Anyone starting IVF soon? Join me.

[Shellster52]

After 3 full failed IVF's last year, I am about to embark on my second last attempt. I started an IVF thread during my last IVF, and everyone got pregnant but me. So I swore I wouldn't do that again this time. But I find myself wanting to chat with people going through what I am, so I am starting the thread again. Join me as I seem to be a BFP magnet!

Hi! Really good to find some one at the same sarge although ther is so many differnt protocols I won't start down red till first of May but will be stimming at the same time :) it's so exiting yeh and also scarey Becuase of all the disappointment we are so accustomed to!! I carnt wait to start though it's so exting !! Did you have to take contraceptive pill first or is that just me ? Lol xx

Hi faith, the pill is presumably because you don't have a regular cycle? I too have pcos and was prescribed it until I explained I (luckily) have a regular cycle.

Good luck!

Or yeh thanks liquorice! That makes sense I haven't had a natural piroid since September ! And thanks , what stage of the process are you? I have read the thread but there's a few ladies to remember :) x

Yes there are quite a few people at different stages

I am due to have my baseline scan on Friday/Saturday and my medication arrives on Tuesday.

When are you due to come off the pill?

I started down reg yesterday and the medication makes me feel so sick! Is that normal?

Good luck with your scan x

Shellster, understand why you want to back off a bit sometimes you need to protect yourself. Great to know that you ovulated, will be thinking of you and have everything crossed for you anyway.

Purple, hope you had a nice weekend, I had to come back early from mine, stupidly thought I had a weeks worth of menopur in 1 bottle when in fact was only 5 days worth, fortunately was rubbish weather for us yesterday so didnt mind too much. Hows the wait?

Hi gottahavefaith, 7 yrs and nothing here too, good luck!

Good luck at your baseline scan too Liquorice

Happilymarried, I never felt sick or anything on DR but I think its quite common, make sure you are drinking the 2 litres of water.

Have my first stims scan tomorrow bit nervous, im feeling a tiny bit crampy now, hope spmethings happening!

Just had a look back through the thread and wondering how some of the earlier posters are getting on. Buddynu, suzylee, dreamy, justwant, walter, hope all is going well

Hello everyone...I'm back from Internet Exile! Thanks, Shellster and Carrie- welcome Faith and welcome back Happily

I've been trying to keep busy and keep my mind off D-day on Friday, with mixed success! I'm having a very little bit of spotting at the moment - not attaching too much significance to it as I had an implantation bleed in my last pregnancy and carried on spotting for weeks. There's one thing that is worrying me, though and that's a funny discomfort that I've had in the area of my left ovary. It's a bit like a stitch and it's been there all day. Not really painful, but definitely uncomfortable. I was quite aware of my ovaries in the few days after transfer - and I read somewhere that they re-fill with fluid after transfer, so I didn't worry about that, but this feels different...has anyone experienced anything similar? I'm fretting a bit about ectopic pregnancy...

Good luck with your scan, Carrie, here's hoping for lots of big fat follicles.

Purple, I had sharp kinda pain in my left ovary after my Sep/Oct 2013 IVF that gradually improved but didn't subside completely until about a month ago. My left ovary didn't respond during Dec IVF as it still had that pain and hadn't yet recovered from previous EC. So from my expereince, it's quite normal to have pain for some time and definitely doesn't mean ectopic - especially since ectopics occur when the embryo gets stuck travelling to uterus, but your embryo was placed in uterus to begin with.

Carrie, looking forward to hearing how your first scan goes, and thanks to both of you for your understanding in my decision to not post my every detail. It just seemed every time I posted something positive, it turned bad. But after my good news of ovulating and thinking IVF was going ahead, things went bad anyway without me posting so now I need to vent!!

On Saturday, hubby got sick and had really high fever. I read that this really affects sperm and with his sperm being bad already, I worried that if I went ahead with IVF and it failed, I would spend my days wondering if I should have waited for hubbys body to produce a fresh batch. But I was desperate to get started, so wasn't sure what to do. But then despite ovulating, my cycle was only a short 19 days, meaning I wasn't able to take estrogen from day 20 until my period arrived in prep for IVF the next cycle. I guess my body was still a bit out of whack from the Synarel from the previous cycle. So now I am at day 3 and waiting again in the hope that I can do IVF next cycle.

Shellster - so sorry to hear this - hope DH is okay and that it doesn't make his sperm deteriorate any more.
Thanks for the reassurance - the pain's subsided today anyway, so hopefully I was worrying about nothing.
My clinic told me there's a slightly higher risk of ectopic pregnancy with IVF - for some reason, some of them travel into the tubes in spite of being put in the uterus. It's still a small chance, but a bit higher than normal.

Shellster I am so sorry to hear this. You must feel like everything is against you. It is good that you ovulated, did they explain the short lp and is there anything they can do to lengthen it eg take supplements from cd15 rather than cd20?

Sorry to hear that again Shellster, we may well end up cycling at the same time afterall, had my scan and it shows 4 big follies and 4 small ones, need the 4 small ones to catch up by thursday - unlikely - or they are going to cancel and restart me on a higher dose next month. Feeling a bit gutted right now, will have to spend more money on drugs I cant afford and have a holiday in cyprus at the end of june which may end up delaying it more, ah well, just thinking of you and what youve been through for my inspiration.

Oh no, how frustrating for you, Carrie. Are you comfortable with this decision, or would you rather go ahead with the four big follies that you have? Does it depend how big they are? Do you know how many follicles you normally produce, or could you end up cancelling and then having the same thing happening in the next cycle?

