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Icsi ivf may 2024

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Cloclo93 · 17/03/2024 09:22

Hi ladies I thought I'd create this thread to support anyone doing ivf in May 2024, it's great to have other people to talk to going ture the same thing!
My background I'm 31 with low AMH of 3, suffering from secondary infertility 2.5 years ttc had a failed IVF cycle in February where my 4 mature eggs just failed to fertilized so we have been advised to do ICSI for our next cycle! I decided to give my body a break and get back into end of April/may depending on how my cycle returns:)

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hopefullsosbry · 06/06/2024 13:19

Ilovebees · 06/06/2024 12:55

@hopefullsosbry yes I would also test everyday if I was you , it’s hard to stop once you start 😂😆😙wishing you all the luck it gets darker !!!
and yes I’ll be going into FET as soon as I possibly can , I’m guessing my trasfer could be 3 months froM now or so , I know they want one proper period first before starting and the down reg normally takes few weeks too which feels like forever !

it will feel like a life time away no doubt but I hope it goes quick for you. It’s so soul destroying all this huh ? 😑

Ilovebees · 06/06/2024 12:55

@hopefullsosbry yes I would also test everyday if I was you , it’s hard to stop once you start 😂😆😙wishing you all the luck it gets darker !!!
and yes I’ll be going into FET as soon as I possibly can , I’m guessing my trasfer could be 3 months froM now or so , I know they want one proper period first before starting and the down reg normally takes few weeks too which feels like forever !

hopefullsosbry · 06/06/2024 12:47

Time will tell, I will still be testing anyways! That’s amazing you have 9 .. I am certain you will get a BFP if not more than 1 from your ‘harvest’ 🥰 will you go for FET with next available cycle that the clinic let you ? 💖

Ilovebees · 06/06/2024 12:42

@hopefullsosbry hey , I get that the test was darker at 3dpt but this couldn’t possibly be from the hcg yet as embie hasn’t implanted yet by that point so it was defo the trigger shot, the earliest you could ever get a hcg faint line would be from 4-5 dpt , so it makes sense that your 5dpt faint line could be the beginning of your BPF . The only way to be sure would be to see it getting darker from tomorrow and so on , if it goes to negative tomorrow then I’d think it wouldn’t look very good , but if it’s slightly more darker then it’s great !
and yes I have 9 frozen from this cycle left . I collected 24 and ended with 10 blastocyst xx

hopefullsosbry · 06/06/2024 12:19

It could I guess, but i feel would be a miracle, the reason I feel it’s not is with it being slightly darker on 3dpt then fading again .. it should prob have increased and not got lighter ?? I have had 3 chemicals in the past and the line were like this .. going darker then light from early on .. 😵‍💫 it should prob be darker by now ??
honestly, have no clue about surrogate but we would find all that out at the time. Sorry your still negative, yes probably a good idea to keep taking until test day, think I will do the same. Thanks for your support with all this 💖do you have more frozen ?

Ilovebees · 06/06/2024 12:00

@hopefullsosbry did you say you still have a slight faint line today ? Could this be the beginning of your BFP ? Like you said trigger should be gone by now so this could be your new pregnancy line ? X
and you said about maybe try surrogate in the future , but how does this work ? How do you find surrogates ? Xx I hope your lines keeps getting darker from tomorrow as your only 5dp5dt so still early xx I am still negative , I am out for sure but still taking progesterone until I’m asked to stop on official day xxx

hopefullsosbry · 06/06/2024 09:49

BakinABaby · 06/06/2024 06:27

I just found out the two embryos they were still growing didn’t progress enough to freeze 😞 This sucks. It’s all riding on the one I have in me now 🤞.

best of luck for your little one on board 💖🤞🏽✨

hopefullsosbry · 06/06/2024 09:48

Ilovebees · 05/06/2024 15:52

@hopefullsosbry hey thank you xx
and I did not get diagnosed with sticky blood or immune issues , they are just giving me these just incase it might help . Because I have had 7 pregnancy losses at 6 weeks or earlier , 6 natural , 1 ivf . And they cannot find anything wrong with me in blood testing or in my womb . I haven’t had immunes testing done , so I requested the steroids just incase I do have immune issues and body attacking my embryos , but I haven’t had a chance to fall pregnant yet with using steroids to see if they would help or not . So I’ll keep taking them every trasfer now hoping that one embryo would stick and that steroids might be just what I needed to make my baby stay x

