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Have first appt at teh Lister re IVF today...

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CountessDracula · 21/04/2008 12:02

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oiFoiF · 22/04/2008 20:37

glad it went ok good luck x

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CountessDracula · 22/04/2008 17:41

both actually!

we can be ivf buddies

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Buda · 22/04/2008 16:20

Are you feeling excited? Or just nervous?

I think you have spurred me on - will talk to DH but think I will make appointment to talk to the doctor next week at least.

I may be mad but at least I am in good company!

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CountessDracula · 22/04/2008 12:41

May or June I guess

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ClairePO · 22/04/2008 12:39

If you did decide when would you start?

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CountessDracula · 22/04/2008 12:39

Also foudn out that my fibroid is not an issue at all which is nice to know (it is small and in the right place)

And that my PPH might have left my womb knackered, they are going to check it out first and remove any adhesions and stitches that may be there

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CountessDracula · 22/04/2008 12:37

yes
it all seemed pretty hopeful really

Now need to decide whether to do it!

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foxinsocks · 22/04/2008 12:34

excellent, sounds like good news.

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CountessDracula · 22/04/2008 09:38

Someone called Faris

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LadyMuck · 22/04/2008 09:12

Who did you see?

CantSleepWontSleep · 22/04/2008 07:36

Oh CD - didn't realise you had trouble conceiving. Best of luck.
(I also thought you meant Lister in Stevenage - is quite a well known hospital!)

NorthernLurker · 22/04/2008 07:26

That's good - sounds like you have options then- all the best with whatever you decide

Buda · 21/04/2008 23:09

Sounds promising!

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CountessDracula · 21/04/2008 23:04

It was very interesting
the odds are much better than I had imagined given our circumstances
We are thinking hard about it!

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soosy · 21/04/2008 22:00

How did it go CD, I am at Chelsea & Westminster and thinking of having 2nd opinion at Lister so would be interested to hear how you got on. I have had more fertility procedures than anyone should have in a life time, but luckily our 10th attempt produced DS now 3 have had five attempts since but with no joy.

Buda · 21/04/2008 18:54

How did it go CD?

Buda · 21/04/2008 15:38

I was lucky for some of mine here as a nurse friend did some for me.

When I had IVF first time in Bangkok there was no question of you doing your own injections. Went to clinic every day and the nurse did it!

Earlybird · 21/04/2008 14:22

Yep - I overcame my fear of needles during fertility treatments. Did all my own injections - mainly in tummy, which wasn't pleasant, but much nicer than using monster needle necessary to inject in bum.

OldBint · 21/04/2008 14:19

I had a bit of a comedy moment with the first of the syringe-type injections (found the pen style ones fairly easy).

Was trying to squeeze out air bubbles (I have at the back of my mind some old wives tale that if you inject air into to you , you DIE). Squeezed a bit hard, the injection started squirting out (went all over the mirror) so I just sort of jabbed it in in a panic and plunged the plunger fast and hard. Hmmm.

On the plus side, the ones after that have been relatively uneventful .

hifi · 21/04/2008 14:13

oldbint, you were very brave to do it in your stomach. im sure part of why mine didnt work is half my drugs were squirted over the sofa by dh.

OldBint · 21/04/2008 14:09

LOL Buda - am having nuclear-style stimulation and still not managing to get much more than 1 or 2 follicles so maybe am pioneering "soft IVF".

Hifi - I have refused to give DH the power of injecting me in the backside - have done by myself into stomach. I have little female mystique left - in fact, as DH mentioned, you kind of feel a bit different about your wife when you have had a good close up look at her uterus in the Drs hands after a C-section - and I think that would pretty much be the last straw!

Earlybird · 21/04/2008 14:06

The fertility clinics operate by a strict ethics code, set out by the governing body (HFEA) and can be penalised quite heavily if they are not truthful with patients about recommended methods and chances of success.

Good luck with it all CD. If you go ahead, you will definitely feel as if your body is one big science experiment. But obviously all worth it if you are successful. (And in my own case, all worth it - though not successful - because I knew I had done everything possible (within my own personal limits) to give dd a sibling and so could accept that for me/us, another child simply wasn't meant to be.)

hifi · 21/04/2008 13:48

hi cd, i had one of mine there, do you live or work near to the lister? i think its the week before egg collection you have to go every day or other day for a scan, i did it in my lunch hour as i was working near there.the only thing i didnt like is dh had to inject me in my backside everynight which was hugley stressfull, the ones before i injected myself with a pen into my thigh, far better.
we went for icsi, had 12 eggs, they did the icsi proceedure on all of them then let slip later they should have split them between ivf and icsi, v v v pissed off. they knocked £1500 off the bill bit obviously that wasnt the point.

LadyMuck · 21/04/2008 13:47

They're fantastic - Who are you seeing?

Have to say that my first appointment there was sooo good. They gave me real hope.

Don't be too nervous - they are lovely and professional.

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CountessDracula · 21/04/2008 13:46

ooh can you do that?
I m;ust remember to ask about it this pm

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