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Excellent Egg Buddies continued! Anyone having IVF/ICSI in Jan, Feb and March 2013 please join us!

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fairypangolin · 24/02/2013 13:46

We've run out of room on Karbea's Jan IVF thread and it is too much fun to stop! We're all getting into comfy clothes and enjoying the side effects and surprises (and occasionally some hand holding).

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EuroShaggleton · 28/02/2013 16:29

Dildals twins! Blimey. I'm so glad it was good news. x

Sharonbenn · 28/02/2013 16:37

Oh wow dildals twins! How exciting. AND you have pictures. I'm really thrilled for you. Congratulations. Xx

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fairypangolin · 28/02/2013 16:43

Dildals- yay! How wonderful. I read somewhere that if they see a heartbeat at 7 weeks the chance of mc if you have no bleeding drops to less than 5%. So you should be very reassured. And the instant family will be a plus in the long term!

What a game of chance this all is.

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ScarlettInSpace · 28/02/2013 16:52

This thread twists and turns like a twisty turny thing.

fab new dildals huge congrats!

chocoloco1 · 28/02/2013 17:34

Hang on in there euro

Good news dildals

Had egg collection today and they got 1 egg. Now have the hideous wait to find out whether it fertilises. Any positive thoughts and crossed body parts very welcome.

Sorry for no other mentions, just got to get through to 8 tomorrow morning.

Sharonbenn · 28/02/2013 17:37

Choco! I've been thinking of you today. Sending you loads of positive thoughts. Are you having ICSI or are the swimmers going for it as we speak? Oh I REALLY hope they are Olympic athletes Smile. Fingers, toes, eyes everything crossed for you. X

chocoloco1 · 28/02/2013 18:01

Thanks so much Shazza, and glad the sniffing is going ok. It's ICSI. The things we put ourselves through!

EuroShaggleton · 28/02/2013 18:33

Sending your embie fertilising vibes choco. How did you find EC?

chocoloco1 · 28/02/2013 18:39

Thanks euro Ec ok, made easier by the lovely, lovely nurses at our clinic. Keep your chin up, hope you're o

chocoloco1 · 28/02/2013 18:39

Ok!

Sharonbenn · 28/02/2013 19:01

What clinic are you at choco? Sorry if I've missed it.

vallinnapod · 28/02/2013 20:06

Wow Dildals fantastic news Grin

Fingers crossed choco!

Arghhelp · 28/02/2013 20:50

Oh dear...am completely lost...I cant even find myself on this thread it is moving so fast...haha :)

Arghhelp · 28/02/2013 21:34

Good luck chocoloco....we have to do ICSI too. Congrats Dildals...fantastic... :) Am sorry but I am a little lost here...did you do IVF or ICSI?

HontyTont · 28/02/2013 22:31

A huge NY wave to you all.....it's been fab so far, going out for dinner in a couple of hours and want to get a bit of kip before, but also wanted to catch up on events of today

I'm going to be brief so apologies for not name checking everyone

euro hang in there....I'd dont hear the fat lady singing
dildals amazing amazing news...huge congrats
choco it only takes one! Fingers crossed you get fertilisation
north tomorrow is OTD right? I will be thinking of you and checking in when I can

I'm struggling with timings for my drugs....today I have kept to UK times but will have to switch to NY times for tomorrow otherwise will be getting up at 2am for bum bullet insertion! Is that right? It just feels odd that its only 5.30 here and I won't be taking anything now until I get up tomorrow around 9.....I hope that's right. If anyone has any advice please let me know.

Going to have a glass of bubble tonight...have managed to stay away from the pee sticks...am going to buy some here to bring home for OTD though. I'm tempted to test on Saturday DHs birthday... 4 days before OTD...what do you think?

Will be off to distract myself further tomorrow and bag some bargains at Century 21

Xxx

Nokkie73 · 28/02/2013 22:42

Evening

Feck I'm bored. Mr Noks is at work and even the cat has buggered off upstairs, so I'm drinking my 15th glass of squash and trawling through the Sky+ box for stuff to watch. Pfff.

Anyway.....

euro try to keep the faith. You've come this far so until they tell you it's over, it's most definitely not. Thanks xx

dildals woweee. Lovely news. Well done ! Am so pleased for you and Mr D. Rest-up and take care if yourself and the little ones. Xx

choco all it takes is one ! Will be thinking of you tomorrow morning and am sending your little one all the baby dust I can find. Let us know how you get on. Xx

shazza how are you feeling after sniff number 2 ? All ok ? Hope so. Xx

North, fairy, arghh, valinn and all the rest of the cool cats on the thread HELLO !

