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Eggcellent Egg Buddies: are you cycling in June/July/August/September?

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JuicySausage · 24/06/2013 18:29

...then come and get your flipping baby here. We are a group of utterly priceless loons who are deadly serious about buying our babies at the highest price (or free if you're a lucky NHS bastard). There are no failures here

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Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 10:01

Oh and does mrfish go into the room with me while they collect? I know I'll be off my face, but I like to include him at every step for payback purposes.

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 10:02

And tame my mum would come out with nonsense like that. Ignore, disengage as needed.

MotorcycleMama · 26/06/2013 10:11

Sorry life I can't help with the trigger side-effects question as I don't get that with DE, but Good Luck! Egg collection tomorrow then? Well done for staying sane over the past week or so.

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 26/06/2013 10:19

My stools respond to all sorts of hormones life, in unpredictable ways. So I would not worry too much, yet.

Ta joos. I have no reason to be so panicked about depression now, been okay for most of my twenties and those flying early thirties, but the fear has never left me. Last time it was really bad was puberty, followed by a few months on the pill, which mirrorred it quite closely, so yeah, that is the real reason why I panick. Just called the clinic they'll discuss whether there is anything else they can do/try to make things better, but devil's juice it is. Never again LP for me, that has been decided. I agree with doing everything you can manage. The load able to be managed varies a lot though, I guess. I have to see until last year I could not see a child free future and I still struggle. IN fact, that is why I am here, trying the best I can...

Anyway... Onwards and forwards, clearly the answer is a sneaky nap, right?

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 10:20

Yep I'm laying tm Smile.

Oh and re my friends mum - just got an update hat she is fine, but looked down and cried. Poor lady. She's in her 70s. Thanks for the compliments and all, but my problems pale in the shadow of someone who is going through that. Its existing life and people v's those who are yet to be?

I'll be in and out today, got to do all the things I didn't yesterday.

How did I stay sane? This thread and the fact that there was fuck all I could do bar drink water/eat eggs. No point in worrying if I have no control. Also, I was resigned to it being cancelled and made my peace with that.

I'm not looking forward to the next Hurdles, though.

NoMaybeAboutIt · 26/06/2013 10:24

That's great news Motor

Hurrah for the darker line Juicy

Life your poor bum. Least it will make room for the embryo Wink

Drugs have made me ever so tired too whoeversaidthat

Follicles are growing slowly as my gonal f dose is low. Am hoping they'll crank it up. But always pointed out, they don't want to kill me Hmm. Had hoped or more growth so i could trigger and be done!

JuicySausage · 26/06/2013 10:35

Motor, I'm worried, too Sad

Life, I love reading your posts, you and tortie sound like special ladies to me. I didn't have the squits after my trigger(s) and I've never heard of that from others either. I reckon it's just a one-off anomaly. Not pleasant though

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JuicySausage · 26/06/2013 10:37

Is 'one-off anomaly' tautologous?

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ExpatWifey · 26/06/2013 10:37

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JuicySausage · 26/06/2013 10:50

Aw, thanks, Expat, you're another thoroughly decent human being and I appreciate your chuffedness.

For you: "I told you! I spent it with my uncle in Alaska hunting wolverines!"

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eurozammo · 26/06/2013 11:14

tame I'm glad some of the shyte I spout occasionally comes in useful to someone.

I ended up eating loads of rice when I went wheat free. Low carbing is not for me, so I needed something carby to replace the wheaty stuff.

I envisaged ending up as a shrivelled old crone given the amount I bled from my mc. But a few sachets of spa tone later, I was right as rain.

joos hurrah for a darker line!

wish remember you are on a drug comedown. You've had your oestrogen levels artificially raised by the drugs.

fish I hope it all goes well.

life I had the stomach ishoos too this time. I took double trigger (single last time) and I had to dash a few times and everything was noticably looser.

Mr euro couldn't come in for EC (frankly there wouldn't have been space - it is a tiny theatre and pretty full with a gynae, anaethetist and two nurses - plus they treat it like surgery, so no spectators. Also, that is when they send him off to do his bit in a side room. He came in with me for ET both times though.

I did see an IVF documentary though where the men were in the room, so I guess it depends on the clinic.

Good luck for tomorrow!

motor my internal jukebox always plays apt songs. I often don't notice until I think about what I've been humming for the past hour!

noks that's great news about the low DS risk.

I hate aerobics classes of any kind. At the gym I stick to the cardio machines and elbowing the men out of the free weights section whilst turning my ipod up to drown out the grunting (message for the lads: sounding like you are having a particularly tricky poo is not impressing anyone).

