IVFers thread

Hi everyone
Like Coggy Ive been away so Im on catch up. Great to have some new joiners. Welcome!

Soosy - great news about your 10/17. I know how you feel that the numbers arent important...but this way it means that they can choose the best quality ones to put back. Hope your transfer tomorrow goes smoothly (do you have acupuncture sometime too?).

SaveS - your family visit sounds a nightmare. Hope you are ok about it and your treatment and the family are proving more supportive now they know. Glad the inj issue is better.

Only - How was your scan/bloods today? Hope you have a positive plan and are feeling ok about it.

Worry - Hope you are doing ok? I will just echo everyone else who say that you only need 1...... (On your other question - I think the Drs treat IVF, especially the 1st cycle as very diagnostic, so will use the info from how you responded etc to plan future cycles. Therefore you might be on a completely different drug/timing protocol on future cycles. In fact I would question if they didnt change anything.)

Coggy - Do you mean the cyclocest pessaries? Yes, they are pretty evil but I gather they are meant to be really helpful. TMI Alert - Was told to try to lie down for 10 mins after inserting them - that gives you a chance the absorb the progesterone. The discharge is just the stuff its disolves in. Actually less messy as suppositories!

Fingers and toes all crossed for everyone!

We have just come back from our first ever child free long weekend away! It was fantastic and left me feeling that Id had a really good break (and cleared my head ready for next few weeks). I start my injections tomorrow and scheduled for GIFT on 13 Feb. Bloods and scans start on sunday.

Coggy - sorry for the confusion - I name changed and was MNPK!

Haven't seen MNPKF for quite some time.....hope you're okay.

SS...I am VERY excited for you. Two inside is excellent....now the even harder bit I guess....waiting!
Everything crossed for you. X

onlyaphase....I would love to have monster follicles!! I haven't had a scan yet but I'm due for one on Friday....I don't feel bloated or fatter or anything.....hope that isn't a bad sign.

EHM...yes, this is my first IVF but I had four IUIs last year and had to inject for them too. It's not too bad generally but I have to say that today I am feeling really fed up with all the jabbing going on!!
Roll on the weekend (if everything is ok) then I can stop for a while!

Soosy...feel for you. I have been mucked around no end over the past 2 1/2 years and it seriously does not help when it's so unnecessary....(especially when there's no alcohol to drown the stress either!!!!). I hope you have managed to feel calmer and organise your acc. session for the morning.
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Soosy - that's dreadful when it's all stressful enough anyway. I hope things get sorted out first thing in the morning.

OAPhase - that's fab news. I have to confess I thought it said you had to start injecting orangutan....I think today has gone to my head!

Well we had the ET. There were 4 frozen blasts, they defrosted 2 so we still have two left as both survived.

One was goodish and the other a bit dodgy but both are 'on board'!!

Soosy yes I needed a full bladder which is always problematic for me as it takes forever to fill. I had over 3 litres of water! I've worked out today the problem is actually that it takes a lot longer than normal for the water to end up in my bladder than most people!

Not sure how to feel. I actually am surprisingly relaxed in my mind about it all although not managing to rest up at all with ds running around.

I am having a bit of a crisis, I rang clinic, as asked at 3pm, about my transfer tomorrow, and was told that someone would call me back, no-one has and when I rang after 5 the answer machine was. Luckily we live near the hospital and I went to go and find out what was going on. I met one of the nurses outside, who told me the transfer is at 1pm tomorrow, but can't confirm until tomorrow am. I am a seething mass of anger, frustration and tears, am taking large quantities of rescue remedy to try and keep calm, but finding really hard. Am I over reacting or this is just c* esp as I am trying v hard to arrange acupuncture as well for tomorrow, I mean I know that ivf is stressful, but I didn't think the clinic was supposed to contribute. Finally should I complain?

Sorry about the rant, its just DH is out tonight...

soosy Thanks & good luck for tomorrow.
onlyaphaseThanks. sounds like received unexpected but really good news.

just received an email from DH about a nasty computer virus which can wipe your PC and use your email account and password. It comes with an attachment 'life is beautiful'. Do not open it but delete it immediately, pass the message on to everyone you know, as the virus at the moment is unstoppable. The message came from Microsoft and Norton

Onlyaphase must have just crossed you, sounds like you have had a really good response, yes I always think its better to have thing brought forward rather than pushed back.

Soosy - not sure if you are having ET today, if so good luck.

SS - good luck with transfer today. Have you got many blasts defrosting today or will you have some left? Very nosy, sorry

Welcome to EHM too.

Another scan today - good news is that they don't (subject to blood test results) think I have a cyst anymore, as there are now 5 of them, so they think they are giant follicles instead. Was told to rush home and start injecting organutran or whatever it is called that stops ovulation. EC has been brought forward to next Monday rather than a week on Friday which I think is good news? Must go and rearrange the childcare I had so carefully organised for a week on Friday.....

Hello everybody, good luck today SS with your transfer, Hope all goes well, do you have to have a full bladder, I do and it's bl*y awlful as you get squeezed, both sides, by the ultrasound and the speculum. I nearly peed all over the consultant once and he wasn't wearing scrubs, but a shirt & tie ha ha.

Coggy how's it going I hope your response is still going well.

Hi EHM good luck with this cycle, it seems to me that different clinics have different ideas about treatment and have various tweaks! but i think ultimately it all ends up being basically the same.

i am waiting to ring the ACU today to find out a time for my ET tomorrow, I hate the hanging around so much.

