Hi everyone. Back from a wet and wild camping trip and there has been so much chat to catch up on! So from the bits I have managed to read (and sorry for the essay!):
Tame sorry to hear about your wobble over borrowing money- that must be really hard. I too struggle with the concept of spending this much money with no certainty of getting anything in return.
Llw and Shell good luck with EC, and Lemon with ET. It seems we haven't had much active cycling going on recently, and let's hope for some good news for a change!
Res belated happy birthday and sorry to hear it was such a tough one. Indeed I do hope the doom and gloom has lifted a bit for many of you.
Going back a bit, but I must chip in a bit on the review/PGD discussion. Twinks you are right that PGD and the embryoscope are linked- when Care did their trials they linked specific embryo development stages (monitored within the embryoscope) to the chance of it being chromasomally normal, which was checked by PGD. They now use a model which gives them probabilities of an embryo being normal based on the time it took to get to certain stages. We used the embryoscope and the one I had replaced (and the other 2 frosties) were in the top category- about 67% chance of being normal. (There are links to the 2 papers they wrote on this on the Care website under Care Maps if anyone wants to read more- I am clueless about posting links on my iPad!)
However, being genetically normal is only 1 thing that can affect the chance of implantation and avoiding miscarriage. The more I read the more convinced I am that immune issues are at least as important. I would not spend the money on PGD unless I was trying to avoid a specific problem e.g. Inherited genetic abnormalities. Sorry Nobeer if that sounds harsh, but I would certainly ask more about why your doctor wants to go down this route.
Life I think your questions sound great, and yours too Stars. I hope both of your reviews go well. And I would push hard on the miscarriage questions Life- just because current dogma says no investigations until 3 or more does not mean they always occur for no fathomable reason. Iwant thanks for the programme recommendation, I will try and find time to watch it before it disappears off iPlayer!
AFM I have just about stopped bleeding now but as it went on for over a week I think I can justifiably call it a miscarriage. I'm celebrating a small victory today as I got my lovely GP to agree to virtually all of the level 1 immune tests on the NHS! More research last week suggested I should be able to get all the tests done on request at the clinic, even if they think it premature. They are close to £3k all told but doing some via the GP will save nearly £1k! So booked in for bloods on Mon then review next Tues but if we go ahead with level 2 tests it will be about 6 wks for results- sigh. However I feel so much better for taking these steps. Now I just need to find some way of changing how my mind views time so that not doing a FET for at least 3 mths seems quite reasonable 