Icsi ivf may 2024

[Cloclo93]

Hi ladies I thought I'd create this thread to support anyone doing ivf in May 2024, it's great to have other people to talk to going ture the same thing!
My background I'm 31 with low AMH of 3, suffering from secondary infertility 2.5 years ttc had a failed IVF cycle in February where my 4 mature eggs just failed to fertilized so we have been advised to do ICSI for our next cycle! I decided to give my body a break and get back into end of April/may depending on how my cycle returns:)

@Ilovebees how many days past transfer are you, I didn't test positive on my first transfer until 9 days past this is one of the reasons I was holding out

@Ilovebees I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this 😞. I kbow the anger of infertity all too well, it’s the unfairness of it all. I think I would take the progrsterone for a few day more and then do a final-final test and then to stop taking it. I know you want to stop it now, but I’ve heard so many stories where super-sure-not-preggo-i-know has turned out to be wrong in the end and I would hate for you to worry to death because you haven’t been taking it. Just to err on the safe side of things kind of thing.

@camelinastorm I am 7dp5dt 😣 well 6and half days past transfer , so it would make me like 12 dpo. Frer should at least show a tiny faint line .
did you test at 9dp5dt last time the first time ? Was that your first test in that trasfer ? And did you get a strong positive by then ?
@BakinABaby thank you for your kind words , I will be taking my progesterone for sure , until like a day or so before expected date . But I stopped my blood thinners injections , no point anyways . And the steroids I’m already reducing the dose so I can come off them earlier than originally planned , with steroids you have to wean of slowly so I’m doing it already starting today .
I just feel very low today and emotional . But I know for sure that I’ll be okay next week once I come to terms with the outcome . Xxx how are you ? How many days past trasfer are you and are you testing early ? X

@Ilovebees oh no sorry you are still showing negative.. fingers crossed you get a line on the next few days !! Can I ask did they diagnose you with sticky blood ? Is that why you are on the blood thinners ? And did they test you for immune response that why you are on the steroids ? Or did they just give you these as a back up ? Hope you can relax a bit this evening but you will be feeling all the emotions and I totally get that .. send you hugs 💖

@hopefullsosbry hey thank you xx
and I did not get diagnosed with sticky blood or immune issues , they are just giving me these just incase it might help . Because I have had 7 pregnancy losses at 6 weeks or earlier , 6 natural , 1 ivf . And they cannot find anything wrong with me in blood testing or in my womb . I haven’t had immunes testing done , so I requested the steroids just incase I do have immune issues and body attacking my embryos , but I haven’t had a chance to fall pregnant yet with using steroids to see if they would help or not . So I’ll keep taking them every trasfer now hoping that one embryo would stick and that steroids might be just what I needed to make my baby stay x

@Ilovebees I’m just 1dpt so not testing yet. I plan on doing one tomorrow to see how much if any of a line I’m still getting from the trigger and then I’ll just keep doing one a day. I’m testing early and often every month there is a chance, keeps me calm and not delulu.

That’s a lot of medicine you’re on just cause. Sucks they havent found anything specific wrong, that you could target fixing. I’m unexplained too but my issue is getting pregnant in the first place.

@Ilovebees yes it was the first rest I did it was a boots early response and it was very faint.
I'm also on blood thinners and steroids for just incase, I'm bruised like hell and so want to stop if it hasn't stuck but would regret it if next week it was positive

I just found out the two embryos they were still growing didn’t progress enough to freeze 😞 This sucks. It’s all riding on the one I have in me now 🤞.

@BakinABaby omg no way !!! Poor little embryos 😢 feel so sad for you ! I hope you’re feeling okay though , because the one inside you could be the one , fingers crossed 😊

@Ilovebees Bad news, bfn's etc with infertility used to make me angry or sangry, now I'm just 'mm ok well no reason crying over spilt milk'. I do now have to consider more thoroughly if I want to do another round of EC (if this should fail and for all I know I have massive implantation issues since I seem to fail getting pregnant). And if I do then what when, what can I do myself to have better eggs. The clinic I'm with has a collective vacay all of July and most of August so I'll have some time to mull over it and have a hot girl summer. BUT of course, I'd rather be pregnant so fingers effin crossed.

