iui stories?

[mabel9]

Please tell me your iui stories and journeys? Currently in 2ww.

@LifeIsBusy I think I'm fancying chicken but I am not sure. I will let you know how it goes! I'm looking forward to having some! So hopefully it works xx

@LifeIsBusy I've got the ginger beer but I haven't tried it yet. But oh my god these ginger cookies in Tesco. I had just been sick and they sorted me right out. Feel like a new woman!

@Tasha1607 I had these in the house a few weeks ago. They didn't last long. I'll have to get a pack in. I appear to be ish coping the last 2 days I am however shattered.

@LifeIsBusy the ginger beer has worked its stuff! I've had a day from hell with work and severe sickness. I then bite the bullet and had the ginger beer after forgetting about it. Highly recommend!

Just a question ladies... we went to have Indian tonight and since coming back, my stomach is burning, I bet it's that hot curry ... would it impact implantation if I have conceived? I am on 8 dpiui

@Maddie020 I don't think it will. I'm pretty sure you'll be ok.

@Maddie020, really doubtful. There would be an entire continent that died out centuries ago if there was an underlying issue.

Hi everyone :)
Hope you don’t mind me joining in the conversation. My partner and I are a same sex couple trying to conceive via IUI using donor sperm. She will be the one carrying as she is slightly older than me. We’re currently on our 4th cycle and in the 2ww after going in for the insemination on Thursday.

We got pregnant our first try but it sadly ended in miscarriage. 2nd try was unsuccessful and then covid hit so everything was on hold for a bit. After the clinic started up after corona they stopped doing the scans and trigger shots and instead told us to track ovulation at home using a kit which we aren’t a fan of tbh. It’s hard not being able to plan exactly when to go in and as we are paying privately we feel like we aren’t getting the support we should be. Anyway we have expressed our concerns and they say they may not ever be returning to doing the scans etc :(

We have spent £4600 so far and are no further forward which is soul destroying.

I do have a good feeling though this month so fingers crossed for a positive result his time round!

@LifeIsBusy @Tasha1607 Thanks ladies xx

Good luck. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. We decided to have a break during the summer to decide on next steps, IVF or remain childless. I got pregnant naturally that summer. Dd is now 23 and is my only child.

@Raleighx don't give up hope! I actually took a lot of comfort in the lack of internal scans this time round! I still had to attend the clinic for blood tests but had I been given the options of the opk tests I would have taken it up as it was difficult to manage childcare on top of the 2.5 hour trips every second day to the clinic (satalite office is still Closed). I hope your 2ww isn't too long.

@Tasha1607 ice poles are my friend today :(

Hi everyone

Another newbie looking to join the chat!

My wife and I (same sex couple) are hopefully close to our first attempt at IUI with GCRM. We've had our consultation and I had a HyCoSy back in June. Everything was clear although large fibroid but was outside uterus so told it won't impact fertility. We've purchased donor sperm (from ESB) which should be with the clinic in a few weeks hopefully. Since the consultation in July we've been patiently waiting for our consents appointment. Think we're in about week 6 of our wait so far, not heard anything but expecting may hear in the next few weeks.

I'll be carrying, 30 years old, no previous attempts, no known fertility issues.

I think we're going unmedicated IUI to begin with. Will probably try 3 rounds then move to IVF if not successful.

For anyone who's had IUI, can you kindly explain the process from day 1 of your cycle please? I find it all terribly confusing. As far as I understand it, we report on day 1 and then we do some sort of tracking for ovulation although not sure how (ovulation tests at home possibly?). I've heard some people talking about trigger shots, do you always have a trigger shot or only if your cycle is medicated? I'd like to increase the chance of success so if trigger shot doesn't happen by default I think i'll ask for it (if it's as easy as that!). I worry that without daily scans/bloods or the trigger, you're really just guessing when ovulation happens.

Congrats to those of you currently pregnant and good luck to everyone on their journey

@ally99101

Hi everyone

Another newbie looking to join the chat!

My wife and I (same sex couple) are hopefully close to our first attempt at IUI with GCRM. We've had our consultation and I had a HyCoSy back in June. Everything was clear although large fibroid but was outside uterus so told it won't impact fertility. We've purchased donor sperm (from ESB) which should be with the clinic in a few weeks hopefully. Since the consultation in July we've been patiently waiting for our consents appointment. Think we're in about week 6 of our wait so far, not heard anything but expecting may hear in the next few weeks.