I do agree with them really, would rather cancel than go ahead with just the 4 and then not have any make it, that would be worse. They are confident I should get more on a higher dose as my AMH is good so no reason for it to happen again on next cycle, they started low as were worried about me overstimulating but now its clear i can take more. Im taking a slightly higher dose tonight and tomorrow just to see Iif that helps the smaller ones boost but im not feeling very optimistic and that would still mean only 8 when they look to get between 10 and 15. Knew everything was going too well for me, nothing can ever be straight forward.
How are you?

Ah, that's alright then - I obviously read too much into your last post: I wondered if you were feeling a bit bulldozed. Sounds like a sensible decision in the circumstances - but here's hoping for a little miracle over the next couple of days.

I'm okayish - Shellster was right about the long wait to test and it's getting to me a bit. The spotting's increased a little and my optimism has deserted me in the final stretch! I don't know - I just don't feel pregnant and I've been in the early stages of pregnancy enough times to think I know what it feels like. The rational side of me realises that I've never tinkered about with my hormones before so why should this feel the same, but, but, but...

Purple what a horrible wait, when are you due to test? I get spotting every month it is the most disheartening thing on a regular cycle let alone an IVF cycle. Do you have pcos or a high AMH? Sorry to ask you may well have said earlier (or might not want to say anyway!)

Fingers crossed for you x

Hi Liquorice. I'm due to test on Friday. I'm desperate to POAS before then, but DH keeps persuading me to wait...when we conceive our ds, I didn't get a bfp until the day my period was due, even though we'd used those uber-sensitive tests that were supposed to work four days before...we got a false negative, so he's right to want to wait, it's just really hard! I get stress-related eczema and my left hand is a mess! On the upside, the spotting has reduced again.

No PCOS and my AMH is 14...not too shabby for my age (41), but certainly not what you'd call high!

Wonder how Walter is getting on....think she must have had her transfer too...

Hello Ladies,

Appologises for going AWOL, I had trouble resetting my password after last weeks problems!!

Carrie don't give up just yet, things do change.

Purple I'm getting excited for you. I'd be so tempted to POAS by now!!

Shellster Hope you're doing ok and get a new cycle started ASAP.

Liquorice Not long to go.... How are you getting on?

So..... My story since I last posted has been a rollercoaster, to say the least. First scan after starting stims, last Wednesday, was a shocker, really poor response, I think there may have 2/3 follicles not doing very much, my lining was not existent, I was still bleeding!! I was devastated as I thought I was "normal"!! So the doctor started on about donor eggs and things were looking bad but they'd up the meds to 450iu of Gonal F & see what happened. Went back last Friday & there was some improvement, so stayed with 450iu & back Monday, more follicles had appeared even though I was told last week that what was there was all I would get!! I think Monday the nurse said 3 maybe 4.... I've been scanned daily & today the nurse found 9 follicles of which she thinks 6 may be good!! One is currently @ 19 but there are 4 or 5 around 15 which are the ones I think they're holding out for... Breathe....so if you're still reading this........... Last scan tomorrow & they think collection will be Saturday............ And relax!!

Walter what a turnaround! Fab news! I will be thinking of you tomorrow.

Purple- good news that the spotting has subsided. I don't know how you are able to wait but it is probably the correct thing to do. It's such a stressful time it could just be the anxiety or all the extra hormones from the IVF.

Walter I am waiting for cd1 which should be Friday then I can have my baseline scan. My meds arrived yesterday which made it feel real!

I don't know...I think the reason I am managing not to POAS is that really I don't expect it to be +ve and so long as I don't test, there's still hope! I'm feeling pretty pre-menstrual at the moment...

...but that's very exciting, Walter, but good grief, what an emotional wringer you've been put through! Here's hoping for lots of big fat follicles that fertilise beautifully.

Aaargh! Dreamed last night that it came to test day and I opened the packet to discover that there was a cream that I was supposed to use 24 hours before testing, so I had to wait another day! Needless to say, I went and checked the packet first thing this morning, just in case!

Good luck for today, Walter XX

Only one more day to get through

Good luck Walter!!

Fingers crossed CD1 hurries up Liquorice

Are we all a similar age? I'm 39! I know Purple is 41.

I've been banned from POAS. The nurse said to me that it is very easy to get a false positive, so I have to wait even longer than 2 weeks, due to weekends :O(

Random dream Purple Do your clinic not make you have a blood test?
How have you been feeling?

Scan this morning showed a few follicles at 21!! And some around 16 - 17 so I'm booked for egg collection Saturday, just waiting for a call to let me know what time.

Had a few tears at the clinic this morning, the nurses have been amazing and it was quite sad not to be going back for a while, its a Satellite clinic which uses Care in Manchester for EC & ET.

What a journey Ladies, I never expected it to be like this!!

Fantastic walter, it sure is an emotional rollercoaster, so exciting for you to be moving on to the next stage. Do your clinic sedate you or put you under? Good luck

Tick tock liquorice :)

Weird dream purple! Are you sleeping well? I always get weird dreams when I cant sleep properly. Have my fingers crossed for you. Didnt you say you spotted in your last pregnancy? Could be a good sign for you.

Scan not til 5.30... hate waiting!

Got excited today (!?) as I thought af had arrived but it seems to have stopped. I phoned the clinic and they said they will see me monday... If I count today as cd1 then Monday is cd5 and too late