Trying to conceive for 10 months or more. Thread 5. All ten plussers welcome.

[lucieloos]

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

Congratulations Itsme and also, by the looks of things Sammy. Everything crossed for you both.

Congratulations Itsme!

Itsme - if it hadn't been for the bleeding I would have waited till OTD to tell the clinic. Only because they'll still make you test again. Xx

Itsme, I also waited until OTD to tell the clinic as I didn't start bleeding until after that.

Sammy, how are things looking now? Hope it's all settled down and you can relax a bit.

OK, will do! God I hope it sticks!

I tested early and fessed up to my Dr, who got me in for a beta early

I tested at 8dp5dt (Sunday), fessed up the following day, and they got me for a beta on the Tuesday (10dp5dt) and then a repeat 2 days later (12dp5dt - which was actually my official OTD)

Huge congratulations, Itsme! Absolutely fantastic news!!

Bleeding seems to have stopped. Just small amounts of gunky pale brown (sorry - ick). I'm terrified every time I go to the loo though.

Just in GP waiting room now to see if they'll give me more Lutigest. Otherwise I'll be buying some from the clinic tomorrow.

Sammy I don't think the knicker checking will stop for many many months! but I'm pleased it's eased up, maybe it was, sadly, the second one that didn't stick?

Fingers crossed its smoother sailing from here xxx

Glad it has eased up too Sammy. Good luck at the doctors.

Starting to get pre AF symptoms, still another 6-7 days until I expect it though. Decided to splash out on some CB digital opks. I am pleased we are doing a natural FET but I am starting to worry about missing ov. I thought I would have several scans but looks like I have a scan on day 10 then they tell me when to start the opks, I call when I get a positive and they tell me when to trigger. I'm useless with opks and pretty sure I have a short surge but figure I will just test loads.

My bus this morning had the registration BFN which seems like a bad omen....

Lucie, MPP, how are you getting on?

to everyone else.

Oh haha trixie I also see things like fet etc in number plates and think they are signs. I've also seen bfn too. That's great you think af is on its way. Just make sure you have lots of opks and do a couple of them a day. I find the cheapy ones as good as any.

Emailed my Czech doctor today and he wants me to start cetrotide on Sunday which will be day 8 and then scan first thing Monday morning. I am terrified already. Me and scans just don't go together. I have no idea what to expect from this protocol with low stimms or if there will even be anything there at all. I'm going to be devastated if we end up not going.

I go past a BFP car most days so hopefully that trumps the BFN bus.

It's nerve wracking isn't it Lucie, I am sure they wouldn't have recommended the natural IVF if they didn't think you would respond. I will be thinking of you on Monday. Hopefully you can relax over the weekend.

I've got a load of the cheap opks but I find the line doesn't seem to get much darker. I switched to some supermarket ones last month and got a line that was nearly as dark as the control line. I remember doing a CB trial a couple of years ago and getting free digital opks and getting a positive then so figured I would try them again.

Oh ok that sounds good then trixie best to stick with the ones you know work. I'm just at the clinic now waiting for intralipids. I find the whole process not too bad but I just really hate the scans. They have almost always been bad or disappointing news. Will try and put it out of my mind until Sunday night.

Hope the intralipids are ok Lucie. I've got my intralipid meds being delivered tomorrow and will then book the nurse when I have an idea of transfer date. At least I am not scared of them this time. FX for good news for you on Monday.

Good luck with intralipids ladies

We aren't organising mine yet because we don't yet know if we will have to cancel the cycle

If we think we are likely to actually be able to go ahead then we'll book me in

At the moment - who knows...!

Week of stims and lining hasn't grown

Consultant is on holiday so colleague of his scanned me. She struggled to even FIND the endometrium. Which was encouraging. FFS. It was 6.4mm last week before we started stims. It's basically thereabouts this week. 7mm at its widest point but not yet triple line.

