mel That's excellent news, so good to hear!! Fingers crossed this one works for you, let us know how you get on with your scan.
sue I've heard that from other people who did a detox, that they got some odd skin breakouts as the toxins were flushed out of their bodies but that they felt great afterwards. Gotta be good, getting cr@p out of your body, right?
I sympathise with both your angle on the multiple drugs but also with your DH's concern about taking too much. I echo your feeling about wanting to throw as much as possible at it - but also do beware you can over-suppress your immune system - apparently you do need a certain amount of inflammation for implantation. I'm kind of in the same camp a bit, as I'm wondering whether to carry on taking hydroxy or not. Penny has suggested I take it for now then check with Mr S once I start on the neupogen etc whether it's ok to stop it - but I wonder whether Mr S will know, given that he doesn't do anything with neupogen and LIT himself? I don't mean that to sound derogatory in any way at all of Mr S's expertise, I have a lot of respect for him and indeed was planning to just stick fully to his regime until I found I would be taking neupogen as well; now I won't take the high level pred but content myself with the 10mg dose, along with intralipids. I still haven't had time to check out his changed protocol - does he change the Vit D recommendation as well then, I think I saw breezy mentioning that? Not that I've ever followed Mr S's recommendation on that as doing thyroid-related research I now take 5000iu per day (125mcg). Apparently something like 90%+ people in this country are vitamin D deficient, and it can have a bearing on miscarriages too, so I understand.
pebbles No, I wasn't booked in for the hysto before I went, Penny had hoped that we wouldn't need one. When she did the aquascan and found that I did need one it was booked with her surgeon in the hospital for the next morning. I was very impressed with the short notice! The aquascan (also more correctly known as sonohysterography) is where they gently fill your uterine cavity with saline solution and have a look with ultrasound (although they do a 'normal' ultrasound scan first as well). From their website, it says:
Sonohysterography, or saline contrast hysterography, is a diagnostic test involving the use of saline as a contrast agent inside the uterine cavity. This contrast is visualized by vaginal ultrasound. The contour of the endometrial cavity can be assessed using this technique. Many uterine abnormalities can be identified by this method. There is usually no discomfort with this procedure.
Hope that makes sense! The days off work bit is of concern to me too, but I figured if I have to cancel a week off we have already booked in August to do all of this (we haven't actually booked to go anywhere yet) then I will do so. Or something.
brown Hope you're doing ok, and starting to recover as well as possible.
duggs where are you in your IVF doings??
/waves to everyone