I'll be carrying, 30 years old, no previous attempts, no known fertility issues.

I think we're going unmedicated IUI to begin with. Will probably try 3 rounds then move to IVF if not successful.

For anyone who's had IUI, can you kindly explain the process from day 1 of your cycle please? I find it all terribly confusing. As far as I understand it, we report on day 1 and then we do some sort of tracking for ovulation although not sure how (ovulation tests at home possibly?). I've heard some people talking about trigger shots, do you always have a trigger shot or only if your cycle is medicated? I'd like to increase the chance of success so if trigger shot doesn't happen by default I think i'll ask for it (if it's as easy as that!). I worry that without daily scans/bloods or the trigger, you're really just guessing when ovulation happens.

Congrats to those of you currently pregnant and good luck to everyone on their journey

@ally99101 : Welcome ... I have had my iui (with Clomid) done this month and here is my timeline 23/08 @ 6:30 pm - (1st day of period according to me): rang clinic to notify - unfortunately it was Sunday so left a message 24/08 - CD1: rang clinic to let them know the same, receptionist advised me that as my periods started after 4pm, this will be counted as my CD1 and that I will need to take Clomid from CD2 to CD6 - luckily I didn't take before calling them And booked me for Day10(CD10) follicle scanning - this is for them to check how many and how much follicles I have developed, as I believe if it's more than 2, they won't go further as risk of multiple pregnancy She also booked me and hubby for COVID test on CD9 as apparently this is a new thing in NHS before going further and she advised me to self isolate before COVID test 01/09 - CD9: hubby and I went for COVID test 02/09 - CD10: I went for day10'scan, developed 2 follicles and nurse said that she is happy to go ahead. Also gave me trigger shot to take at 3am on 03/09 And booked me to hand over dh's sperm at 12:30 pm and for an iui at 2pm in 04/09 as apparently they need to do iui 36 hours after trigger shot In case you are not aware what trigger shot is(as I wasn't at all) - it's basically a self injection and it makes you ovulate She also advised me that they use to do opks but they find this way more efficient as they don't get over booked and they know exact date and time iui needs doing 03/09@3am - CD11: took the trigger shot 04/09@2pm - CD12: got my iui done 14/09 - 10dpiui : in tww

Also, I was also doing temps and opks along with all these

Hope this help.
Good Luck xx

[quote LifeIsBusy]@Raleighx don't give up hope! I actually took a lot of comfort in the lack of internal scans this time round! I still had to attend the clinic for blood tests but had I been given the options of the opk tests I would have taken it up as it was difficult to manage childcare on top of the 2.5 hour trips every second day to the clinic (satalite office is still Closed). I hope your 2ww isn't too long.[/quote]
Thankyou! :)

We just prefer it because previously we were told to go on day 10, get the shot and then go back the next day which was great because then we could plan around work and stuff. We’ve had a few problems with the kits as well. We were told by the clinic last month to start on day 12 and we completely missed it which was another month out of the window. Since we had our initial appointment I would say this process has gone on around 2 years.

We were told if we did 6 cycles of IUI and weren’t successful we would then go to IVF which would be NHS funded.

Praying we are successful this time!

We have this all to come in a couple of years as well as I am wanting to carry with the same donor so we have genetic siblings. It’s nice to find threads like this and speak to people that are in the same boat as we don’t know any same sex couples in real life that have gone through this so we didn’t have a clue what to expect!

@Raleighx Having started this process with a completely different outlook I totally understand. From our initial consultation to our DS being born it was just over 2 years and in that time we went through 2 clinics (private for 3 rounds, NHS for 3 (different requirements in Scotland as you qualify before 6 failed IUIs)). My wife was going to to conceive the first and I was going to conceive the 2nd both on the same donor. Turns out I conceived both on different donors.. we almost had the option to use the same donor but then covid happened. It was also funny receiving the annual storage bill the other year as it had a summary of payments made to the clinic which wasn't a small figure and we just thought how insane it was as DS was conceived via NHS.

I would probably still say your chances are still high though given the previous pregnancy so it will just be a matter of time! How is she feeling about it?

@ally99101 OP and I are also GCRM patients but with different journeys. I called the clinic on day 1 of my cycle and they asked me to come back on day 10 for bloods, then back on cd12, cd15, cd17 then IUI on cd18 (my cycle sits between 32-36 days so I was back in more times than say my wife). I then took ovritrel (sp?!) 6 days post IUI then back at the clinic 2weeks and 1 day from IUI for a blood test to confirm the outcome.

