Excellent egg buddies - for all who are IVFing in July/August/Sept

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Over here ladies!

Massive congrats to NookNook!! Great start to the new thread.

wim I reckon sore and fat round the middle is a good sign! It means the hormones are doing something or other. Just be kind to youself, it's a funny old time this stimming and triggering malarkey. don't worry too much about the pace of the thread, you'll soon get into the swing of it .

Evening Ladies,
You lot talk to much and I can't keep up!

First round of IVF here. I'm just over a week into down regging and I've got my baseline on Thursday.

Chocs what a rubbish situation for you - will join the hand holders (but suspect there's no room left so will just grab onto a toe instead). We are all with you.

Cups I really don't know about that tingling - I'd be inclined to call/text your acupuncturist and find out if it's a known side effect.

Shell I have no idea about the pm-ing side of things I'm afraid - it's the group thing that interested me!

Have been doing my sisters accounts all day so am ready for a veg out and am looking forward to a lovely chicken and veg blackbean stir fry with egg flied lice and loving made by myDH with me as sous chef - not an msg in sight . What else is for tea today ladies?

Egg flied lice? Sounds erm yummy, fab. :D

For those asking, I'm 8 days post EC and 3 days post 5-day transfer. When is the earliest I can test?

Just a quick check in, in the middle of cooking tea, bolognase

Hope you're doing ok Chocco. What dispute spend your day doing?

Fab that sounds immense!

Twinks. You have to allow 10 days for the trigger to leave your system. So technically any day from then. But I don't think I would recommend trying that early. I waited till 10dp5dt. I wanted to be sure x

Oh sad times - Mel smith has died

I know Fab I couldn't believe it

choco just a quick one to say I am praying for you tomorrow xxx hope its good news xxxx

Thank you so much for all your support, sorry for no personals, will come on later. Good news, going in for transfer! 2 are now at 4 cell Xx

Keeping everything crossed for you chocs - fabulous to hear they're getting their groove on and dividing

choco phew!! Good luck xxx

Choco that's bloody brilliant news, good luck for transfer xx

Brook sorry for getting you and Nobeer confused! I use the app on my iPad so can't read back when I'm writing. I think I might have to start taking notes..... Are you looking cracking with your new hairdo?

Nobeer hope your having a lovely time at the coast.

The tingling has settled, I didn't text my acupuncturist. I asked one of the doctors at work to have a look at me. She told me to stop being such a hypochondriac and to call my acupuncturist on Monday if my leg still feels weird

Tame how are you doing? I'm sorry you have still not got an answer. I know how frustrating it is. We are unexplained (I have self diagnosed male factor due to one poor sample, our consultant disagrees and says it was probably just a one off) I feel desperate for a diagnosis so I can figure out how to fix us! It sounds like you have a got a good plan going forward.

Pipin how are you doing on the down regulation? I think I've seen you on a few other threads over the past few years! What's your story?

I'm feeling better today, the hot flushes have eased and I just feel more positive overall.

Now I can't remember what else is going on, so sorry if I've missed anyone.

Cupcakes glad you're feeling a bit more positive today. Let those good vibe feelings flow for the rest of the week! I did have a little chuckle to myself about what the doctor said at work - I'd have been exactly the same!

choco that's great news! Good luck with the ET!

Awesome news Choco!

Hello Pibin

Glad you're feeling better Cupcakes

choco what a relief. Now to get them snuggled into where they should be! Good luck with ET today love. x
Hi pipbin
cupcakes now that's my kind of advice! glad you're feeling better today Got those pesky grey's sorted & had a fab night-didn't get back until 1

choco great news that your embies started to grow, and are now in your tum! Phew!! Hope you have a restful and relaxed day today.

twink going from hope to despair sounds very familiar to me. I hope you are getting more of the hope and less of the despair. Very excited for you. You have to let the trigger get out of your system before you can test, and I believe that 8 days covers that. I got a faint line 5dp5dt. Of course it is sensible to wait until OTD but there was no way I was waiting that long!! Let us know how you get on.

wim are you any clearer on whether you've got more stimming to do, or whether it is trigger time for you?

Welcome to shell macfi and pip

Hi juicy! I hope you are not too worried about the nausea lessening. Your hcg levels rose fast and early, so they have probably just settled down a bit now. All will be fine. I think we have to move on from here. I know I am not ready for the IVF worriers thread, as I don't and won't feel confident about the pregnancy until I've got through the 12 week (mental) barrier. Do you think we should start 4 - 12 weeks preggers thread? I say 'we' - I sort of mean you.. I'm just not the sort of person to start a thread

Morning all. A night of fretting in the wim house - apparently I have one follie at 18, 2 at 15 and others all a bit tiddly still. So they decided to stim again last night - which involved a mad chase around to get all the drugs we'd run out of etc. but they aren't rescanning/doing more bloods - apparently there's no point.... So am now waiting a call to tell me what time to trigger. Is there much hope for the small ones? Why am I so slow to respond? Am I going to have been on massive stim doses for very little gain? I feel they aren't telling me enough - but I can't really imagine they know all the answers either. Time will tell.
choco excellent news - so pleased for you, How did et go?
To the preg ones - don't leave us, you give me hope! Something which is much needed here!

Motor I feel the same. I think an early pregnancy thread would be perfect! Juicy? Maybe?

