Assisted Conception (and the bits in between) Volume 6

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Hi all,
I just went to post on the old thread and noticed it had been locked, so here is a new one!
Come on in!

Yes,Rowing good point, Johnson is a man?s penis in America, I think; not exactly one man?s if you know what I mean! DD will change the name in a day or so, she is a bit fickle and has already called it by the name of the hamster we babysat for this year. What is nice is that we got it from a rescue place.

Thanks Lissy for the American culture lesson, good job DD didn?t decide on calling him ?Pecker?!

How does anyone remember to take tablets daily? I was only on the pill for a year and I sometimes forgot to take it! I am now on Thyroid tablets, today is day two and I finally took my one (morning) pill at about 6.00 PM!! How do you remember?

Hey all.

LAW hope you are feeling better, crappy run up to Christmas.

Italian PMSL at the hamster, and the hoping re: the name meaning!! Drugs-wise have you tried setting the alarm on your phone? I find one a day fine in that I always take my vits first thing before brushing my teeth and my pill used to live in my make-up bag so would remember that at some point in the day! Having to take Cyclogest 12 hours apart I have had to alarm it!

Lissy good luck with the monitoring cycle

I was a naughty girl and tested yesterday (should have tested tomorrow). It was positive. I have everything crossed and will of course fret for at least the next 8 weeks but it's another hurdle cleared

Val--WOO-HOO!!!!!

Thanks - all incredibly surreal, like it is happening to a friend or something if that makes sense

vallinnapod yippppeeeeee!! you have just made my morning... congrats!

i am now a week into DR and the drugs have settled down. injecting has zero side effects for me (apart from being a little moody...). Mole clinic a success- but I had to strip off to have a mole map done (all over body photos and i hadnt even shaved ). DD completely freaked with the photographer and refused point blank to be in the room with him... she preferred to be outside with my friend (a first!!)... going away tonight and just working out what to do with needles... oh and boots have arrived! yeah! just have to collect!!

happy new year to all!!

Hi all,
Vallin that is fantastic news. I can totally relate to it feeling surreal, it must do after all the faffing and prodding and endless waiting. That is lovely, lovely news!

If I every get another BFP I will faint and then refuse to believe it until I am in obstetrics pushing and even then I will think I am in the wrong department.

LAW how are you feeling? Missing moley? Do you have to pay any duty on the boots, mine should be here soon, they cleared customs on December 20th, not sure what happens next.

Italian what's the ham called today?

Lissy Happy Hogmanay to you!

Thanks ladies.

LAW are you injecting to down reg? I had the nasal spray and I must say the two weeks I was DRing were the only two I got any side-effects. It was just a headache but pretty chronic and around 8:30pm. Acupuncture got painful around this point too, she reckoned due to the toxins from it building up in my liver, when I started stimming and went to half the dose on the nasal spray it all stopped, thank god. Can sympathise re: mole, my back looks a little carved up - it's always the big, deep ones they want to lop off!

rowing--I have no idea what Hogmanay is. Explain please! As for boots, I had to pay an extra £15 VAT on delivery.

late--I got pretty touchy while I was down regulating. I think the drugs in combination with DH being a bonehead was not a good thing. Hopefully that won't repeat itself on the next go.

Mid cycle scan tomorrow. Back has been in agony, but got a massage today, and hopefully that has worked out some of the kinks. In the meantime, heating pad and painkillers!

Laters!

Val whoopie, well done.

Law all the best, hope the mole thing is OK. Mole map sounds great!

*Rowing love to you.

Lissy Hogmany is new year in Scotland, I think!

Val LOOK after yourself.

Love to all

Val congratulations

Late - glad mole situation is all ok and you can continue.

Hi all,

Italian that's right, Hogmanay is the Scottish version of New Year's Eve. I think it is from French, but I'm not sure exactly why.
It's quite a big deal up here, used to be the Christmas of Scotland until about forty or fifty years ago.
I bet you are a whizz in the pub quiz!

Just doing a bit of tinkering on the pooter, it's probably going to blow up so better wish you all a Happy New Year now!

Oh dear Rowing, I nearly misread that and read pooper instead of pooter! Now that is the kind of tinkering that we don't need to know about!

*Hamster is so cute, he had a currant today and he loved it! I am sad! with a capital 'S'. Watching The Family Stone and staying up late!

Love to all.

Boots collected with no VAT to pay (although havent worked out why not...) Have tested the boots in minus 18 (am in sweden.) and they are toasty toasty.

I am injecting indeed. and DP is being a complete tosser (can I say that on here???) which isnt helping with my moods...

oh and was anyones AF delayed? I am 2 days late (and am not preggars as have been testing daily....)and tis likely that all my timings are going to be a little screwed up... argh (DH being away for ´"the day" will not be great...

How is 2011 being received by us all so far??

Love to all

Rowing hiya, dear, what?s happening with Czech visit?

Lissy sending best wishes.

Chocobunny are you still looking in on us?

Mojangles any news, are you still looking in on us?

Val how is it going?

Keziah sending you a hug.

Law how is the mole situation, are you injecting now, not sniffing?

Penguinedreams and RosieBeagle do you ever visit our doors these days?

Love to all

I am feeling very excited about 2012. I feel it could be OUR year. I mean me and DH. Either we will get successful treatment or we will give up. One way or other it will be over!

Just realised I said ?I am feeling very excited about 2012.? I meant 2011 ? I am not thinking as far ahead as 2012!!!

Hi all,
Happy New Year!
Pooter broke, well the internet didn't work, for four days.
LAW lucky you with the boots! Mine came and I had to pay for customs and an additional charge. Grr! My boots were sent via USPS then Royal Mail who added on an £8 charge on top of the £16.50 VAT!
So in total I have ended up paying £107. Still cheaper than most of the shops in the UK though, and most don't even have the boots in stock.

