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

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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).

Dildals I guess I'll never find out. I asked yesterday and they said just to keep on the prog and aspirin until the next scanand didn't discuss beyond that.

I've heard of people with recurrrent m/c taking it right through, until 30+ weeks, stopping before there is any possibility of delivering (again because of the bleeding risk).

Hi everyone sorry for mememe post but am on phone which is pita to type on!

Today I've started to get Stabby pains all over my belly is this normal on day 4 of stims? And should i take this as a sign the stims are doing their job? Or is it a bad sign and they will stop me at scan tomorrow? Also my tummy has swelled up, i look about 6 months preggo

Headaches and nausea too which i was expecting...

I really don't want another abandoned cycle! I'm trying to tell myself these are good things!

I'm on baby aspirin and fragmin...it's to help with implantation apparently...if I'm pregnant have to keep taking the fragmin until 10 weeks! Nor sure if I need to continue the baby aspirin though. I've never asked if they put me on it for a reason or if all their IVFers have it....

Just spent a fortune in century 21! Not many clothes as hoping wont be able to fit into mine soon!

scarlett belly defo swells up but i didn't get this already at day 4 tbh. Just go for your scan tomoz and perhaps they'll lower your dose of stimms. Good luck!

hello everyone

Good luck for tomorrow Scarlett.

Well done Honty. Bargains galore! Have you decided what you are going to do tomorrow re testing?

Noks how did you get on today? Are you stimming?

Choco have you got ET tomorrow? Best of luck for it.

Euro are you feeling better after yesterday?

Northey and Vall how are you both? Thinking of you.

Did anyone else have appts today or tomorrow?

Sniff no. 4 was much better. I'm getting the hang of it and I reckon some definitely went in tonight.

Xx

Scarlett I can't help re: stims. I never got that far on my medicated cycle, but it sounds like a good sign that something is happening.

I'm glad the sniffing is getting better, Sharon.

NY shopping honty - I'm very envious.

choco hurrah for fertilisation and good luck for ET.

Dildals I think most people who find out it's twins feel daunted. The beauty of pregnancy is that you have months to get used to the idea before you have to deal with the practicalities!

As for me, I am pretty sure it's over. I've had some mild cramping and just don't feel pregnant anymore. In fact, I feel exactly like I usually do a few days before my period arrives. I reckon it's only the cyclogest stopping the bleeding. At this point I'd just like to get it over and done with.

Thanks sharon sniffing is prob the same as jabbing, every day I get a bit slicker at it

dildal in my usual drama queen manner it didn't occur to me they may lower stims, oh no, I jump straight to abandoned cycle

euro sorry you feel like that, I've seen so many people say the same on this board over the last 2 years and it come good in the end so I'm going to stay blindly optimistic on your behalf

Big love to delilah if you're still lurking x

I'm with Scarlett Euro. Let's stay optimistic. love xx

I'm with scarlett and Sharon.....positive vibes euro

north are you ok?

van how about you?

scarlett you are on full dose stimms right? I think they will lower your dose too...I got bloated but towards the end and could actually feel my ovaries (or thought I could) was very weird!

sharon have decided I'm going to test tomorrow...it will be 11dpet and 13dpec.....I really don't think I'm pregnant so I just want to know now...the only thing is I will find it difficult to keep stabbing myself with the fragmin if I get a negative....

So bought a lovely pair of boots....and am currently sitting in the soho house club by the fire sipping a glass of rosé and eating sweet potato chips

euro you were also convinced it'd be a bfn... I'm so sorry you're going through this, but am not writing Barry off.

Scarlett I only feel tired so far, but am on a lower dose.

honty glad you're enjoying NYC. Good luck testing this morning.

shaz glad you're getting better at sniffing. Any side effects yet?

So I had my first scan, and have ten follies at 9-12mm, and lining at 5.9mm. So am keeping on the same dose, adding something to stop early ovulation, and going back on Tuesday. EC likely thurs-sat!! I have oestrogen level of 1100 which is high, but poss due to the number of follies. Does anyone know? The doc was unclear.

Did you test, hont? Result???

I am reporting in with an official test day bfn, as expected. Will phone the clinic in a couple of hours. Can't be arsed with pessaries - do you reckon I'm allowed to stop now?

Great follicular performance, keepitgoing! Ten at the same stage is a great number. Is your ovulation-stopping drug a powder to mix? I hated that one as I had to do it first thing in the morning, just when I'm at my most cack-handed!

