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Going through IVF in February?

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TwinklingLight · 19/01/2016 10:42

If so, please join the club. Let's keep each other going!

In our case, we're going abroad for ours - Norway. What about you?

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NotSpartacus · 06/04/2016 18:47

That's great. Really really pleased for you Sparrow.

I went back to work today, it helped to distract me from excessive googling.

NotSpartacus · 07/04/2016 09:50

Someone please stop me symptom spotting. I have mild cramps, suddenly chapped lips and a galaxy of little pimples all over my chest and (randomly) the bridge of my nose. Wearing my specks to cover them up. Stay put little beans. Was looking at their photo again last night and they were hatching when it was taken - kind of cool.

Hope everyone is ok. Goinggrey, are you successfully resisting the urge to test? In my natural cycles I have been able to test from 10dpo, which translates to 5dp5dt, but I guess I might have the trigger shot in my system then and also I don't want a week of unofficial BFNs and moping before final confirmation if this hasn't worked...

goinggrey1978 · 07/04/2016 11:47

NotSpartacus, i can test on the 15th but may wait till the day after, as its a work day, i'm not keen on the wee on a stick business tbh. i would be nice to know either way if the bubble has stayed put but then i still have to wait ages before the early scan, i'm very positive have had rumbles but i have colitis so they are normal for me, its really hard not lifting, carrying and doing thing i would normally do as i think i'm she ra anyway!! i too have spots/eczema rash on my chest and 3 spots on my face, think they are chocolate related though!! i've been pretty hungry for nice things but on the other hand not known what i fancied for dinner, so feel like i can't win!!
hope everyone else is well and all stay positive!!

NotSpartacus · 07/04/2016 12:19

They told me the 16th but that is ages away! The beans were ready to implant by the time they went in so light to be pumping out hormones by now. I do feel sick which I don't think is the drugs as I have been on them for a week but then I invariable feel sick in a natural (non preg) cycle too!

Sashaw88 · 07/04/2016 17:03

Hi Ladies,

Hope you don't mind me joining in the conversation so late. Went through first cycle of IVF in March. Had blastocyst transfer Sunday the 3rd and can't do a HPT till next Tuesday the 12th.

Well I'm silly and couldn't resist testing today, 5 days early and obviously had a BFN and now am very scared and worried it will remain this way when I test again Tuesday.

Anyone out there with similar behaviour resulting in good news?!?!

SparrowSG · 07/04/2016 18:37

Hi Sasha, that's quite early for you to test.. did you have a 3 or 5 day transfer?

Your body doesn't start producing HCG until implantation so you may be too early to test.

"hCG is produced by the placenta at implantation, when the embryo starts to implant or attach itself into the utering lining. Implantation occurs on average 9 days and between 6-12 days after conception or fertilization or ovulation."

NotSpartacus · 07/04/2016 18:54

Sasha, I agree it sounds a bit early. You are the equivalent of 9dpo. Embryos implant from day 6 and it is a process. Even after it starts, it can take a day or two for measurable HCG to be produced, and another day or two for it to be in your wee. Even those very early tests (eg FRER) often won't give a BFP until at least 10dpo. Do you're not out yet! If you had an HCG trigger you now know that it is out of your system. Did you, and how much was it? This is my current obsession, I am a day behind you.

NotSpartacus · 07/04/2016 18:55

*so, not do (typing on phone)

Sashaw88 · 07/04/2016 18:55

Thank you for your calming words Sparrow

I had a 5 day transfer and I know I've tested too early but now I'm too scared to test even next week when I can for fear of failure. This is my first round of IVF but as we all know, we've all been let down so many times in the past trying through natural cycles that I don't want to be let down by science!

Ours is a case of "unexplained" infertility which has me furious. I'd rather be told there's something wrong with me than "it will happen eventually".

sigh The waiting continues!

Sashaw88 · 07/04/2016 18:58

Can't even remember re: trigger NotSpartacus I just took a trigger injection two nights before my EC and since then have just been on cyclogest post EC x

goinggrey1978 · 07/04/2016 19:38

Sashaw88, hi my embryo transplant was on sunday 3rd too, mine was a 5 day blastocyst i think, my memory has been shocking since starting ivf medication way back in february!!
i'm on progynova and cyclogest, both medications have there ups and downs, thankfully all seems to have settled down with them both now!
i'm doing a lot better than the weekend, was really run down at the weekend, starting to feel a bit more human now, made myself some delicious home made dinner with lots of vegetables too!

Sashaw88 · 07/04/2016 19:51

goinggrey1978 for the first few days I had the worst constipation from the cyclogest Blush but eating as well as I can and foods high in fibre.

I had my transfer Sunday April 3rd but bulk of IVF medication throughout March. After EC I had severely bruised ovaries and was in bed all of last week - apparently it only happens to 2 out of 100 women who undergo EC but I've never felt pain like it! My doctor said the size of my ovaries were almost as large as oranges! DP jokes its practise for child birth. Ha!

NotSpartacus · 07/04/2016 20:21

Ouch - i know the feeling. I have had a lot of surgery and think I am quite hard when it comes to pain, but i cried when I woke up from EC because it hurt. Thank goodness they sedated me - i would hate to remember it!

