Anyone else want to join me in getting ready for ivf in 2013? Good egg buddies wanted!!!

[Karbea]

Hello,

Dh and I have been trying for over 2 years and had one failed ivf (Icsi) attempt at the Argc last spring. We are going to go again in the new year.

I wondered if anyone else was planning to do the same? And whether anyone fancied joining me in 'princessing' (stolen from style & beauty :) ) for ivf?

I'm not sure what this means in terms of what I'll do, really hoping for some help in researching how to get the best eggs ever, and perhaps how to improve dh's little swimmers....

Anyone up for being a good egg buddy?

Hi everyone!
First post on this forum, or ever I think!

My test date is 6th of Feb, so very close to fairypangolin and delilahbelle. (I am going to find that Zita West Itunes thing!)

38 years old, first attempt at IVF (short protocol). I had my EC on Monday a week ago, 18 eggs collected, of which 9 fertilised. On Day Five (last Sat) I had 2 early stage blastocysts transferred. There were 3 blasts to chose from; the embryologist said that they were ?a little behind what we would expect to see?? (What the hell does that mean?!) Two got placed back. On Sunday she called us and said that No 3 wasn?t good enough to be frozen. So no frosties. Which makes you think, wow, my eggs must be really old and wrinkly, harvesting 18 and ending up with 2 slow blastocysts. Anyway. It is what it is.

Boobs sore too. Ovaries feel the size of lemons, although the Big Bloat has gone down. Anyone any idea on when my ovaries/belly will feel normal again? TMI I am sure - but sex is err painful! Bless DH though, he's managing v well.

I'm impressed you've even having sex dildals!

Clinic phoned this morning and we still have all 7 eggs and all are 7 or 8 cells which is what they want
ET is booked for midday Saturday

Fab news caip!! How are you feeling? Fx you will have some to freeze too, for baby no. 2 of course... :)

Good luck didals, I too am impressed with the sex!

6dp2dt here, or 8dpo. The wish to test is growing. Luckily (?!) I have a long day at work so won't be able to buy any tests to use tomorrow.

Anyway, didals welcome. My clinic said no sex for the entire 2ww, and I didn't even have EC. Not sure how you do it, I don't think I could feel up for it if I tried.

caip huge congratulations, glad things are going well. Not long till ET.

northey have fun with the jabs. The thought is worse than the reality.

We've been invited out for drinks tommorrow to celebrate the end of dry January - anyone got a good excuse I can use to wiggle out of it?

Norfy you are doing better than me. I had to get my husband to hide the drugs box somewhere I wouldn't find it.

Well done for being brave. You are doing much better than i did with the drugs.

Didals that's good going! I think the pessaries will be enough to put me off for a good while yet. I had forgotten how vile they are.

Good luck to all those testing soon! Our egg fertilised and will go back tomorrow, all being well.

It was a fairly feeble attempt TBH, but I thought I'd give it a go! But yeah, not terribly successful.

I was reading on this (American) website that you should wait with sex and orgasms until the 7wk scan with fetal heartbeat. So THAT is where I have been going wrong all this time unsuccessfully TTC!!!

Just a quick one to euro as I've been waiting to see if you fertilised so YAY

Citing news for caip too now it's actually booked it must feel so real!; sorry no more names am posting on phone in loo at work

I am your secret work loo posting twin, scarlett!

Brilliant news about the fertilisation, euro, really, really excellent. It must be amazing to be past that hurdle. Though this whole thing is just one hurdle after another in a neverending Grand National sort of way...

Have phoned to book in for this cycle, and am now waiting for a nurse to call to arrange ultrasounds. Who else was doing short protocol with Oxford? How quickly do they start scanning, and how often? I just can't remember what they told me.

northey it's me doing the short protocol at oxford. 1st scan is day 9 of your cycle so will be next Friday for you

Also posting surreptitiously at work...northey- I recall that the gonal f didn't have to be refrigerated once I started using it and neither did cetrotide or luveris. The ovitrelle trigger injection did but you only use that once before EC. So if you are on same drug regime you should have no probs travelling.

Dildals - nice to meet you. I read somewhere that most people end up with 1-4 embryos for ET no matter how many eggs they started with. Don't know why but my dr just kept saying quantity does not equal quality although to my mind if you have greater quantity the odds are better you will end up with some that are good quality.

