Hi. Well, half way through for me and I'm keeping positive.
Yes I also have tubal damage and I just had a huge gut feeling that something was wrong so I told a fib to my GP and said I'd been trying over 2 years. I waited for a laporoscopy and by the time the appointment came it was more than 2 years since we'd been ttc. (learning the abbrevs. now!)
My tubes are scarred/blocked and I was told I had a 1% chance of conceiving.
Dizzy (I had IVF in 2003 and on our 1st attempt we fell pregnant and we have a beautiful 13 month old son). For the record I am 39 this year.
My clinic put me on the pill for 14 days and on day 15 I had a scan to see if my womb lining was ready to begin treatment.
I then injected a drug called Suprecur to shut down my ovaries (ie. menopausal symptoms). I think this was for about 8 days and then I began to inject Menopur aswell which is the drug to super-ovulate (sorry don't know doses off top of my head). 15 days later I had another scan to check the size of my follices (potentially these house the eggs but on egg collection there may not be an egg in each follice). They have to be at least 18mm before they'll do egg collection. 3 days later I had another scan to see if they were any bigger and 3 days later my eggs were collected.
Then 2 days later the embryos were transferred. (haven't gone into detail of fertilisation etc. as it's in messages below). So at our clinic it's not every 2 days. We are at a private hospital but we had things like a sperm test and HIV/Hep B&C (these two are mandatory requirements - and so they should be), done at our local hospital so that we didn't have to pay privately). Advice is to do as much of that as you can to save £££.
Pruni - after egg collection I was sore and starving! I did take a pad with me but I didn't bleed much, just a little bit of brown blood and a smell of iodine which I believe they sterilise equipment with.
Today first real day that I can't feel the soreness from egg collection.
One thing that I didn't realise is that after treatment one has cysts and last time I had a 28mm and a 32mm cyst. They disperse and are nothing to worry about, but I wasn't expecting that.
Lastly (now you'll think I'm crazy). I was introduced to a 'white witch' in 2003 who I had to send a photo to and a lock of hair and a letter with as little or much info. about me as possible.
She did a spell and told me that she knew the IVF would work first time. I spoke to her today and she will do a spell this weekend and again she said that we will be pregnant this time!
Sounds really silly I know but last time we had the results so I had to try again. She is a friend's sister-in-law and I knew that she had predicted who would and wouldn't have a baby in their circle of friends.
The things we do!! Praying and thinking of you all and it's great that you are thinking of me as that gives me the 'warm fuzzies'.