Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your cake, wine and tightie whities and join us for more ranting, weeping and most of all, laughing. All welcome (Part4)

[PrettyVacant1]

Hello and welcome to all.
Grab your OPK and stash of POAS' and join us on this quest to many a BFP.
This ones going to be lucky!

Owls that made me laugh so much!! Can we take that with us to London where a few of us are planning to storm No10 waving POAS, OPKs and the nice guidelines demanding our rights?? You can sneak up with it and slap Cameron and Clegg!!!

Hugs as always to all x

Hahaha owl - we went to Thailand for our honeymoon in November and as part of our trip, spent the day in an elephant sanctuary in the Golden Triangle. Part of our mahout training was to ride the elephants into the Mekong to give them a bath, and I spent the whole time that I was in that bloody river shitting myself about the prospect of encountering one of those buggers!

Viv sounds like way more fun than my honeymoon!

We went to Australia for 3 weeks and on day 3 I got thrown off a horse in the middle of the outback 3 hours drive from the nearest hospital - my arm snapped in half, I got really bad nerve damage, needed an operation but they didn't operate (they said I could carry on with the hol and get the op back in the UK, but I had to sleep sitting up as I needed to keep the arm in an upright position) and then caught a really bad throat infection which meant I spent the last week of the holiday being delirious with a high temperature (which then resulted in me getting psoriasis to make my life even more fun). Got back, needed two operations on the arm and didn't get any feeling or function back for two years! Had to give up my job because nobody knew whether I'd be able to move my hand again.

Thought we deserved a replacement honeymoon so on our 5 year anniversary we went to Antigua for a 'lie by the pool and be pampered' type holiday. What could go wrong? Day 1 (on the way TO the bar rather than back from it) I fall down 1 step and break my ankle.

I don't think we're planning to have another replacement...

DachshundsRule!

No WAY. You poor thing!

On the plus side, having to give up my job did mean I could get my first dog :) And we moved out of our small flat in London to a house in Berkshire with a garden, so it wasn't all bad.

I am working again now though, so I have a lovely commute to contend with, as DH and I both work in London.

looks like that pg might have been my only chance of having a baby. clinic just rang and apparently i've only got about two follicles when they'd expect WAY more than that, so v little chance with either IUI or IVF.

The pg was my miracle baby and I've lost it!

Feeling in need of kleenex

Oh sweetheart, I'm so sorry. Did they say any more? Will you get a chance to discuss other options in more detail with them? I'm so very sorry.

dachshund :( for you - but if you conceived one miracle babay - maybe there is hope you can conceive another? Did the clinic offer you an appointment to go and discuss? x

sorry - my spelling is awful - typing at work whist trying to look innocently busy.

dachs oh honey! Sounds ominous, but you def need to book an appointment with a consultant to discuss the implications of this. I have no exp of this but dont follicles merely ripen the eggs, but eggs are kept inside the ovaries? They didn't say whether your egg reserve is low? Hope you get a more comprehensive answer soon.

Dachshund that's awful - so sorry. But as the others said maybe there are other options that you can discuss with them or is there another expert that you could speak with?

Sending you a big box of Kleenex and a big hug.

Dachs I am so sorry that the news isn't more positive my love. I am sure there have to be options...and don't forget to seek second opinions/referrals to fertility specialists.
big hugs xx

Dachshunds - sorry the clinic wasn't more positive . Hopefully it's not as dire as you're thinking right now? As others have said, might be worth a second opinion?

((v un-MN hugs))

Thanks for the support guys.

I guess I can be on haddock duty now. There's apparently no point me being on the 2ww so I may as well stop symptom spotting.

After I got the call I checked it all out online and apparently what they say is correct. Some clinics won't even take you on as a paying IVF patient with a follicle count that low because there's bugger all chance of it working.

The clinic we went to would let us have treatment, but aren't remotely sanguine about it working so they don't want us to waste our money. Apparently also with a follicle count that low, the chances are that the eggs are also very low quality and highly unlikely to implant.

Life sucks.

So very sorry Daschs :(

Sorry about that Dach, not the most encouraging news at a time when you're low. Big hugs to you

Our mates have gone through just privately. I'm sure my friend said she only had a few folicles too, plus they have diagnosed her with a low egg reserve. They are doing the IVF privately now but are about to get NHS IUI followed by NHS IVF at the end of the yeear, if they still need it. I know its hard, but don't give up hope yet - and step away from the iinternet with all the horror stories!

Dachs that's absolutely crap. Am that you've had to wait so long and go privately to get that information. I hope you get a chance to talk to someone about your options and are suitably kind to yourself over the next few days.

Am feeling really hormonal and shit today - just shouted at DP for literally nothing. I mean, it was impressive how I pulled an argument out of thin air . Not that I'm not grateful for the hormones and everything, but Gaaaaahhhhh I need to get a grip! I remember when PG with DS doing things that seemed totally and utterly reasonable at the time, and then looking back and being totally at my OTT reactions.

sorry your news wasn't positive Daschs x

Oh Dachs I'm sorry :(

i guess there's not a lot of point me hanging around the thread if it's never going to happen for me, but I may lurk and drop the odd message in. And give a few well timed haddock slaps. Although while I was skulking in my corner I came across a whale shark, so if any of you REALLY need fish intervention, consider yourself sharked!

(it is a bit heavy though, so if you only need minor fish intervention I'll use the haddock...)

Oh dasch, so sorry to hear that. I don't want you to leave us! Really sorry.

Dachs, oh honey, you don't need to leave this thread, my advice (for what it's worth) is to just take some time out for yourself and DH/DP. Get all the facts and take time to consider your options and take it from there. From what I know about this, and my knowledge is limited and non medical but as I understand it having 2 follicles makes conceiving difficult but NOT impossible. You can try IVF although they will probably try and discourage you because the success rate is low, having said that it does work in a number of cases. I can't imagine how you are feeling but honestly my love this is not necessarily the end. You and dh both need to give each other lots of tlc. big hugs xxx

dachs I am so so sorry :( I have no idea at all about this stuff but fingers crossed there is something that can be done for you. Big hugs xx