LAW how are you finding the injecting? Is it going OK? -18 Shiver!

Italian Pooper indeed! You have a mind like a docker.

What a lovely holiday I have been having, so relaxing, just eating and watching TV with family and friends popping in. No work until Wednesday!

Have to work out what's happening with my cycle, but definitely feel a bit more normal.

Can anyone offer advice? I am taking Levothyroxine (one a day) for possibel thyroid problem and one of teh side effects is that it can affect sleep. I've had real problems sleeping for the last 4 nights. Has anyone else had these tables, had this problem? Does it get better? Any tips for sleeping? Thanks.

Hi all,

Italian I haven't any knowledge of the tablets but I do know people who take thyroid tablets that I can ask.
I think you should post on health or chat to get a better response.
Sorry you are sleeping sweetie. Have you tried drinking chamomile tea from 7pm and no tea or coffee/chocolate after 5pm?
Hormones do stuff up your sleep though, I can't keep my eyes open when I am in the follicular phase of my cycle and am springing around in the luteal phase.

Hi all,

Can I join please?

I'll give you a bit of background. I'm 30 and have got a 19 month old ds conceived through IVF (1st time). We wanted to start trying again pretty soon, but I also wanted to breastfeed for a year and then I had letz after an abnormal smear and so when I started down reg I had to have a mock embryo transfer but they couldn't get through my cervix because of the letz, so I had to have an op to dilate my cervix (more hassle, long wait for op, more stress).

Anyway, we finally got round to having IVF last December but sadly it failed. I was and am gutted. It's weird, I never even really thought it might not work, right up until embryo transfer so I was pretty devastated when I got the bad news just before Christmas. I've got a follow up this Thursday to talk about what happened and what next. I want to try again and we have cash for one more, but the thoughts of going through it all again are awful and I feel like the odds are stacked against us now which is rubbish.

I never found the process too hard really and I felt I was pretty relaxed all things considered and me and dp certainly kept a sense of humor about it all. I guess you can put your self through all sorts if you think you'll get something good at the end of it. I'm scared next time there'll be more pressure (only got cash for one more) which will make me more stressed and even less likely to happen.

Anyway, I felt like I went through it all alone (dp is ace and a few friends know and are supportive but no one really knows what it's like) and I'd really like to have a bit of support for the coming months of in between time and hopefully doing it all again.

What do you reckon?

Cheers...

Hi all,
Shirleycat of course you can join us, it's quite a small group the more the merrier.
Very sorry to hear about your failed cycle, but you are young and I'm sure you will be pg in no time.
This is a very, very stressful process, it's great if it all goes to plan, but as you know it often doesn't go to plan and causes such a lot of heartache.
Having a group like this I find very helpful because there is so much to learn about the process and it is good to know others going through the same process.
I hope your follow-up meeting goes well.

hi shirlycat! congrats on your little boy... but so sorry about your failed cycle. that really sucks.

i am day 13 of DR- first IVF cycle. i have one little girl conceived naturally... i am blindly going through it totally expecting it to work. can totally relate to your feelings on that score.. i know no one in RL that has had IVF... all my friends seem to be able to pump out children without MC or any other complication (unlike me....)

rowing yeah i am super sceptical about boots. i know i SHOULD be paying some sort of tax- I picked them up from the depot and there was none to pay (they came via DHL...) they are fab though. I have been in snow all week and not a cold toe in sight

italian sleeping....ahh the memory of it.... i am a rubbish sleeper now thanks to no sleep with my DD for the last 2 odd years... lavendar sometimes works... as does exercise and dvds in bed... oh and of course sex...

Late--You picked up the boots! YAY! Is it awful that I'm wishing for more snow just so I have a reason to wear them? I DO love the snow, though...

Rowing--Sorry about your pooter. I laugh when I say that, as it sorta sounds like a dirty word. I know that helpless feeling, not being able to connect to the internet. So frustrating!

Shirly--Welcome! So sorry to hear about your failed cycle. I understand completely, as my second cycle failed, and my first one ended in M/C. I had to have a cone biopsy, so I know where you're coming from. My second embryo transfer was extremely fiddly because of it. I'm at the ARGC now, and they'll want me to do a hysteroscopy a couple of weeks before my ET. And while they're in there, they'll dilate my cervix as well.

Italian--Happy new year! How's Rosemary coming along? I have been unable to get to the gym the last couple of weeks as I've done something to my back, and I've been in agony! Going to the chiropractor tomorrow, though, and hoping to get back to the gym soon.

AFM, have spent the last two weeks being a blob because of the pain in my back. Today was the first day it eased a little bit. Went to have my immunes tested...18 vials of blood! I was nervous about it, but it really was no big deal, and it was over in five minutes. Have been using an OPK since last Thursday with no positive results. I've never had to use one, since DH is a paraplegic, and therefore there is no way to naturally conceive. I think I missed my LH surge, my cycles have been quite short the last couple of months. I was reassured that it wouldn't affect treatment, so that's good. Can't remember if I posted last week after my mid-cycle scan, but it showed I had eight naturally occurring follicles, so I was very pleased.

Laters!

Hey, thanks for being so welcoming. I'm glad there are people around who know what I'm on about.

Good luck lateatwork - fingers crossed. Hope you're not having too many side effects. Are you having acupuncture or anything? I did with first cycle, but only had a couple of treatments for the last one. I think I'm going to start that with a little more commitment in a week or two. I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced by it, but it can't do any harm right?

I'm back at work tomorrow for the first time since I got my bad news. Luckily no one knows apart from my boss, so I won't have to keep telling people (I found that very hard), but I do like being at home with the little fella, pottering about.