How you holding up? Still no bfp?

negative for me this morning .. I kinda knew it anyways .. there's still a really faint line and trigger should prob be gone .. but I feel
something tried to implant but then came away as seems to be the pattern with me .. line looks slightly darker 3dpt and then fades again ? So strange. The only explanation for failed implementation each time can be abnormal chromosomes as we have tested for everything else .. between my age (old duff eggs) and my partners DNA frag it’s just slim pickings for us and I don’t think it will ever work .. we are thinking to try another EC with PGT testing then maybes a surrogate? But we still have the other two frozen to put in also first ..just can’t see it working though this was 6th transfer 😵‍💫

I have attached pictures of line progression from trigger shot

At lest you have tried all their suggestions and would be always wondering what if, if you hadn’t. I might ask for steroids and blood thinners also as a precaution for my next transfer as this one has failed am sure .. no harm in trying, then if they doesn’t work we are going to try a surrogate. 🤷🏼‍♀️

best of luck for your little one on board 💖🤞🏽✨

@hopefullsosbry did you say you still have a slight faint line today ? Could this be the beginning of your BFP ? Like you said trigger should be gone by now so this could be your new pregnancy line ? X
and you said about maybe try surrogate in the future , but how does this work ? How do you find surrogates ? Xx I hope your lines keeps getting darker from tomorrow as your only 5dp5dt so still early xx I am still negative , I am out for sure but still taking progesterone until I’m asked to stop on official day xxx

It could I guess, but i feel would be a miracle, the reason I feel it’s not is with it being slightly darker on 3dpt then fading again .. it should prob have increased and not got lighter ?? I have had 3 chemicals in the past and the line were like this .. going darker then light from early on .. 😵‍💫 it should prob be darker by now ??
honestly, have no clue about surrogate but we would find all that out at the time. Sorry your still negative, yes probably a good idea to keep taking until test day, think I will do the same. Thanks for your support with all this 💖do you have more frozen ?

@hopefullsosbry hey , I get that the test was darker at 3dpt but this couldn’t possibly be from the hcg yet as embie hasn’t implanted yet by that point so it was defo the trigger shot, the earliest you could ever get a hcg faint line would be from 4-5 dpt , so it makes sense that your 5dpt faint line could be the beginning of your BPF . The only way to be sure would be to see it getting darker from tomorrow and so on , if it goes to negative tomorrow then I’d think it wouldn’t look very good , but if it’s slightly more darker then it’s great !
and yes I have 9 frozen from this cycle left . I collected 24 and ended with 10 blastocyst xx

Time will tell, I will still be testing anyways! That’s amazing you have 9 .. I am certain you will get a BFP if not more than 1 from your ‘harvest’ 🥰 will you go for FET with next available cycle that the clinic let you ? 💖

@hopefullsosbry yes I would also test everyday if I was you , it’s hard to stop once you start 😂😆😙wishing you all the luck it gets darker !!!
and yes I’ll be going into FET as soon as I possibly can , I’m guessing my trasfer could be 3 months froM now or so , I know they want one proper period first before starting and the down reg normally takes few weeks too which feels like forever !

it will feel like a life time away no doubt but I hope it goes quick for you. It’s so soul destroying all this huh ? 😑

How is everyone getting on with the tests ? I am defo out still negative . I have already accepted it and it’s fine :)
@hopefullsosbry how your tests today ? Xx

Hi, sorry have been quiet .. just been a bag of emotions .. I have decided to not test again until my OTD as it’s not till 15th, sat next week .. I felt so down with the very faint line and was driving myself crazy analysing test .😵‍💫. at the end of the day what will be will be so ill know either way on sat, just thought as save myself a week of stress .. so hears hoping for a miracle 🤞🏽✨🙏

hope you are all well , how’s every one else ? Xx

@Ilovebees tested negative today. Could still be early but not very hopeful, I feel the period coming.

@BakinABaby are you 5dp ? It is early but I get where you are coming from as I was the same .. mist test you see online etc have a line by 5dp and I had a really faint (which could just have still been trigger) so it hard to see when comparing to others test, but everyone’s body’s different and I guess you never know until OTD ? Hope you are ok, I understand the dread feeling, sending you lots of hugs and hope 🤞🏽✨🙏

@hopefullsosbry ok so you’re waiting , well done to you for being so patient . I could never wait 😁 hopefully the waiting makes it all worth it and gives you your long waited BFP. Good luck .

@BakinABaby awww , I know it might be negative today but your only on the 5th day after trasfer which makes you only 4dp5dp which is still so early ? Are you using first response ? It picks up hcg 6.3
I wouldn’t use any tests needing 25 hcg levels . good luck I hope tomorrow you will get a faint line as 5dp5dt a lot of people do get a line . I remember last FET I got faint line at 4dp5dt but on day 5 it was clearly visible without squinting xx

@Ilovebees i think 5dpt is 5 full complete days that would make it 5dpt that morning (my transfer was 9:30 am) so after 9:30am that morning your actually starting your next day that day so will be into 6th day ?

example - my transfer was last Saturday 1st so Sunday 2nd I was 1dpt by 9:30am Sunday morning (as a whole 24 hours had passed) then I was into my 2nd day (which 2nd day would end on the Monday 9:30) does that make sense ? I could be wrong but that’s how I worked mine ? Is that not right then?? 🤨🤔