Zikia/ Mexico

[king1717]

Right ladies, i am going on honeymoon in a week for two weeks and me and the hubby want to start trying for a baby as soon as we are home, I have said we will wait a week and if no symptoms show we will start TTC. What do you all think about this, has anyone been through the same thing before, if so what did you do?

FYI - the US medical advice is saying 1 year. They just cant yet be sure how long it takes to get out the male system in particular and it becomes difficult to test for. we changed honey moon plans for that reason.

I'm not sure its a low risk to catch either, I had two friends visit an endemic area, both came away with Zika despite covering up and bathing in insect repellent.

we fly a week today! and this is the only time i can get off work

I know it's disheartening OP, I had to postpone TTC for six months from January to July after a holiday to an area with zika. I passed the time getting me and DH as healthy as possible for TTC, made it feel less like time wasted. And I am actually now pregnant and glad we followed the advice.

why have these horrid things and not come up with a jab to prevent it are you ten years old? You chose a zika destination for your lovely expensive holiday. Many women live in these countries, sometimes in poverty, and are now dealing with severely disabled children, and you’re whining about having to wait due to your own choice. The advice may have changed as understanding develops, funnily enough your holiday isn’t a priority.

Do you not think if ‘they’ could ‘come up with a jab’ then ‘they’ would?

We were in Brazil and conceived two weeks after we returned just before the news about zika broke. It was a very scary pregnancy. Don’t do it to yourself.

Is there any way you can change your destination? TTC on return from a Zika area would be a really stupid thing to do. If you really want to TTC soon after the honeymoon then you’ll need to rethink it.

If you are desperate to ttc you really need to change your honeymoon. It is not worth the risk. We were ttc for three years due to unexplained infertility and avoided holidaying in malarial or zika zones throughout that time. We are keen travellers so it was pretty limiting but it had to be.

FYI - the US medical advice is saying 1 year

That’s interesting. I can’t say I’m surprised- the recent Ebola outbreak has shown us that semen remains ‘hot’ for a very long time.

OP, I get that it sucks but I personally wouldn’t go to an area with zika FULL STOP if I hadn’t finished having kids.

(Science ahead..) zika was a generally quite mild illness that was usually confined to Africa and usually over and done with in childhood. A bit like rubella. Childbearing age women generally had already had it and developed immunity.

Something happened in the last few years and it seems to have both mutated and escaped its previous endemic area. So now we are seeing populations who have zero immunity to it be exposed. That means that adults are getting exposed and so women of childbearing age are getting it. In twenty years maybe it’ll go back to being a childhood disease in these areas as it reaches more people younger. And maybe it won’t. Diseases change, they are unpredictable

Medical research is working on it. It takes thousands of people, tens of millions of dollars and several years to make a vaccine, IF one can be made.

im sorry who do you think you are! Yes i am annoyed because i have just found out! i have been doing everything i can to get ready to ttc and now found out that it has changed since i booked my holiday! I didnt pay for the holiday we got vouchers as gifts otherwise i would have booked somewhere more low key! I dont think you have any right to attack me like this when you dont know me or what i have been throught! so do me a favour and back off!

Look at it this way. Could you really live with yourself if you happen to conceive and your baby is poorly? I couldn’t. Which is why I waited. Guess what. At that point we had been waiting for Almost 6 years to TTC. And guess what. 15 months later I’m still not pregnant. Sometimes things happen. You can either take the advice or not. No point throwing a hissy fit at us all because you’ve picked a high risk honeymoon destination. Good luck!!

I know it’s disappointing but if you want to TTC soon then don’t go to Mexico. If you do go then you need to take the risk seriously. Do your own reading. I would look at the US advice as lots of Americans go on holiday to Mexico so they have a lot of interest in researching it.

I’m not attacking you you sound like an entitled baby, saying ‘why have these horrid things and not come up with a jab’ like it’s some kind of choice some powers that Be have made! Like I said I have my own experience of the situation.

Who do I think I am?! I know exactly who I am. I’m commenting on a forum like everyone else. Your tone is off in my opinion, you don’t get to decide who replies.

We booked to go to Cuba, then changed the destination when we found out about Zika. You could have changed it?

We returned in August and got my husband tested straight away privately. Luckily it was negative which meant we only had to wait 8 weeks for me to be in the all clear too x

The test is not 100% accurate. Especially not so close tonpossible infection time

ps I think some golf ygesr comments are a bit unfair as I felt exactly the same as you as they kept changing the guidelines. as soon as we got back I ordered the rest online through medicheck and then got it done at a local clinic x

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The guidelines have existed since at least early last year. If the OP willingly chose to ignore then so be it. Even in Florida I was wary!!

They change the guidelines because they’re still trying to learn about it though! Science is doing its best. Surely you can see that there are so much bigger issues for others, people that live there for example. They don’t have a choice about exposure. Count your blessings rather than complain about something which is just an inconvenience to you when it’s a devastating life altering thing for so many.

There’s so many lovely parts of the world to visit without taking a risk on the advice - which can only ever be the best info at the time anyway.

You waited 4 years to ttc knowing you have pcos, I can't get my head round that decision, then you choose a zika destination for honeymoon 🤔. The only thing stopping you from Ttc is your own decisions.

I would look in to changing destinations...have you asked if it’s possible?
I’ve just done my last holiday before our baby is due and the destination list is really limited because of zika. We ended up on holiday in a destination we probably wouldn’t have chosen otherwise but there was no way at all we would risk any chance of zika.
It’s not great and Mexico I’m sure is anamazing honeymoon destination BUT if you’re serious about TTC then you need to speak to your travel company ASAP and see if you can change it all.
As a FYI the zika free destinations are Europe, Middle East (dubai, Oman), parts of USA, Mauritius. There may be others check the government website.
But it’s a 6 month wait for a reason so either wait the 6 months or change destinations.

I went to Mexico and was advised to wait 6 months before TTC. You could get private tests if you don't want to wait.

My husband and i had a holiday booked to Jamaica for this January. I fell pregnant in May then miscarried inJuly. It took me all of ten seconds to decide to cancel my holiday so we could start trying again. We had to pay 500 cancellation fee too. If TTC is so important to you then i would just change the destination. Or just wait the 6 months afterwards. Life has a way of throwing these curveballs at you. Sometimes you just have to realise you can't always do everything the way you planned it.

I know it sucks but having a go at people isn't going to help. Either cancel the holiday (or amend the destination - we are going to Mauritius as it is Zika free) or wait the 6 months. You would be crazy to do anything else.

Like someone else has posted, we paid for a private test when we returned from our honeymoon. It's expensive but needs to be done for peace of mind or you would have to wait to ttc unless you wanted to risk it (which would be crazy, surely.)

Such a tough one but I would also either cancel or wait the year out (I'd wait a year rather than six months given that's the US advice and they probably have a bigger pool of anecdotal data to analyse and more resources/impetus to research zika microbiology).