Wimwom I willl definitely still hang around here though. X

twinkle i tested 3 days past transfer (8 days past ec) to check trigger had left, then tested at 6 days past et to get a very faint line. 7 days on a digi gave a positive.

choc i was actually popping in to get an update on you - phew, well done those eggies! I take it you have gone fornet today? Good luck and rest up afterwards.

motor execellent idea, won't start one myself for same reason (what if its a shit title and no one joins .

But I am struggling with feeling its all going wrong, I've no symptoms and my test was a bit fainter yesterday (I know, I know). I feel like its too good to be true and oh.... Its not fair to fret on here I think.

Plus I think we may be colonising the thread so the newbies don't feel they can chat properly. I hope you don't feel that way newbies, we do have experience of IVF you know

Howdy to everyone else, dr, stimming, ec'ing, et'ing, pupo'ing, or waiting (whether thats 2ww or for a decision on what to do next, or on another cycle)

Oy you preggers lot! Please don't feel you have to leave here, do pop back from time to time. Your experience and knowledge is vital, especially to us first timers!

I'm waiting for FET, me and DP have decided we're not going to tell RL friends and family when we're having it done. I mean, I never told anyone that I'd had sex when we were TTC the old fashioned way! Think in RL we'd rather keep things under our hat until we're sure we've got good news to share. Does that make sense?

Cupcakes Down regging is fine. I currently have AF visiting, and she is proving to be a little more uncomfortable than usual, but other than that its business as usual really.

As for our 'story' I'm 38 and DH is 40. We starting TTCing about 2 years ago, went to GP after 6 months, HSG was bad, Lap and Dye showed that I have one blocked and one sluggish tube. However DH's SA showed results so good that the consultant went off to show someone else. My AH result (30) made the IVF consultant swear in shock. So we are fairly hopeful that IVF is going to do the trick. We are very lucky here in Suffolk in that we get 3 full rounds and 3 frozen on the NHS.
My problem is weight. My BMI is hovering around 30 and I have to be weighed on saturday when I go for my baseline.
Everyone knows we are doing this as I can't be bothered to keep it secret.

Hello lovely ladies,

life sorry you're having a wobble, it's hard to keep the faith isn't it? No platitudes, but symptoms will come and go and tests have different dye concentrations No worries about fretting on here, not that I want you to fret, but we are always here to listen

wim (great name btw) what day of stims are you on? I did my final stim with the trigger on day 13 and the scan that day showed there would probably be 3 or 4 eggs, which there were. I am a slow responder too and the small ones can catch up, yes. It is hard to put all of your trust into the clinic, but I guess we have to go with that as they know their stuff.

nook how are you doing?

motor thanks for checking in on me, how are you doing? How many weeks are you now?

brooker I'm really glad you had a great night out. How are you doing?

cupcakes glad you're feeling better today and that you don't need to worry about your leg anymore. How are the injections going?

twinks hang on in there with the testing, are you going mad symptom spotting? Are you living life as normal now or still taking things easy?

fab are the injections still going ok?

pipbin welcome, I think I remember you from before.

tame how's everything with you today?

juicy how are your symptoms today? Looking forward to some vomit tales

nomaybe how are you feeling? I did a bit of shopping yesterday as a welcome distraction and then pottered in the garden

Hello to shellster and nobeer

and anyone I've forgotten, hello flowers

Back from the clinic now and all good. God that was a scary 24 hours, I didn't ask the embryologist yesterday about our chances, but he said today that there was a 50/50 chance of them having divided as they had by today. Chilling now and thanking my lucky stars, thanks so much for all the hugs, prayers and hand holds(and the toe hold fab, that did make me laugh). You really are a bloody amazing bunch [emotional]

I'm so late to the party!!

Chocco this has made. My. Day. Brilliant news, bloody amazing. I hope transfer goes smoothly x

Cups so pleased you're doing better.

Twinks how are you feeling lovely? The wait is excruciating. But you'll get there x

Nook I'm up for a new Fred. But I'm staying here with you lovely lot too x

Motor I think the worrying is only natural. Every twinge, every minute you feel ok.... We are here for hand holding though x

Nobeer any date yet for transfer? Some peoe just cope better when thy don't have to explain things to people. We told some but have kept a lot of the timings to ourselves so we weren't plagued by constant questions

Hello to everyone else I have forgotten!! Hope you're all having a lovely Sunday x

On, wim, I forgot you! Follicles can have sudden growth spurts All the time. Hope that call comes soon

Well, nook fish maybe juicy - we may be a small group to start with, but I say we start a thread. I've no idea how to do it, and like fish imagine that if I did it it would be shit so no one would join. Anyone else?

nobeer I think you are being very sensible. I rather regret the number of people who we (well, me mainly) told about IVF. Now, of course they all know I am pregnant, because you can't then not tell people the outcome when they ask. In a non-IVF world, I would not be telling people until we safe past the 12 week mark. Trouble is, it is hard to not share such a big life event (IVF) with people close to you. It is different from just getting pregnant naturally - you are right, you wouldnt share every shag you had with others! I haven't told anybody who isn't close friend or family, but still.

fish are you using the same brand of test, and testing with first morning urine? That's the only way you can track progress with HPTs. I think I am a week or so ahead of you, and I have very few symptoms, so don't worry. I'm sure you'll be fine.x

wim I don't think I can recall anybody on this thread who didn't fret about the number and size of follies, only to be pleasantly surprised on ET day. Try to just go with it, because worrying isn't going to change the outcome. Fingers crossed for you. X