Pocket I am thrilled your results were good today. FX the next two weeks flly by and you get to see your little mini-pocket!
Sacha great news on the embies
sunny wow, decisions decisions! I am really thrilled the bank has come through for you and you can go ahead with NHS. You are definitely definitely not ungrateful or unnecessarily sceptical - this is a huge decision to make, not just financially, but physically and emotionally and it is definitely not as simple as just giving it a go one place and then another. The only things I would add is that, certainly in our PCT, you start to lose NHS eligibility after private cycles (e.g. if you've had one private, you can only have two NHS, and if you've had two privates you can't have any NHS). I would double check how yours works if you are considering doing ARGC first and NHS second. I would definitely factor in the daily trips to ARGC. It isn't too bad at first - during down regulation you are in every few days, but once stimming starts you are in every day including weekends. The twice a day thing isn't too bad as long as you are not working, as you can hang around the clinic/the local cafe's with the other cyclers and it is actually really supportive and sociable. The other factor to consider on the NHS is whether you have any issues that simply won't be addressed by them e.g. I have PCO so I need to have really carefully monitored doses of stims to make sure I get best possible eggs. An NHS cycle on standard drugs would be entirely pointless for me for example. I would also quiz them on when they do EC and ET i.e. weekends/holidays as several of them don't which means you are having early/late EC/ET which isn't ideal.
So, what would I do? I'd go to the ARGC appointment and ask a million questions. I would then ask to do the monitoring cycle with them, which will include immune testing. That way you will know if you have any immune issues which would mean an NHS cycle would be less useful. Equally, if you have immune issues which are low grade, you could still have immune treatment at ARGC whilst cycling with the NHS so you are not losing time/you'd still get some benefit of the immunes whilst on the NHS. Yes, monitoring cycle and immunes is not cheap, but from memory its about £1000 all in as immunes are about £695 (double check the breakdown I sent you in case i'm wrong on this) and then you've got couple of blood tests and a scan (I think).
the cat I really hope you are o.k. and are just too busy to drop in. From memory you would have had your scan end of last week so FX it all went well.
AFM, I had another scan yesterday (so that was three scans in 8 days!). Little bub is 7 weeks today and was measuring in at a healthy 8.8mm and strong heartbeat yesterday. I have now been switched to weekly monitoring, which is a relief as although its lovely to see progress every few days, they only do that at this stage if they are worried, so its accompanied by a huge amount of stress.
Hey to everyone else reading xx