TTC/Pregnancy on Prednisolone or similar part 4

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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

Congratulations on all the lovely scans!!
Sad for kittens
Yeeee for all the moving/dancing little beans!
I've had two BFN, 27th and this morning. AF is due 2nd. Should I stop the pred or would you keep going till 2nd?
Was mentalling yesterday, wondering if I felt sick - poking my boobs to see if they were sensitive!!
Think it will be round 2 of the steroids next month! Hey ho!

Waves to everyone! xx

Hey buster! How many days have you been taking them for now? Ideally you don't want to go over 14.

Kittens I am so sorry for your loss. We are here for you. Take the time you need to grieve.

hugs

9 days free
I'll test again on 2nd if AF doesnt come before then. Not sure how accurate those 'first response' ones are? I may not of even ovulated as had no smiley faces!! xx

Great news cheerful now you can thoroughly enjoy your desert hotel mini-break.

stogan sounds like baby is giving you plenty of reassurance. Cany remember if you said before - are you checking for anything in particular with this scan or is it just a routine reassurance one?

free I had so many days where I felt completely normal. Even now I sometimes wake up in the morning and rush around doing stuff before momentarily thinking - oh I'm pregnant, shouldn't I be tired or something?

buster I'd keep taking the pred for 14 days. Lots of cases on here where ladies have stopped then tested positive afterwards.

Lurking for news from battery - hope everything's ok.

kittens How sad :( I can't imagine your sorrow just now. Like free I have lost a boyfriend and best friend in the past and I used want to shout at other people getting on with their lives that my life had changed and why didn't the world just stop... One day at a time my love xxx

Just a quick post from me too - had my scan, tiny little heart beat fluttering away. She had to do an internal as the abdo one wasn't clear enough. She had said I am measuring 6+1 but at this stage it can't be too accurate. I have a next scan on the 11th Jan at st marys. For today I am pregnant xx

Battery that is such great news!!! I know it is a long journey ahead but it's all about baby steps, no terrible pun intended, and living day by day (if we get no bad signs) and scan by scan.

Digi thanks for that. Whenever I post some mentalling the subtext is that I am always hoping for you and the other 2nd trimester gang to be able to say something along those lines and help me feel it is normal!

Buster, definitely keep taking the Pred until 14 days and test again. I don't know what is normal but my bfp was very faint and on 14dpo this time. Whether it lasts or not I am and have definitely been pregnant! Honestly for those of you who repeatedly check lines are going darker it would have freaked you out it was so faint.

Hey Digi I got a new consultant at my local hospital and he is fascinated by the condition so he wants to be as involved as poss with the pregnancy which is fab so he said he would scan me at 30 weeks and poss again at 34. I'm not complaining, the more I can see my little one the better, even better now I've finished work I can go whenever

Thanks for the advice

Happy New Year to you all.

xx

Phew battery! Fantastic news on the heartbeat!!!

Battery. So pleased for you, that's v early to get a heartbeat! They must have had a really good quality machine for that.

Great news on the scans - really pleased.

free I can't tell you how many hours I've spent googling 'if symptoms stop/ don't feel as strong' etc how many bruises I've caused through prodding my breasts and the number of times I've been for toilet checks and in spite of it all this little one is carrying on! I would say to stop worrying but as I am unable to follow my own advice I don't think this is fair!!

My next scan is 12th Jan. was worried on Boxing day that I just couldn't quench my thirst was drinking litres of water and so my sister dipped my urine to see if there was glucose in it as gestational diabetes is more of a worry when you have been on steroids - no glucose but have got another uti - had to get antibiotics that evening a real pain really need to stop getting them but not sure how!

battery we're always glad for news about heartbeats, that's great.

sarlat - Hi! Just thinking about your tests... have you had your FSH and/or AMH tested?

Endometriosis is another thing to possibly rule out - it can work to prevent implantantion and (very unusually) you can be asymptomatic. It's in the Dr Beer book so no doubt on your radar. Unfortunately I think the only way it can be definitively ruled out is via laparoscopy (I don't think an HSG will show it but happy to be told i am wrong). I have Grade III endo ( had 2x surgical removals about 7-8 years ago) and have spent a lot of depressing time reading about it. i have a good friend who has a very similar history to you who recently had an NHS laparoscopy to have a look and they found that she is riddled with it - the eggs just couldn't get down the fallopian tube as it was all twisted with scar tissue. Happily she swiftly got on to an NHS IVF programme which worked first time and is now in her third trimester. But all this could of course be completely irrelevant to you. Just thought I would mention it though.

comedy would I be the 100th person to suggest you drink cranberry juice to help prevent UTIs?

duggs great to see you yesterday. After been told by my accupuncturist that I was "too sad" to try again I think he might have changed his mind had he taken my pulses after lunch with you. Needless to say I went on to get the bath mat that I needed and the dress that I didn't from Selfridges. I consoled myself with the fact it is a wrap dress and therefore able to cope with a fluctuating prednisone/pregnant/fat body. i now have a complete wardrobe in three different sizes to cope with every occasion!

