Any on looking to start ivf/icsi in the new year?

[lucieloos]

Just wondering if anyone would like to keep me company and share the ivf/icsi journey. DH and I are both 35 years old and have been trying to conceive our first child for 10months. DH has lowish sperm motility and I have a low amh (7.24). We haven't had any luck so far and so the next step will be ivf with icsi in the new year. We are thinking of starting end of feb or march. Would be great to share the journey with others in similar situations and hopefully make some friends along the way

Thanks everyone. I'm in shock and just don't know how I'm going to relax the next few months. First scan is booked in for 24th of March.

Galinda, yes only pregnancy tests. The clinic said that 95% of their patients don't have the blood test. I ummmd and ahhhd and could still change my mind but I'm going to wait it out, if things didn't look like they were going well there's not much that can be done anyway. So I'll just stay in my bubble. If I get cramps or bleeding then nurse said I could have test done. I think I'm ok with not doing it. I will take a digital on Friday and hope that it's gone to the next amount of weeks, if it hasn't maybe I will do blood test.

I'll keep popping in here and I hope all your journeys ends up in a positive but more than that, that they end up with a baby.

Congratulations Mrsww so pleased for you. Wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months!

Just wondering if anyone else is having any side effects from norethisterone? I have been taking it for a few days now and am having horrible mood swings and feel like I've got permanent PMT - my poor colleagues and husband!

Laika I don't start my progesterone until tomorrow but I think all of the drugs can produce pretty bad mood swings. I have cried today which I blame on a combinaiton of the oestragen pills I am on and our house move nearly falling apart!

On a positive note, I had my scan today and I am ready to move on to stage three, so last down reg injection tomorrow (yeah!) and then progesterone starts and oestragen continues and embryo transfer is booked in for next Thursday...

Fingers & toes crossed Badger let us know how it goes and hope the 2ww will pass quick for you

Hi everyone, just thought I'd update you (and writing it down for my own sanity as well!)

I had egg collection on Monday, and on Tuesday we had 7 embryos. On Tuesday night I felt very unwell during the night and the rest of the week has been an OHSS rollercoaster... I went into the clinic on Wednesday to be told I had 'negligible' amounts of fluid and my blood results were 'not too bad.' I felt a bit daft and like maybe I was over-reacting and being a bit of a wuss with some trapped wind. The rest of the week I started to feel better and better. Yesterday's scan and bloods (before then working for 11 hours) was really good and I was reassured that transfer would go ahead this morning. I felt great compared to how I had done.

This morning at the transfer, still feeling fine, legs akimbo, waiting for my blasto to be put in they did a final scan and somehow, inexplicably, the OHSS was much worse and it was too dangerous to put the embryo back in. Transfer was cancelled and all my embryos are to be frozen.

Things could be worse - we have four good blastocysts to be frozen and I know we are lucky to have that, but this morning at the clinic I was sobbing with despair. I was devastated, especially when they said it is 3 months wait before they will do a FET.

So, I, going to gracefully (excuse the snotty nose and puffy eyes) depart from this thread and count down the days until June. In the meantime I have the joy of measuring my fluid input and output (naice) and the painful heparin injections (ouchy!) to prevent a blood clot.

I truly wish everyone the best of luck, and take care of yourselves. Stay well hydrated!

Oh Ga! How heart-wrenchingly disappointing for you! The waiting is the worst part of all of this so sorry you've been delayed. Good to hear you have 4 blastos frozen though, that's a great result! Wishing you a speedy journey to June. Come back and see us then!

I remember weeing into a jug well. I hope you don't have to do it for too long!

How is everyone doing?

We've got embryo transfer today so fingers crossed the little embryo defrosts well and our top grade one can be implanted and sticks... I've got acupuncture before and after so a slightly busy day ahead!

Just to add laika I started my progesterone on Saturday morning and by lunchtime had been in tears (over not much although our house move is proving difficult!) and I'm sure it was linked. I hope your mood swings have calmed down a bit now.

How exciting badger hope it all goes well today. Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Fingers crossed for you Badger I hope today goes well.

Galinda, I hoped the next few months go quick for you.

Everyone else I hope you're taking care.

One little 5AB embryo (whatever that means!) now onboard! Things improved after my midday call to say it was defrosted and alive but had some degenerative parts So they would monitor it and then decide whether it was viable or if they should defrost another. The little one rallied so here's hoping she's a fighter. I test on 23 March...

