Gosh, great to see so much activity! Doing nothing much more exciting here than waiting for DP's allergy results, but have enjoyed (trying to) catch up on all the news:
Kitten3 - many congratulations on your BFP! What did you decide on aspirin? You shouldn’t need to worry about implantation as that happens 6 – 10 days after fertilisation, so you’ve done that bit! Some advice I had on aspirin from the implantation (recurrent miscarriage) clinic in Coventry was actually NOT to take it pre-conception as it might adversely affect enzymes in womb lining required for implantation. However, could start taking 75mg daily from later in first tri (I think about 7 – 8 weeks) if desired, to start to protect against pre-eclampsia.
Kkmuppet - I would’ve imagined that what happened to Ruby Rose was due to the ICP having been previously undiagnosed, yet the circumstances you describe are truly horrific. 
My heart breaks for you when you say that looking back you should’ve insisted additional bloods were taken. Whilst it must only be natural to go through the what ifs, surely when you were so acutely poorly yourself (especially when they KNEW you had ICP) you were entitled to expect your HCP’s to do their f**kin’ job? However, at very least it sounds like your consultant will be doing everything possible to safely manage you next time, quite rightly.
Fascinating to read your posts on Create modified natural IVF. Interesting they recommend ICSI for anyone over 43 – although in my case, I know we would need IVF with ICSI in any event, after finding that DP has a high level of antisperm antibodies. But I think the most persuasive is the proposal you describe for 3 consecutive cycles, with embryo banking. If they’d expect to retrieve 1 – 3 eggs per cycle, the prospect of achieving 3 – 9 frozen embryos in that relatively short space of time seems very exciting.
Couple of questions: [1.] would the £12K include all your treatment costs, including drugs? If so, it doesn’t seem expensive (well, relatively speaking in IVF terms) as the clinic I enquired with was going to work out at around £6.5K for just one stimulated cycle on short protocol. [2.] Did they say what drugs you’d be taking? I’d had 225iu Gonal F proposed, which I think was supposed to be a fairly moderate dose for my age.
Anyway, I’m now thinking, for myself, that this embryo banking approach is seriously worth thinking about. Perhaps you’ve heard of an IVF clinic in New York called CHR who claim to have been the initiators of DHEA treatment? I remember reading somewhere that if they achieve 5 eggs from a 45 year old they would still give her a 20% chance of successful pregnancy – wish I could find the thing now.
Joeywife - good to hear you’ve skipped any spotting. Are you now CD29/30? Can we be getting excited???? FX for you.
IAteSomeofthePies - Are you still breastfeeding? I’m hoping the reason I can’t remember how old your DC is, is because it’s late and not that I need be concerned about some early onset dementia ...
How’s the FFC going – hats off to your dedication!
FattyFishwife - Oh rubbish (not what I felt like writing) for AF arriving! But given that the most hardcore of try-if-you-dare SMEPs (sperm meets egg plans) is now named in your honour, could you not perhaps be tempted to hang up your 2 month deadline instead, rather than your ovaries? I agree, necking supplements is a total pain, but paring down your regime to just folic acid would be super cheap and you’ll be DTD every day anyway! However, let’s be positive – here’s hoping for no need for any extension and this month is absolutely your month.
MattsMamma - thanks for re-joining the thread! Very best of luck in your quest for DC3, just remember, it's worked twice already ...
Yes I remember Gumblossom too and always enjoyed reading her posts. Well you know, apart from the sad ones – I’d so wished her success with her last pregnancy when she was what, 48? Hope she’s OK too and enjoying the Aussie sunshine.
I’m so sorry for your losses, but then what a wonderful result on your very first try with Dr Shehata! (Good job you never took the doom mongers at face value.) Were you on Prednisolone prior to ovulation – and is that what you’re doing at the moment?
Thanks for your note on hypothyroidism. No, I don’t think mine is Hashi’s, although given how unstable it’s been over the past year you might well think so. I first tested clinically low/borderline in my 20’s when I had a period of depression that didn’t lift, until was put on (low dose) Thyroxine and bam, started to pick up immediately. Bizarrely once that was over, GP took me off it again. Didn’t re-start on medication until I was over 40, after years of feeling frankly a bit shit. Honestly think no one had bothered re-testing in the meantime just because I was quite thin (well size 8, more like a 10 now, but that’s another story). I do have Thyroid antibodies (although not TrAb) but didn’t know there was any other treatment except Thyroxine – I take 75mcg daily, so not loads. I’d previously been very stable on 50mcg daily (more in 2nd & 3rd Tri when pg with DD), but last year blood tests were all over the place, so I went onto 75mcg. It wasn’t helped by losing about 10lbs quickly after a bereavement and pneumonia simultaneously, when I went over-active (over-medicated) for a while and my periods stopped. Doctors shrugged and suggested it was menopause, but thankfully my endocrinologist is more enlightened. (The lost weight is pretty much back on again though, bah!)
News to me on the Selenium – how much do you take daily? That would be easy enough to start, surely. Can you continue taking it at the same dose if pregnant?
Wotsits - hope you're still around? Hope you're making progress with persuading DP to see the light?
Waves and masses of baby dust to Beegee, Twinkly, Ababs, Rugby – any tests coming up soon?