I imagine you are busy planning for the funeral kittens. i had an uncle pass away in France and i understand it is quite bureaucratic. No doubt all the people you need to sign bits of paper are on holiday. Have you got family sitting shiva with you?

Hi to everyone i have missed and welcome to newbies. good luck for scans and bfps - keep us posted. free just keep repeating PUPO...

Thanks PQ - I know I should I just hate it!

Hi All,

this will be short as it's a 10 minute golf buggy ride to get to internet place and get rid of DH/DS so I can concentrate!
Kittens I am so sorry for your loss I can't imagine how you must feel - You sound an amazing daughter and should be proud of yourself for just coping with all this. Hope 2012 brings you everything your want. x

battery congtratulations that's brilliant.
I wish I could get my BFP. Body is screwed up now: early af and have had that twice this month, spots can't keep up with AF which is mad and I can sypathise with duggs with different sets of clothes for pred fat gut or not!! Feeling old, fat and ugly with all this and sleep is a joke.
I am meant to be seeing Dr S after two failed cycles but OVing again early so am just going to start pred in next couple of days which is Cycle 3. Prob get smiley face on plane on way back to UK on sat...great....mile high maybe if was in first class but no such luck!! Can;t swing a cat in cattle class bogs...

Happy new year ladies and will catch up soon.

xx

A bit of Snoopy's golf buggy ride away, it just smacks of holiday and warmth and 'resortness', even if it makes it hard to access the internet it sounds wonderfully relaxing. Hope you're having a good time but annoying about the cycle stuff. Mile high would certainly be an interesting way to get to the BFP this time!

PQ. Yes PUPO, PUPO...

I felt a bit saddened myself hearing that your acupuncturist said you were too sad to try again at the moment PQ, you have had such a tough year of it. Am cheered that you were cheered after a meeting with Duggs. Yes the clothes/weight thing is very frustrating. I feel like I haven't really being dressing 'as myself' for a year now. I actually bought a grey jumper dress in the sale from the maternity range at H&M yesterday. It doesn't look maternity but it is nice and loose in the right places and you never know I might a) need it, but if not can always b) burn it/throw it away/hang it in the wardrobe for next time.

Acupuncturists do also say the oddest things sometimes though, I have heard about people's wombs being cold and weird stuff. Not sure how they can tell these things!

Comedy it's great to hear you have the same mentalling (although obviously for niceties sake I wish you were just confidently pregnant and didn't have to go through all this worry) and to be assured that all is still going well, despite the varying symptoms

Our pregnancies seem so bloody long don't they, being that many of us have sadly repeated them. People who know I am pregnant have said oh you can get so tired in early pregnancy you know... I can't help saying yes I know about flippin' early pregnancy thank you very much, I've been early pregnant all flippin' year! And yes I am flippin' tired.

Hi ladies..

I'm back homes now after visiting various relatives over Christmas- so glad to be back in my own bed tonight!

Congratulations on all the positive scan news cornflake, battery, coley and cheerful its fantastic to hear that everything is going well for you all.

duggs thanks for the advice re false positives after the trigger shot. I'm in the 2 ww now after trigger shot on Christmas eve and ovulating on Monday. I'm not feeling too optimistic this month though- don't know why, just a bit fed up of it all I guess.

Welcome to all the new ladies!

kittens so, so sorry to hear about your Mum. I've been thinking of you and your family a lot over Christmas. I think I told you at the RL meet up that my Dad died of the same illness as your Mum- it was also near Christmas that he passed away. Sending you all big cocoon hugs, it's such a sad time for you. XXXXX

Waves to everyone else x

Hello Ladies - hope you don't mind me joining you over here from BC. Bon chance there.

Kittens had to say how sorry I am to hear of your loss. It's a difficult time at any time but Christmas seems harder somehow. I lost my father on the 20th about 23 years ago and my mil same date but 3 years ago. My thoughts are with you.

I hope someone can offer some help. I am under mr s and have not yet tried the treatment yet but I realised that I could possibly become pg this month as bd two days ago and now ovulating so it could be possible to bcome pg. Would you start taking the pred if it was you. Sorry but wasn't anticipating this until the NY as husband travels extensively and ov'd a day earlier than I thought. I do have them all in the house but a bit nervous about starting them.

Hey Janet - great to have you here. Sorry about your dad and also MIL, it must make Christmas a really poignant time for you.

But glad you have joined the thread, the more the merrier for our gang of drug-necking, mentalling, Dr Googling.

