I’m starting this thread mainly because this is the only way how I can write things out of me on the daily bases and anyone who would like to join more than welcome.
A little bit of info from us. We are on TTC 3 years (2 of them very serious) I’m 36, DH 50, we’ve been together 16 yrs now. We always talked about to having kid(s) but I thought we have plenty of time until one day the want-to-be-mum feeling hit me.
Over the last 2 years we had so many tests (when covid allowed) all of our results came back normal, unexplained infertility. We tried everything (BBT, OPK’s, preseed, seedcycling, upper supplements, extra dose other vitamins, eating things not eating things, SMEP, pillow under bum, legs high in the air, he’s up, I’m up, standing, sitting, lyings, the cama-sutra all positions, not drinking, drinking 4 ltrs water days, pineapple cores, grapefruit juice, just greens, just pinks etc etc). None of them worked.
So then we were referred to Oxford fertility clinic by GP (self-funded) but I really didn’t like the tone all of our meetings so we decided to search for another one. After a couple of weeks of reading and comparing , I made contact with the Salisbury Fertility Clinic and even after the first telephone consultation I felt they are not money-making-manufacture, they actually care about us. We had 3 failed IUI cycle during the spring-summer time and two cancelled being I was on natural IUI and my lh peaked during the weekend and they’re closed.
After the 3rd not-being-pregnant-IUI-cycle I hit bottom. I always believed I will be mum naturally (or with a little help) it was an emotional rollercoaster 4 weeks.
Then I made contact again in my October cycle and we finally had the plan to move forward and try to do sthg differently and moving to the IVF route. Secretly I hoped we don’t need to contact them on cd1 so af stays away and give some miracle to us, well this not happened.
So currently here we are. We had a meeting yesterday w one of the nurse who ordered all of my medicines, described them and how to inject them (even practised on a little looks-like-skin patch) went through on the time line and other things.
I’m on cd9 today, starting my Buserelin injections on cd21, 12th December.
A week or so later my period due and then 10 days later on the 31st December I will have my first scan for baseline. If everything looks fine I will start my Gonal-F (375 iu) on the 2nd January (DH’s birthday) and then 3 more scans (7th, 10th, 12th January). If all goes well Ovitrelle injection on the last scan’s night and meeting with them on the 14th January to egg collection. And then the waiting game begins. I will get some contact for emergency calls and we’ll have updates of the embryos developing over the weekend. Depends on my healing we will have d3 or d5 transfer and officially I’m going to PUPO and then on the 31st January for a pregnancy blood test. During those 20 days I’m going to take Crinone gel twice a day.
I have a very mixed emotional mindset atm. As much I’m looking forward the next two months I’m so scared of those negative thoughts? What if my ovaries respond too well or too poorly? What if they don’t collect enough egg? How many of them will be fertilised? How many of them makes it to d1,d3,d5?
I know only time will tell…
What is your story?