At lest you have tried all their suggestions and would be always wondering what if, if you hadn’t. I might ask for steroids and blood thinners also as a precaution for my next transfer as this one has failed am sure .. no harm in trying, then if they doesn’t work we are going to try a surrogate. 🤷🏼‍♀️

hopefullsosbry · 06/06/2024 09:19

negative for me this morning .. I kinda knew it anyways .. there's still a really faint line and trigger should prob be gone .. but I feel
something tried to implant but then came away as seems to be the pattern with me .. line looks slightly darker 3dpt and then fades again ? So strange. The only explanation for failed implementation each time can be abnormal chromosomes as we have tested for everything else .. between my age (old duff eggs) and my partners DNA frag it’s just slim pickings for us and I don’t think it will ever work .. we are thinking to try another EC with PGT testing then maybes a surrogate? But we still have the other two frozen to put in also first ..just can’t see it working though this was 6th transfer 😵‍💫

I have attached pictures of line progression from trigger shot

Icsi ivf may 2024
Icsi ivf may 2024
BakinABaby · 06/06/2024 07:01

@Ilovebees Bad news, bfn's etc with infertility used to make me angry or sangry, now I'm just 'mm ok well no reason crying over spilt milk'. I do now have to consider more thoroughly if I want to do another round of EC (if this should fail and for all I know I have massive implantation issues since I seem to fail getting pregnant). And if I do then what when, what can I do myself to have better eggs. The clinic I'm with has a collective vacay all of July and most of August so I'll have some time to mull over it and have a hot girl summer. BUT of course, I'd rather be pregnant so fingers effin crossed.

How you holding up? Still no bfp?

Ilovebees · 06/06/2024 06:50

@BakinABaby omg no way !!! Poor little embryos 😢 feel so sad for you ! I hope you’re feeling okay though , because the one inside you could be the one , fingers crossed 😊

BakinABaby · 06/06/2024 06:27

I just found out the two embryos they were still growing didn’t progress enough to freeze 😞 This sucks. It’s all riding on the one I have in me now 🤞.

camelinastorm · 05/06/2024 20:53

@Ilovebees yes it was the first rest I did it was a boots early response and it was very faint.
I'm also on blood thinners and steroids for just incase, I'm bruised like hell and so want to stop if it hasn't stuck but would regret it if next week it was positive

BakinABaby · 05/06/2024 17:31

@Ilovebees I’m just 1dpt so not testing yet. I plan on doing one tomorrow to see how much if any of a line I’m still getting from the trigger and then I’ll just keep doing one a day. I’m testing early and often every month there is a chance, keeps me calm and not delulu.

That’s a lot of medicine you’re on just cause. Sucks they havent found anything specific wrong, that you could target fixing. I’m unexplained too but my issue is getting pregnant in the first place.

Ilovebees · 05/06/2024 15:52

@hopefullsosbry hey thank you xx
and I did not get diagnosed with sticky blood or immune issues , they are just giving me these just incase it might help . Because I have had 7 pregnancy losses at 6 weeks or earlier , 6 natural , 1 ivf . And they cannot find anything wrong with me in blood testing or in my womb . I haven’t had immunes testing done , so I requested the steroids just incase I do have immune issues and body attacking my embryos , but I haven’t had a chance to fall pregnant yet with using steroids to see if they would help or not . So I’ll keep taking them every trasfer now hoping that one embryo would stick and that steroids might be just what I needed to make my baby stay x

hopefullsosbry · 05/06/2024 15:45

@Ilovebees oh no sorry you are still showing negative.. fingers crossed you get a line on the next few days !! Can I ask did they diagnose you with sticky blood ? Is that why you are on the blood thinners ? And did they test you for immune response that why you are on the steroids ? Or did they just give you these as a back up ? Hope you can relax a bit this evening but you will be feeling all the emotions and I totally get that .. send you hugs 💖

