The 'I have been TTC forever' club- are you in it??

[littletortie]

It feels like I have been in it for years and years and years but actually its been 3- but the memebership is starting to wear thin now

I am trying to stay positive- eating really well, having acupuncture, listening to quack CDs visualising my ovaries having big ripe eggs- but its hard.

All our tests have been normal apart from a bit of endo which has been blasted away and an adhesion which has been separated. DHs tests are 'marvellous'. I have a DD from a previous relationship- she is 7 next month. And me and DH had a MC 2 years ago.

So why isnt it happening? We have 6 months of trying before we have IVF (Drs are in a rush to get me pregnant before tiny patch of endo comes back- seems a bit silly to me).

I just wondered if there was anyone in the same boat who needs spurring on as much as me??!!!

I am going to book in for acupuncture tomorrow figure its worth a try at least. i also seem to be surrounded by pregnant people complaining about feeling sick and tired. grrr

I might be worth a try. At the very worst, you wont get pregnant, but you will feel totally chilled and completely at one with the fact cant be bad.

I pay £38 for an hour session- once a week at the mo but that will get less.

Anyone in the midlands? I can highly recommend my lady.

I've been trying for my first for almost 2 and a half years and am on my 2ww after my first IVF.

yellowflowers I started about the same time as you and have been on a thread here for a long time as beanieb. Most of us left on that thread have been trying a long time.

my diagnosis was 'unexplained' but is most probably my age (Am 40 this weekend). I managed to fall pregnant once but miscarried soon after. have tried everything including Pre-seed, temping, fertility monitors etc When I think about how I was when I first joined Mumsnet, how little I knew, I feel embarrassed by the optimism I had back then.

I've lost count of the times I have been told 'relax' or 'I have a good feeling that it's going to happen for you' or about how 'someone I knew went to a chinese herbalist' ... well you've got to laugh eh?!

littletortie I have just completed IVF. If you have any questions I'd be happy to info.
Not every ones experience is the same but I can talk about how it was for me.

Fingers crossed DuelingFanjo

OOOOOH when is your test date??

The biggest 'problem' we are having at the mo is deciding on a clinic. I am pretty sure that we will go with the local clinic for our first go- we are even looking into egg sharing. I work at the hospital where the Clinic (CRM, Coventry) is based so it will be convenient for scans etc and everyone there seems nice and approachable. The success rate isnt sky-high (26%) but what we want to know is, does that really matter? If we went further affield I would prob have to take tons of time out of work, I dont drive so will have problems and issues getting to appts and the cost would mount up with travelling on top. Surely the stress of all that will counter balance any great improvement in success rate from going to another clinic???

What do you all think??

We are thinking of giving CRM a try, then if it doesnt work either NURTURE in Nottingham or one of the London Clinics- travel and cost allowing

Shouldnt write off first cycle before trying but a plan in my head makes me feel prepared.

I went local littletortie and was on the NHS. I think my clinic (IVF Wales) is quite good and it meant no traveling for me.

I think success rates are often influenced by what criteria the clinic set. If they see more older women then their success rates overall will be lower etc.

I am a bit confused about how the percentages are worked out as there are so many points along an IVF cycle which can fail. So for example the ultimate goal is to get one good egg fertilized and successfully transfered. Up to that point you have little hurdles to get through. First that you respond well to the drugs, then that he follicles produce eggs, then that the eggs fertilize and so on. Am not sure if by going through all those stages successfully your success rate then rises in the last stage? Presumably they include the stats for those who fail at an earlier point in the cycle in their overall stats? I'd be interested to know.

My test date is 10th April. Ages away. I found the whole process really quite easy to be honest, the 2ww is hard though. I only had 6 eggs and only 4 fertilized. I had 2 embryos implanted but they weren't able to freeze the other two.

Hi,

You may have seen this on other threads but after over two years and literally th emonth before we were about to start clomid and iui I got a bfp earlier this week!

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Good Luck for the testing tomorrow DuellingFanjo! Can I ask why they could not freeze the two embryos you are not using this cycle? I should be starting ivf in the next month or so, and we are hoping to freeze unused embryos for the future.

I have just passed the four year ttc no.1 mark...including 6 months of Clomid, 7 cycles iui, 2 miscarriages.

I know quite a few people with babies who were not even in a relationship when we started ttc. The rictus smile is beginning to look like some freaky ventriloquist dummy now.

Fingers crossed for duellingfanjo!

Excellent timing yellowflowers! Here's hoping for a textbook boring pregnancy for you.

When do you start on the IVF Chocho? Will it be funded on the NHS?

Had my dildocam today - no need of trigger shot as I had already ovulated and no need for stealth shagging while the in laws are down, phew.

Hi Spongey I hope to start asap, but I am booked in for a hysteroscopy next week, so have to wait until after that. I am hoping that I will then go straight into IVF.

This will be the first of up to three funded IVFs for me.

Sorry to hear about your m/c, and hopefully this time treatment will work. What's your diagnosis, and do you know what the next step is?