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).

choc, you half-dose nit! Phew that the clinic isn't worried.

Not long now, scarlett! How are you feeling?

Ha ha, thanks Norf! I'm so glad this thread exists and weird to know we'll probably never meet in RL.

Hi everyone, I've been checking up on you all every now and then

northey and val - really sorry about your BFNs. I agree that doing a test early helped prepare me, my hardest day was my first day of heavy bleeding as that's when it really hit home

euro - I have my fingers crossed for you

delilah - was really sorry to read your news

We have 5 in the freezer so also plan to do a FET but after mid may as we're going to go on holiday first, somewhere hot and far away!

Best wishes to everyone else

Good moaning - am watching a re-run of 'Allo 'Allo and it reminded me of just how much I took this as my inspiration for my French GCSE. I have always wanted a picture of the Madonna with de big boobies.

Thanks for all the advice girls. Much appreciated. I think I will give her a ring over the next day or so just to update her myself. Am absolutely sure Mr Noks has been updating her but, considering he is a big strapping northern man, he's a bit short on details at the best of time ! I really don't think he knows what to do at the moment whilst all this is going on...apart from being really cuddly and loving. He even suggested we go shopping together on Saturday, which we did. AND we got through a whole afternoon without bickering, which is usually what a trot around the shops and a massive session in House of Fraser brings (that as well as a whiny 'can I go for a pint while you look for shoes'). I shall enjoy it whilst it lasts .

hont I am absolutely loving your travel blog. Can you go away again and update us ? Somewhere hot would be fab, ta. On, and be an absolute love and have another glass of something strong for me please ! Ta.

keeps how long are your guests staying ? Jeez, that must be hard to hide everything and act normally. I commend you !

val am so so so sorry at your bfn. I'll find old fat chops and give her a karate kick to the head for showing her wobbly boat race around here again. Hopefully your icicle bambino will come good for you. Sending you all my best wishes. Xx

shazza have we managed to reduce your wildly fluctuating body temp yet ? The burning issue is.....was the stranger a weirdo freak who tried to either sell you drugs or tell you their life story (or does that just happen to me on buses) ? Srs, are you ok ? I did not like the mental body temperature thing, mainly because I kept removing clothes and putting them on again, which made my hair look even more unkempt than it usually does.

euro wave back ! How are you doing ? Xx

scarlett way to go on the follie growing. I may also be in for EC on Monday (depending on scan on Friday). Exciting utterly terrifying isn't it ? X

norf how are you today ? Hope things are ok with you. The snogging hands comment has kept me sniggering for the last ten mins. X

I am making ham fisted attempts to stab myself in the stomach with these damn drugs. Fecking hell, when will they invent one single pill for all this ?

Noks x

choco hurrah for good pulses and lazy days. Keep-up up the good work !

capirinhas where are you planning to go on hols ?

Noks xx

nok I can't imagine talking to my MiL about all this.

I know exactly what you mean about just having a pill for all this. The same thought goes through my head every time I am cleaning up the pessary gunk. Eugh.

I've had some quite nasty cramps this evening, so I think my body is ramping up for eviction time.

Thanks for all the good wishes, ladies.

Euro well I'm still holding out some hope for you. Xx

Bonsoir mez amies.

I'm doing much better thanks. Only had one flush this morning. Lady on bus was sitting in front of me and I had to tap her on the shoulder to get her attention. She gave me such a look! She didn't attempt to sell me drugs but then to be honest I'm pretty ok on the drugs front at the mo. Other than that I'm still feeling positive and excited that this just might work. And even if it doesn't, for the first time in a long time I don't feel like I will die from that pain and disappointment. Like others here who have been so brave and inspirational I will get through whatever happens.

Good luck with the mil Noks. I've got a strapping northern OH as well. His family don't know yet.

Choco we can meet in RL if you'd like to! I met DP on the net and he was the 1st one I went on a date with so I'm not very experienced at blind dates!

Caip lovely to hear from you. I'm glad you are doing ok. It is good that you have a plan and a holiday sounds like a grand idea.

Hello everyone else. I hope you are all having a good Monday. I've discovered Nashville and am watching it on catch up. It is so trashy but great!

Bisous. Shazza x

shazza well hurrah for positive thoughts and trashy tv. I am about to watch Spartacus on the telly box, which is an excellent historical drama basically porn . I too met Mr Noks on the interweb. He was also my first date after a rather unfortunate episode with another gentleman right old weirdo man slut who emailed me a picture of his man bits Strangely wonky willy.

I realise that this post has absolutely nothing to do with ivf.....

Noks how dare you have a thought that lasted more than a few minutes that wasn't about IVF. Don't you know that you can never take your eye off the ball. Not even for a moment..... xx

Hee Hee - naughty Noks. Back to the ivf....follicles, eggs, protein, down regging, stimms, hot flushes, angst ridden hours, bfp, bfn, oh god will this work..... REPEAT

Go on have a night off. Enjoy Spartacus.

Night all. Tomorrow it starts all over again. Xx

Morning all! I had my scan this morning, and EC set for Friday, so have to do trigger 8pm tomorrow (and delay Mil's last dinner out till after that, without saying why...). So last FSH jab tonight! I have nine follies at 15-17mm and another two at 12-13. Lining is 8.5 so that's good. I was worried about high estradiol but at 2000 today he says it's fine relative to my follies. ET hopefully next wed. Omg!!!

caip good to see you! Five in the freezer's amazing, and good idea to have a hol first.

north what did the clinic say? Can you start again next cycle?

nok when's your first scan?

Waves to all from roastingly hot bangkok. Was funny in the waiting room this morning about five couples getting blood tests. All the women were asleep and all the men on iPads. Drugs, eh! My dh has been annoying me, he says it's the drugs making me irritable, I say it's him!!

