TTC/Pregnancy on Prednisolone or similar part 4

[digitalgirl]

A positive thread for all those diagnosed with High or Very High NK Cells and looking to start TTC or already pregnant on Prednisolone and/or Intralipid treatment.

Newcomers very much welcome!

Part 3 here

Part 2 here

Part 1 here

stogan sorry crossed posts with you. You know, sometimes I think men just don't get it. I told my OH when I got to work about my DD's teacher and his only comment was "so there will be a replacement teacher for a few months then, hope she's ok". Nothing in any kind of commiseration, of all people I expected him to understand how I was feeling. I think it's genetic, perhaps, some guys just really don't understand. Virtual hugs to you, just comfort yourself with the thought of the sleepless nights he will also be having once your baby is born

hopeful that is good news. That's all I will say for now!

Cinny welcome. We are a friendly lot on this thread. I have found it great to have so many knowledgeable people to talk about this with. (That's a horrible sentence but you know what I mean!)

Stogan sometimes they just don't get it do they?

Arian it's odd how some things affect us and some don't, isn't it. Some people's pregnancies i am fine with. Others, I feel nothing but jealousy.

I'm a bit down today too. It's my birthday and I feel like time is ticking by. I'm also having a particularly vile heavy period (and spent the early part of this morning scrubbing the bedroom carpet as I somehow manaaged to get blood on it, not the way I really wanted to start my birthday). A year ago today was the end of our first proper cycle of trying - it ended with AF arriving on my birthday. Now we are on cycle 15 with 14 disappointments behind us. On a more practical level, the hospital where I will be having IVF has asked me to come in for an internal scan tomorrow. If my period doesn't ease up a bit, that room is going to look like an abbatoir... Ick.

Morning

ari sorry your feeling down, you just feel like when will it be my turn, when world just carries on without you.... I don't normally have any reaction apart from being a bit envious about others pregnancies but the other day found out a lady down school is 14 weeks and I said congratulations and the words stuck in my throat, how embarrasssing. Not as tough as I think sometimes. I understand too about your daughter. My son turned 6 last week and i just so want to see his little face when i tell him Mummy is having a baby. I feel like I've let him down somehow.

stogan I think men are just programmed like that! But ari is right about picturing him with baggy eyes when baby comes and maybe a big splodge of babyfood slung at him just for good measure!!

x posts with euro Happy Birthday and hope your day gets better. x

forgot to say BFN again this morning but absolutley no sign of AF.

Thanks ari massive hugs to u too Hunni.
I no what u mean, lots of my friends seemed to get pg when I was experiencing my first 2 losses and it never bothered me too much but then one of my close friends at work got PG when we were having a break from ttc for our wedding and I was devastated !! I wonder why some peoples news affects us more than others?

My mam is now on the rampage and wants to bash DHs head against a wall ! Probs not the best solution but she may have more success getting thru to him than me !!

I feel so rough sitting here in hospital, sick as a dog, headache and nose keeps bleedi ng sorry to be such a moany whine today girls

Thanks snoopy still time for that BFP Hunni everything crossed for you xx

Happy birthday euro!! Just think, if your day started out like that, then it can only get better :)

snoopy how many dpo are you now? Ain't no fat lady singing yet, so you're still in with a chance :)

stogan you moan all you like, you're entitled to! Is there nothing the hospital can give you to make you feel a bit better, at least reduce the headache or the nausea? Tell one of the nurses how rough you feel, they may be able to help. And I quite like the idea of your mum wanting to take a more physical approach with your DH - sometimes I think that's the only thing that might get through!!

Thanks again ari getting my blood taken in 5 mins hopefully and touch wood the nausea seems to have subsided so am going to ask about my nose bleeds while I tuck in to my hospital toast and hot choc !! X

ari I don't really know didn't have the smiley face stick this time. I had a faint ov line 29th Dec running throu to strong line on 3/4th jan. CD26 today which is when af came last month

snoopy well if you take OV as happening after your second strong line on the 4th, then that makes you approximately 13dpo or possibly 12dpo, if you recall that you OV anywhere within something like 12 to 36 hours after a pos opk, so you may have only ovulated on the 5th or so. And many people don't get pos pg tests until 14dpo or later ... soooooo ... I'd say you're still in with a chance. Fingers crossed!

Thanks ari that's true. I spose I've been counting from the actual ov line date and wasn't sure whether to count from faint one or not. Pred has made me thick as you can see! Just have to wait and see I spose.
I have dug out the google link, (hope it works) so can check on histories of others but think it needs updating a fair bit.

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtEN_z1FdjUMdHd6c0xCd2JRd3hXVmtTZXROYVE1OGc#gid=0

Hi all, just beginning the long train journey home do bound to be doing a lot if lurking.