S xx

apologies coggy I've just read back & noticed its your first go I also noticed somebody had mention that the clinic can give you something to bring on you af.you learn something new everyday. I am also a regular posted on the Fly Thread. It keeps me sane. I hoping that this thread will do the same IVF wise.

coggy phew I thought it was just me heres me thinking after 5 attempts I knew everything there was to need to know! How have the injections been for you, is this first attempt? Sorry to be so nosey

EHM...I inject the buserylin too.
I didn't know anything about sniffing 'til I came on here!!!!!

SS...hope all is going well with you ET today...exciting stuff....hopefully will be me this time next week.

Soosy...I've lost the thread slightly!
Have you had your ET yet?
I know you've got lots of 'goodies' but wasn't sure if they'd gone back in yet or not.
Okay....now I've managed to find it!
Hope you get your phone call this afternoon and that all is really good news.
X

onlyaphase...thinking about you too.

My goodness it's all happening here isn't it??!!

saveScrablous Thank You & good luck for the transfer
worrymerchant never been offered that option ou have me thinking now, will ask clinic next time I speak with them. Hope your hand isn't too sore this morning.

SaveScrabulous - Good luck to you too, let us know how it goes... EHM - is there a reason for injecting Buserelin rather than sniffing?

Hi all
Glad to see more of us on here!

Embryo transfer tomorrow for me - yikes! Haven't really got my head around it to be honest.

Onlyaphase - good luck for tomorrow

Worrymerchant - try not to worry (lol given your name on here!) I think you still have a great chance.

Welcome EHM!

Great news Soosy that so many of your embryos fertilised. Keep us posted on progress!

thanks girls, i feel a lot more positive and reassured now, my feelings are just all over the place... and my mind as well.. have managed to take lid off hot casserole (just come out of oven) with bare hand...ouch!

Onlyaphase...best of luck for tom,

Onlyaphase, my friend had it done just as she started hormone injections and she too got pg on that cycle.

Worrymerchant, it only takes one good one, and if you think about it in real life you only get one or two eggs each month, I think your body naturally searches out the best egg to be ovulated, and therefore makes the most successful embryo. I have a friend who had one cycle of IVF and got pg with one embryo, she was 36 but it does happen. In fact so often the HFEA want to stop 2 embryo transfers, I was told by my clinic that it will happen just because we are, of course, the only group of people who have multiple pregnancies. Sorry it just makes me v cross.

coggy glad to hear the jabs are going well, after an egg collection you won't mind shoving a pessary up your bottom. It is the most efficient may of getting the stuff into you!

SS hope all is going well.

Hi - hope you don't mind me butting in again - but I'd like to say hi to Onlyaphase - as I had a cyst this last IVF cycle(it went up to 4.5cm) and they clinic advised me to abandon the cycle because they were convinced we would get more eggs on a cycle without one. We decided to keep going and only got 4 eggs at ec - at the same time they drained the cyst, I was assured a drained cycst was not believed to reduce the chances of implantation. After ICSI we got one grade 1 and two poor/ave... but as you can see from my earlier post, on this occasion we were very lucky and the one good embie stuck! Really hope this reassures you a bit.

Good luck to all of you.

Hi can I please join? Due to have ny first injection this evening of Buserelin tonight(this will be our 6th attempt at IVF) We have dd 20 months born after our 5th attempt & frozen embryo transfer. We are fortunate enough to still have embryos storage, so this attempt will be frozen embryo transfer too (hopefully)

Sorry, sorry.....I've been away and missed so much!!!!

Soosy.....17 eggs and so many fertilised...good for you!

onlyaphase.....I hope your news is good news about that cyst...I'd never heard about that so will google it all myself I think.

SS.....I am REALLY worried about having the progesterone pessaries as suppositries (how the heck is that spelt???)...I woudl MUCH rather have injections, painful or otherwise!!
We are all different eh?!

I'm jabbing merrily away with my buserilyn and puregon.
Feel really weepy compared to normal but generally fine.
Scan on Friday.....hope desperately that it's good news.

Hi Worrymerchant - I saw your other thread but may as well reply on here. Sorry you're feeling down about the whole thing - for what its worth, I felt down on my first IVF a few days after transfer too - I think the hormones, particularly the trigger shot, had left my system then and I felt really really not pregnant. Turned out I was wrong, so hang in there.

Also, you have a grade one embryo put back, which is excellent - imagine how down you'd feel if nothing had come of the treatment? And I think you said you had children from a previous relationship - so you already konw your womb is fully capable of doing the necessary for a term pregnancy. And the first cycle can be a bit different, as they don't know how you will react to the drugs. What stimulating drug did you use and what dosage? It is possible (up to a limit) to increase the dosage to potentially increase your response to them and produce more eggs.

And if it is any consolation, first time around I had only 7 eggs, 5 fertilised but only 2 good enough to be put back - grade 2 embryos - but had a BFP anyway. You really can't tell how things will pan out. This time round (2 years later) I am 38 and they have upped the dosage of drugs to cope with this

Hello girls, am new to mumsnet and thought i would join your thread as am just going through my first cycle of IVF\ICSI. So far all not going to plan (does it ever?) ... after all the sniffing and injections I didnt produce many follicles (only 7) and in the end went for transfer on Thursday with just one (grade 1) egg. I feel really disappointed. Also feel that i dont know enough. MAybe i should have been on a more aggressive drug protocol? Am 42 btw. Is anyone else a first timer, or my age? To those that have had more than one cycle: If i have ot go thru this again, does it nec follow that i will respond poorly again to the stimulation?

Soosy, great news on the fertilisation of 10 of your eggs. That is fantastic! Are you going for transfer tomorrow, or maybe going for blastocysts?

Am trying not to panic. Have another scan and blood tests tomorrow, will ask about best and worst case scenarios then. Would be happy to have it drained if this is possible - did this happen before EC for your friend?