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chandelierswinging ·
31/01/2016 09:31
Oh banana, that is just THE BEST news!!!! Utterly thrilled for you. That's made my day xx 
bananafish81 ·
31/01/2016 18:43
rosebud so so so excited about your fantastic follies. The menopur has obviously done the trick, hurrah! Hope you’re having a lovely weekend in Brno and enjoy your drug free day today. We’re all here with the pompoms cheering you on for tomorrow. You’re so close, I can feel it!
stealth and all systems go too! Fantastic news about that nice ripe juicy follie, and a cracking lining too - still plenty of time for it to thicken up even more by Tuesday. Good luck with your trigger tomorrow morning. You did bloody well not to throw your cocktail over your friend!
Dunlin terrific news on the tubes - bring on the Clomid!!
chandelier hope you’re feeling a bit less ropey and prawn isn’t giving you too much grief (or at least that the anti emetics are helping to keep things somewhat bearable)
elle nice work on the SMEP, hope you’ve got an ice pack for your bits chilling in preparation 
oranges hope you’re doing ok there
amy welcome to the thread - it’s a cracking bunch of women here
village I would def go for the Clomid, and get confirmation of ov with a progesterone blood test (ideally they’d monitor you with follicle tracking scans too, so you’ll have a good idea of what’s going on in there!)
roxy So pleased you’re getting properly checked out with a monitoring cycle - they sound incredibly thorough! I’ve heard of people travelling to Belgium specifically for fertility treatment, so have only ever heard good things.
feefee re: the scratch, it is a tough one, because part of me thinks why don’t they just throw the kitchen sink at the first cycle so you don’t have to wait for failed implantation to try additional things! But had a good talk with my consultant about this, and he said additional interventions if they weren’t indicated could do more harm than good. In my case he said a scratch could def do more harm than good, and similarly wouldn’t treat empirically for possible immune issues with no good indication for implantation failure (didn’t want to put me on steroids / intralipids / clexane / aspirin for the sake of it). It’s a tough one because I kept thinking ‘I don’t want to go shoulda woulda coulda’ but if the Dr was telling me not to pay him for extra procedures then it was prob not in my best interests!
isit thank you so much!
So I tested on my own, as it was supposed to be a BFN practice run so that on OTD I was prepared for seeing a negative. I wasn’t expecting the line to pop up at all, let alone so bloody quickly!!
DH said I was naughty but he would have done exactly the same thing 
He thinks we should wait till OTD to tell the Dr, so we don’t look like naughty patients; although a friend who had her embryo transfer on Sat asked the Dr (same Dr as stealth and I are both seeing) about testing early and he winked - so I think he prob does expect you to test early, and just makes the date really conservative to allow some buffer if you do!
So I’m tempted to email tomorrow, and see if he wants me to come in for a beta test. Hope our little duracell (cos it’s AA grade!) blasto has got its crampons and spidey suckers and is holding on tight!
I find it utterly mind boggling that we got to see a potential future child on the big screen at only 5 days post conception!!
sundayraspberry ·
31/01/2016 19:56
Just wanted to offer banana my tentative congratulations too! Lovely to check in and see some brill news. Good luck to rosebud and stealth too for the coming week, rooting for you and your follies
RoseBud2016 ·
01/02/2016 10:56
Stealth I'm sorry but your 'friends' sound like idiots! I know they were probably only messing around and trying to be funny but that shit really isn't on! I hope one day you feel able to talk to them about your ttc journey and they will see the error of their ways. Hugs.
Congrats on taking your trigger shot! The countdown is well and truly on for you!!! Exciting times! Xxx
Itis! Are you in Brno? Or the Czech Republic? Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick? Your work sounds so glam; always going on little trips here, there and everywhere. What is it that you do? How are things going with you at the mo my lovely? Xxx
Elle I know that problem only to well! Had similar months with DH cos he was feeling the pressure. In the end we compromised and he agreed that if he was finding the pressure of frequent DTD too much during SMEP then he would provide me a sample in a pot at some point that day instead, and I would self inseminate! It actually worked quite well and on occasions it had us in hysterics! Could this approach be worth a try? Hope your ok x
AFM- I'm back in my hotel bed after a morning in the clinic. I was really nervous about the general anaesthetic and either not waking up at all, or waking up to no/few eggs.
But the process was actually very quick and calm. I had this funny feeling in my brain as they were giving me the anaesthetic and then the next thing I was waking up in our clinic room with DH next to me, apparently I kept saying that I was having a lovely sleep! I thought I was in my hotel room!
The procedure itself took no longer than 20 minutes and once I was awake, DH had to go and give his sample. No problems there as in his words his "balls were ready to burst" after 5 days of abstinence!
Then the consultant came in to say all was good and they had managed to retrieve .............. 12 eggs! So relieved! In quite a lot of discomfort now and my ovaries feel very bruised but otherwise all is well!
Have oral Estrofen tablets and Utrogestan tablets (vaginally) to take each day between now and embryo transfer (and beyond) which they think is likely to be 6th Feb. Apparently my lining is looking good too; although forget to ask for the thickness measurement.
Now for the 24 hour wait for our first egg/embryo report! So exciting and scary!
stealthbanana ·
01/02/2016 11:05
Oh Elle. Don't worry too much about it. I think almost everyone on these boards has at least one version of that story. I know I do! Go easy on your DH - it's really hard for men throughout all this, they are somewhat shut out of the process and then have to perform like a stud bull I know it's frustrating but you will have another opportunity next month for sure, and you'll get there in the end. And remember sperm can live for up to 5 days so you're not completely out. Btw, apols if I've missed something but why are you taking clomid if you already ovulate?
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