Sex? Are you kidding? I've really been enjoying not having to DTD to be honest. Not that I don't like it but its the scheduling that us so demoralising.

Woo hoo euro!!!! 1/1 ain't bad!! I agree that is a huge hurdle, so great great news.

northey when's the first injection? Good luck x a million.

to your good news Caipi, our 4 are still hanging in there and ET booked for tomorrow.

Best of luck to all xx Is

Just a quick note as I'm just in from work and on my way to bed... I have bought my tests today. 19 of them. Oops.
2xFR
2xCBdigital
15xinternet cheapies.
Should keep me going for a while.

Nice shopping, delilah.

Experienced IVFers, can you tell me, is ET just like IUI but with a full bladder? I am just wondering what to expect. I've had a couple of IUIs and it seems to be it should be similar, just delivering an embryo rather than swimmers!

That seems logical to me too, euro. What time are they doing you tomorrow?

Lunchtime, Norf

Sounds right to me too euro, but equally clueless. Good luck!

Having a wobble. Just had an appointment which dh couldn't make and I didn't ask the right things and will have to follow up with email questions idiot. Also had minor panic in the waiting room about it all. Three weeks till my injections start.

I listened to the Zita West relaxation podcast last night but it made me more NON relaxed than anything!! You focus on your embryos etc, and I started thinking 'well, how do I know they're still in there!? and whether they are doing well?'. I started googling 'how quickly can i test' straight after! Not sure that's the effect Zita was after! ;-)

Testing early is not going to help of course, a positive can just be a positive from all the HCG still coursing through your body and a negative can mean that the embryos are not producing enough HCG yet.

Anyway - we battle on with the 2WW ...

All you 2ww detainees out there - I found this page to be quite reassuring: community.babycentre.co.uk/post/a20770595/the_2ww_and_early_testing

But I don't blame you for the purchases, delilah - i just know if I test early and it's negative i will be in despair and yet not really believe it so there's really no point in putting myself through the misery.

euro I've never had an IUI but the ET really is very simple and straightforward and painless compared to EC. And I even needed to have the catheter reset because according to the consultant, "the route through your cervix is tortuous". The things you learn...I always thought the problem we were having is DH's sperm were getting lost on their way to the Coliseum. Now I know.

dildals sorry about ZW not working for you, maybe try again? I have got so used to it now I relax right away and fall asleep, which is helpful I think. I agree with delilah though that the 'picture an orange light cascading ' bit is kind of weird. Why orange? is that supposed to be calming?

fairypangolin - that's a v useful link, thank you. And don't worry about ZW not working, I will keep at it, I did doze off until she does her 'you will now wake up refreshed and energetic' bit, RIGHT, let's go on google!

I like the idea of the orange light, I pretend it is nice and warm!

Hi fairy Thanks for that link. I've had a good read and stopped mentalling slightly. And DH is going to sit on the tests when they arrive until nearer OTD, no early testing for me.
Work has been a good distraction today with a couple of challenging students. I'm currently hiding in my car with my phone to get away from it all.
didals how's the 2WW for you today?
keeping don't worry about having to email questions, that's what they are there to help you with. If there's any that are not specific to you I'm sure we can help as well.
euro I've never had IUI so can't compare it to ET. But transfer itself is very painless and easy, unless you drink too much water and have a super full bladder like me. I'm guessing you are PUPO by now with a bit of luck.
isabelle hopefully you are PUPO to, how did if go?
northey caip and anyone else, any updates?

Hi all, I'm back with a 2 cell grade one embie on board. They kept us waiting for an hour, which was painful with a full bladder, but it's all over now.

It's basically exactly the same as IUI with an added scan.

Hi delilahbelle
It's not going too bad thank you. I am relatively relaxed under it all, adopting an 'whatever will be will be' approach. But of course I also check myself several times a day 'how do I feel?' 'is this pregnant, not pregnant' 'am I already assuming that it won't work' ' how quickly can I test' etc etc. And there is enough on the internet to drive yourself mad.
Are you sure you have enough tests though?! ;-)

1st tests arrived in post - but I'm not going to waste them by using them too early. Or possibly at all, I just feel like it's not worked, and I want to hold onto the dream a little longer.

delilah don't give up just yet! You don't know whether it has worked or not! I have been pregnant once before (which sadly MCed) but in those very first days you dont really feel much at all, so who knows!