Welcome back cupcakes. I'm glad you are finally cycling.

drizz you have to do what is right for you. You're not DRing for long, but I have no regrets at all about quitting LP. I just didn't want a baby if I had to get it that way. All I felt after stopping was relief and I was 100% convinced that I had made the right decision. There are other ways of doing IVF - SP, mild, natural - that do not involve throwing your body into menopause. I just wish I had known in advance how awful I would find it because I lost a lot of time waiting for my NHS round, starting it, and then getting to the point where I was ready to try something else, and I'm a bit older than you without the time to lose. As you know, I suffered on the pill too (and through puberty, come to think about it). We're obviously just more susciptible than the average woman to having out 'ormones messed with.

There was a woman called Scarlett on the first egg buddies fred who had had the same effects as us downregging. I'd never found anyone who had suffered on the drugs to the extent I had, so there are a few of us who really struggle, albeit a minority.

twink that pharmacist sounds like an utter nob. I'd actually complain about that. Oh, I've just seen that res has said the same.

We had IVF. We were offered ICSI for the first round as his sample was borderline, but declined. This time it was fine so there was no mention of ICSI. My clinic's view is that they don't know how the best sperm are selected by the body. All they can do for ICSI is select the best looking sperm. So they don't do it unless there is a need for it. Other clinics seem to go all ICSI, so like most of this process, a lot seems to come down to the individual clinic's practices.

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 12:58

Quick q - what do I do with the left over drugs? I've 650 of gonal-f (hahahaha), loads of needles for it and maybe third of a vial of bureselin.

I was going to take sharps to my Gp for disposal

nobeer · 26/06/2013 13:04

Hi Life maybe there's a way you could pass them on to people who could use it and save a bit of money? Are you NHS or private? Maybe there's a thread on fertility friends.

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 13:06

Thanks for advice on my arse and DH during transfer. The more he sees, the more I gain sympathy. And flowers and chocolates.

nomaybe I've room for a baby elephant. I'm a rather shy shitter, not everyday, not loads. I'm actually impressed by what I produced today Grin

To the PUPO's, PP (proved preggo) and petri dish watchers. I won't pretend to remember whos doing what/who is who, but I am thinking f you collectively and rooting for you. LaaF.x

Btw euro life and fish are the same person Grin

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 13:12

I just weighted myself. I've lost about 2lbs Grin

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 13:13

NHs nobeer. It would be wrong to gain from them, but I thought I'd let all here know my situation with it, incase it was of benefit to them.

I'm not sure of rules, hence the vagueness.

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 13:14

It's a lot of gonal-f

eurozammo · 26/06/2013 13:36

I don't think it would be wise to share any pens/vials that you have used as small amounts of blood can travel up the needle, so even changing the needles, there would be a risk of contamination. You could pass on any unopened packets though.

I have 2 unopened Gonal F pens left from my NHS round. They go out of date in September. I was planning to pass them on to one of the 10+ers after my BFP but then miscarried so hung on to them while I figured out what to do next. We'll see what happens at the end of this round, but I'd rather they were used than go to waste, so if we are not going to use them, we will pass them on.

life/fish I'm easily confused (and I was trying to catch up with about 5 pages of chaat at once - bloody hell you lot rabbit one). Wink

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 13:50

Of course @ euro, re the drugs. I'll take them To the docs office for disposal.

It made me laugh re life/fish. Not that I should, I'm shite at remembering everyone/everything Blush

eurozammo · 26/06/2013 14:36

I thought about the blood thing because the dr who gave me the pens told me that if I didn't keep my thumb firmly on the top of the pen until I had withdrawn the needle, some could sneak in. It does seem a shame to waste such an expensive drug though.

How are you feeling about tomorrow?

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 15:04

Calm and excited I do love bei under, its the only time I get to feel so woozy as I don't drink much and have never really done drugs.
It always occurs to me - people pay out their arse to feel like this Blush

I'm trying to get everything done today that I shoud have done yesteray. So am quite busy.

Is there anything I should know/be prepared for? Any pointers?
And yes euro I was going to give it away as it seems such a shame to throw good money away (We pay bundles of NI, so I have at least had some contribution).

eurozammo · 26/06/2013 15:28

Well if you love being under, you should be looking forward to it. :)

You might have some pain afterwards (I was in pain this time for the rest of the day, although it was manageable with paracetemol; I had no pain at all last time).

For me, apart from the being knocked out part, which is what gives me the traumatic reaction, it's fine. You don't feel anything of the collection part at all.

wishicouldhavealargeMalibu · 26/06/2013 15:57

Ladies, I'm in a lot of pain today. I rang the clinic and she told me to take codeine but I'm worried about it. I was originally told not to take anything but paracetamol. Unfortunately paracetamol isn't doin the trick.

Anyone have any ideas?

Lifeasafish · 26/06/2013 16:10

Remind me wish - are you awaiting et?

resipsa · 26/06/2013 16:14

Yeah wish if you're pre-ET, codeine will be fine.

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