Eggcellent Egg Buddies; are you cycling in July/August/September??? Get in here!!!

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We swear! We have to start a new thread every week! But we are the most gorgeous bunch of ladies ever and will do anything to get a baybee in our tumtum.

Get nattering.....

Evening tame. This is our 2nd cycle. First was April-everything seemed to go well-had 2 blastocysts put back (out of a crop of 8 retrieved with 7 fertilised) & was well chuffed. Unfortunately no implantation . Any tips greatly appreciated! How are you doing?

Im ok

Have you looked at having a scratch done?

Or nk testing?

take fish oil too x

Cheers tame .Had a scratch last month. Whoever named it a 'scratch' is a sado masochistic mother fucker. The (short lived thank god) pain was ridiculous! Started taking fish oil a couple of months' ago. Will look into the NK testing-what's it for?
Chris Martin 'live like me & my twatty perfick wife'. FUCK-OFF! You are not alone.

cupcakes a paediatric nurse! Well done you. I did a paediatric placement in my first year of training and was very sure I wouldn't be up to the job. I managed to faint watching a 2 year old have a lumbar puncture, and that did it for me! I love psychiatric nursing - have done it for 17 years, mainly with older people. Currently doing a research post as I had to have a break from managing a CMHT while TTC - too much!

juicy thanks for your words of encouragement - I am eagerly awaiting news from your scan.

Thanks to everyone for encouragement and support. X

Nk testing is to check for natural killer cells in the womb- an immune issue that can cause issues with implantation and miscarriages.

However some clinics will prescribe steroids to cover this without the testing- check with your clinic. If they have you on prednisolone whilst cycling, you are sorted. Some clinics are hotter than others on immunes.

has anybody here had thyroid testing? Or know anything about thyroid levels when cycling? Mine is 1.95 and I have seen stuff that says it should be near 1- anybody know? I think I may get it rechecked and ask at nurture next month. X

Torts, your TSH levels need to be 2.0 or below.

Motor, I once worked with fecking nutters but they didn't really have psychiatric problems; I taught in a young offenders' unit. Most difficult job I've ever done. People say 'ooh, that must have been so rewarding' but it just isn't. These kids were so damaged when they came to us (we were the last resort before prison) that we were purely crowd control. Nobody learned anything and no-one's life got better. The majority of the staff (all men, of course, they make awful carers of young males; clash of egos and all that crap) had no compassion or love for their charges, it was all very sad

I've been taking fish oil for the last six months, if anyone's interested. I also had the scratch four months before IVF. And a shitload of Topics and caffeine drinks Mind you, I had donor eggz, innit.

I'll be thinking of all the scannees, stabbers, druggies, testers and newly-diffed scaredy-cats over the next couple of days. I bloody love you all..

X

Where's fabuluce?

tame I was feeling murderous on Wednesday, think it was the clomid, but been ok since thanks. I don't think I have anything on thyroid levels - sorry. Were you on prednisolone? I start on Weds or Thurs and I'm a bit scared!

brooker I am going for the 1st scan tomorrow, which will be day 5, so worried they will see nothing. Also going on Weds and Fri and poss next Mon too. I am a slow/poor responder so lots of monitoring. I had the scratch done too and am going to be on the steroid tame was talking about, even though I haven't had immune tests. Also having clexane after ec.

Torts, I almost sicked-up when I read 'soggy ends'. Ha!

Love you too joos

Choc, please don't think I'm moaning about sickness. I am actually praying to God for little reassurances and when the waves wash over me I smile very, very broadly

NookNook, yes, but how did you cook the bastard crab? Details, pliz.

ChocolateSalty , I've been taking Pred forever for yonks now and I never felt anything at all; no side effects or nowt. What worries you particularly?

I didn't feel that at all joos, can't remember what I said!? I had horrendous nausea with both of my bfps right from the start, and you're right, it's debilitating. Marmite crisps and breadsticks were my new best friends . I would honestly never feel that you were moaning

Oh yeah, the pred, I remember you saying you were on it. Dunno really, side effects sound a bit scary. It says on the bumpf I have that you have to have a full blood count, blood sugar checks and blood pressure check every 2 weeks when you are on them. Glad you have had no probs with them.

Sorry, I'm confusing you, my little chocolate friend. You were offering your sympathies for my sickness and I didn't want you to think I was horribly ill or owt.

P.s..I moan a lot about other stuff: eduction; shouty people; England; celebrities; narcissism; shit literature; the upper classes...but sickness is very welcome.

Oh, the irony: *education!

Blimey, chocsaway! I hadn't heard that about pred. Checks every fortnight? Well, I never

Choco, can you talk about your miscarriages? Sorry if that's too painful. I was wondering what the background was to those particular stories and if you think they were a case of not having had pregnancy support (drugs).

Juicy it was pure white crab meat which I ate with fresh bead. Can't be arsed with digging it out of the shell. I'm so happy about your nausea! Not a sentence I thought I would ever use...

Choco I've been on the pred for a few weeks and haven't had any side effects. I keep forgetting to take it at lunch so take it later in the day and have had no trouble sleeping (apart from with moving stress). They do make it sounc scary but I don't know of anyone who's had bad side effects.

Oh yeah and no one said nuffink about no blood tests!

I'm a bit crampy today - do you think it could be implantation pains? or am I delusional?

Thanks nook, that's helpful. How are you doing? Crab sounds lush.

joos the 1st miscarriage was at 6 weeks and was a natural pg, so who knows. This last time I was on gestone, but nothing else and digi test results started going down at just over 5 weeks. If only I knew old thing, if only I knew. Let's hope all these drugs can do something this time! I have v low AMH too after having a large ovarian cyst removed 2 years ago. It is sad, yeah. Our name is on DE waiting list now, so at least we have a back up.

chocs sounds like your clinic are taking good care of you. Fingers crossed for some lovely follie growth tomorrow stabbing buddy. x

nook I am going to ask about blood tests tomorrow as the stuff I had was from the lister and I am at one of their satellite clinics, so not sure if it's the same. Blood pressure is a slight worry as l had a high reading at the clinic before and they made me send them bp readings for a couple of weeks as they didn't want me to start drugs if it was high - it was always fine at home! The 2ww eh, what joy! How many days post EC are you?

Thanks brooker, I love my clinic. I will have packed in 3 cycles in just under a year, so have spent a lot of time there!

Oh, Choco, I hope you never have to go through that again Being on all these drugs is very reassuring, I have to say. I'm glad you're open to DE It's only now when i look back that I can see just how exhausting it was to put my faith in my own body month after month when ttc with my own eggs. I was in absolute total denial about my egg quality thanks to my instadiff last year and ttc thereafter was soul-destroying. Hurrah for donor eggs!

NookNook, how many days past transfer are you? Cramping really is spiffing news.