She emailed my consultant, who's told me to start oestrogen tablets 3 times a day

Torn between clinging onto the fact that Progynova did work wonders on my crappy lining in my 2nd cycle. Or just telling myself not to be so bloody stupid for being remotely hopeful because just setting myself up for a fall.

Thanks Banana, intralipids went well although they kept me waiting for an hour before starting! Hate my uk clinic. It's a bit of a gamble for me having them so early as well as I don't even know if there will be anything on the scan but it will be too late after Monday so have to take the risk. Potentially if everything goes go ok then EC would hopefully be either next Friday or Saturday.

I'm so sorry to hear about your lining. It's so frustrating when you have 6 perfect blasts sitting there waiting for you. I hope the estrogen does the trick. Try and stay positive you will get there i know it.

Itsme - are you testing again this morning?

Banana - that is so frustrating :(. Keeping everything crossed for the progynova getting the job done.
I know it's just another thing to add to the list of things to try, but I'm sure the liquid iron supplement I had contributed to my thicker (for me that is) lining this time. It's called floradix and you can get it on amazon if you want to try it.

Trixie a bfp car is definitely good luck ignore the bus it doesn't know what it's talking about.
I was really worried about missing ov on my natural round, but they got me in for another scan as soon as my opk started to get positive. Then once they'd checked the follies gave me my trigger time.

Lucie - glad you've had your intralipids.
Scans are so scary, especially if you've had bad news before. We're all virtually hand holding for Monday morning.

Hi Sammy, yeah tested this morning - line is darker. I'm going to have to call the clinic / go to a&e this morning it seems I've got delayed onset ohss which started to come on Thursday and I've been telling myself it can't possibly be that, I only had 15 follies and I've felt absolutely fine up until now.

Last night went out for dinner, could barely eat anything and my upper abdomen (like above the belly button) is so bloated the skin actually hurts. It feels like I've done about 1000 sit ups, which would be ok but this morning I didn't really have my normal morning wee and I've got really bad back pain like I did when I had pneumonia and I'm feeling properly dizzy, so I'm really worried I've got a lot of fluid build up.

Oh Hun, that does sound like OHSS, I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Are you slim?
I had the back pain in the night and couldn't find any way to relieve it... I even tried a bath at 3am!
The silver lining is that late onset OHSS is a sign of a sticky bra an, so congratulations!!
If you can wait for your clinic to open then they are far more knowledgable that a&e, however you know how you feel and don't delay getting checked out if it's really severe.
Drink as much as possible, and stay upright. My consultant told me that the back and chest pain is caused by the fluid moving up around all your organs. Keep us updated. Xx

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Thanks Sammy, I didnt know if this was just an early pregnancy thing. Ohss was the last thing that was on my mind! I'm normally a size 8/10 and I'm so glad it's been hot because I can't fit into any of my clothes apart from dresses!

Yes I think we'll go down to clinic today to get checked, I don't think it's very severe but I've got quite a high 'no fuss' threshold. My favourite example is when I had a minor bladder infection which, actually, turned into being hospitalised for a week with a severe kidney infection.

I don't sound very healthy do I? Kidney infection, pnemonia...

How are you getting on Sammy?

Good stuff getting the intripalids sorted Lucie.

Banana I'm really holding out for you and a nice thick lining!

When I had it they gave me a wonder drug called cabergoline. I'm not sure if you can take it when pg though.
Honestly keep drinking, as much as you can. Water/milk etc. They will be concerned by the reduced urine output.
Being slim and 15 eggs makes you a likely OHSS candidate like me. What stimms were you on? Mine were reduced this time to try to avoid it.

I'm ok thank you. IC lines have got darker, and haven't had anymore bleeding since early this week. My scan just seems SO far away though. No really symptoms yet, but not sure when to expect them! Xx

I'm going to have a very salty breakfast and I've been craving milk and cheese, it's funny how the body knows what it needs.

When is your scan? It feels like being pregnant is going to last forever, it's taken so long to get here!