Crafty How did your baseline go? Good luck for starting stims today - I did short protocol, and it really does whiz by sooooo quickly!
BTW I have now had two egg collections and can confirm that the sedation is absolutely awesome and I wasn't in any pain for either procedure. My ovaries were quite sore for the rest of the day this time (because we got more eggs, so there were more follicles to aspirate than last time) but a heat pack and some paracetamol helped, and I felt absolutely fine the following day
I have found listening to guided meditation / hypno MP3s totally brilliant. I bought Zita, although I haven’t started listening to her yet as it seemed all focused on the transfer, and I didn’t want to jinx it as I don’t know if I will make it to transfer! I loved ones called ‘Be Fertile’ from some Aussie website, they have different tracks for stims/ retrieval / transfer etc. Helps me get off to sleep instead of staying awake with washing machine brain
Yes, protein protein protein. My Dr said to eat loads of protein - the milk seems to be an ARGC thing, but I did it because, well, when you’re throwing ££££ and all your hopes and dreams at a cycle, you’ll do anything! My bloody supplements bill in the 3 months run up to this cycle was in the hundreds a month, FFS. Protein wise, I ate so many bloody eggs for my eggs! Protein powder and greek yogurt, a pint of milk a day, meat, fish, eggs - I even had a protein-ice cream called (I shit you not) ‘Whey-hey!’. Which was actually surprisingly OK. Not Ben and Jerry’s, but I think my follies liked it!!
meh hope you’re hanging in there with the sniffing - how are you feeling about everthing
AFM, It’s been quite a week!
On Monday I got a whopping 17 eggs - all mature. Not bad for someone with undetectable AMH who the NHS would have written off and many clinics would have said own eggs were a lost cause and to go straight to donor egg…!! All 6 frozen eggs from the last cycle survived the thaw too, so we batched both lots together to get jiggy in the love lab with DH’s sperm.
Tuesday morning call from the clinic was the scariest phone call of my life! We got a ‘textbook’ fert rate with 16 out of the 23 eggs fertilising normally.
Day 3 update from the lab this morning (after watching the phone like it’s a bomb detonator, waiting for them to call!) and things are all looking great - we’re going to blast! We have 11 good quality embryos, 2 OK ones, and 3 laggards that I imagine will conk out fairly soon.
Obv we expect there to be a massive drop off between day 3 and 5, but given I was only supposed to produce a couple of eggs with undetectable AMH, the idea that we would even be able to go to blast was inconceivable!
Big big question mark is whether we’ll get a fresh transfer or not, because my lining has been borderline - so Dr put me on oestrogen tablets to try and give it a boost
Lining scan tomorrow - desperately hoping the meds will have worked their magic, and I’ll be on for ET Sat morning
If we don’t get the green light, then anything that makes it to blast will go straight into the freezer, and we’ll start work on building my lining up for a FET as soon as I get my period in 2 weeks time
Thinking thick!!!!!!