IVF students! for August and Sept, come and join us and lets share the hope and prayers!!!!!

[tempi]

Hello girls, just wanted you to know that there are 2 of us that are running with IVF this august and sept ... wondering if you want to join us?

Thanks everyone for your advise! very much appreciated, I am in an NHS hospital, but I am a private patient, so I am expecting that my consultant will perform the EC and ET. I am at the Leeds General Infirmary. If I don't see the consultant I will be asking why!!!!!!! I also work for the NHS, I am a Health Visitor.

Ooh...todays the day Tempi....how's it going?????
Six is excellent.....!

Thanks for all of the support...I've been really snowed under at work this week so this is the first time I've been able to get on MN!

I haven't had progesterone pessaries with the IUI Rosy....although I did have an extra shot of hcg to trick my body into thinking it was pregnant and that gave me a LP of 14 days.
My point of annoyance though is ...if that is my problem....why isn't there something they can give me (eg.progesterone pessaries) before needing to go down the IUI/IVF route...it could've sorted me out YEARS ago and been a much lesser strain on us and the NHS fund!

Chocolate...I wrote to my consultant with reference the short LP (I also didn't see a specialist consultant for years and now...after a total of seven years of trying...I have seen him once ....that can't be right surely??!!!)
Anyway, my original local consultant wrote back and basically said he didn't believe in short LP?????!!!!!!
And the specialist consultant wrote and said that IUI would sort it out....which is fine...but....back to my origianl point of why couldn't something less invasive be done sooner??

I will definitely ask them about my raised FSH levels and if donor IVF would be a better option for us.

Sorry...this is pretty long!

They got 5 eggs from my donor and she is disappointed!

They will ring me tomorrow at 11am to tell me how many have fertilised

Don't really know how I feel, a very selfish part of me wanted more eggs than this

The emryologist says 50-60% usually fertilise.

that's good news tempi - as I said you only need one! keeping everything crossed

Coggi, sadly progesterone won't make you have a longer luteal phase, in some people it shortens it but it does help support an early pregnancy.

Choc - yes I have been at the same clinic. they have a good embryologist there which is apparently the most important thing. yep I can tell you most things! I've done long, short and flare protocol (flare is my favourite, if you can have a favourite!)

Hi Tempi
5 is good and 65% fertilisation is the average.
I get the impression most clinics are trying to keep the level of stimulation drugs as low as possible and means 5-8ish seems to be the norm - it is much kinder to your donor's body and health (they are trying to avoid OHSS/the +30 egg scenario which is severe health threat).
I understand you were hoping for more - & hoped to have two put back and save some just in case in the freezer.... but from where I stand it is still looking good.

I sincerely hope it is your time - it is frustrating there is little you can do to help things happen - just take good care of yourself.
with love Choc xx

Coggy - my hospital does not believe in short LP either.

Did you see my post about acupuncture with a gynae specialist? His take on it is short LP is often a sign a a problem in the first half of the cycle.... in which case even a truck load of progesterone supositories wouldn't help.

Choc xx

Hi Suss
Come on then, spill the beans - which clinic do you rate!

Choc xx

Chocolatedays and Coggy - Biggest, warmest wishes to you both

choc and suss.............. thank you so much, I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

You both sound so positive!......I know I should be and I think deep down inside I am!

That 11am phone call will be a killer. I have a new birth visit to one of my clients at 11am!.....how about that for irony!

girls... thank you so much for being so positive! I needed it. My dh is not much a talker and doesn't believe in 'harping' on about things you can not change!

Of course my donors health id far more important than our needs

Tempi - laugh AND cry... I know I did through most of my treatment.. so much easier than having to make a decision and bottle the other one up!

HI READY!! I nearly hijacked one of your threads today - just wanted to say hi!

Choc xx

Great minds Choc Thinking of you!! x

Hi everyone. Just popping in to say hello. Hope everything went ok today Tempi and some of the eggs fertilised. Good luck for the transfer.

good luck tempi - I don't know much of things re ivf but keep positive, you never know - it only takes one little fighter

they only got 5 eggs and embryologist rang today to say that only 1 fertilised!

I am very tearful and completed gutted

ok.......trying to be positive, 1 embryo means 1 chance.

Can't go to the unit feeling negative......have to get my act together.

Thanks all for your fabulously positive posts.

Hi Tempi
Yes - one embie means one good chance! When is the et?

Choc x

Just to let you all know I have had a top grade embryo transferred today and of course brought home a picture of it. Embryologist said it was a lovely embryo!!!!!!

Really really praying now!

Oh Tempi...that sounds wonderful.
i know that you were disappointed with only one fertilising...but it's obviously a corker.
Look after yourself and get your DH to moddle-coddle you ENORMOUSLY over the next two weeks!

Choc....yes I was very interested in your accupuncturist comment. I had lots of acc. after my DS was born to sort my cycles out. It didn't seem to make any difference to me and he was a midwife and a fertility specialist. I was really hoping for great things but I went once a week for 3 1/2 months and then once a month after that - rather pricy when nothing was happening/ changing.

I may pay to go and see Zita West...she also is a massive advocate of accupuncture and writes about SLP in her books.
One of my consultants said that the SLP was to do with the first half of the cycle and the egg or corpus luteum not forming properly.....I guess that's why he just said the IUI would be best.
Let's hope IVF will be better!!!!!

Hi Ready!!!!

Can I ask anyone who has been through IVF and the waiting for the preggers test stage, how many of you did your own pregnancy test before the hospital one?????????? I am just thinking about the hospital one, They take blood at 9am and I have to phone at 4pm for results. Just thinking that if I did one at home, if it was neg then this would soften the blow etc. Of course I would still go for hospital one too!

What do you think??????? and how many of you did this???????

Hi Tempi, congratulations on the top grade embryo. Hope you are relaxing today

When I had IVF last year, I tested before the clinic test. In fact my clinic didn't give me a test to do, said buy one and do it yourself on day 14, or come in for a blood test. I think most people I knew did test before the "proper" test - as you said, I think you want to know either way in private first.

Er, one other thing, please don't worry about feeling positive or negative and worry that it will affect the outcome. I went through a massive downer 4 days after transfer and was convinced it hadn't worked for the next 5 days. Only when I needed a wee in the middle of the night on days 9 and 10 did I suspect something was up...tested on day 10 to get a BFP. No doubt you will read hope or fear into the most random events over the next few days, I hope the time passes quickly for you and best of luck

madlabowner... thanks for that!!!

did you have 1 embryo or 2 transferred!?

Hi tempi! I knew every time i wasn't pg before I tested negative but I didn't know whether I was or not the 2 times i was pg. that sounds completely loopy but i hope you understand what I mean.

Choc I am at the Chelsea & Westminster - Self funding on the NHS, I have never been to another clinic. I have heard the Lister hospital is really good, and some of the consultants at the Chelsea and Westminster do their private work at the Lister. So i hope it rubs off on me!!! What about you? any thoughts on best clinic

thanks suss! I think I know what you mean!

Hello everyone, It all sound good for you Tempi I hope your putting your feet up.
Just a quick question for all those who have had ivf before how long didi it take for your cycle to get back to normal. My period started on the day of the pg test and I think I am due about now did your cycles go back to normal pretty quickly or not.
I am doing ok just relaxing now and see what happens as dh sperm is back to normal and I am going to have another lap and dye and see what happens naturally.