Sorry you are feeling low Ari, it's bound to happen after all you have been through. People are having children all over the world as we speak and will continue to do so, so I guess it would be more comforting for our minds to take it as given that other people are always going to be having babies. It's funny as I don't yet have a child of my own but I am never upset by other people having children. I do marvel at how easy it can be for some people!

But you never know, Ari, there might have been people marvelling at how easily you had DD! Of course i dont know if you did have DD easily, and neither do we know if other people have had difficulties too and we are just not aware of them. I guess it's harder for those of us without a child to understand and going through miscarriages is awful, but try not to worry about the age gap thing. Am sure DD will love a little brother or sister whatever age. But I hope you feel better soon. Don't know about the teacher but if I was the one having to tell the world I was having twins I might be smiling outside but on the inside I would be quietly crapping myself :)

Happy birthday euro, well of sorts. Annoying about the heavy period, remember it can really take it out if you so try to relax abd look after yourself if you can.

Stogan hope dh is being nicer to you. Do you work together?

My goodness what a lot of super ovulation there is going around at the moment! I was wondering whether there were people our there who were on it who don't actually have nk cells or suffer from rmc. I do know one actually. It might even be worth starting a whole super ovulation thread!

No real news from me, apart from my rather frequent 'something must have gone wrong' mentalling moments. I did buy a couple of maternity crop trousers yesterday for my holiday, very cheap and in the sale. Still not sure about when people are officially counted as 2nd trimester, some sources say end of the 13th week. I guess it dorsnt really matter. Just arranging my bext scan - Friday 27th Jan followed (presuming it's alive...) by an extra intralipids.

Just wanted to wish euro a happy birthday.

Will wave hello. Can I also say I am a twilight virgin. Never seen the film or read the book. I am starting to think need to experience it in order to stay on the thread :-)

Happy Birthday euro sorry you had to scrub the carpet this morning!

stogan hope you're feeling better after the GTT and hope DH is suitably apologetic for Not Thinking.

Happy Birthday Euro, I am sure you are going to have a good year!

Hello everyone :)

Just letting you all know I am still here, lurking and reading but not getting much chance to post. I have had no more brown cm, and have had somems so thats good, but again there are days when I don't feel pregnant at all ...which freaks me out :(

duggs can I just say you absolutely deserve a bfp...you are so focused and determined...I really hope it happens soon xx
ari I know exactly what you mean about people getting pregnant. A girl at work ahd just announced her twin pregnancy - and all I could think was 'how lucky to be having twins...' and I am pg myself for gods sake! The mind is not a sensible thing. And to make me even worse - she didn't have an easy time - her dh had a vasectomy years ago so they had to go private and have the old needle and syringe into the balls treatment. I am really pleased for her though!!

I would post more but laptop is playing up. I have a scan at epau on thursday so we will see what is occuring :) I hope everyone esle is ok. Happy birthday euro. It was mine yesterday - I feel old!!

Ohh ladies. . . What an idea free* shall we start a super ov thread guys? Of course we are hoping to migrate out of it soon to be solely on this one . . But super ov is just about getting preggers quicker with more eggs and accurate timing.

How do we start? I'm on iPhone. Hideous day starting end ending with passport and identity office at Victoria. Looks like I have to go to Vegas on 26 jan until 29 which means missing the meet up on south bank - but is my job so we will have to do another in feb or march and give a run down

I will give spreadsheet a go, look at free q on intraplids days and happy b day to euro. I want some more super ov stats. I don't want to bugger about! Be back when I'm home. X

fellow super ovulators.. I've kicked this thread off see link below.. not sure if I've done it correctly..?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/a1385998-TTC-Super-Ovulation#29549433

Happy belated birthday to you too, battery. We are almost birthday buddies!

battery really good you've had no more spotting. I had very few days so far where I have felt pregnant so I wouldn't worry about not feeling it. Good luck for tomorrow's scan.

stogan , men!

free I was going to ask you how often you're having scans now? Still about 2 weekly? Does that change after 16 weeks? My doc has advised once every 4 weeks. I think I'm ok with that, just hope I can manage the 4 weeks without the reassurance- seems a long time. I'm still putting off telling people. I keep moving the deadline- first I thought wait til the NT scan, then I wanted to wait til I have the full risk results back and now I'm thinking I will just have one more scan about 15 weeks. The problem is hiding it from work for another 2 weeks as it's getting pretty obvious now.
I had a 'happy baby' acupuncture treatment last night! It's supposed to help nourish the baby, make it happy and healthy and I think she said something about helping it be calm and sleep well after it's born. She recommended one a month throughout pregnancy.

Hi to everyone and happy birthday to all the Aquarians here.

