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Well done kickster that is excellent progress. Now go make that only slightly damaged baybee

Faif that sounds very good, I am pleased for you and very impressed how the pair of you are trying to make stuff better.

OMG sinky it is unbelievable, men. I discussed it with SB and he agrees that occasionally doing the stuff in a pot is definitely preferable to about half the investigations we have to undergo. And our clinic always wants repeats, as samples can change a lot... (SB's went from okay to borderline to excellent to okay in the past six months - lots of testing the quality, also for IUI).

Petting and offering of hands, cake and other good things to stressed ones FSR and perhaps norfy?

at destroyed airbeds. You need to get better quality dor.

And fruzzo 32 is definitely haggish age! So be welcome!! Btw I am very sorry about the endo, have a few friends with it, and it sucks.

Ooh norf is that 6 weeks then? Have you dared to POAS again?

How are you drizzly?

Thanks guys. I really am so proud. Every think I think of it, I get little tears going. Such a big, fat wimp!

Faif - so glad you guys are sorting it all out. It must be a relief. I think when you finally get to say things out aloud that you've been holding in, you suddenly feel like a ton of bricks has been taken off your shoulders and suddenly, looking at someone doesn't make it quite as hurtful...

panties I have known a lot of women with endo and surprisingly, each of them has had 2 children in the face of "you won't be able to have any". So keep trying!! :)

Nurse was away today so have to call back tomorrow [hmph]

Good luck with the scan tomorrow Norfey

I've got my exam tomorrow afternoon, deep joy [should be cramming] I've also got a dull ache in my innards, a bit like ore-droid heaviness, but it can't be. I haven't laid my egg yet, so fark knows what my body is up to now

Fat fingers!
"ore-droid" should be pre-droid

Good luck with scannage Norf.

Hope exam last last minute cramming is going well fsr - hope it flys by this afternoon- any more after this, or is this the only one for a while?

Excellent HbA1c efforts guru. V impressive work!

How's everyone else? faife, driz? How're you settling in fruzzly-one?

After my minor huff yesterday me and the boy had a hum dinger of a row, with copious snot and tears on both sides. Not great. He feels I don't understand how hard it is for him to see me have all the tests, and the emotional strain on him. Which is probably true.

He's going to ring the unit today and try and sort something out about providing a sample.

Totally not keen on work today.

Last exam for this school year, yes. I don't get my time table for the next year through until next month but I usually have either an assignment or exam every month.

Good luck with the scan Northage. If only we were like mares, you can detect a heartbeat at 18dpo [fun fact courtesy of my studying]

I love your fast facts fsr!

Good luck norf, praying for a sticky bean in right location. Let us know how you get on.

Good luck too FSR with the exam!

with sinkers. It's rough, isn't it? Hard to establish if it's worse to go through these procedures or sit by and watch your loved one go through it. Probably 50/50. The ability to be considerate and supportive to your OH wears thin after a long time trying to win a baybee IME.

To answer the question, I'm ok ish. Two steps forward, one back I guess. Less than a week til D-Day - MSB's hospital appointment and the Relate. Tis my birfday Friday so hoping we can have a nice weekend and smile a bit :) I have Friday off work!

Fanks for the luck, frankie, faify and hillyone. Sadly in vain, as it's a fecking empty uterus again. Nothing in the tube so far either, which is some comfort, but altogether this is a bit too like last time for my liking.

They took blood and we''ll see what my hcg levels are.

Also, right back atcha with the good luck, fsr. How can you fail, with such speedy provision of facts about horsey gynaecology?

faith, It sounds like you are making really good progress though. Even if it is a bit patchy sometimes, the overall direction seems forwards, which is ace.

hilly, brilliant that he is going to sort out his cycle, but :( that you had a row - I think the strain jus builds up on both sides so you both end up really ripe for a sort of emotional overflow fight. How are you both getting on today?

:( norf.

Oh norf. That's just shit. Maybe too early to see? (this may be bollocks- I have no idea about actually being diffed) Or is this definitely not going to be an intrauterine pregnancy? have a shoulder squeeze. Despite my general anger at the world at present, I'm glad to say I'm still able to totally root for you- you deserve something good to happen.

Glad you've got the day off faife. Got naice Friday plans then?

Me and the boy not seen much of each other today. After him storming out for a walk yesterday, he did eventually come back. And we had a bit of the make up sechs. So we're ok. I just can't really talk about how I feel cos I don't understand how I feel. I don't want any of this. I want it to be easy.

