mel Lord, you poor thing ... does piriton help with the itching at all, I'm told it does? Don't worry about waiting till June to go out to Athens, it just gives your body a chance to rest and recuperate a bit. I am a firm believer in all things happen when they're meant to, in their own good time, and all will work out the best way it possibly could have. Take care of you in the meantime, and build back up your body's strength.
breezy How are things going with you? When are you testing, if my poor tired brain remembers correctly you've already had your embies put back, is that right? How are you feeling?
lemon How long have you got to go, not long now I think? How are you doing, resting as much as possible I hope?
duggs and pebbles Where are you with your IVF, I've completely lost track of timings for everyone but I think you're coming up for appts, is that right?
brown How are you feeling now, and how are you doing?
Thanks ladies for all your good wishes! duggs Oh lord, extra injections - I now have to do 3 injections a day every day up to at least 12 weeks (if we ever get that far), clexane morning and evening (!!! my worst nightmare come true) and neupogen. And two extra injections, major steroids (dexamethasone) and hCG shots (I forget what) 3 times spaced 2 days apart for another 2 doses (I had the first two yesterday). These two extra ones are supposed to be intramusculuar, the size of the needles frightens the bejesus out of me!!! But as it's quite difficult to do intramuscular ones properly in one's behind, the midwife at Serum told me I could do them in my belly (where? where?! nowhere left without bruises!) and took pity on me and gave me some finer needles I can use.
Nothing else can be done about my immune system - Penny says I'm on the highest possible protocol they can use to combat it, but there's still a very big chance my immune system will prove to be stronger. I have to test in 12 days time (today being day 1) to see if they've even implanted properly, but as we all know, the real test will be to see if my body then kills them off after - implantation isn't usually a problem for me; keeping them alive is.
I have to say the support at Serum has been fantastic, the midwife Dimitra is just lovely and gave me her direct email address, Penny of course I can't fault, and all the nurses and general staff are all really helpful and friendly. Even if this all goes pear-shaped and I've just 'wasted' the better part of maybe £8000 (neupogen is expensive :( ), I feel we've done it in the absolute best place possible and I don't think there's anything else that could possibly have been done.
One thing that did surprise me in the difference with here is I just ask for any prescription I want and they give it to me. I want cyclogest instead of what they usually prescribe for progesterone support? No problem, here, how many prescriptions do you want? I've come home with a whole ton of meds that it was better to buy over there, plus a stack of prescriptions for meds that I wanted to get here instead. They just said to tell them what I wanted, and they'd write me out whatever prescriptions I needed. I just can't see that happening over here.
Put my feet up though ... nope, unfortunately that can't happen. At work now, too much on today to be able to stay at home unfortunately - I figure that I'm not rushing around or lifting anything (I work in IT, so I'm desk-bound) and at home, well there's DD, who isn't going to be allowing me to sit around anytime soon! I may get OH to bath her tonight, though :)