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

[fairypangolin]

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).

[Northey]

Delilah, what a terrible thing to happen. Thank God you're ok.

BFN this morning. 12dpEC, and 4 days before OTD. Ho hum.

[delilahbelle]

Well I'm off the catheter (uncomfy) and all opiate drugs already. (Hate the side effects)

Main pain is coming from the gas trapped in my abdomen, and muscle strain from commuting yesterday. Guts are wurgling away well though.

Still in shock I think. Possibly worst experience of my life.

[delilahbelle]

Vomiting not commuting. Stupid iPhone.

[fairypangolin]

delilah how awful, I can't imagine. Your DH made absolutely the right decision. I'm so sorry this happened. I am so impressed by your relatively cheerful messages although I know you must be feeling a lot right now. You are a very brave woman.

[Northey]

Bastard gas. Is peppermint tea helping?

[Northey]

Is there any indication of when they might let you home?

[chocoloco1]

Blimey Delilah you've been through such a lot. Can't really imagine how you're feeling, but thinking of you and sending my love x x

[Sharonbenn]

Delilah I hope you are more comfortable this morning. Xx

Northey is it still to early to test or do you think that is accurate? I'm so sorry. How disappointing after everything you have been through. Hugs. Sx

[Sharonbenn]

Oh and good luck today choco.

Anyone else got tests/scans today?

[delilahbelle]

Home tomorrow maybe, or Thursday morning depending how I feel. Hopefully tomorrow as the ward is noisy and smelly, and that's just the moth patients. Moans, groans and snores all night, and then some kind of toilet fail this morning for someone near me. God I could do with a private room.

Gutted really, will be signed off work for at least 4 weeks to recover, and will really need to take stock.

[ScarlettInSpace]

Oh Delilah I hate wards too and vomiting and commuting are pretty close IMO 4 weeks feels like a long time but will fly by, dont even try to make any life decision for at least the first 2 weeks, just concentrate on absolutely nothing, zone out a bit and let your body heal itself and OH look after you...

northey nope sorry mate still too early! Try again in 4 days when you're supposed to woman

[vallinnapod]

Delilah how terrifying for you all. Not sure if this helps but you really are going through a type of bereavement. They say you shouldn't make any life decisions for several months afterwards. {totally useless comment really, just wish I could do something}

Northey - ummm, glad it wasn't just me testing this morning BFN also and now feel hideous - in that I feel so stupid I tested, and then also worried it will stay as a BFN. Idiot, idiot, idiot (me, not you!)

[vallinnapod]

Just checked with the clinic. I should be testing on 4th March . WTF?! I will be sectioned by then!

[ScarlettInSpace]

val step away from the sticks!

I am feeling more than a bit grossed out at the thought of my scan this afternoon as the first 24 hours are always ummm particularly heavy iykwim.

And I had a bizzrre dream this morning that I went for my scan and 2 girls from Made in Chelsea were there having their hair done in the same room, as I started to arrange myself on the stirrups my mother walked in with a box of pot plants and started to put them around the scan room. Analyze that!

[Sharonbenn]

Vall and Northey oh dear stay strong girls and don't test until OTD then you won't put yourself through loads of anguish. It must be so hard. We've got it all to look forward to. I'll be climbing the walls I know. X

[EuroShaggleton]

Delilah that sounds absolutely awful. I really feel for both you and your husband at this time.

The ward sounds horrible. I hope you can get home to recover in your own bed soon.

Norf probably still too early. There are no fat ladies singing yet.

Val how many days past EC/ET are you now? If your OTD isn't until 4 March, you are also a fat lady free zone!

Scarlett I was lucky that no one ever wanted to scan me earlier than day 4. Days 1 and 2 are horrendously painful for me, and days 2 and 3 are awfully heavy (must be that lovely endometrium I am always told I have...). The sonographer will have seen it all before of course, but I was always worried about how I would manage to get dressed without bleeding all over the floor!

[ScarlettInSpace]

Euro my first few days are exactly the same - hmmm is that a coincidence given our response to down reg? What we need now is the government to give us £0.5M to go and form a think tank sit on a beach in Mauritius to examine this theory

[EuroShaggleton]

You write the proposal Scarlett and I'm in!

[vallinnapod]

ET was 20 Feb and it was a Day 5 blast.

[delilahbelle]

Yeah, now I'm physically improving I think it's hitting me there's def no babies in my immediate future.

Ah well, I am one of those annoying fairly naturally optimistic people, so it won't get me down for long.

[delilahbelle]

And my first chemical pregnancy was more painful emotionally than this. Kind of like the first time you were dumped it is hideous, but subsequently it's nowhere near as bad in the long run.

[EuroShaggleton]

So you're 11dpEC, val? Definitely not a definitive result. But 4 March does seem a long time to wait!

delilah there are other ways to become a mummy, but now is not the time to be thinking that far ahead. Just focus on healing for now. x

[vallinnapod]

Oh Delilah - what an apt analogy. Rest up, try and relax and focus on getting well.

Yeah, Euro that works out....I am just crap at waiting. 4th march would be 16 dpEC - which apparently is what they always recommend .

[Northey]

val, you are a day behind me, then. I had EC on the Thursday, and ET the following Tues. I thought my OTD was the Saturdy though. Maybe my clinic does 15dpEC. Or maybe I am just persuading myself that it will show up by then!

[EuroShaggleton]

My clinic did a blood test at 14 dpEC. There is no consistency at all!