We were previously with GCRM when my wife was trying and she was on a medicated cycle so from CD1 she took medication for 6 days, then the same process as above but with internal scans (because covid didn't exist) and then a trigger shot the night before IUI (I was advised not to take mine as I had naturally ovulated).

If you end up on the NHS route they were very similar expect you needed to attend counseling and they didn't offer a medicated cycle (but did take into account our previously failed IUIs with my wife and taking that into eligibility for IVF)

Good luck!! With regards to the consents, they will get back to you! We contacted them as soon as the clinic re-opened but it was July before they got back to us.

Hi @ally99101 @Raleighx –another same-sex couple here TTC with medicated IUI. We're about to start our 3rd 'cycle' but we've never actually got as far as the insemination which is pretty soul destroying! First time we had a rubbish ultrasound tech who couldn't find my ovaries on the baseline scan and by the time they did it was too late; second time I didn't respond to medication so we had to abandon at day 10 (again, soul destroying!) and now I'm waiting for my period to start again. We're doing medicated cycles as I have PCOS and I much prefer it bc I'm a control freak and it makes me feel like I'm doing something!

@Raleighx – fingers crossed for you this time. I can't believe they didn't offer any reduction in price for scans etc, that seems absolutely ludicrous! That's surely all you're paying for? What clinic are you with if you don't mind me asking?

@ally99101 –good luck with your first round! It sounds like you've had a really long wait. We're with the London Women's Clinic (not the Harley Street branch) and we were pleasantly surprised at how quickly it moved. We had our initial bloods, scans and consultation in Feb and would've been able to start treatment in March/April had covid not got in the way. We had our first try in July, tried again in August and now about to go again.

We do medicated IUI so it's slightly different, but for us we ring the clinic on first day of period and go in on day 1, 2 or 3 for a 'baseline' scan to see where the follicles are at to begin with. Then I start injecting buseralin to stop ovulation, and menopur to stimulate the follicles to grow. I have buseralin in the morning, and menopur at night. They usually leave 5-7 days for the next scan after the baseline, then after that we go in every day or every other day for a scan. We haven't got this far yet as we've had rounds abandoned, but when the follicles are big enough, we'd do the trigger injection and have the insemination the next day.

@Tasha1607 @LifeIsBusy hope you're both holding up ok and managing to keep the sickness at bay with lots of ginger biscuits (the part of pregnancy I'm most looking forward to tbh)

@BananaHammock23 I had a horrendous weekend. My wife's 30th and couldn't bear sitting in a restaurant. But I'm testing the biscuits before bed and before I get up trick. And it seems to be working. Also not eating as soon as I get up seems to work (for now) I think I've gone crazy with the ginger, ginger beer, ginger cake, ginger biscuits and cookies!

@Tasha1607.... I can only laugh (but in a good way). I almost puked in my lunch several times yesterday and ended up in bed at 5pm as I was shattered, my head was thumping and I felt awful (I did however surface later). Day time naps are the way to go. We also have a packet of ginger biscuits in the house but i'm running low on the ice pole supply (I didn't think I could justify £20 on ice poles when I didn't like the majority of the flavors so i'm waiting until I go to Asda)

@Maddie020, @LifeIsBusy and @BananaHammock23 thank you so much all for the insight, that's really helpful

@mabel9 How are you doing?

How do all of your clinics do weekends? I'm now waiting on my period to come so I can start our next round of IUI but I have a feeling it'll come on Friday when it's least convenient! The clinic is closed on weekends so they can scan Monday, but baseline is supposed to be day 1,2 or 3... if I come on on Friday afternoon and they can't fit me in until Monday that'll be day 4. Anyone else had this?

@BananaHammock23 I didn't ever go in for a baseline scan however my peak turned out to be over the weekend with the NHS and they done an IUI treatment on the Friday and then I was invited back on Monday to make sure my egg released and if it hadn't I would have had another IUI.

With the private clinic whilst they were closed over the weekends they did perform IUI treatments on the Sat/Sun if it was required and we did go in one Sat.

Thanks @LifeIsBusy. Crisis averted –I've just come on my period. Baseline scan tomorrow at 10.30am then providing everything's in order we'll start meds (for the third time!). Hoping we get as far as the procedure this time... I feel more nervous than the first time knowing all that can go wrong.