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

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Karbea · 17/12/2012 18:26

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?

OP posts:
ScarlettInSpace · 04/02/2013 10:57

fairy fx for you - are you going in today?!

keep when I had my hycosy the consultant saw 4-5 follies and said that was normal, since then I've been written off as barren by another consultant! So I think none of them know what they are talking about, I just let them talk so long as they are giving me the treatment I want Grin When will you get your primary source of hideous mentalling AMH result back?

euro when is otd again?

Hiya everyone else and well done with the stabbing.

The first morning me & OH did down reg last time it was a sunday, we were sat in bed surrounded by needles fixing up lol I felt like Amy & Blake Blush

I'm CD8 of my last natural cycle - Acu on Day 2 and day 7 to help the little natural follies grow, then we are off for a very grown up weekend away this weekend with a 4* hotel for 3 nights which [oooooh what a coincidence] I seem to have booked across my ovulation weekend Grin Necking pints of decaf latte to get my milk intake up lol!

Happy monday Wink

EuroShagmore · 04/02/2013 11:06

I'll have everything crossed for you Fairy.

I don't know the OTD acronym but I am assuming the TD is Test Date. The clinic will do a blood test on 13 Feb. I'll probably start testing with some internet cheapies soon so I can make sure the Ovitrille is out of my system, so that I can do a real POAS maybe next weekend.

keepitgoing · 04/02/2013 11:26

Good luck fairy!

Scarlett :) at none of them having a clue!! Hopefully amh will be back soon as I think they use that to determine dosage? I need my recommendation letter for the insurance co by the end of this week. Another thing to stress about/hassle them. I'm also cd8, iui prob on Friday. Good idea on the weekend away any excuse

I'm also drinking lots of milk, trying to eat four times a day to put on weight (d&v last week didn't help) and little no booze.

ScarlettInSpace · 04/02/2013 11:54

Sorry yes, OTD is official test date Wink

delilahbelle · 04/02/2013 14:00

I knew it was too good to be true... more AF like cramps, and I am conviced a tinge of brown on wiping. So so scared that this is going to be another chemical pregnancy, but if it is I wouldn't be suprised :(

Clinic have said to double up the amount of pessaries I'm using, so I've shoved another up now, 3/4 an hour early, and will put the next up at the regular time of 2.45pm. Hoping this calms things down.

Am shaking and feel sick with fear.

ScarlettInSpace · 04/02/2013 14:16

Oh delilah I'm rubbish at comforting people, but have a big hand squeeze, I'm sure it will be fine [which seems a pointless vacuous statement sorry]

I do like your technical terminology btw I've shoved another up now beautiful Wink x

Isabeller · 04/02/2013 14:28

Hi everyone, skiving a bit Smile

Euro I think your ET was day 5, mine was day 3 so my OTD is 15th. I hope you're feeling ok, I'm pretty tired and finding it hard to concentrate on my OU essay!

Good luck delilah, thinking of you xx

MayMiracle · 04/02/2013 14:37

Hi all, is there any space for a newbie?

We have a FET planned for the end of Feb, after a failed fresh cycle in October.
I have been in denial about it all up until now, but feel it is time to start facing the music again.

I truly hope that for all of you testing in the next few days that there are BFP's galore.

And for those stimming that you produce lots of fabulous eggs.

And for those who have had a BFN, I am sorry. It sucks, having been there several times before after failed IVF treatment, and a million times before when trying naturally - it is miserable.

MM

EuroShagmore · 04/02/2013 14:57

Thanks Isabeler. My ET was a day 2 on Friday 1 Feb. I'm finding concentrating on work rather a challenge!

Welcome to the thread May.

delilah I hope you are doing ok.

keepitgoing · 04/02/2013 14:58

Oh Delilah, I'm thinking of you too. Remember implantation bleeds and cramps do happen lots, in successful pregnancies.

delilahbelle · 04/02/2013 15:20

Scarlett you've made me smile which is good.
Apparently the pessaries can caused pink/brown spotting due to irritation, there is nothing I can do but keep using them and keep hoping. With I had a fast forward button on my life. DH working away tonight too and I really want a hug :(

