Bodeccia - brilliant news your scan all went well and it's all go for Saturday :) Can't wait to hear how you get on. Really interesting about the water/injections thing - I had an injection done yesterday and I barely felt it. At the time I assumed it was just because the nurse had just been gentle, but maybe it was more down to the vast quantities of water I've been consuming these last few weeks! I found the EC experience bizarre. It was the first time I'd had a GA and because (obviously duh!) I couldn't remember a thing about it, I couldn't quite grasp that anything had actually happened. I remember just laying there laughing in a slightly deranged fashion
Jumping Jack - it's a nightmare trying to get time off for all the appointments isn't it. Does your clinic do very early appointments - mine does them from about 7ish although obviously everyone wants these ones so you have to get in quick! I'm very lucky that 2 of my 3 scans this week were/are on Mon/Fri which are my days off but I've still had to make quite a few excuses lately which include the dentist, trains and DS puking everywhere.....
GardenPixie - glad all the timing worked out, normally its sods law that it all happens when you dont want it to. Will keep everything crossed that your follies behave themselves this time...
blacktreaclecat don't be nervous, we're all here to hold your hand :) I'm not sure there is an awful lot you can do with regard to the OHSS except drink tons of water. The good thing is if they are aware it may happen, they should be monitoring you very closely. There's also a drug available now that wasn't around when I had my first fresh cycle that is supposed to combat the symptoms - I think I'm going to be on that from the Saturday to try and make sure it doesn;t happen again.
Hello fatima - I'm afraid I dont have any experience of egg sharing either but I think it is a lovely thing to do. Funny enough I picked up a leaflet about it yesterday (god only know why as at 35 my egg sharing days are nearly over!). It didn't say much (and probably nothing that you dont already know) - just that you had to be 35 or under, fit and healthy with BMI between 20-30, no history of tranmissable diseases and and no more than two previous cycles.
womanly - oh my love, it's tortureous isn't it. You are doing the absolute right thing by trying to distract yourself. And I know's it easier said than done but try not to google too much. If you're like me you'll only focus on the negative stuff when there is every chance it's not bad news.
HKP - welcome and sorry you are going through a tough time at the moment. I'm sure you will feel better once you move onto the stimms.
Hello to everyone else I've missed.....
Thanks for all your comments regarding 1 or 2 - it's really helpful to get other people perspective. It's such a big decision isn't it. In answer to some of your questions jumping jack we dont have any history of twins but the consultant has put my odds of twins at 45% if we have 2 day 3's put back - seems very high to me. The only reason I can think he thinks that is because DS was originally a twin, but then as he pointed out himself, we only ended up wuth one baby - on the otherhand if we'd only had one put back we might not have DS now. Maybe he's trying to scare me into SET!! DP would be okay about freezing and having a FET but I'm very worried that we take them to blast but none of them make it (I should really stop reading FF). Like you Garden I know quite a few people who have twins through fertility treatment and luckily they have all been fine - however I was reading a leaflet in the waiting room that sugested that 1 in 12 twin pregnancy results in a death or severe disability or a baby :(.
If I fell pregnant naturally with twins I would be delighted and would deal with whatever happened but it feels like such a big responsibility to actually chose to put yourself in a situation where it may happen, especially as we would be going against the consultants advice . Anyway he has agreed that we can make the final decision but they will make me sign something to say they didn't recommend two if they do. Probably getting ahead of myself anyway seeing as we didn't even make it to ET last time! Maybe I should wait and see if/how many embryos we get first. Oh well, next scan tomorrow.....