Eggcellent Egg Buddies - a thread for those IVFing in November, December and January

[eurochick]

New thread. Welcome back to all the regulars. Welcome to all the newbies - please come and join us if you are IVFing or thinking about. The regulars are a mine of information at this point!

Do you realise that this will take us through a year of egg buddy threads? I believe Karbea started the last one around Xmas time last year for those cycling in 2013 and I immediately jumped on it as I was about to start my first cycle in January. Blimey.

Oh Fab - so true - I wish that I could reclaim the naively of DD's creation. Just a single HP test at 6 weeks, a scan at 10 cause DH insisted which caused no anxiety in advance (of course, there'd be a heartbeat), no other tests (it'll be fine - why bother?). She was and is but that innocence is gone . I envy first timers for that reason.

Yay - Euro - that is brilliant and indicates a normal pregnancy. As long as it keeps doubling, all is well. Am pleased for you.

Resipsa, as Marypops says, a little blood is very common, particularly if you have an irritated cervix. When I was pregnant with my unplanned DS and didn't realise I was pregnant, I even had what I thought was a light period for four days. Then also had bleeding again at 13 weeks. In both cases all was fine. Am really hopeful for you!
Fingers crossed for the scan xxx

Sorry - I've missed a heck of a lot of posts! I typed that 3 hours ago and it's only just posted. Hang in there Res!

MaryP I'm really sorry its a bfn. It's a bloody shitter, there's no other way to put it x

Euro great news about your beta levels. I know your still being cautious but tentative congratulations anyway!

Res I'm so pleased to hear about your BFP too. I'm keeping everything crossed for you. We all know spotting is common in pregnancy but I know how terrifying it is at this stage. I really envy the innocence of those that get pg easily. I know for all of us it will be an anxious 9 months when we do get our BFPs.

Fish oh god it sounds so awful having all these pg symptoms. It's so so cruel. I really hope they get your op sorted out soon x

Sorry for such a short post but I can barely keep my eyes open. Working in A&E in winter is never good. My ears are ringing from all the screaming kids

Res and euro - wishing you a tentative congratulations and fingers crossed everything works out well for you both.

Lovely fish, I'm so sorry xx

I too also wish for that naïvety!

res I'm spotting today (again). I remember that I did the day after the blood test last time. There's nothing I can do, so I just have to hope it is not a bad sign. If I lose this one the timing will be awful. I found the due date from my previous mc really hard to deal with. And I've just realised this one is our wedding anniversary.

How is everyone else doing?

I have an easy day ahead, working from home, while I wait it for our turkey to be delivered. :)

Hello all, sorry not been around much. It's the end of term now, and I'm getting ready to go home to see the family for a week and enjoy a bit of UK festive cheer. I think I fancy going to a carol service but not sure how DP (staunch atheist) would feel about me dragging him to a church!

MaryP so sorry, lovely. But you sound upbeat about moving on, so I do admire you for that!

Euro I've still got my fingers crossed for you! Hopefully spotting is just an irritated annoyed? cervix!

res tentative congrats to you too! Just tell the spotting to fuck off.

Fish thanks for popping back to update on what's happening. My heart goes out to you.

As for me, I've now had all my bloods done, only 5 test tubes yesterday. I've come down with a crappy cold and my period is due on Sunday. Could this be a sign of a crappy autoimmune system? Is it fighting a possible embryo but letting me catch another flaming cold? Or am I reading into things too much? Highly likely. I am now a bit nervous of my results and what the possible implications could be. This is typical behaviour from me, worrying about the unknown. I'm a pointless worrier!

If I don't get on MN over the hols, I'd like to wish ALL of you a very Happy Christmas, even though I appreciate it's going to be a very difficult and sad time of year for some. I've been on this thread since around May I think, and the support is just amazing. I really hope that 2014 is going to be OUR year. Lots of soppy love to you all.

Hey Nobeer you can come to a carol service with my sis and me - we, plus our DH's, are all staunch atheists but sis and I grew up in a very religious home and still enjoy a good singalong to the carols the men don't so we leave them at home!

As for the immune/cold thing - my understanding was that if you rarely get ill but are allergic to things that's more of a sign of an over active auto-immune system so if that's true then you're all good apart from having a cold when you're on holibobs of course as that's bad . Hope you feel better soon lovely xx

Fab - that's exactly what I want! A good old singsong! I'll see you there . I am allergic to a lot of things, but I also get a lot of colds too. That might just be one of the perils of teaching, and it's that time of year I guess. Aaargh! Got to stop reading into everything!! I'm not that ill, just snotty and got a sore throat. But I'll be able to have lemsip and ribena very soon! Oh the things you miss when living abroad!

nobeer I'm an atheist and wouldn't be keen on a carol service. I would go and sing carols outside a church though. There was a session in the grounds of our local museum a couple of weeks back and that was lovely. I used to be in a choir and miss a good sing song (and can overlook the religious words in favour of the nice choons and nostalgia). Maybe you can find something like that near where you will be? Enjoy your hols!

Good point euro! I'll have a google and see what I can find.

I've just reread that and it sounds like I stand outside the church doors yowling away on my own. That wasn't quite what I meant.

