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!

Res I hope I'll be joining you. Unless my positive attitude pays off, and it happening when I least expect it :-D

I just have no idea when anything's going to happen until we speak to immunologist. I was feeling really impatient and frustrated. Now just feeling nothing in particular, but not in a depressed way :-)

Morning all! (I wrote this last night but the site was off for hours so apols if I've missed anything)

Hi res! Having had a few months break from cycling I've started again this month. ET is due around 25 Feb - I'm having a non medicated FET & it's bizarre not doing anything! It doesn't feel like I'm in the middle of a cycle at all. Having my day 10 scan & bloods tomorrow, and will keep being monitored until I ovulate. I have one solitary slow developing 6 day embie which will be transferred as a day 5 . Then onto the 2ww until early March. If this cycle fails, the current plan is to have a fresh cycle straight after. I could well be joining you March/April.
one sorry to hear you are still feeling so low. Have you had your clinic review yet? It may help you make some decisions, or at least rule some things out. I feel better when I have a plan, whatever it may be. Hope you can move forward soon.
stars Hello lovely . Your comment about all the things you could have done with the money spent on cycling really hit me. It's the uncertainty of it all that makes it so hard. If someone said 'spend £x and do y cycles and you get a baby' at least we could all make more informed decisions about what we can afford and how much we can put ourselves through, rather than just keep hoping for the best. How are doing at the mo? Hugs.
nobeer I'm here! I've not been a very good egg buddy lately . Self preservation & trying to live a normal life & all that. Hope you get the go ahead from your immunologist next week. You're being amazingly patient! Hope you & DP have a fab weekend.
wish good luck for Monday. Hope you are able to carry on with this cycle. I've been there with the cysts - so frustrating. What day of your cycle are you on? I could do with an FET buddy
cwtch how are you're doing with the mentalling? We're here when you test whatever the result.
b4by if the clinic aren't happy with your follie growth, they will usually up your dosage. If you're worried, ask them about it when you have your next scan. I'm sure everything is fine though.
maryp I've lost track - sorry. are you on the 2ww? Hope DS is doing ok. Sounds very scary even if not too serious. I think you did the right thing going to a&e.
turq how are you getting on with the dreaded down regging? Any idea when the stimming starts?
moggle Hi! I don't think we've met? Where are you with your cycle?
Welcome still. Are you due to test soon? Good luck!
Hi val! How's it going with you?

Hope our recent successes are all doing ok. Waves to euro bunny bugs bad

Hi to everyone else. x

Res! Delurking to say I'm still here! Hoping to do a next round in April/may time but it depends on a lit of big factors at the moment - we are just about to but a house and DH's job needs to be nailed down before we can commit to another cost. As we haven't done a round if ivf since August I don't really have much to say apart from sympathise (and in all honestly be jealous - I know crazy right) so I'm just lurking and keeping up until it's my time to delurk. Hugs to everyone for their strength in tough times and congrats to all the BFPs.

Fabbie! I was just thinking of you - I'm just wolfing down a huge slice of the blackberry Bakewell recipe you recommended! Wow! It is so lovely (I've improvised though & used rhubarb instead of blackberries as I had some home grown stuff in the freezer). I'll wing you a slice down
Hope the house move is a nice distraction while you're waiting to cycle again. Be nice to think you could have an ironidiff & dont need to cycle though. How is your mum doing? x

Hi de-lurkers so nice to hear from you. I want to hear of lots more bfp's soon too on here so the pressure is on! Lol. Only joking.

Now you've mentioned recipes, anyone got any simple but yummy recipes that include lentils - think I have green lentils in the cupboard but not really sure what to do with them!

Ooh Brooks I was only thinking about making that one again the other day - good to hear it works with rhubarb as well - it's one if my faves. Would you believe we already have rhubarb growing through this year?

Yes an ironidiff would be marvellous, unlikely but ever the hopeful!! When are you going again?

Mum is....challenging! The less said the better in that one at the moment I'm afraid!

Stars I put lentils in any stew going I always have a few tins of green lentils in the cupboard to boost up a stew or red lentils to pop in a soup. They are wonderful and an excellent way to boost the protein intake during ivf.

I've had my day 10 scan today fabbie. We are doing an FET this month if our one frostie thaws. All looked good - lining thickening as expected (think she said 9mm) & back in Tuesday for further scan. I'm expecting to ovulate around Thursday next week then it's a 5 day wait to thaw our embie. Must say I'm not that optimistic (or engaged) with the cycle, so every positive step will be a bonus. Mum's the word on your mum . I'm missing your domestic goddessness (not a word surely). Need some yummy recipes please. x
stars I'll do my best - promise! But at my age (41 in a few months') & with one over-worked ovary, it's not looking likely . I need whatever Kate Silverton's been having.

Fab. Thanks. I didn't know you could get them in tins! Will stock up. Sorry things with your mum are abit challenging hun.

Brooker, your frostie sounds like my one and only frostie! It was frozen on day 6! Im hoping mine is THE one, so I hope yours is too. Oh and... I'm 42 this year!!!

How can we find out what Kate has been up to?!!!

I'm 42 this year too and don't feel old at all until I talk about fertility and then I feel ancient! I say we hunt Kate down and best her until she tells us her secret!

Beat not best!!

Good luck Brooks - it's sounding positive even if you're not feeling all that engaged - just look at euro - she wasn't and is having her 12 week scan on Monday - she can be our poster girl

Hi Brooker, nice to 'meet' you. I started stimming on Tuesday, got a scan on Monday. First cycle (long protocol ivf). It's been great having everyone's experience to call on here, although would be nice if we didn't have to be on this particular thread... An unmedicated cycle must be strange, do you still have scans?

