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).

honty I was thinking about you this morning - sorry to hear your BFN.

No pressure ladies, but I really think it is time you start producing some BFPs alright!

My trigger shot was 36 hrs pretty much exactly before EC.

I am a total sucker for a good Northern accent, and, dare I say it, gingers. DH hasn't got a Northern accent, but he has a touch of the ginge.

shazza My neighbour is pregnant with Nr FIVE at the moment. She has to ween off the last one before no five arrives. I had to ask her, seriously, talk me through this, how did this happen? She talked me through her contraception. Yes we find it normal to have these conversations on our doorstep. Pill - she'd forget (I will refrain from putting judgement here). Jab - made her fat (TBH she's not the smallest without the jab either). The coil thing went wandering and ended up in a wrong place (the coil probably got lost, let's be fair). Then, her fella was going to have the snip, but, WAIT FOR IT, he couldn't make his pre-op assessment appt because she was IN LABOUR! At that point we both had to laugh, I am mean really, you can't make that up can you? I did suggest that he could have just gone, labour tends to take a while, but no, labour was in a different hospital to the snip hospital.

ANYWAY - she's heavily pregnant and still smokes (and drinks too). Her kids have asthma but that's because the flat is damp. Yep.

The kids are lovely by the way and she's alright too, she takes my deliveries when I am not there.

Hello everyone!

keep I worried about ovulating before egg collection too, I don't think you'd be normal if you didn't! But they know what they're doing.

As for pessaries, I went rear entry all the way!

Well, so much for not symptom spotting, someone give me a virtual slap! I only had transfer on Saturday FFS. So the feeling sick and hot and cramps will have be attributed to some other imaginary illness for now or more simply progesterone side effects

Am currently re-watching the documentary The Babymakers that was on a couple of months back aaargh!

Oh, one more thing, and then I will get back to work, honest (instead of googling).

I felt really shitty yesterday, like a flu coming up, massive headache. Then I noticed a tiny bit of brown blood when wiping. It wasn't enough to cause 'real' spotting. It litterally was very little. Naturally I was on knickerwatch for the rest of the day and a small clot, again v small, came out at one point. This morning again a tiny bit brown blood with the morning wee.

It's all been very little so my rational self said let's not worry, let's see how it develops. My irrational self said go to EPU now. I have stopped taking the low dose aspirin (because that would thin your blood) and remain on knickerwatch for the day. Luckily I have the EPU 800m walk from work, in case I lose it (mentally I mean). What would you do? Go to EPU? To be honest, if it would be miscarrying there would be nothing they can do about it really can they? It's not as if they can seal it up and put some paw paw ointment on it.

I blame the Tracy Anderson 15 min workout for this!

chocoloco is that a repeat? on which channel is it?

dildals I'd probably go just for reassurance, and you'd get another chance to see the babies.

I recorded it back in January. You could google it. (Not that I'm encouraging your googling)

Thanks everyone.

dildals no clue, maybe ring the epu and see what they say. Are you about 7 weeks? Crossing my fingers for you x

Was it a one off programme? It seemed like a series but i couldn't see any others. Not in the UK though.

keep they only showed one here, think it was a BBC Northern Ireland production.

Keep - 8 weeks +2

Oh shit, honty, I'm sorry :( Today is OTD, isn't it? Bollocks. What are you doing now, sweetie? Are you stopping pessaries? What did clinic say?

dildals I think brown blood is old and not to worry about, esp if just v tiny amounts but I would probably go to the EPU just to be reassured.

hont really really sorry about the BFN.

keep I think they time the trigger shot and EC exactly just so you don't ovulate beforehand so don't worry.

Choco hold on honey. Early days. Heres hoping you get a bfp

Dildals. I'd go to the EPU if you have any doubt.

On a lighter note there is also a good chance that my offspring will be of the red haired variety. DP is brown/salt n peppa and it wasn't until we got down to business did I realise the hidden truth (he will not thank me for divulging this in public).

AFM AF due today. I'm very tender where I assume my ovaries are and my belly is bloated. I'm very regular usually so I wonder if it is likely that AF will be different this time given the drugs. I wasn't expecting tender ovaries until stimms.

Dildals will try my very hardest to get a bfp. I'm revising like crazy to pass first time. Xx

Quick phone post a 4th follie has entered the mix so going to keep stimming for a couple more days to give it chance to catch up, another scan on Friday then prob EC on Monday x

Yay Scarlett. Great growing! X

And another day at the office over.

Dildals I meant to say post re neighbour made me laugh. DP and I worry about supporting 1 bambino but 5 oh my goodness! I wish she could share out a bit of whatever it is she's got. Goes to show that it's not healthy living necessarily. (so should we be lighting up and knocking back the red?) xx

shazza the not so healthy living might work for her, but one of my friends has been TTC for well over three years now, she's 32, so spring chicken. She went to the GP had all the tests done, no obvious cause. End of Spring 2012 she managed to strong arm her GP in referring her to Guys to see what could be done. Guys told her and her fella to cut down on alcohol to five units a week, cut down on caffeine and started her progresterone, more as a placebo than anything else. After 3 months of 'clean living' they fell pregnant. (Guys didn't want to start her off on IVF because she was (is!) still so young). So you can use this as inspiration if you feel like having a glass of wine!

Hi dildals. I'm not that worried about wine at the mo. luckily DP doesn't drink anyway so giving up hasn't been hard. I guess it is different for everyone isn't it? All this stuff about nutrition what to have, what to give up etc. Guys told me that there is nothing I can do to affect outcome. The embryo will develop or not. It's such a shame and such a lottery. I wish there were points for effort. We would all be grade A+ students.

Honty how are you feeling sweetie?

Xx

Evenin' all,

dildals did you get in touch with EPU? Are you ok?

Love to honts

shazza boo to tender ovaries and hope the witch arrives soon! Don't really know about the ovaries feeling tender before stims as I never really did down regging. My DH stopped drinking and his counts did improve but obviously not enough

scarlett great news on follies and look forward to hearing about your next scan

AFM, nothing to report apart from imaginary progesterone symptoms. It's DH's birthday on Saturday and we're having a bit of a family gathering and it's going to be weird not having a celebratory drink, oh, what to do ...!

Does AFM mean something?? People keep using it and I don't understand!

Hi Northey

'As for me' it took me a while to work it out!

How are you feeling? X

So so. Tired and stressed about work. I think I might have to postpone Friday's cycle review appointment, as I really can't take the time off. And just sad and anxious generally. Could really do with a hug, but my partner and I live apart at the moment for boring work reasons, so I am all alone most of the time. Generally it's ok, but when ttc stuff fucks up, it's pretty lonely.

Sending you a big hug northey, it's bloody horrible, I know

keep good luck for egg collection - will be thinking of you

Yes, good luck keep. And euro, I am thinking of you lots. I'm not sure whether I'm wishing you good luck for a miracle or sending you support and love to help you through a difficult but clarifying day. I know I didn't really appreciate people trying to keep my buoyant when I was preparing myself for what I knew would be the more likely outcome. But I am hoping and hoping for a miracle, even if you are carefully avoiding any thought of it. And thinking of you regardless.