Hi Euro - me too but still feel 'different' and no pain. God, it's a head!

Euro, me too - I miss the choir thing - I was in my school chapel choir and I used to love it but haven't ever got around to joining a choir as an adult. Do you ever watch the Gareth Malone stuff? It's so inspirational and apparently people in choirs have a higher level of general happiness than most people - maybe we should get Gareth to do an ivfers choir!

Fab do join a choir! If I was in the UK I'd definitely be up for joining an IVFers choir!!

Ahhhh, I cried today when our school choir sang at the end of term assembly today! And I NEVER usually cry at work. Definitely the drugs, although they were very good. I felt quite smug today since 90% of the staff were horribly hungover and shamefaced. I'm usually one of them, but not today. I also found out that one of my colleagues had IVF and it worked first time for her. And she was 38 too. Am feeling more positive for some reason. Let's hope it continues. I now have to write yet another 'congratulations on your pregnancy' e mail to yet another pal who got pregnant on first attempt..., x

fab I've watched a bit of it and it is pretty inspirational. The sing-a-long carols I went to a few weeks back got me thinking that maybe I should look for a choir to join.

badhair you sound like you're handling it well. I find it hard to be gracious.

How's everyone today? We're off on the Santa train. Yippee,

Sounds like fun, res!

I'm ok. Sitting in waiting for the bloody turkey that was supposed to be delivered yesterday! Grrrr.

Had blood drawn for my second HCG test so now just waiting for the call with the result.

Euro - all crossed for you.

Everything crossed here too, Euro. I am good at being gracious via e mail, even though I feel evil for thinking 'Huh - you weren't even sure you really wanted another child, yet it still happened first time.' Grrrrrr. Mind you, I got pregnant with my DS from getting drunk, staying at my boyfriend's house and not taking my pill, so I guess I have been one of the lucky ones. I also got pregnant with my first Ectopic without trying. Part of the reason that it wasn't spotted is because I had no idea of dates, so when they didn't see anything at the early scan, Everybody just thought I must have been less pregnant than I thought. I then ruptured 8 days later at 8 or 9 weeks. Sigh. On another note, did anybody find their eyesight was affected by DRing? My eys are super-sensitive and I feel much more blind than usual.

Badhair I don't remember that from downregging. The drugs are frickin evil though, so I wouldn't be surprised. It might be worth a call to the clinic in case it is blood pressure related?

AFM, I have nothing to report. The clinic didn't bloody well call! And when I called them a couple of hours ago, I got a recorded message saying the clinic closed at 2pm. FUCKERS. HOW MUCH AM I FUCKING PAYING YOU? Harrumph.

Oh fooking hell euro, I've been popping on all day to see if there was any news. That is shocking. Has your spotting eased off now? Seething on your behalf.

badhair my eyes did go really dry and possibly a bit blurred. I had to get some drops. How much longer are you DRing for?

maryp so sorry to hear about your bfn

res congrats, how are you feeling? How pg are you now?

Sorry haven't been on here much, I'm always lurking though.

Evening all!

Sorry not been around much lately

maryp so sorry to hear of your bfn. Hope you can enjoy the Christmas break & be fighting fit for your fresh cycle in the new year x

resp congrats on your bfp! Sorry to hear about the bleeding & worry but as others have said, it may not mean the end. Are you able to get an early scan before the 30th?

euro your hcg level sounds good to me. I am really pissed on your behalf today. If only the clinics knew what a headfuck all of this is they wouldn't be so inconsiderate.

fish I'm so sorry to hear of your awful ongoing suffering. Hugs.

Hi to everyone else . We have a plan for the new year & both me & DH are happy. I'm having another scratch at the end of Jan & having a drug free FET early Feb. If that fails, we will have one more fresh cycle in March before probably giving up.

Will post more tom/Monday. Night all. xx

Glad you feel happier after your review, Brooker. We all hope your FET next year will be the one for you. Euro - I would be fuming! It's the kind of thing my clinic would do. I can't even get through to mine on the phone. Fuckers!

I'm just over a week into DRing, Chocs and have a blood test on 31st and then a scan on 2nd. Am assuming that if all is well, they'll start stimming me after that. I feel slightly concerned that my period hadn't arrived yet. They told me it should start on Day 28, which was Friday. I'm usually a on a 30 or 31 day cycle, but they said that wouldn't matter. I hope the bloody drugs are working. I feel too shit for them not to be. I went to a Christmas gathering yesterday and ended up sitting next to a bloke who was looking after his 3 month old. He had three kids and was telling me that they planned to only have a short age gap between his first two kids, but that they decided they wanted a four year gap after that. He had 3 boys and was telling me they would have another one in 18 months because they both wanted a girl. I bit my tongue, but felt like telling him how lucky he was to have 3 boys and to be able to successfully 'plan' when they wanted them. My pal's sister was sitting there with her little one, whom she tried to have for 5 years. We say there mutely, the pair of us, but you could tell we were thinking 'you lucky bastard'! Anyway, hope you are all okay, ladies. Sorry again about your BFN, Marypops and thinking of you lots, too Fish xxx