Hi everyone. I've lost track of the thread a bit, so sorry not to reply to all individually. Thanks for all being so lovely. It's been a really hard week.
Welcome to the hurdles to all the newbies xxx
@Boboelephant what wonderful news!!! So pleased for you. Keeping everything crossed
@Lilimum6 sorry for the bfn. It's so hard. Hope AF behaves for you.
As for me... So obviously I’ve been feeling let down and lost after being told it was either the pill or pay to see a private dr. I was umming and ahhing about the private guy, partially because I was worried about being fobbed off and paying for the privilege, but also what would happen if he recommended tests-would I have to pay for those too or could I have them on the nhs...so I emailed my ccg. I explained that I knew I wasn’t eligible for fertility treatment as the policy was clear you had to have not conceived for a year, but would I be eligible for fertility testing of any kind. Ended up speaking to someone pretty high up who told me that in fact we are eligible for treatment as well testing!!!...but only until my 40th birthday...which is July 24th. So I need the fastest gp referral I can get. My gp was awesome and it was all done by weds morning. Apparently my fella needs to request a semen analysis test and I need a day three blood test but then we are under the fertility centres care.
She recommended I still go to see the private guy as he may be able to suggest tests or treatment that she would be able to action and it may help us catch naturally again or at least speed the process up.
Then weds night we went to the open evening at the fertility centre-got nearly half hour with the man in charge! He’s an embryologist and was so helpful. Reckons our chance of conception each month at my age is prob only 10% and ivf would make that more like 20-25%. He said he’d inform his team to keep an eye out for my referral and that he’d ask them to expedite it too!
So I’ve gone from feeling quite alone and no plan to having suddenly lots of medical support and a possibility of fertility help, and possibly even ivf if we want it and I can cope with it...and that’s the big if. Can I, with my horrid medical phobia really handle ivf? Arghhhhh. Any one who’s been there and had ivf, I really could do with details of exactly what it entails (injections, scans, treatments, investigations etc that I have to have. ) to go through...I need the brutal truth people! Prob best to DM I guess?
I've got the acupuncture on Sunday, private consultation on Tuesday.
Oh and I had more bloods yesterday, vitamin D and progesterone...only vitamin D is back. Sadly not what I wanted to see-I'm taking more than double the standard 10micrograms a day (25) and my level is actually worse than it was before Christmas! I'm now at 55 nmol/l and I was 58 nmol/l. My target is 75nmol/l as that appears to be optimal for pregnancy. Annoying as I did a private test about 5 weeks ago and that showed level of 76 nmol/l so who knows what's going on there.
I just wanna feel like me again! Everything always comes back to miscarriage/TTC at the moment. Definitely taken over my life.