Eggcellent Egg Buddies: are you IVF cycling in June/July/August 2013? Then get your druggy arses over here for some pure fucking menkulling...

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NokklingtonStStation, I couldn't find a new thread so I made this one, cock. Hope I did the right thing

Twinkle- short or long????

Is this your first cycle??? What is your AMH/FSH????

Haven't finished posting yet, phone is driving me mad, so have got to do a bit of work then I'll be back to read through the rest.(if I haven't thrown the fucker out of the window or stamped on it) can I just say, I love this fucking thread and I would be totally lost without it [soppy]

Buzzy- perhaps we should have a thread called 'IVF pregnancy fucking pain in the arse, dont know what is going on, help me'

Choco I was told I need one but never told why so I googled it and its all about checking the cervix is accessible with the probe and for them to get to know the bends and turns of my insides or summit! (Shrugs)

If truth be told I don't know why but I'm glad cause i'll know what to expect. Although... its the EC I'm crapping it about. Not been under general before.

Very nervous about it all now

I agree, the waiting is pure hell, just want to sleep and then wake up and have a baby to hold

Sorry, tortie*, I shouldn't be getting your hopes up when I know nothing about HCG levels, I just want so much for this to end happily for you and your husband x

Buzzy, th'usband has to have some kind of extra STD test on the day of EC which is costing us 90 euros Oh, and my husband says you've to tell your Bazza that he's 'been around Crewe works and depot a few times'

Wow! Ive missed a lot.

Tame/ buzzy - what a bloody rollercoaster. Please keep posting It is probably good for all of us newbies to know what can happen? Im all crossed like a pretzel for you both.

Apologies for my erratic posting - i need to work out how to do it on my phone.

Someone asked about trial embryo transfers? I had one done. The doc said it was to ensure it went smoothly on the day and to test what size 'thingy' to use. Probably to also give the transferee (the patient and partner) an idea of what happens so it is nice and calm? My cervix is at an odd angle and I have part of my cervix missing (pre-cancerous cells/bad smear), so apparently it was good for the doc to have a play with it all

I did have an horrendus HSG to the point where i was asked a few times if I wanted it to stop and I could see the rather abrupt nurse (she was lovely once things got bad but had been very matronly before that) and radiographer exchanging worried looks when I started pouring with sweat. This is in my notes, so that may be why I was offered one, which happened about a month before my cycle started.

I doing ok I think. I am not sure when ec/et will take place, but I do have a scan next Tues. I feel calm, I try not to let negative thoughts creep in and I try not to think beyond tm.

My dh has been amazing and bought me flowers and chocs ( i know, not very imaginative, but its only the 3rd time I've had flowers in 10 years so it is a big thng) last week as I had been a mardy cow.

I will try to post more - embarrasingly I do forget about whats going on which I am hugely grateful for.

Twinkle- I have a low AMH and dont get a massive quantity of good eggs. With this is mind, I would go for short protocol because then you will still have a bit of your own LH in your blood and the cycle is shorter.

BUT its totally individual.

Did the Dr not advise at all???

Sorry for the typos, I assure you I can write in real life. I'm just also not very good at writing on a damn touch type thingy. I've had to edit this a few times.

Juicy - good luck! Are you. prgaue now?

Right, can I just say: general anaesthetic is fucking brilliant. In fact, if any one of you says you hated it or you died or summat, I will eat my twat hat.

Twinks, I cannot help you re long/short protocols as I am donor egg IVF and therefore don't have to go through half of what you lot do. However, euro know this shit for sure. Something to do with how regular (or fucked-up) your cycles are, I think?

Expat, deep breath tomorrow, you'll be tickety-boo, cocker

Choco, I love this thread, too

I need advice, my friends: neither me nor th'usband have smart phones with internet and so, if I am to stay in contact with you all for the nine days we are away I will need to take my laptop abroad with me. Now, I mentioned this to th'usband and he went fucking nuts, roaring that I'll have my head stuck into mumsnet the entire time we're away. He's genuinely upset that I'm considering taking my computer. What should I do? I don't know if I could actually 'go dark' for that long...I need you all

Ffs - prague.

Juicy - the laptop is needed to check flights/floods and for google maps so you now where you are going.

It wasn't your intention to check mumsnet however while you are checking stuff...

Just take it. When he needs some info he will be glad you did. Shit I'd take internet over knickers if that was the only choice. Commando is fine, but fuck having no internet access!

Fish, give your hubby a kiss from me for being blardy lovely And give yourself a thwack around the head with half a can of Whiskas for thinking I am currently paddling through Prague in a dinghy (I fly on Sunday).

fish, you are right, now can you come round my gaff and twat th'usband in the balls with an encyclopaedia of British steam trains?

There must be someone he wants to keep up with? Current affairs/ sport/ soaps?