Great number of follies, kig! And good luck for EC. Does MIL know anything about anything?

caip, the holiday sounds a very good idea. We are going to go away in April as well. Possibly not as glamourously long haul as you, but definitely a change of scene.

I spoke to the clinic last night, and the nurse said they would want me to have three bleeds before a frozen cycle, though she is going to talk to the doctors about whether that's totally inflexible. I want to do a natural frozen cycle, so I would think there was less need to clear my body of one lot of drugs before starting the next, if I'm not starting any others. She is phoning back this morning with the doctor's response, but ive got a Cycle Review appointment booked for tomorrow, so i can press again there. (but I've just realised in going to have to move that to later this week. Bah.)

Well done Keep. Fingers crossed you get a great crop of eggs. Hats off to you re mil and sil. You have so many things to think about. I hope you get some quiet time alone to relax.

Glad you have spoken to the clinic Northey. I hope the review is helpful.

Morning to everyone else. I hope you all have good days ahead.

Shaz x

Oh north hopefully that's just for medicated cycles. I think so, as they say for next ivf wait three cycles. I'd be frustrated to wait that long, so hope you get it earlier. But see you have a holiday planned for April though? Let me say adding holiday dates into the mix was overly stressful for me...

No, mil doesn't even know we are ttc... Though she may have guessed as she's stopped making the 'when I have gc' comments in the last year... When we knew our dates and shed be here I ,er, suggested to dh he might want to say something but he wasn't at all keen. So here we are, hiding drugs, belly, and fatigue... Ah well! They leave on Thursday.

I also met Mr Euro online, but not through a dating website - through a forum related to our profession. We got chatting on there, then emailing and then went for a drink. The rest, as they say, is history. A couple of years later we were discussing that I had used the same site under a completely different username when I lived out in Brussels, then had a break of a year or so before rejoining with a completely new username. It turns out that Mr Euro had also had a completely different username at that time, and we used to banter online back then. We had no idea for a long while!

Nice growing keep. Good luck for EC!

In the waiting rooms here, a lot of people are glued to ipads/smartphones. I think it is a way to stop yourself thinking about the stuff you don't want to think about too much for the sake of your sanity! I find playing silly games on my iphone a great distraction.

norfy hopefully that will only apply to medicated cycles. I know with natural IVF, you can do cycles one after the other, if your mental state and bank account can hack it. We had decided to go for every other month, to give us a bit of recovery time between each one. I hope my clinic won't make me wait 3 bleeds to go again. :(

I had a terrible night last night. I think I saw the clock at 12, 2, 4, 5, 6 and gave up at 7. I'm still quite crampy and very PMTish. I was horrendously snappy last night and this morning I just feel like Eeyore.

I also met my partner online! Like euro, a discussion forum rather than a dating site. We liked each other's writing styles instantly, and rather took to each other when we met at a general meet. And that was that.

euro, you are in such a horrible situation, I'm not surprised you're sleepless and snappy. I wish I had some advice, but what worked for me was drinking myself to sleep. And obviously that isn't exactly an option for you at the moment.

I have my eye on a bottle of velvety red to knock myself out on Thursday, Norf.

Hello ladies

No wonder we are so good at forging online relationships, we are experts! That bodes well if we decide to have an en masse blind 'date'!

Euro I'm sorry you had such a horrendous night. Are you at work today? How are you coping?
X

Oh Scarlett I had to laugh at you crying at Dog - things must be bad!

I'm at work (although I haven't done any yet!). I'm up and down.

We did a meet up for those within reach of London on the 10+ thread a while ago. It was really nice - they are such a lovely bunch of ladies. I hope we do another.

Well I'm glad I made you laugh grumpy

Oh I forgot, the point of my story above was that when OH and me first started seeign each other, we lived 100 miles apart and he had moved in with a mate so we spent alot of our 'courtship' talking online in the evenings.

Twas quite blue at times!

Today things are slowly getting brighter for me. I had a telephone consultation with my IVF consultant. Lots of sympathy expressed, he said after 6 months to heal we could try again if we wanted, and that the fact that the other embryo was in a healthy location was a very good sign. We have 2 top quality embryos left ready for a frozen transfer, so hopefully one of those will be our future child. I have to get a hold of the operation and medical notes from the local hospital and send a copy off at some point for them to review.

So a healthy IVF pregnancy in 2013 is still a possibility, and for all of us.

Morning ladies - am enjoying all the love stories! My story's a bit similar to Scarletts. I was in another relationship at the time but the moment I saw DH-to-be sauntering over the 7th floor I was intrigued. A week later I was lost, confused & head over heels. Two months later I may have ended up snogging him in a dark corner. It still took a while for me (about a year) to muster up the courage to call time on my relationship, it just felt like the not done thing to do, to give it all up for a mildly alcoholic, slightly nutty, tall, exciting, handsome Other Man. Eventually I faced up (had to really) to the fact that I couldn't get him out of my head. It turned out to be a very good choice. I never wanted children with the other guy, or get married, I guess I just sort of settled ... (NEVER believe those magazines that tell you that settling is OK! It's BS I know now.) With DH I for the first time imagined being married and starting a family. Did I mention that he's INCREDIBLY handsome? ;-)

I think it would be great to organise an IRL meetup! I would be game for that!

I went to the GP yesterday to get in to the system. I hope the hospital sends out their appointments soon, so I have something to aim for. My boobs have stopped hurting today ... another thing to worry about. Seriously I am going to go grey if this carries on! Am ravenous though, so perhaps the two cancel eachother out.

On another, totally unrelated, note - I did the Tracy Anderson 15 minute workout yesterday (it's available on goop.com). My Goodness. I can feel stomach muscles that I have definitely never used. And we didn't even do abs ... errrmm ...