I would start taking the Pred tomorrow if you are ovulating now. I started mine a couple of days after ovulation both cycles (got pregnant both times have taken Pred, mc on the first and currently 10 weeks 'pregnant until proven otherwise'), just to make sure I could spin those 14 days of taking it out for a late BFP if necessary. But I don't think it is an exact science and as long as you start it around the time of ovulation that is good.

Are you going to stick around? If so we will add you to the list :)

Welcome back Cherry and sorry to hear you lost your dad too. Sorry to hear you are a bit fed up with it all as well. I think a lot of us can relate to that feeling right now. Hope your trigger shot does the trick this month so at least you can move on to the mentalling of pregnancy rather than the mentalling of ttc.

I really should back away from the computer now shouldn't I? Feel like am posting a lot today - I would say I need a life but I have had a nice social day too and just happen to post a lot in between! Honest...

Havingkittens I am so sorry to read your news. I know it was to some extent expected but unfortunately that doesn't make it any easier. It does sound like you have been a brilliant daughter to your mum.

Havingkittens I am so sorry to read your news. I know it was to some extent expected but unfortunately that doesn't make it any easier. It does sound like you have been a brilliant daughter to your mum.

Sorry for the double-posting, phone hasn't been the same since I got it repaired.
Stogan I have a 30 and 34 week scan booked in too, they said they were growth scans?
My MIL helpfully said to DH tonight (after he said I'd reached 18 weeks) that a lot can still go wrong.. Cheers for that!
It is odd to think that this time last year I was in the midst of mc # 3.
Welcome, Jamethomas don't be scared about the steroids - I'd be more scared not to take them tbh.

Sorry for the double-posting, phone hasn't been the same since I got it repaired.
Stogan I have a 30 and 34 week scan booked in too, they said they were growth scans?
My MIL helpfully said to DH tonight (after he said I'd reached 18 weeks) that a lot can still go wrong.. Cheers for that!
It is odd to think that this time last year I was in the midst of mc # 3.
Welcome, Jamethomas don't be scared about the steroids - I'd be more scared not to take them tbh.

kittens feel so sad for you, so sorry to hear about your mum. There are never the right words to say but just hope you have OH with you now to support you and although you must be busy with all the funeral arrangements I hope you have the space you need to reflect and grieve. Such a sad sad time, sending you love xx

PQ sorry about what your acupuncturist said. It's hard because until this process works it's not exactly easy for us to just 'get happy', I am sure if I saw someone like that they would tell me just the same. I wish i could shake this lingering sadness but all I do is get more used to it. Also find the RL meets a heartening experience though... perhaps we should try and arrange our meet ups to precede SWI!!

free I am so pleased you overtook me! Its great that you have started the weaning process for the right reasons. Feeling really positive for your Caribbean holiday dream in Jan. Sorry to hear you're so tired but on the plus side, that's a sure sign you have a bouncy bean (as my DH used to put it...) draining the life from the mother ship!

Brilliant to scroll back to see some good scans happening over the Christmas break.

iggi wow you are 18 wks!! MiLs are pre-programmed to say exactly the opposite of what you want to hear, unbelievable! Don't let people's comments dishearten you, you're doing great :)

cherry hi, your Christmas sounds crazy, also sounds like a sad time of year for you so hope you have been okay. Sorry you're fed up, hope the 2ww goes quick for you, keep us posted for your answer, thread is here whatever happens. I for one won't be moving up the list for at least another 3 months (!!) so am here to keep all the BFNs company :)

snoopy how's the holiday, golf buggy sounds so cool! Hmm, the smiley face conundrum... could you try to get upgraded??

comedy boo to the UTI, hope it goes soon and you don't have to down the cranberry juice. Rooting for a great scan on 12th Jan, maybe they will be able to confirm pinkness then?

hi to jane and other newbies I've missed - you are in the right place for questions, this thread has been golddust for me. I would definitely take the pred asap after ovulation as in my experience it takes a while to build up to the right level in your system, so sooner the better.

Waving to peeps I've missed, just caught up on a marathon of posts.

Morning ladies. Well 14dpo and still no BFP. Think AF is here. Could probably have 5 rounds of IVF with the amount I've spent on pregnancy tests over the past couple of years!!
Rubbish.
This time last Christmas i was pregnant and pretty much the Christmas before and still no "offspring!!!!!"

Q the cute kitten. Ahh well cliches are there for a reason I guess.

Am going for IUI next month because it will be my 5th month of pred and we've not even started yet. If that doesn't work I'm not going to be sat here next Christmas childless or without a viable pregnancy without a fight. Will throw all I have at trying to conceive in 2012.

2013 will have to be a different approach if it isn't happening for us.

(melodramatics from me ! Kind of used to them now !)

Anyway cherry, snoopy,sue,euro,kittens . . sorry I am not a more inspirational super ov pioneer. sue did L really say 4 attempts? I dont really understand why. I'd like to believe that - it means I've 2 more to go.

Any scans today anyone? Xx