It is funny how we are bothered about some people's pregnancies. After my first miscarriage I didn't experience any jealousy at all and honestly I couldn't understand why some women did. Afterall whether someone else gets pregnant or not does not impact my chances of having a baby. Then after my second miscarriage I did start to feel it. It is irrational but doesn't mean to say it's not a normal and understandable reaction. I found sometimes it was the way people announced it that upset me. The more smug and so happy go lucky they were the more it affected me. I suppose I was jealous I knew that even when / if I got pregnant again I would never be able to have the carefree pregnancy they have might have had something to do with it.

Morning all

Well DH was suitably apologetic last night and still seems so this morning ( I'm now in the bath he has ran me to help my back pain drinking the cup of tea he has brought me !!!) long may it last.

Just a note to cheerful once mr s signed me off I had scans 4 weekly but went to MW every week so she could listen to baba with the Doppler just for my piece of mind, just an idea for you x

Morning all. Belated happy birthday to Battery too. How is it having a January birthday? Is it suitably far enough away from Christmas? Mine is July so has always felt like a mid way point of the year.

Cheerful I am like you now, no frequent scans for me either. I am hospital-less at the moment anyway, but from working out the usual pattern my next scan with hospital wouldn't be until 20 weeks anyway. St Mary's dismissed me the other week (I had three scans with them in total) so now I just have Mr S. On his protocol for me he says scans at 6, 8, 10 and 14 weeks - which I have roughly had, give or take a week or so. My next scan with him, well with anyone, will be at 15 weeks and the after that - who knows! I have to say I am tempted to get a dopplar for home. I know what a nightmare iggi had with it but it would be nice to be able to try to find the heartbeat in between scans. Even sitting here now I am incredulous about believing that everything is as it should be in there.

When was any one else's last appointment with Mr S?

Duggs the Vegas trip should be fun...? I realise that going away for work is a double edged sword. Vegas is always once of those places you need a holiday to get over too :) Will it be all work or do you think there will be an almighty piss up thrown in there too? I was just pregnant last time I was in Vegas in November so it was an unusually quiet one for me that time.

Ooh a super ovulation thread! I feel I might have to lurk on there too :)

Weds 18th Jan

BFP
3rd Trimester
Stogan - V high NKC - BFP 9/7/11 cycle#2- 32+4 Due 10/03/12 next scan 10/02/2012
Digitalgirl - High NKC - BFP cycle#2 27+2 Due 16/04/12 MW appt 25/01

2nd Trimester
Coconutfeet - V High NKC, Factor II gene mutation, underactive thyroid - BFP pre-pred, started at 6 weeks 24+2
Comedy - V High NKC - BFP cycle#2 ? 21+4 due 26/5/12
Iggi - High NKC & Hypothyroidism - BFP cycle#2 - 21+1 Next scan March
BrownieGecko - High NKC, Hypothyroidism, & Glucose Intolerant. BFP Clomid cycle#3 - 20+4 next scan?

1st Trimester
Freelance - V High NKC TTC#1 Hydroxchloroquine, Pred, Intralipids. Thyroid/hashimotos. MC 1st cycle. BFP#1 13+1 Next scan 27/01/12
Cheerfulcharlie - V High NKC, MTHFR/TTC#1/ (metformin, intralipids, no pred). 12+6 Next Scan (15 weeks)
batteryhen - High NKC, factor v leiden. TTC#1 BFP cycle 3. 9+4 Scan 19/01/12
coleyoz - V High NKC. TTC #2, BFP cycle2, 9+2, Next scan 23/01/12
picolina123 - V High nkc, pred cycle 1

TTC
Waiting to test
Cherrycheeks - V high NKC, TTC#2
Snoopygirl - V High NKC TTC, #3
Havingkittens - Upgraded from High to V High NKC TTC #1
Hopefulfor2nd - High NKC - TTC#2
PQ77 - V High NKC TTC #2 (BFP cycle one but mc)

Waiting to ovulate
buster76 - V High NKC, Factor V Leiden
Arianrhod - V High NKC, MTHFR homo, hypothyroid, TTC#2
eurochick - High NKC, superovulation cycle 2, pred cycle 2

WTTC
duggs1976 - High/V High NKC - TTC #1 - awaiting hysteroscopy, then superovulation cycle3
ScooterChaser - V High NKC - TTC#2
ChoccyPud - V High NKC - TTC#1, review w/Dr S 14 Jan.
Lemonsherbet - awaiting results
Breezyweezy - V High NKC - TTC#1 from January
AandRmum - High NKC
Suemays - High NKC, TTC #2
Cornflakes30 - V High NKC, underactive thyroid

Attempted list above...

I have moved all pregnant people on by two days (last update was Monday) and added my next scan and Cheerful's as far as we know. Any other changes please go ahead xx

Morning all! Phew this thread moves fast and now another super ov thread to monitor. I think I might have to explain to my bosses why I am always staring at my phone. Still it's a question of priorities...and work def isn't mine right now! Have a good day x