Ilovebees · 05/06/2024 15:05

@camelinastorm I am 7dp5dt 😣 well 6and half days past transfer , so it would make me like 12 dpo. Frer should at least show a tiny faint line .
did you test at 9dp5dt last time the first time ? Was that your first test in that trasfer ? And did you get a strong positive by then ?
@BakinABaby thank you for your kind words , I will be taking my progesterone for sure , until like a day or so before expected date . But I stopped my blood thinners injections , no point anyways . And the steroids I’m already reducing the dose so I can come off them earlier than originally planned , with steroids you have to wean of slowly so I’m doing it already starting today .
I just feel very low today and emotional . But I know for sure that I’ll be okay next week once I come to terms with the outcome . Xxx how are you ? How many days past trasfer are you and are you testing early ? X

BakinABaby · 05/06/2024 12:49

@Ilovebees I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this 😞. I kbow the anger of infertity all too well, it’s the unfairness of it all. I think I would take the progrsterone for a few day more and then do a final-final test and then to stop taking it. I know you want to stop it now, but I’ve heard so many stories where super-sure-not-preggo-i-know has turned out to be wrong in the end and I would hate for you to worry to death because you haven’t been taking it. Just to err on the safe side of things kind of thing.

camelinastorm · 05/06/2024 12:47

@Ilovebees how many days past transfer are you, I didn't test positive on my first transfer until 9 days past this is one of the reasons I was holding out

Ilovebees · 05/06/2024 08:26

@hopefullsosbry good morning 😊 I am still testing negative 😠😤 I’m so angry ! Cant get pregnant easily naturally and even IVF doesn’t work when the embryo has been literally put inside you physically !!!! You don’t get a better chance than that to get pregnant but no , something always has to go wrong 😭I’m clearly out now , first response looks as white as snow bank ! Couldn’t be any more whiter . What do I do ? Can I stop my medications few days earlier ? There is no point hoping anymore . I just know it and there is no need to sugar coat things . I just can’t imagine how I’ll make it through to my next trasfer in few months time if I can’t even wait 2 full weeks to see if my trasfer worked ! How am I going to cope with the waiting ?! Sorry for the rant I’m just so pissed off . I hope at least some of you get your big fat positive pregnant test 🙏

hopefullsosbry · 04/06/2024 23:49

Thanks for the support hunni 💖just having one of them days I guess .. tomorrow us another day.. sending luck to us all 🤞🏽✨🥰

Ilovebees · 04/06/2024 23:09

@hopefullsosbry I’m sure the symptoms have nothing to do with if you’re pregnant or not because remember it takes a lot of hcg to feel any symptoms , if any at all until well into pregnancy , and you’re embie has only started to implant and no hcg in your blood yet . And the sore boobs you felt must of been from progesterone because again like I said hcg is not present yet from the pregnancy so it doesn’t mean anything at this point . When I was 6 weeks pregnant last year , I never ever had sore boobs, like ever and my hcg was like 25 000! Just imagine ! And my body didn’t react to it even then . But yes I understand your worries because of your history ,and I’m so sorry to hear that , but for now , let’s keep positive and see what the next few days bring , you never know 🙏but just know your feelings are very valid and your feelings matter 💕so let’s hope for the best week ever for us all so that hopefully we all get positive tests and get a nice suprise 💕

hopefullsosbry · 04/06/2024 21:48

Yeh i have been testing every day since I got the trigger and will test every day till I bleed probably .. I dunno this is my 6th transfer and I can just tell already I think .. also had two miscarriages from natural conception so I can kinda tell now what my body is like .. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think it tried to implant as I felt the pulling etc Sunday night but then last night had sore cramps for 3 hours and my boobs aren’t as sore this morning when I woke up any more .. I feel it tried to implant them came away last night .. as it’s the same feeling I felt in the past .. but thanks I know am still early but I just have a gut 🤨.. anyways only time will tell 😐

Ilovebees · 04/06/2024 21:14

@hopefullsosbry and thanks for the embryo activity plan 😙

Ilovebees · 04/06/2024 21:13

@hopefullsosbry I know what you mean about the progesterone ! I’d like to come off it too , even at 9dpt but I’m too scared to tell my doctors that I have tested early as they were very serious about not testing early and I promised not to , so if I tell them it’s negative earlier than official date , then they will know I lied haha 😂and you’re in much better situation than me as you’re only 3dp5dt which means you could catch a faint line at 5dp5dt or even 4 !!!! I’m already past 5dp5dt and still negative so my hopes are slowly fading ! At least you’re full in with the chance 👌👏are you going to test tomorrow and every day after that ? X