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.

Thanks Choc and please don't worry for yourself as a result of it! To have lost a DE pregnancy to (probable) chromosomal abnormality just makes us very, very, very f***g unlucky :-(

I was stressing last night that there was a lining issue which caused the loss as at my scan yesterday it was only 4cm and I haven't bled much at all. They were concerned about my lining on the day of the donor's last pre-EC scan but subsequently upped the medication and said it was fine at 7.4cm on EC day. I guess it would have been 8cm+ by ET day. And as I've got to 10 weeks + twice before, this seems less likely as the cause of the loss than a chromosomal abnormality.

Hope everyone had a better night than us last night!

Morning! Happy New Year!!!

euro hope you NYE was ok, hope the dread is just in your head

bug I have gone a tad batshit at DH many times over booze, it drives me loopy!

Just wondered if Prammy was someone who used to come on the berry thread, did she go overseas for ivf?

tame we haven't met but wishing you luck for Easter

fab so sorry your mum is so poorly.

Hugs res

Bye bye 2013, you have been very disappointing, bring on BFPs and babies in 2014!!!

Oh no fab. That's so unfair after all you have been through recently.

Tame that sounds like a very positive decision.

I had a dreadful night - woken up by belated HNY texts coming through at 3am and some twat letting off fireworks at 4am. I'd like to go out for a walk today, but it is really bloody miserable here.

Fab, Euro has snapped me out of self-absorption. Really sorry to read about your mum's problems (and yours), especially after the year you've had. Wish I had some sage advice but I don't. My DM was diagnosed with breast cancer in Nov 12 which needed the full range of treatment (surgery, chemo, radio, more surgery and not vote yet) which my sis and I found tricky enough to manage. When the problems are non-physical, it must be really tough. Hope things improve, if only a little.

For vote (below), read over. Bloody auto correct.

Tried to post last night but the site wouldn't let me.

Res, I'm so sorry to hear your news and wish you all the best for the FET cycle.

I wish all you lovely ladies all the best of luck for 2014.

Waves to tame - long time no see.

PS - bunny, prammy used to be on the berries thread. She was viviennewestwould and gailplattschin on there (as well as a few other names!)

Twink, ah I thought it might be her, glad she is doing well

I've been missing out on lots in the thread, did I just ready that you have a BFP Euro? So pleased for you, I know that this has been a long journey, I remember you from here when I first started trying.

Yes Prammy went to the Czech Republic to have her IVF.

Hi everyone sorry I've barely participated! I hope everyone had a good NYE?

resp I'm really really sorry for your news!

euro congratulations it's nice to come back to some good news, how are u feeling? I think the dread your feeling is totally normal,

Well I don't have any happiness to share ?? so i had app with the dr mon and he said I have HSS which explains a lot! Pretty shit time of it tbh, bk and forth the hospital and they did not tell me once I had this, I was struggling with breathing not as in gasping for breath, more felt tight and I was given bloody gaviscon! (Can't spell it sorry..the stuff for heart burn) so my dr got a good telling off the absaloute tool! Too many problems!
so the fluids they found on my last month scan has raised concerns, he said I'm super fertile... Eh? Never heard this before, anyway he said I had that many folicles the nurses couldn't be bothered marking anymore which makes him wonder if I'm releasing this fluids often resulting in either being toxic and damaging my chances of pregnancy, or it's a poss if I do manage to get a little egg fertilised that the fluids is stopping it attaching, so I have to have a scan in February ...providing there's no fluids my transfer will take place however if there is fluids again he said we will 'talk' about the possibility of removing my tubes ?????? it's insane! If it comes to that I just don't see a way forward if the transfer doesn't work we have 1 shot left, we just couldn't Afford more...if they take my tubes there's not Evan a glimmer of hope of one day I'll do it all myself! Eugh! feels like we take one step closer a billion back, my NYE ended up in me completely abusing alcohol (I don't drink often) and pretty much having a breakdown crying hysterically to the other half! ?? new I shouldn't have gone out! Luckily this was when I got home so didn't completely humiliate myself! Not feeling optimistic about 2014! Sorry for ranting guys!

I hope everyone else is having a better start to the year.

Not sure what all the numbers randomly in my rants all about lol they are suppose to be faces!

res how are you doing today?

pip I got a BFP from IVF#4 in December. I have my first scan at what should be 6+1 on Friday. I feel sure that all is not as it should be and it won't be good news. I can't stop thinking it will be a repeat of the first cycle when the scan at 6+1 showed that the embryo was a few days behind where it should be and it went downhill from there.

optimistic it sounds like you have had terrible treatment. No wonder you felt the need to get plastered last night. I'm dying for a drink. If this is all for nought, I'm cracking open the wine on Friday night and drinking my whole Xmas allocation!

euro stay positive, I will have my fingers and toes crossed everything is just how it should be!! When is your scan?

Sorry euro having a moment here! I will have my fingers and toes crossed for you for Friday!

Hi Euro. Not so good here TBH. They are right in my case that the drugs delay bleeding. Full on now but hope that means end in sight and it's a relief in some ways. Sigh. Wish I could go back to 2008 before all this TTC agony began.

Opt - the booze never quite lives up to its billing, does it??? I thought last night, well, at least I can have a drink for the first time since Oct. Out came the bubbly. It was rank (thanks Waitrose). What a let down!

Hi everyone, quick question, just done my second jab and feel like I have an odd taste at the back of my throat. Anybody else had this or am I imagining it?

I don't remember any odd taste - sorry. In fact, I had no side effects when DRing and felt great. Think that put me in very small minority!

Res nope! I feel worse! Damn you alcohol, I think next NYE i will stay home with lots a chocy and a cuppa instead! How are you feeling?

Hi bunny, I did. try drinking much more water may have been a coinsadence but it did seemed to work.

Opt - feel shit but so, so, so lucky to have DD(2).

res sending big cuddles your way! What's DD? (Sorry).

I don't remember a funny taste either but I felt so shit I don't remember much other than feeling awful

res the drugs delay bleeding for me too. I'm very sensitive to hormonal drugs! I found I felt better mentally once the bleeding was underway. It was the limbo with the scans and the waiting that I found hardest. The red tide was almost a relief in my case because it meant the nightmare was on its way to being over. Hugs for you. I bet you will give your daughter an extra tight hug tonight. x

What time is your scan on Friday euro? I've got my baseline scan on Friday too. I'm worried that they are going to say something is wrong or I'm too fat. I'll be thinking of you, your scan worries are much greater.

Opt - my 2 year old daughter. It's tricky to deal with this type of thing with a small child around (limited time to think, constant reminders of what you've lost) but not to have her around is unthinkable.