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IVF success stories please

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Tania2 · 22/12/2004 05:17

Hi girls,
Just wanting some success stories not sure if i am giong down this road yet as i am having more test in the new year.
My story....
Iam 27 live in Australia have a ds aged 2 natural conception but a very big suprise.
Was told i had endo when i was 18 and that i would proberly need medical help when i want to have a family so DH and i never used contraception. Been ttc number 2 for 1 year now and just had a lap and dye done last week and was told by my gyno that my tubes were so blocked that he couldnt get the dye through and i would have to consider IVF.
Having a levervist ultrasound in the new year to confirm the blockage but hoping that maybe my tubes were spasaming (sp?) during my lap and thats why the dye wouldnt go throu.
So iam really in limbo atm not sure if i can fall pg on our own or if we need to do IVF the $$$$ really worry me cause i hear of so many people getting into alot of debt doing ivf.
Needing some success stories to give me and dh a little hope and some light at the end of this very dark and lonley tunnel.
Thanks for taking the time to read my rant.
lol
Tania
xx

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Tania2 · 22/12/2004 11:54

Thank you MPM sorry it took you so long. have you settled for 1 or will you give it another go? it must have cost you a fortune. Not sure if we would be able to have many shots of it $$$$ but hoping that because i have had 1 successful pg naturaly and that dh sperm count is normal that maybe it wouldnt take me long but then iam not quite sure on what the stats on that would be??
Anyway congratulations on your success with ivf. and again thankyou for taking the time to share your story.

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MincePieMonster · 22/12/2004 11:43

Hi Tania,
mine is a success story ... eventually! We took 3 and a half years and 6 cycles of IVF but in the end were blessed with our beautful dd. She's now almost 4 and I still look at her sometimes and wonder at the miracle of modern technology. Our problem was one where dh had a very low sperm count and the ones that were there weren't motile, so we had to have the ICSI form of IVF (where they inject a single sperm into the egg).
I can't pretend it was easy - a rollercoaster really is the best way to describe it - but I don't regret any of it for a moment and I'm glad we chose to persist rather than give up after a couple of attempts.
I really hope that yours is a shorter and easier path to success than mine was - my best wishes to you and your dh.

MPM (alias CookieMonster) xx

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Tania2 · 22/12/2004 11:36

Just thought i would bump up my thread incase there is anyother success stories out there???

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Tania2 · 22/12/2004 08:58

Thankyou for answering piotswife. Congratulations.
Melbourne is where iam i think i will be going to the royal womens hospital.
Hoping it will only take me one go. What was your reason why you did ivf if you dont mind me asking.

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pilotswife · 22/12/2004 08:47

Hi Tania

I had IVF in Melbourne. Just took one go and outcome absolutely fantastic. Usually there is a support group attached to the hospital. Monash IVF produced a book with stories that I found very useful and inspiring and I know the Epworth had a magazine that was terrific. Good luck....it's really not that bad and you just have to keep visualising the wonderful outcome. The staff at Epworth were fantastic and made it just so easy.