TTC for 10 months or more, and now we're moving onto thread 4! Ten plussers welcome!

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Thread for anyone TTC for over ten months. Please feel free to join us!

Took the liberty of starting a new thread (with what is obviously a brilliant piece of rhyme!) as I assume everyone else is sleeping peacefully right now :)

Take care of yourself Itsme

I used to just be able to give them in a blod of cream cheese. But the stronger tramadols are way too nasty tasting for that. So then it was in a half slice of ham, held in place iwth a tiny dot of cream cheese. After he found them in the ham we moved to salami/cream cheese after a few days of struggle. Now he won't take them in the salami either. Just takes if from me and drops it on the ground. I have decided to play the long game here and the last couple of pill sessions I have got him to take rolled up ham and salami with pate and cream cheese in, but no pills. I am hoping once we are in the routine he will just start taking it again. He is too smart for his own good and getting pills into him is a nightmare.

I really hope that everything is ok Itsme.

All 10 are still going, 5 looking high quality and 5 slower/a bit fragmented.
We had decided on a single transfer but based on Kings criteria we could have 2 put back as I am 35 - just- and have had 2 failed transfers. This is our first cycle with full on immunes treatment though. We're going to speak to the embryologist on Sunday and make a final decision then.

trixie that all sounds very promising. Fx for Sunday!

itsme CONGRATULATIONS! Really hope it's a sticky one. Get yourself a frer and see what it says.

brenna can you crush the pills into powder and do it that way? I had to do that for our old dog who point blank refused to swallow meds, regardless of what they were wrapped up in. Crushing in a pestle and then mixing it up in a bit of wet food usually did the job.

The tramadol can't be as it is SR tablets. I have tried before with other pills and he wouldn't eat it, even in porridge.

Ah. That's annoying. Too clever!

So, so pleased to see your line, itsme! I have everything crossed for you!

Lucie, I'm very glad the numbers are dropping for you. I hope you are OK

Brenna, when my ddog was on tramadol we had the same problem. Finally stuffed them in a smallish square of cheddar and put a tiny spread of butter over the end (thank you Google!) so he couldn't see where it had gone in. Worked a treat. He loved it.

Banana, wedding is a week tomorrow!!!

Best of luck MPP

itsme everything crossed for you lovely, deffo get onto the FRER. And Superdrug for backup!

And yes. Keep your FMU. Although I’ve learned the lesson that I need to leave the cup of pee IN the sink to avoid any bathroom catastrophies. Although coming back to a cup of wee in the sink isn’t exactly a treat, it has to be said…

MPP squee!!!

trixie that’s brilliant news!! So pleased you’re on for Sunday - absolutely terrific

Brenna might give the frozen dog food a miss - although as my pain consultant says I need to go and see a gastroenterologist as apparently needing 4 kinds of laxatives means escalation is required (!!), perhaps I could take a leaf from his book

Ladies I’m loving the get-the-medicine-into-the-dog ingenuinity. Cunning stunts!!

maple honestly, no idea with my body. The thing that’s different is that my ovaries are back to being PCO instead of diminished reserve, that I was pregnant, that I had an ERPC and now we’re going again, but with much lower stims because of the polycystic ovaries. So same drugs (just lower dose), same protocol - just maybe pregnancy has reset things?!

xx

Sorry I fell off the thread. AF arrived a couple of days late and I stupidly got my hopes up. On cd3
and have stopped feeling sorry for myself now.

Promise to catch up later but just wanted to say congratulations to itsme.

Congratulations Trixie! How amazing they're all still going! All the best for ET on Sunday.

Lucie, delighted your levels are going down. Hope you and dh are starting to feel a little bit better. You must be so looking forward to your holiday -- you really deserve some proper rest and relaxation after all you've been through.

itsme, congratulations! One of the miracle "just about to start ivf" pregnancies! How wonderful

As for me, I'm remarkably chilled out considering I'm heading to 19 months ttc. OH was away during my fertile week and knowing there's no chance really turns the tww into just, well, a normal two weeks. It's kind of bliss. Makes me really long for the day when all this ttc stress is a distant memory.

Maple did you get your iui letter yet? I should start Clomid a week on Monday if AF starts on time - any chance we'll be starting treatment around the same time?

Itsme sorry to hear about the pink, keeping fingers crossed for you.

Trixie phew for transfer being Sunday! Only a couple of days away!

Star no sign of the letter yet I'm going to call on Monday to chase up, would have liked a treatment buddy! The consultant did say that she thought my appointment with the fertility nurse would be in June but wouldn't start till July.

AFM I'm on day 8 of brown spotting - argh I'm worried about it but also annoyed as I just want to get on with the next cycle. I did do a test (no idea why) but obviously stark white.

I'm also finding myself thinking about TTC all the time, all day. I'm constantly googling etc and when I'm not I'm pondering about it. Its starting to affect my work actually... So I've decided I need a hobby / project. We moved quite recently and DH has been working super hard in the garden. We have an area where I want to grow lots of flowers so I've decided that's what I will concentrate on - also want a little herb garden.

Also booked myself in for my first acupuncture appointment in a couple of weeks and also limiting myself to 20mins googling / mumsnet per day!

Going to have a bath tonight and do a face mask and just try and chill.

So sorry Dizzy. Welcome back with us.

Glad you are feeling chilled Star

A hobby is a good plan Maple. I am picking up all my sports that got dropped during my first first trimester and never really picked up again afterwards.

Hi all,

Thanks for all your lovely messages although I am hoping it wasn't too premature :(

No fresh blood, a little pink yesterday and some older blood this morning. BUT I had the worst feeling of flu yesterday, it literally floored me and I had the worst night sweats ever last night but worryingly my boobs aren't as sore and the fluey feeling is gone this morning.

Now I'm convinced after sweaty night time googling that I have an immune disorder preventing pregnancy. Ffs!

This is a minefield! Still hanging on to the fact I did see two lines, will test again tomorrow morning to see if it got any darker.

Everything crossed for you Itsme.

I feel like I am getting yet another chesty virus today Not impressed.

In better news DDog has had most of his pills for the morning. Playing the long game worked. I have spent the last couple of days giving him rolls of ham and salami with pate and cream cheese inside. At first he just spat them out, so I unrolled them in front of him and let him see they were safe. Once he was reliably taking them I took the plunge this morning. I gave him a dummy one first, which he was suspicious of, helped him disect it, then gave him the pills alternating with dummy ones. They all went down with no problems. Phew.

It's all over.

This is so awful, I don't think I can do this anymore.

I am petrified that the IVF isn't going to work, I thought the whole problem was actually getting pregnant but now I'm more concerned that what if that's not been the problem at all, and actually I've just not been able to STAY pregnant but just never tested before.

I'm so sorry itsme, have you started bleeding? Did you do a frer?

Yep bleeding and cramping really badly, AF has fully arrived. I didn't do another test I was going to on Sunday morning so I could call the clinic and tell them that I had a strong positive.

I'm so, so sorry, itsme. There's nothing I can say, except to tell you I'm thinking about you

Oh big hugs itsme xxx

itsme all the love and hugs. I'm so so very sorry. Hope you can be kind to yourself xxx

Sorry everyone :( I feel like I've been on a bit of roller coaster the last few days.

One big cry and now going to try really hard for the next few weeks to try to keep my emotions out of it, and just get through this next bit.

I'm so very sorry itsme. Massive hugs

Oh Itsme, you poor thing. I'm so sorry

Itsme - so sorry to read your update. Take care of yourself. Xx

Oh itsme. So sorry to read this. Thinking of you