MrJuicy - 9 days cut off from the UK, what will you discuss over dinner if you haven't read the latest shenanigans going on in the UK/world? Plus its better to take something and not use it than to be staring at the hotel ceiling thinking 'if only I had bought the...'

Do you need mr juicy's spunk? Because if not I'm on my way ver with said encyclopaedia.

Tame - what is AMH? I don't know mine.

The docs said it was up to me re protocol.

thats not very good guidance from them! I think it all depends on egg reserve, previous response and egg quality. I think you should push them for a bit more help making that decision. Its a very personal, tailor made thing re; protocol.

They are the experts and you pay a lot of money for them to act as such.

Ask them for a bit more guidance- your results should help. They will have done amh or fsh at some point to measure response xxxx

Juicy- we need brno/hotel auchwitz updates. Do not go without a laptop. X

This thread is 8 days old and half full.

we talk A LOT.

Does anyone mind if I post yet more from the FF forum? I am more than dismayed by this little offering from some stranger who has wandered onto the forum to bring more heinous tidings of doom:

"Hi Ladies,

I wanted to share my experience at Reprogenesis in Brno. I?m not looking for sympathy or opinions. I simply want others to be aware of my experience if they are considering using this clinic.
My husband and I chose this clinic for IVF with DE because of their embryo monitoring. We originally planned on a fresh transfer but since my cycle was not matched with the donor, we opted to freeze our embryos for use at a later date. We ended up with 3 high quality, day 5 embryos. I told the clinic that due to my surgical history, I was only allowed to have 1 embryo transferred at a time.
A week before I left for the first FET, the clinic asked me how many embryos I wanted to have transferred. I reminded them that I was only to have one at a time. They informed me that they had frozen 2 embryos in 1 straw and one in the other. I let the clinic know how upset I was because I knew that this would only allow me to use 2 embryos. One of the two frozen in the same straw would get wasted. The clinic responded by telling me that this was an ?administrative error? and my embryos were all frozen separately. This raised a red flag for me. My husband and I suspected that when I arrived in Brno, they would conveniently tell me that my first embryo did not survive the thaw. Well, this is exactly what happened.
I?ll never be able to prove that this clinic lied to me about the incorrect freezing of and waste of one of our embryos but my instinct and common sense are rarely wrong.
That 3rd embryo could have been the one that worked for us.

Also of interest, Reprogenesis does not use the standard ASRM protocol for embryo transfer. There is no abdominal ultrasound used to align the uterus and outer transfer catheter guide. They blindly transferred the embryo and I guess they just hoped it would end up in the right spot.
I hate to be so negative but this was such a painful experience for us.

Bottom line, I know this clinic lied to me about a very important issue and I would not recommend them to anyone.
Best of luck with your decisions. I hope to about hear lots of BFPs!!!"

twink AMH is anti mullerian hormone which is basically a measure of your ovarian reserve, so can indicate your likely response to drugs etc. mine is mostly so low due to surgery for an ovarian cyst 2 years ago where they also had to remove part of the ovary

fish glad to hear things are progressing well and jealous about the flowers and chocs, It's been a while since I've had either!

juice take the laptop, tell me joos that you have to, I said so, right!

Nowt much going on with me, AF due any day now, then need to wait for the next cycle to start so I can ring and book in for the scratch and then start drugs etc at the end of July hopefully, does that make me the last? . Am at that stupid unrealistic delusional stage of my cycle where I start thinking about how possible it is that I could be pregnant naturally and imagining symptoms that are surely all in my head. I mean, as if!

Waves to rasp, fab' nook , motor et al(I'm posh, me)

Hi All! I'm posting because I have basically been stalking you all and was starting to feel like a weirdo.

Tortie everything crossed for you. I can understand why you're nervous, I would be. What a roller coaster you're on!

Juicy what the hell?? Ok first of all you must take your laptop as we would be (once again) lost without you. Secondly why the hell don't you have a smart phone? It's 2013 FFS. Get one immediately. You will need it for when you have your babies and need to take endless pictures of them for Facebook (it's what every other fucker seems to do)

Twink I agree with Torts that they should be giving you more guidance. Definitely throw a stop time... Also try not to get to bothered by AMH and the like. As Choco will tell you - it's just a number! A small number in most of our cases I bet!

Expat I LOVE general anaesthetic. To the point of being a little obsessed. When I had my last procedure the aneathetist asked me if I was ok with general and I said "I love it". She looked a bit taken aback. That's probably on my file somewhere

Life my scan is on Thursday!

How's it going mejust?

Wave to Buzz!

Sorry of I've missed anyone. I blame the drugs.

Thanks everyone. At my first appt the consultant said I had a good number of eggs. Is that AMH?

The doc I saw today is phoning me tomorrow so will discuss best option for me with him then. He did call today but I missed his call as I ducked out if work to buy crisps

Fuck I meant Nok not Choc! I have NO BRAIN.