggie mostly but I will eat meat. So my meals for ten days will involved a lot of chicken, steak, tuna, salmon, chickpeas, lentils, avocados and so on 🙃

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Gracie2021 · 29/01/2022 13:27

Delighted for you @thislittlebird so we're starting same day. Amazing how that worked out! That's an amazing number of follicles. I only had two on my right and they couldn't see the left as last months corpus luteam was still there blocking the view. My AMH and AFC are on the low side though so I'm hoping for 10-12 eggs total. Fingers crossed all yours keep growing. Amazing to start with such a lovely high number. Have you decided what time to do your stims? I'm overthinking it here and keep changing my mind!

@beckyCarlos just catching up now but I see you got your dates. It'll come quickly. When do you start your down regs?

@Kay00 I'm a bit too salty for the pineapples and cute socks these days too. If anything my new approach is to think about it all as little as possible and just try to lose myself in the rest of my life. Some days are more successful than others. How are you doing this cycle?

@Juno231 so sorry for the late reply but so glad things are going well for you xx

@magnoliasinbloom I'm so sorry you're surrounded by all the announcements lately
Especially with such an insensitive reaction from your friend. Hope the party went well and wasn't too triggering. Are you into your IUI cycle now? Hope AF came in a timely manner for you.

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thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 11:19

Ok I start the stims today 👀. Blood test booked on Wednesday to decide what happens after Wednesday drugs wise. I had 13 follicles on the right, 11 on the left. No idea how many of those will respond but when I was on letrozole my right ovary wouldn’t respond so well, they’d stop growing usually.

thislittlebird · 29/01/2022 08:41

@Gracie2021 I would rather by busy too so I have a distraction I guess but my job isn’t that busy right now anyway so it is what it is. Probably a good thing really, I’d definitely complain if work was stressful on top of this. I think that Ivf thread is so busy because it’s really three months worth of people, because December would have been quiet. I can’t keep up and feel bad but I’ve posted general good wishes a couple of times.

I guess they’ll tell me when I get there. I’m day 3 now so it won’t be very delayed.

We watched the stims needle stuff last night and I really won’t pretend I understand the air bubble thing. The video was jumping around all over the place which didn’t help. DH says he gets it and he’s done ovitrelle for me before and he’ll be doing these too, I’m more of a worrier.

PurpleUnicorn01 · 28/01/2022 22:13

@Gracie2021 yes it will be worth it in the end

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Gracie2021 · 28/01/2022 22:05

Sorry for disappearing @thislittlebird and yes 100% want to cheer each other on through this. Such a support having someone else at the same stage. Juggling a lot at the minute which is actually a good thing as no time to think or worry (too much) but just haven't been able to keep up to date on here at all. Need to do better! The big IVF thread scares me a bit too, I can't keep track of anyone at all as there's so many updates flying in.
I was CD1 today but they did the scan before period arrived and took my word for it arriving. So I'll be Cd2 and day 1 stims tomorrow. By the sounds of it you'll be starting Sunday/Monday? They told me any day from 2-5 was fine to start but I just couldn't be waiting anymore hence the small white lie about AF.

@PurpleUnicorn01 watching my stims needle teaches here as I go to bed and just grateful for my practice to date on the medicated cycles as I have a vague idea what I'm doing. Have warned the puppy no running from tomorrow and only brisk walks to mind the poor swollen ovaries. If I get eggs I won't care what size they are though!

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PurpleUnicorn01 · 28/01/2022 21:55

@Gracie2021 that's so exciting! Keep us posted. I hated stims towards the end. The swollen ovaries are zero fun. Don't be alarmed if they stay swollen for a few weeks. The drs say that's normal.

thislittlebird · 28/01/2022 20:59

@Gracie2021 I was wondering what happened to you! This is day 2, tomorrow will be day 3. If it started midday then tomorrow is technically your day 1, right? Have you had your scan? I’m not allowed to start until I’ve had my scan but hopefully I’ll be starting too, and no uterus oddities to be found! It will be nice to know someone going through it, no one seems to talk to me on the busy Ivf thread 😂. I asked if anyone was starting now for feb and no one replied.

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Gracie2021 · 28/01/2022 20:29

Work has been mental busy and just haven't gotten to keep track of everyone here at all. Need to do a good trawl back through over the weekend and catch up on everything but just saw your last couple messages @thislittlebird and so similar to me today. Was meant to be CD1 and booked in for baseline at 9.30. If my period didn't come by lunchtime they were going to push my stims start back to Monday. I lied and messaged in about 11 that it had started 🙈 in my defense I knew it was imminent. Cue a mad cleaning frenzy at lunchtime to get things going which thankfully worked. Just thought it strange that we were both wishing AF on today. I officially start stims tomorrow. Can't believe it. Hope you get the go ahead tomorrow!

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thislittlebird · 28/01/2022 11:36

@Juno231 it really does feel like forever! A year getting from the initial gynaecology referral to IVF starting. Ugh. I’m nervous but also keen to start and I’ve ordered lots of protein. I don’t even eat meat normally, not going to love eating so much of it for ten days ish.

Juno231 · 28/01/2022 10:57

@thislittlebird I'm glad!! I'm thrilled it's finally all happening for you, it's been so long!