Harry Potter and the rise of the BESH: Instadiffers, baby dusters and huns will be subject to the spell Evanesco!!.

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If you are you over 30 and have been ttc for over 12 months, are witch like or even better a complete hag and willing to abuse your powers of wizardry to conjure up gin by the bucket load, then fill out the Beshionnaire and join us if you dare in our battle against BESH curse.

Instadiffers and baby dusters will be turned into frogs and used in a potion.

Peskipiksi Pesternomi!!!

Might be worth noting that's for downregging, though - I've not had the stimming how-to yet.

God this feels stressful today. I just realised that I completely forgot to take the low dose aspirin yesterday, to busy stressing about the blummin injections. I'm really panicky and I don't know why, we're doing everything we've been told to do. I've been watching videos and Googling way to much. I think I just need to step away from the internet...

Mmm, soup sounds great. I made Spinach soup last week from some similarly mismatched ingredients, turned out pretty tasty and glow in the dark green. Looks like this week's lunches may be veg rack remenants too. I can't sell it to ROCH for tea though, it aint substantial enough for a main meal in his book.

I know practically nowt about stabbing but I have to alternate my HRT patch left and right to do with absorption so it might have some bearing.

rasp my clinic doesn't have you taking low dose aspirin until after EC, so don't worry. It'll be fine, honestly.

We were told to grab a role of belly fat, but as long as it gets in there, it should do the job.

bugs I'm glad that he redeemed himself.

draf people react differently to the dose anyway, so they are effectively guessing until they start the scans and blood tests, so a few drops is neither here nor there.

bear if the day 21 result doesn't confirm ov, demand another one 7 days after you think you ovulate.

rasp don't worry, it will be fine! The clinics wouldn't leave it to numpties like us if it could go badly wrong via the odd mistake

Would it help to write a list in big felt tip letters of what needs doing when? We have been looking after friends' pets this weekend and if it wasn't all written out I'd have forgotten half of it!

Bloody hell, made a right mess of it again this morning, didn't get all the water into the jar then lost a bit more again trying to get an air bubble out. List is a good idea Fizz. Ill right one tonight.

I do for the same reason but this is all so simple I'd have thought I wouldn't manage to bugger it up so easily. Like Fizz said though, they wouldn't let us lot do it if there was not room for error. I'm assuming its a cumulative affect anyway so if I got a slightly low dose today they'd maybe find that I need an extra stab or something.

Bugger, ill *write one. That was either my phone or lack of caffeine!

Rasp are you able to do everything at the same time, or do you have to stab at a certain time then take aspirin at another? If you can do everything at once you might find you get into a little routine: fill needle, take aspirin, apply ice, alcohol wipe, stab, etc.

Also, I was told to inject into the belly, but that thigh was fine. I was told to alternate sides just to prevent making an area sore. I found that leaning forward slightly helped when grasping a handful of flesh! It's easier/less painful to inject into a handful/pinch of flesh than straight into the stomach I found.

I agree rasp, there is plenty of room for error and you get used to it quickly. A list in the meantime makes the head a lot happier.

Soup is an excellent idea. I need to come up with good healthy food that grows nice womble lining although that never seems to be an issue for my frostie and general autumnal grump.

Oh an I injected in belly and tighs depending mostly on what I was wearing (trousers=belly, dresses=tigh) and it seemed to make no difference. I tended to inject on the right and 10 out of 13 decent follies grew on the left... And I hated it, so if you do, know you're not on your own!

Morning all.

Sorry you are not finding it easy, rasp. It sounds like the vast majority of the drugs are ending up where they should though, so you are doing well. As I said to draf in my last post, they are pretty much guessing at the dose to begin with anyway, so a few drops is not going to make any kind of difference.

I had a bit of a meltdown yesterday. It was so hard spending the weekend seeing KFZK and his brother with his brother's very cute little girl. It coincided with the post-IVF hormone crash too, which didn't help. I drove 100 miles home choking back the tears and making KFZK find the happiest silliest stuff on his ipod to get me through. I nearly killed a few twatty drivers with my bare hands and almost threw the sat nav through the window on the way through London as it kept taking us on stupid routes. And then got home and bawled my eyes out. There was a lot to come out. I had never even had a proper good cry after the mc (I was just numb) or the other failed cycle. Droid arrived in the night, so I think my hormones are starting to level out now. I hope so. I have a headache today after all the crying.

Oh euro I am sorry. Nothing so stabby as seeing what should have been, could have been etc. The day after the def negative from our last IVF we were at my sister's holiday destination with my nephews clambering all over SB. It hurt. We left sooner than we would have done normally. So it is difficult. I think a big cry was overdue. A single mc is cause enough for days of wailing and the two cycles since, especially with the trauma of EC for you, would be enough to knock you sideways. So I hope the hormones behave, because the day of progesterone crash just adds another layer to it all. Huge sorry, handhold, cake and chocolate.

You are entitled to a meltdown Euro, you've been through a lot and it all has to come out one way or another. Hope kFZK provided a solid comforting shoulder to cry into though.

Plan for tomorrow I think is to do aspirin and drugs together, ill do a checklist to run through as I do it in the morning. MATV is a bit freaked out by stabbing in the tummy so ill do it, wasn't so bad in my tummy as I thought it would be. I spoke to the clinic and they said not to panic and see how it's looking on Thursday at my scan. I haven't been using alcohol wipes! FFS I promise I was at the appointment when they told us what to do. I don't remember her saying anything about it. I could TCP it afterwards I suppose

rasp they didn't say anything to us about alcohol wipes, but I just took it on myself to rub some of that antibac handgel stuff over the site before and after. TCP would sting!

Yeah but ill have a lovely TCP smell for the day if I use that. Eau du parfume TCP

Nice...

Classy bird me :)

Isn't cleaning afterwards pointless? I thought the idea was to get your skin clean before you break through it. However, I think I'm right in saying that NHS guidelines don't say medical professionals have to use wipes any more anyway - certainly the last few blood tests I've had the nurse just stabbed my arm without wiping. I use wipes because they got delivered with my needles etc: waste not want not and all that

Sorry you've been feeling shit, euro :( it's entirely understandable that you would - look after yourself.

Lists are good, rasp. I'm very comforted by routine and checking things off, so was v pleased to find a record-keeping sheet in my sheaf of paperwork - makes it much easier to be certain I've done everything! It's not too complex at the minute with just the one stab, but when I'm stabbing twice a day it will be helpful I think.

I don't think I'd cope with two stabs a day! I'm in enough of a pickle as it is. So are we probably agreeing to give Eau du TCP a miss then? Or maybe just a light spritz!

Well, I dunno, you might make a whole new set of friends if you wander around smelling all medicinal

draf afterwards it's just to wipe the blob of blood away. I don't think it matters what you do it with. I just didn't want to be walking around with a smear of blood across my belly!

bugs fertility acu usually focuses on the lower legs, bizarrely, although you might get some in your belly and elsewhere too.

I didn't have any blood yesterday or today although I did have a big blob on the first stab. Perhaps all my blood has dried up!