First IVF cycle....are we freaks??!!!

[BrownysMrs]

Hi all,

First post here and I'm all new to this, so bear with me! I have a thousand questions and I thought someone here might be able to help me stop over thinking everything :)

Hubby and I just did our first IVF cycle, we had a pregnancy a few years ago naturally but it didn't stick so this was our only option (I've got damaged tubes due to surgery since then). I have 2 dc from a previous relationship but as they don't see their dad (& call my DH daddy) we feel our family is already pretty sweet....we just want the cherry on top if that makes sense!

Anyway our cycle so far has been a nightmare; I hate most of the nurses at our clinic, they kept messing everything up, then they told us to cancel as I wasn't responding...anyway we stuck to our guns and I had my eggs collected yesterday....all 30 of them.Yes,30!!!

The embryologist assured us that a lot would be immature.....except then she phoned earlier to say that actually 28 were fully mature,& of those 25 had fertilised really well. Because my OHSS risk was sky high we've been told we'll have to freeze them all and do an FET in a month or two...I still can't quite believe the numbers though. Are we freaks?! I'm worried about the FET now and my body going haywire with more drugs...has anyone been through anything similar??

Sorry for the huge post :)

xxx

Yes we had similar...well into the 20s anyway. I can't remember exact figures. We ended up with a lot of frozen embryos. I wonder what the reason is as I was about 37 at the time so not exactly young!

Good on you for persevering! Forgive my probably silly question but why do you have to freeze them all due to potential ohss? Is the risk still high when putting them back?

I think because I was so tender after the EC,& had been stimming for quite a long time,they wanted me to have a bit of a rest before they go back in...which I'm not arguing with really! I'm on a lot of antibiotics as they had to drain fluid from my tubes too so to be honest I'd rather have a proper period and get back to 'normal' a bit before we give transfer a shot. Is FET vastly different from a normal implantation? 3 of our friends have done IVF and all had failed cycles until they used frozen ones...now they all have 8 year olds! So I'm focusing on that at the moment, & the hope that we'll have a lot of good ones to choose from.