I have my scan at 4pm tomorrow to see if I'm ready to go onto stimms. I have been told to take my Gonal f pen with me but am a bit confused as it's supposed to be refrigerated. Can anyone shed any light on this for me ?

Noks x

Nokkie73 · 28/02/2013 22:44

hont hello ! Hope NYC is treating you well. Enjoy that glass of fizz and if you do decide to test, best of British ! Xx

Sharonbenn · 28/02/2013 23:21

Hello everyone

Noks, I asked about the refrigeration thing cause Guys told me to take the gonal f pen as well to my next appt on the 18th. She said to put it in the fancy purple bag that the drugs came in with an ice block if you have one. If not, maybe anything frozen....fish?! That would be hilarious if you got out a nice piece of cod before your pen!! Mind you then your fancy drugs bag would smell of fish which is not a good look.

I know this sounds abit ridiculous cause how could I possibly cock up something so simple but I think I'm doing the spray wrong. I'm full of resolve to give it a really forceful squirt then it takes me by surprise and only a little bit comes out. And sort of 2 squirts went in one side. A plus is that my nose definitely feels odd and abit burning so something is going in. How long did you all DR for? I've got 19 days is that normal?

Argh - don't worry you will catch up. I lurked around for ages until I caught up. Mainly cause I'm a few weeks behind everyone else and I didn't know what they were talking about. But today I imagined not having found this thread and doing this completely on my own. Luckily I didn't dwell on that thought for long. I'm really happy to be in this wolf pack as Noks would say Grin

Oops long post. Why use 5 words when 50 will do!

Hello everyone else. Hope you are all ok.

Shaz xx

Sharonbenn · 28/02/2013 23:24

Honty glad you arrived safe and sound. Enjoy the champers and good luck if you decide to test. Happy birthday to mr h! X

Nokkie73 · 01/03/2013 00:28

shazzamatazza I do know what you mean about the whole squirting thing. I expected it to be much more dramatic than it actually is. It's quite a small squirt of liquid and you do 't imagine something so innocuous can wreak so much chaos and destruction.....but it soooooooo can ! Keep doing what you're doing. I found it all a bit of an anti-climax the first few times but once the symptoms kick in, you'll realise that it's working ! I promise. I'm on it for 14 days but I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if they want to keep me on it for a bit longer. As to whether or not 19 days is normal, the only rules here, as Sir Bradley Pitt said in Fight Club, are that there are no rules. Guys seem to know what they're doing so just go with what they say. If you're unsure, do ask them why. That's what they're there for and never feel like you're bothering them or asking a silly question.

I checked with the consultant about the pen and he said it's fine to take it out of the fridge along to the appointment at 4pm. I'm going to pop it into my Pimms cool box (I know, I'm so achingly hip and trendy Hmm ). I'll, um, leave the fishy ice block if you don't mind ! Grin

Speak in the morning Hun.

Nite nite.

Noks x

keepitgoing · 01/03/2013 02:24

Hi Argh welcome! I'm here, but live in Thailand at the moment, so post at random times... Don't fret, we'll get you through. One step at a time is my motto (along with 'it only takes one' and 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst'). My next step is scan tomorrow - I started stimming on Tuesday - so I'm just concentrating on that or it's too overwhelming.

euro, oh god, I am so sorry. What a horrible situation, and now you have to wait a week. We are all praying to everything that Barry is just on the small side. I'm thinking of you and your dh.

choco well done on the egg. iOTO. This first phone call must be awful to wait for!

dildals twins!!! Omg congratulations!!

Northey · 01/03/2013 05:14

Good luck choco and congratulations dildals.

Just popping in to say its still bfn at 10dp5dt. Breasts pretty normal. Not holding out much hope for OTD tomorrow.

keepitgoing · 01/03/2013 05:35

Oh bugger, north. I'm so sorry x

Northey · 01/03/2013 05:38

At least we have four frozen (albeit fractionally below the clinic's freezing criteria).

Anyone know if clinics tend to let you go straight from a short protocol cycle in to a FET one? Or will I have to wait 3 months or something?

keepitgoing · 01/03/2013 06:16

Yes, that's brilliant, and dildals 3bb is doing well.

My clinic told me I could do a FET the very next cycle, (im not that positive...) but I'm in Thailand so NHS might be different. Anyway, shows it's possible.

Are you OK? What about your dh?