PS Was today your OTD as well, valinna? How did you get on?

northey really sorry to hear about the bfn. Look after yourself. X

This morning's coffee is going to be proper caffeine-heavy stuff. And I'm having a very hot bath as well (partly because I have missed them and partly because I am desperate to get the peasant residue properly boiled off me - showering simply isn't cutting it).

Poobums north. At least it's the weekend and you're with dh. Hope the clinic let you do FET asap, it seems some take ages for a cycle review appt. Enjoy your bath, coffee, wine later. And I'm sure clinic'll say to stop the pessaries.

I've a feeling vals otd is wed?

PS thanks for the reassurance. I'm worrying about everything... This is tough.

Peasant residue? I meant pessary residue, obviously. I have not web shoving peasants up there.

that'd have been a squeeze

Depressingly, probably not, after all the speculum and dildocam action that's been going on up there.

Least you get your fanjo to yourself for a few weeks.

X

Morning ladies

I had to get up early on a Saturday to take the dreaded drug. Oh well.

Northey I'm really sorry. That is gutting. This was your first go wasn't it? Properly pants. I hope you can have a go with your frosties soon. What did you say, like having a shag and a glass of wine? Look after yourself today. I must admit to laughing outloud to the peasants. Enjoy your coffee. Much love to you and Mr N.

Vall how are you doing? Love. Xx

Keep excellent follie action! Do you feel like you are bursting? I've never understood how one's ovaries can accommodate so much out of the ordinary growth. They must grow to the size of grapefruits!

It is all so worrying isn't it? At every step. My latest is that I won't respond to the DR and I'll have to do it for longer and all my nicely timed annual leave will be wrong. Today I vow NOT to read any google stories. Especially those articles that were published in the daily mail or the sun like a very unhelpful negative sensationalist ivf diary that I came across yesterday.

Choco are you ET today?

Noks??

Great purchasing power Honty. I know SH London v well. Would be funny if we have already met in RL. Good luck with testing today and MrHs bday.

Scarlett good luck with scan.

Fairy, euro, dildals how are you all feeling?

Argh how are you?

Del if you are reading love to you too.

I'm off to eat gluten, egg, dairy free cake. Purely medicinal you understand to take away the taste of the spray.

Xx

Seems very high Hont. I have PCOS therefore a stupid number of largish follicles by your stage. They stimmed me really slowly to prevent OHSS (stimmed for over 3 weeks in the end). I hovered around the late 800s and when I did go into the 1000s (after a dose increase) they reduced my does again.

Northy huge hugs my darling. I am currently lying in bed with my legs crossed not wanting to POAS (OTD Monday) but really knowing I will and the shitty one line that will stare back at me. In fact I went out for dinner last night and had a martini and two glasses of wine....

To top it all I feel hideous. DS has a really high temperature so we have been worried about him all night and I feel beyond shocking. Achy head and neck, and a cough I need to clear but can't as every time I try it is like someone ripping a plaster off the inside of my lungs

Also feeling very woe is me as the bloody drugs I am on are making me feel pregnant...achy boobs, bloated etc. IVF is a shitty cruel process really.

Going to have to get up soon as this is a real test if my pelvic floor!

keep well-spotted! TBH, it is only how completely wrong I was about the BFN that is making me think there is a small chance it might not be over. Great follie growing!

honty noo boots and wine - sounds awesome. :)

Heh@peasant residue! I'm so sorry it was a BFN Norf.

My plans for the day have fallen through - I was supposed to be going round to see my bf, and celebrate the birthday of her 2 yr old twins. Unfortunately her other child has come down with a gastro bug this morning and she is worried it is noro, so has cancelled. Mr Euro is going shooting (I declined as I decided not to shoot while pregnant). So I have the day to myself. Need to think of something to do to stop myself brooding. Maybe cinema. I haven't been on my own for years.

Oh Euro I luuuurrrvvveee the cinema, by myself or otherwise. I used to easily do 3 films a day if DH was away bloody expensive day mind!

BFN for me again. Strangely at peace with it today, maybe because I feel so physically crap. Spoke to the clinic yesterday to find out what would happen worst case scenario, I would have to wait a cycle. Which is fine, just a real bitch for me as I have to go back on the pill - I don't have periods otherwise - which will turn me into a frustrated psycho bitch. Interesting when the IVF drugs don't really impact me emotionally.

Sorry - the follicle comment earlier was for keepitgoing not honts...