Hi I am new to all this, my name is Karen & as of 4th march ive just started my treatment for icsi. I take buserlin & Last nite i started on the menopur 1200 & find the syringing part quite tricky. The needle seems to take in air & i find it a little more painful on injecting Anyone got any tips orhad the same issue? Thanks all ! :-)

Hi kaz. The menopur can be quite fiddly. I found that if I jnserted needle into bottle and then tipped it upside down to draw up the liquid there was less bubbles. It did give me bruises. All the best for your cycle.

Badger, I hope embie is snuggling in.

One tip I read for injecting where you draw the liquid into the syringe yourself is to pull the syringe out to your dose and then put the needle into the bottle, tip upside down like Mrs WW says, push out the air into the bottle/liquid and then draw in the liquid. Hope that makes sense! If not Google subtuncaneous injections and it was a helpful leaflet about 2 or 3 links down.

P.s.s welcome! The other thing I found which helps to make it a bit less painful is to grip the flesh really firmly as you're pushing the needle in. The Buserelin was a bit stingy for me at the beginning but my body acclimatised to it.

badger face & mrs wishywashy
Hey thanks for the advice i will see how i get on tonite!!, yeah i have a few bruises! Nice to know we all in same boat & can call upon for help ;-)

Great news badger - keeping everything crossed for you! Kazcal, I've just started menopur tonight and it stung more than I remember it last time and I can already see the bruise coming up! Will definitely try Badger's tip tomorrow night.

Keeping fingers crossed for u badger, laikalooo hi!. Think i may of mastered the syringing of this menopur minus the air bubbles!! have routine scan Mon, & aiming egg collection 23rd. Feel like im gaining weight....thought with the red wine being cut out id be wafer thin by now!!!!....still positivity all for hopefully a good outcome hope yr all ok.

Badger how are things going? Hope you are ok?

AF arrived for me today, it was my last one before starting ivf (well technically I have one more but having endo scratch this cycle so can't ttc). I thought I would feel quite emotional and upset when it arrived as it means that ivf is definitely going to happen for us but I don't really. I feel a little excited if anything and just glad that the waiting is finally coming to an end.

So I will have my endo scratch just before the bank holiday weekend hopefully and then will start my meds just after bank hol weekend! I've sent an email to the pharmacy in Czech to order the drugs and also checked with my Dr about booking flights. Hopefully I will have some answers in the next couple of days and we will be well in our way!

This time next month I will be making final preps and getting our bags ready to fly off to Czech and hopefully our dream baby..eeekkk!!!

I'm fine thanks lucie, I'll have tested by this time next week!! I felt some twinges on Friday which I am hoping was implantation but who knows, it could just have easily have been psychosomatic...

Good to hear you are feeling so positive. I know that when I started IVF it felt like a very positive step after months and months of hoping and then being disappointed. IVF felt to me like I was much more likely to have a baby than carrying on naturally (and then i had DD!) and so I was excited by it too.

Hope those injections are getting less painful for those down regging/stimming. . I am not enjoying the progesterone pessaries much!

Hi folks, not been on here much but I had a 3dt last Monday. I was told to test on Monday coming (23rd) but does anyone have any advice on early testing - I'm honestly losing my mind.

Getting little sharp stabby pains on both sides that I guess are my ovaries shrinking back down and I'm constipated. My boobs are tender, sore nipples and this morning DH had to pull the car over as I had the worst wave of nausea ever (way worse than when I was on stimms). I'm on cyclogest bum bullets so I don't know if they can cause all of this. I am torn on whether to test early or whether that's more of a headf*ck if I get a BFN and have to wait till Monday to be 100%.

thanks

Phe xx

Phe, I'm a big advocate of testing on the official date for precisely the reason you raise, I'd feel like there was still some hope from a negative if I tested early which would mess with my mind a bit! There's also the false positive potential from your trigger shot if you test early.

That said, Your symptoms sound very positive! I'm on Cyclogest too but don't have those signs...

I tested seven days past a three day transfer and got a faint line. I then tested everyday until testing day and by then was so paranoid I was imagining the line or that it was not going to appear on test day I almost made myself sick. My thinking was that if I saw a negative there was still hope. My strongest symptoms have been in the second week of 2WW. Still have a week to wait until first scan and getting worried.

This journey isn't an easy one.

I think I'm definitely going to test the trigger out and will then probably give it a few more days and test early. I want to know if I get a chemical or anything to try and have as much info as possible incase I need to do it again.