Dildals · 04/02/2013 17:25

Pff ? In this all day meeting today and at the end of it I was getting a bit bored & distracted so started reading the posts on the forum, on my phone. I read about fairy?s AF symptoms and delilah?s spotting and promptly I started feeling cramps too & worrying about AF (the female?s mind is a wonderful thing). So cue worrying for the next hour or so about period coming up, figuring out my CD date (CD28 for me), etc etc ? After an hour of fretting and fussing in this meeting I was busting for a wee ? So I exited boring meeting, made bee line for my desk and dug out the PT I knew was hiding in there, smuggled it to the toilets without my colleagues noticing AND PEED ON THE STICK!
I couldn?t help myself any longer people? My OTD is Wednesday so it is not as if it is THAT long away. Anyway. And although the second line was faint, there was definitely a second line, which wasn?t there before. The FR leaflet says that a faint line also counts in the HCG stakes so I think this could be good news? Naturally there are still ten thousand things that can go wrong and I will still ceremoniously pee on the Official Stick that Guy?s have provided me, but I am sincerely hoping to add to the success rates of 2013. Fingers, toes and legs firmly crossed.

EuroShagmore · 04/02/2013 17:31

Oh wow! That is great news Didals!

delilahbelle · 04/02/2013 17:44

Huge congrats didals well done you!

I have had more pink/brown spotting and cramps. Feels very much like my last chemical did, as my boobs are also no longer sore. Going to go to doctors first thing tomorrow and get signed off if I can, more for mental health reasons than anything else. I wouldn't be any good at work that's for sure.

MayMiracle · 04/02/2013 20:09

Congratulations Didals!

HontyTont · 04/02/2013 22:39

delilah I totally have everything crossed for you...get signed off, get stuck in with those pessaries and think happy beautiful baby thoughts.

didals wow! Amazing...Smile and thanks for making me giggle...had a mental of image of me and DH sitting in soho house and me trumping away much to the disgust of the fellow dinners!

northey yay! Good to know someone else is at the same stage...we can compare notes! Well done on the 1st injection, don't worry too much about the bubbles injecting sub cutaneously is the safest/most idiot proof way of getting the drugs in there...can you imagine them trusting us crazed hormone overloaded baby crazy irrational bloated mentalling women with anything else Wink let me know how you get on with bloating etc.

caip feeling for you...sounds painful...but it's all going to be worth it

may welcome and good luck

Thank you everyone else for all your exercising and weight/bloating advice. So far I'm feeling pretty good so might try the gym tomorrow

Night all xxxx

delilahbelle · 04/02/2013 22:50

Well I had some REALLY painful cramps which turned out to be.... Indigestion. Not much more spotting after one gob of pinkish brown which was mainly pessary. Clinic said to insert the next lot of pessaries anally. Not a pleasant experience. The things we do.

Northey · 05/02/2013 06:38

Sounds like cautiously good news, then, delilah?

delilahbelle · 05/02/2013 07:58

I don't know northey. All my previous symptoms (sore boobs, tiredness) have gone.

Going to GP in a bit to ask to be signed off and beg for a beta HCG test today and Thursday.

delilahbelle · 05/02/2013 07:59

Also fairy hope things go well for you today. Got everything crossed!

keepitgoing · 05/02/2013 09:43

dildals!! Yay!!! Well done, hope you're not stressing too much.

Delilah so so many people don't have symptoms at four weeks. Do the clinic not do a blood test?

Good luck fairy for today.

Hi may, I'll be starting at the same time as you, ivf. Great that you have frosties, how many will you put back?

Go honty and northey eggs. Grow!!

Dildals · 05/02/2013 09:53

I reckon fairy was knocking on the door of the clinic first thing this morning! GOOD LUCK!!!!

delilahbelle · 05/02/2013 10:05

keepitgoing my clinic is in spain, so all tests i have to arrange myself.
I'm in to the doctor at noon for a beta HCG test. Not holding much hope though, cramps are back, much more like AF, and more spotting.

It's the hope that's the worst, I had two days over the weekend of pure joy thinking I was pregnant, planning ahead to telling people, then back down to earth with a bump yesterday and today. We have two embryos frozen, but I'm not even sure whether I have the emotional strength to go through another 2ww and chemical pregnancy.

fairypangolin · 05/02/2013 16:43

Hi all- well I went to the clinic this morning and after waiting around for an hour and a half the nurse took us into a little room with a solemn look on her face to say that the test was positive -BFP! I couldn't believe it and shouted oh my god are you sure? Then diss

delilahbelle · 05/02/2013 16:45

OMG, fairy well done :) I've been waiting for your announcement all day!