Eggcellent egg buddies - a thread for all those IVFing in January, February and March - Volume 2

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Hi all. As promised, a sparkling new thread that is going to see a lot of action in the next few weeks, I hope!

Stars by the time that happens your ds will probably have a family of his own!
Even with a sibling there are no guarantees. I know plenty of siblings who don't even live in the same country. My friend fell out badly with her sister after her parents had both died over the money. And I don't believe that is uncommon.
I have a ridiculously small family - no cousins, only one aunt who never married and my mom and dad. I don't feel lonely though and actually I really like being an only one.

Feels wrong popping in with my news when some buddies are low.

Scan was good thanks, saw one tiny flashing blob on the screen, quite amazing that you can see anything at this stage.

Sending hugs and and to all.

Congratulations bunny x x

Bug I still think you may be in with a very good chance. Waiting until Wednesday is a killer though x x only one more day!

I did the online Ivf predictor test. It's meant to be very accurate. It gave me 40% for the first cycle but now we have had a failed cycle has dropped to 28%! Who knew one failed cycle affected subsequent chances?! I thought it was pretty much the same chance each cycle until four cycles and then it tails off gradually.
Going to talk to the nurses on Friday about what we would do differently for any future cycles. I suspect starting me on a higher dose of menopur since I was on the lowest possible dose, they went in carefully because of the diabetes. I will not do long protocol though, even though dh thinks we should. I think that is my line. If they say it's a waste of money to try short again then I guess we just won't try again. I got 9 eggs on short but I don't know if different protocols give different egg quality results? Dh thinks we should be aiming for about 20 eggs next time

Bunnie, very happy for you. And you definitely should be sharing your news with us, but thank you for being sensitive to us bluesy ones!

One I know that! I have a sibling who I have no contact with anymore. I think that's why it's eve more important to me. Do you have no parents the either? I have my dh and DS and they mean the works to me, but I have no one to share them with and that feels sad and I feel lonely. I have lots of amazing friends who are like family, but ultimately they go off to all their families at Christmas etc and I am envious of that I guess. I know these are my feelings and would t necessarily be my DS's feelings, but I worry about it. I wanted 4 kids when I was younger. Oh the irony!

Crikey bugs what a rollercoaster you are on, fingers crossed this is good news and the wait till weds flies by x

Congrats Bugs!

And congrats to you too Bunny - so pleased you saw the heartbeat!

Sorry to hear people are feeling so low today. I feel bad reporting good news when some if you are feeling down but my blood test was fine today - 5439 - and I have a scan in 22 days time. Am v relieved, but will still stress out until then! X

So happy for you Bugs!!!!! Wow, we told you it sounded good!

Bunny, glad the scan went well. It's amazing. I'll never forget it. Hope I can experience it again.

Bad, so pleased for you too.

I'm continuing with my IVF obsessive googling and am going to add baby aspirin and acupuncture for H as well as me (he has low count) to my campaign. Just been told my H's gran that she's giving us £3k as well so if we need another cycle we can have it.

Still haven't said congrats to my SIL. I know what you mean Res but it's early days and I just can't make myself happy for them when she herself isn't happy about it.

Great news bad!!! Don't feel bad you deserve this hun.

Bugs, how funny, didn't you just say you weren't testing again til Wednesdays blood tests hee hee! Fab news hun. Clear blue defo half as sensitive than first response. You must have a good amount of hcg in your system hun

Oh god! Just saw the clear blue advert!! It's sooooo corny! And annoying!!

Nothing like seeing the words there though instead of trying to interpret a line.

Thanks guys! I must admit, I am excited and trying to be optimistic about this working out. My sis was really pleased for me, as were 3 of my best pals, although my mum's reaction was pretty underwhelming. Grrrrrrr. I wish my Dad was alive so could tell him instead.

Am now so tired, am off to sleep. Night all xxx

Night bad!

Bugs, a 2ww girls gotta do what she's gotta do. Bet you feel better now?

Thanks ladies.

bad ace news, if you wanna discuss symptoms you know where we are

Bad !!!' This is just great news huge congrats!

Bugs!! Also fantastic!!

Oh bad and bugs that's so exciting! I'm so envious but so happy for you!

Just a quick question which you may not be able to answer but her goes...

tmi alert For as long as I can remember I've had brown blood for around 3/4 days before my period, two days of red blood, and then another 3/4 days of brown blood. I always knew that my period was on its way when I was getting the brown.
This month I had a tiny amount of brown blood then 3 days of full bleeding which has now stopped with no brown blood. The only thing I've done differently is have the scratch. I've always thought the brown blood the reason why ivf hasn't worked because it's odd that I have it every month.

Has anyone had any experience of this? Could it mean I'm flushed out of all the old blood? Is it good or bad news? Sorry for the random question x

I've just read that uterine polyps can cause brown blood. Maybe the scratch got rid of them?

I don't know anything about brown blood wishwash. Sorry. If your symptoms are different though that must be a good thing. Are you going through ivf now? I can't keep tracking everyone. Those signatures you get on fertility friends would be handy on this thread so we know everyone's history.

On another note, my acupuncturist told me last night that heroin addicts have high fertility rates, probably because they are so relaxed. I have to say i do see a lot of heroin addicts at work who have had multiple babies. So maybe it's true. I'm trying hard to relax now, might pass on the heroin though.

Track of not tracking. That sounded weird.

hi all I don't know if any of you remember me back from the first gee egg buddies threads, but motor said there was a run of bfps so I came for a look! my ivf babu girl is 13 weeks and currently asleep on my chest

euro!!! I'm so pleased for you. gosh nearly 12 weeks that's fantastic. I assume you're in denial as usual but that's just great.

congratulations to twinks Bunny and others too. I hope you have wonderful stress free pregnancies stress free yeah right!

waves to valinna x

bunny that's brilliant news.

bugs hang on in there. I had really bad cramps this time - they woke me up.

one your husband seems pretty ill informed. More does not always mean better. It is about quality as well. And with your diabetes as a complicating factor, pumping your body full of drugs might be counterproductive. And after all, it is you that has to go through it.

wish I thought brown blood was just slower (and therefore older by the time you see it). My period starts off brown for an hour or so, then lots of red and then turns brown as it starts to tail off. I thought that pattern was pretty normal. My period after the scratch was long and painful - I had more days of brown at the end than normal.

keep I am certainly in denial. Aw a lovely girl. I'm so happy for you. Congratulations.