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Hello Val! Great, you're off again. You'll have to race to catch up with me and Nobeer!

PS why do the very words 'clamp', 'scratch' and 'cervix' make me cross my legs very, very tightly?!?

For very good reasons Res!!

Where abouts are you and Nobeer with your FETs??

We all know that 'race' and anything to do with IVF are not commonly associated with me!! I reckon I will be looking at transfer w/c 14th April.

Good luck time - you have done fantastically to get so far!! Who needs a cervix anyway

Good luck time. It sounds (from another thread) that your surgeon is very competent. Have you got some boxsets in/netflix subscription for your month off?

Val - scan booked for 1pm (hmm, running late) then I'll let you know!

Bloody body! Measured at 5.5 so shrinking. Waiting for nurse but going to be cancelled, I suspect .

Cancelled. I could weep but I'm on a bus so won't.

Oh no res. I'm so sorry I've got some kind of UTI so mine might be too. Got an appointment later this afternoon so will let you know. Have they told you why it was shrinking? Hope you get some answers soon.

Oh res

Cold comfort but I have been there. And it's shit. But they can tweat the meds for next time. And they picked it up now so no embryos were 'wasted' on shitty lining.

What meds were you on?

Res so sorry but vanilla is right that at least you didn't waste embryos. It's better they are thorough.

I'm still in 2ww. I had a pm from a girl on another forum which wasn't nasty but she was basically saying how many great embryos she had and her ivf still wasn't successful so I shouldn't hold my breath with my one survivor. Maybe that's true but I can still hope. It's the best chance I've had for years.

FFS Turq there are some questionable people out there Why would you say that?!

I am naturally a glass half (or almost completely ) empty person but I wouldn't rain on other people's optimism!! Just think, you have increased your chances of getting pregnant infinitely from just having a shag!!

Not 'you' (as in Turq), obvs!

What a horrible thing to say to you turq! But knowing the process well enough it is probably just the on-going bitterness of TTC.

I only had 1 little fighter make it to day 5. I was pretty dubious about it too, but s/he is hanging on.

Res, I'm so sorry your cycle has been cancelled. You must feel do disappointed having geared yourself up to it. Hugs. X

Nobeer, hope yours isn't cancelled and they sort out your uti.

Turquoise, some people really are incredible the thing I've learnt about fertility treatment and all of this stuff (I've been around a few years!) is that you just can't predict what might happen. I've seen many bfp's come from 2 or 3 follies/1 or 2 eggs and I've seen many a bfn from lots of eggs, amazing top notch embryos....and there are always twists and turns, some bad, some good. I think you are completely justified to have hope, there's no reason it won't succeed. Hang in there and try and ignore insensitive comments like this.

Xx

Just coming on to send warmest wishes to Res - pm me if you want to. I'm not sure if I can help in any way but I want to! Sending lots of hugs x x

Turq - seriously? Had you ever had contact before? Can't imagine why you'd PM someone in their 2WW with that information...

AFM, they have no idea why the bloody lining can't get beyond 6mm. Never an issue before (3 pregnancies (just 1 baby though) and 1 fresh cycle). Apparently my uterus just looked a bit, well, rubbish generally (no triple layer).

Next time I'll have more estrogen earlier and some Viagra as well. God, if I carry on with the aspirin and steroids too, I'll be rattling.

Feeling v despondent, as if it's all pointless anyway. Got to remember the Tarot (online!) reading my friend did which said that I'd be pushed to my physical and mental limits but wound, in the end, succeed.

Only good thing is that I have been told to use the pessaries for 4/5 days to bring on a bleed then can start again from CD1 so fingers crossed we'll be looking at ET in mid-April...

That twee video of the mcfly bloke has made my mood worse with week.
Piss off with your cutsy baby video. Why does he think anyone cares?! I wonder if his second child will be greeted with such ceremony? It's like they are the first people ever to have a baby.

res I had a cycle cancelled midway through in October. It nearly broke me... my friend said it was the worst he saw me through the whole stupid years of treatment and cancer. It's the pain of hoping that makes you despair so much. It felt like the end of the everything, and I was being told to give up.

In my cycle they woke me up from the EC (which was under a general) and told me while I was still groggy that they were cancelling it as they tried a dummy ET while I under and couldn't find the cervical canal. I couldn't even see the person telling me as I wasn't wearing my glasses and I am blind as a bat, then they just left me there for an hour by myself to stew over it! I think my husband was shocked by what I mess I was when I got back to the room, and then for a good few weeks after. The doctor even told me to give up and start looking at surrogacy, so totally felt like the end of the road. Stupid doctors! Stupid annoying unreliable bodies...

But you'll find a way through it. Give yourself a few days to feel sorry for yourself.

Bloody hell turq! What an unhelpful comment, and I agree with Val, IVF is giving you more of a chance than just shagging!

Res I hope the new drug regime sorts out your lining.

Time that's an appalling way to break that kind of news to a patient. Stupid doctors indeed.

AFM I'm in agony but they seem quite optimistic that I should be ok by the weekend. They're going to ring tomorrow to see how I'm feeling. I blame the dildo cam.

Res - I had 3 FETs cancelled as my lining either broke down or decreased and then I got PG, OK I MCed but that was nothing to do with my lining. Then the past two full IVFs never made it to transfer because the lining broke down. I am petrified the ERPC in August damaged it.

So this time I am on 10mg Progynova (5 pills a day!), 100mg oestrogen patches daily, aspirin, clexane, high dose folic acid and vitamin d. Then if nothing is happening after 5 days Viagra too......

I have also read some interesting stuff about Tamoxifen so if it doesn't look good I am going to ask my consultants thoughts on that too.

Oh and acupuncture.

Nobeer I hope you feel better!

Moon they called their baby Buzz

Nobeer - not you too, I hope.

Thanks everyone for your kind words. I know it's far from the end of the world but think it's brought out some bitterness about my m/c and the thought that I should be nearing 20 weeks by now, not still worrying if it's ever going to happen.

Val - you're a walking Boots on your own !

Time - agree with Nobeer, that was crass patient management.

Hi Moon and Stars (nice combo, you two).

Hey Val, think we'll be 2WW buddies now. If I can force a bleed in 5 days, Day 1 will be 30 March so first scan would be on 10 April so likely ET in week of 14 April too.

(Yeah, I know, racing ahead of myself but it's the only thing that keeps me going).

I know Val - after buzz lightyear apparently

Oh god I have a baby shower next weekend. It might tip me over the edge. I may go on the rampage tearing down banners and popping balloons.

More hugs res it was my due date at the weekend. Cried. A lot.