Oh bucky at the BFN, but maybe with another test further along the line? As for meeting up, I'd really love to, but I am on holiday from Saturday for two + weeks, and I don't think I can escape work now, so we'll need to meet up in September when I get back.
MOB - that is really exciting about your appointment at the clinic! Sorry to make you repeat everything after I only skimmed the thread . I can't believe that ICSI wouldn't be suitable for you and your DH from what you've said, but the consultant will be able to answer all your questions. We might be ICSI Cycle Buddies one day
big hello to DG mibbes and 07MTW. How are you all feeling?
Oooh lou are you a teacher. Abbeymeg (a regular on here and now a graduate ) is a teacher. I don't know how you do it - such a difficult job.
Big hello to caitni and my cycle buddy, ei.
scary - have you started a due in may thread yet?? Is your DH over the moon? I am so excited for you and pleased after all the difficulties with your MC and CP. It's fabulous news . I don't think you should come to our meet ups if you are going to look gorgeous and have lovely shiny hair and strong nails!
I feel like an old dish rag today and look worse ! I had a really bad reaction to the injections I had for my holiday. My arm swelled up like the Elephant Man's until I couldn't get a shirt on and it was bright red, scalding hot to the touch - like I'd been badly sun burned . I also had a rash all over me and vomited, so I went to my GP because I was scared I'd got an infection and didn't want to be ill on holiday in the tropics without anti-biotics, if I needed them.
It was the same GP I saw in December asking for a referral to a fertility specialist and he was just about as sympathetic. Jolly enough, tutted over it, but basically said "massive allergic reaction - nothing you can do except anti-histamine" and made me feel I was wasting his time. Then he asked, clearly because I still had,ooooh, about 43 seconds left of my appointment:
"Oh, how's that other thing going? . "The fertility stuff. Getting preganant".
All I could think of was, do I LOOK like I am preganant?! AND even if I was up the duff and not showing, don't you think I might have mentioned the fact because I'd be sh*tting myself about the effect the injections/reactions were having had on my unborn child?! Grrrr . However, I didn't say that.....
"We're in the process of rising to the top of the queue at Queen Charlotte's. DH's doctor referred us".
"For IVF?
"Yes, for ICSI"
"Oh right, ICSI, whatever, all the same. Is it unexplained infertility?"
"No, my husband has a very low sperm count."
"Actually, my husband spends his life wanking off in a room at the Hammersmith Hospital and is there, as I speak, producing another sample. I wasn't being an hysterical, middle-class woman who had Googled too much, making a fuss because it hadn't happened in month 2. We did have an issue, as I suspected, and it DIDN'T 'happen by Easter' as you bet me it would."
"Oh well, Bali might have an effect. Tropical beaches, all that sunshine."
"It's coming up two years of trying to conceive. I wish conceiving was as easy as going on holiday, because we do that a lot."
"Remember to have keep having sex! Byeee"