Hi Brooker down regging is going ok. I quite often have a bit of leakage from the injections though. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. It's the last bit coming outbid he needle. I'm desperately hoping i haven't ov anyway as I've has all the signs. My baseline scan is 25th Feb so I'll find out then. No scans or appointments until then. Always something to worry about with this ivf business isn't there!

Hope your little frostie comes through for you. How nice having an unmedicated cycle.

Still no word from Cwtch that I can see. Hopefully she's just too excited with her BFP to come on here.

Thanks for all your messages about DS. He's on the mend now & alot better thank God

Hi brooker yes am on the 2ww. OTD is next Friday. Was feeling quite positive a few days ago but now have a horrible feeling that it hasn't worked. No symptoms at all

Hi to everyone hope you are all having a good weekend

Yep, agreed fabbie. Always lovely to have longer term egg buddies graduating from here. It gives the rest of us hope.
stars it's very much all or nothing with only the one embie isn't it? I think that's why I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm not feeling negative - just realistic. We effectively have a 50/50 chance of it thawing. I'll be grateful to get to a successful transfer then take it from there. When are you thinking of having your FET cycle? My last fresh cycle was Oct/Nov so I've had a little break to recover (& I needed it).
moggle this thread has been amazing for me. It's got me through the low times & kept me sane when I needed it. The knowledge of the ladies on here is second to none. And you get some good recipes too! (thank you fabbie & tame- if you're still lurking). I've had my first scan today for my cycle (day 10), and I'm due back on Tuesday. There may be one other scan & bloods after that, then it's ET. It's that simple. There was no baseline scan & bloods and no meds AT ALL! They may give me a trigger for ovulation but compared to a fresh cycle it really doesn't feel like I'm cycling at all. I'm not complaining but it does feel strange! Now you've got through the awful DR, the stimming is when the cycle starts to get interesting. All that follie growth from one scan to the next is the best bit for me!
turk I think the clinics allow for a little leakage so as long as it's not too much you should be fine. Mine made a point about getting the air bubbles out by squirting a little out. I was worried about it at first but it's amazing how it all becomes normal very quickly . I'm sure there's no way you can ovulate so try to knock that off the list of worries!
maryp It's good to hear DS is feeling much better . How many embies did you have put back? Symptoms cannot be relied upon but it doesn't stop the menkulling I know. Hugs.

Hello lovely ladies, sorry for my absence I was holding out to test till this morning - our OTD (it was so hard and required much self control, which I'm not very good at, so I needed to step away for a little while!).

The extremely exciting, crazy news is that this morning I tested and had two lines!!! I'm pregnant!!!!!! I can't believe it, it doesn't feel at all real! It's like I've just made it up. We ended up with just two slow developing embryos, one of which went back on day 3. It seemed the odds were a little out of our favour so I was fully expecting it to be negative. I've never seen a positive test before! I'm just keeping everything crossed that it stays lovely and comfy inside me and wants to stick around.

Sorry for this post all about me, I need to catch up with all your news and posts (i'm a little out of the loop), I will do so asap! X

Wow congratulations Cwtch!!!! So happy for you. So you just had the one embryo put in?

Cwatch! Fab news hun

Wannabe you don't necessarily need symptoms, I had none whatsoever til I was about 8 weeks. Hoping it's good news for you next Friday. Exciting!

I saw a scan photo on my Facebook last night which would normally upset me but the person had put the caption "Took 2 and half years but worth waiting for, didn't think you would ever come" on the photo so I was just happy for her. She has a six year old like me.

It's actually amazing how common secondary infertility is. Out of 27 people who I work with, 11 have only one child. Talking to them over the years, at least 8 of those would have liked more but it never happened and ivf wasn't as common in those days. They felt they were lucky to have one so that was their lot so to speak.

Cwtch - that is brilliant news!! Congratulations! And well done for holding out until OTD. I failed miserably on that score!

Turquoise - I know what you mean about the Secondary Infertility. My best pal has been trying for her second for two years now after a miscarriage. I think she might now try IVF. I would recommend it for her now! She is 38 like me and has a four, nearly 5 year old.

AFM, I have no symptoms other than feeling ridiculously tired and eating like a horse. I keep worrying that I haven't yet gone off coffee but trying to remember that it's still such early days. I would actually like to feel a bit more sick for reassurance! Hope everybody is having good Sundays. It's half term for me - hooray! - so am hoping to spend lots of quality time with my DS. The sun is shining in London today so need to get moving and make the most of it!

I know Bugs. I wasn't on Facebook when I found out I was pregnant with our son but I've often thought what i would say if I'm lucky enough to ever get pregnant again.

I think I might just not mention it at all. I still have a friend who has been ttc for ten years and I would hate to hurt her. It must be awful for her, at least I have one. I think they have some adoption news though so hopefully all her dreams are about to come true.

I am sure I posted on this thread yesterday but now can't find it anywhere! Just wanting to join you guys as a place to vent while I undergo my 4th IVF (plus one cancelled cycle). It's all getting a bit tedious and I can't talk to hubby because then he thinks I am just obsessed and this is the reason it isn't happening (despite his sperm being 100% abnormal!?). So would be nice to have a place to vent and get support.

Currently on CD13 and no sign of ovulation. Have taken drugs this cycle in prep for IVF next cycle but now worried it won't go ahead because this cycle is still abnormal and I have not recovered from last IVF. Desperate for a positive OPK soon.