Sometimes I think it'd be so much easier to give up on it. Keep plugging away, just in case, but give up on the scans, bloods, injections, jizz samples etc. Would it really be that bad, after the first little while? Dunno.

They are saying soothing things about it probably being too early, hilly. But they said that last time. They have taken blood and will phone later with hcg levels. If they are over 1500 it's an emergency recall situation, as you should def be able to see something at that point. If not, it's a blood retest in a couple of days to see if levels are rising or falling. If the latter, it's "just" a miscarriage (from whatever location). If the former, they will rescan to see if anything ecomes visible in womb or tube.

Ooh, train is here. Will finish post in a sec.

Are the scans etc getting to you that badly, hils? For me, a big reason to plug on with them was/is that if I didn't, I would get 5 years down the line and wish I hadn't waited.

A bit of the make up sechs sounds good. Are you channelling Miranda with that phrasing, by any chance? :)

Don't really watch Miranda, but do have an embarrassing tendency to pick up on phrases and claim them as my own, so maybe!

I don't really mind any of these tests, I like to think I'm pretty stoical, but it's just the seemingly never ending cycle of referral, bloods, scan +/- SA that gets to me. Im covering old ground and no further on. I was doing the same bloody tests in jan 2010.

Are they going to ring you today with the bHCG result?

But do have an embarrassing tendency to pick up on phrases and claim them as my own, so maybe!

I DO THAT! Except, I've never noticed that I pick them up. I was mortified when "lady bits" became a common saying because I thought I made them up. I said "Bounce-backability" before that twit David Beckham did (WAY before) so I must have picked it up from somewhere but I was so angry that HE got the credit for it.

Sorry Norf. Gutting :(

I invented ladybits, kicker! And Piss On A Stick! Definitely! And someone has broken into the Internet and altered it to put lots of references dating back years beforehand. It's the only explanation.

Yeah, hilarity, or if they haven't phoned by 6pm I have to phone them.

No see I started "piss on a stick" because DH and I used to say it WAY before I ever got involved with ANY internet forums. In fact, no one even KNEW we were TTCing when we started to use it!

Everyone is unique bahahahahahamyfoot

I imagine it's very frustrating doing everything again sinky. One would question why they can't just look at previous clinics results?! TTC is repetitive. I rather liken it to a merry-go-round you can't get off. The up and down of the horses could be emotions or sechsing!

I feel like crap today probably pms Someone I work with has become a Dad again. I wouldn't mind but this is the time frame - he has separated and divorced his DW, met someone else, won a baybee and produced said child in less time than I have been TTC I am very much in the life isn't fair camp today. Especially for you norf. Still trying to hang on to glimmer of hope.

Worst thing for me currently was agreeing to stop - current TWW feels like last chance saloon. Awful thoughts like 'what if we don't make it work' make me worry this could be my last actual chance to win a baybee. Ever. Not that I'm looking on the dark side or anything

Oh norfy that is crap. Are you doing ok?

Faif that is just daft isn't it? I have a friend who got up the duff with her new bloke about 9 months after leaving her husband and before the divorce had gone through. I love her dearly but I am very jealous about how easy it has been for her.

I'm hoping I lay an egg soon. I'm on day 13 of what I hope will be a normal cycle after the IVF one. I haven't had a positive ov stick yet. We are not really trying, but I want to see that I ovulate this cycle so I know that IVF hasn't broken me!

Thanks euro, I'm ok, just sad and grumpy about the waiting. It is just a bit depressingly familiar even though it could perfectly well have a different outcome this time.

How does your body feel post-ivf generally? Are you back to normal emotionally/mentally?

Norf what crappy news. I'm sorry. Fingers and all other appendages crossed that you get good news from the blood tests.

Exam went pretty well. Only 1 question I went totally blank on, so I'm hoping for a good result.

Boo to colleagues with baybee wins Faith, nothing like that to bring you down.

all round I feel!

norfy I have everything crossed for you. Fervently hoping it's just a late starter an that bloods and further scannage reveal better news.

fsr well done on the exam, hope it went ok. Any more equine facts to share with us?

Sorry everyone else is having a bit of a shitty time.

fruzzipants, tell us a little about yourself...

Umm, horsey facts? Er,

Oestrogen in mares does not cause ovulation. It causes the exhibition of oestrus signs - receptability to the stallion, and of course the infamous "winking"
Ovulation is caused by LH in mares.

That do you?

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