Kwick709 · 07/04/2016 21:49

notspartacus my clexane is the same - sometimes it is nice n easy other times it is excruciating... And I was just feeling glad that the huge bruise I had was fading when I go and get another one... Which I think is even bigger!

Kwick709 · 07/04/2016 21:56

Congratulations sparrow!!!!!

notspartacus what trigger did you take? I started to test 4 days before OTD - I must say that I did not believe the BFPs until the day before the OTD and to be honest I still am not a true believer and may have even purcahsed a test here in Barcelona and tested this morning

NotSpartacus · 07/04/2016 22:03

Pregnyl, 10,000ui. Apparently it takes 8-10 days to be gone, so ought to be out of my system by now (I triggered Monday last week) . If I am pg a test should show in 2-5 days from now. But OTD is not until the 16th (arg! That's aaaages) and if I get a BFP before then I am going to worry it's to do with the pregnyl unless I have first tested that it has gone. The problem with that is if I test now and it is a BFP it will get my hopes up, even though I will know it could be pregnyl related.

I don't know why they give such a late OTD!

NotSpartacus · 07/04/2016 22:09

Are you still travelling Kwick?

Kwick709 · 08/04/2016 06:31

Yep still on the road! Back this pm. You have same predicament as I had... I would advise your reasons of testing early, and then if you are convinced to go ahead then strt OTD -4. I decided to start testing early as if bfn I would have a chance to handle devastation over a weekend.

Kwick709 · 08/04/2016 06:32

Look at my new Clexane bruise!!!

Going through IVF in February?
goinggrey1978 · 08/04/2016 06:47

Morning everyone, I have various reasons to test a day later, I'm crap at the pee on a stick business, it's a work day, I'd rather do it at the weekend and I'm more likely to get a lovely friend to be with me at the weekend as well!

NotSpartacus · 08/04/2016 11:14

Wow, that is a fine bruise Kwick. I am pretty convinced these would not happen if they would sharpen their bloody needles!

Goinggrey, you are clearly far more restrained than me!

I have tried to follow Goinggrey's lead and resolved not to test until at least Tuesday. OTD is a week tomorrow and I reckon the trigger shot will definitely be out of my system by the end of Monday. I have however invested in about £25 -worth of tests!! Still spotty and greasy with chapped lips but nothing I could describe as a pregnancy symptom. Even the boobs have stopped hurting.

goinggrey1978 · 08/04/2016 11:34

NotSpartacus, i know what you mean about the spots, face is breaking out all over the place, lovely that!!
i just feel like there's not put winding myself up or reading into anything i suppose, i have that nasty taste in my mouth again, i'm assuming its the medication as i had it before, i'm taking the opportunity to eat what i can at the moment as i know after the nasty taste comes total loss of appetite, whereby i have to force myself to eat anything, well thats what's happened so far whilst i've been on the medication since the end of january!!
still positive thinking despite waking up for the loo up to 3 times a night now, i've got so used to it now i feel like a robot in my sleep!!

Sashaw88 · 08/04/2016 12:07

Does anyone else torture themselves watching One Born Every Minute and other baby shows? I know a lot of women on here already have children but I'm trying for No. 1 and I work myself up over these shows! I know it's silly but I can't help myself. :-(
I just cry at the TV half the time

goinggrey1978 · 08/04/2016 12:33

Sashaw88, hi i'm very lucky as i work in a school so sometimes i can be in charge of over 200 children at one time during the lunchtime, i'm also attached to a young man with a statement for most of the week and work with various other children in small groups or on a 1:1 basis. A lot of the children i work with have difficult home lives so i am their only stable role model, so therefore my job and role within my school is very rewarding, sometimes its very small like getting a child to sit still on their chair to massive achievements like speaking to an unfamiliar adult, these things make me proud!! everyday is different and the smallest things can bring tears to your eyes, i remember about 3 years ago a troublesome young man said thank you to me for supporting him with his maths, i cried later in the staffroom, as i was so happy that i had made a difference to his day! i work with a massive team of other teaching support ladies and we all have our ups and downs, we all look out for each other and the air is sometimes very blue in that staff room, but we have a laugh and enjoy our jobs most of the time!
i think hormones also have a major effect on us woman even without the injections and ivf medications we have to take, yes this is my first as well, i actually watched 2 one born every minute programmes earlier, i just thought how lucky those ladies are and hopefully that will be me soon!
next week i'll probably feel completely different!!

Sashaw88 · 08/04/2016 13:49

Wow what an amazing and fulfilling job you have goinggrey! Also sets you up quite nicely for impending motherhood :)
I don't work which has been a God-send during the IVF treatment as I have no idea how I would have been able to cover up so many visits to the clinic or why I was so lethargic recently, but the downside is I have too much time on my hands to think about things and I work myself up over it, always thinking "what if this" "what if that" "what if what if" and then I call DP in tears while he's at work and he has to calm me down.
Yes fingers crossed for us for next week!! I do look at my friends who've got pregnant after only a few months of trying (most recently my cousin who said it took her only three months like with her first born) - I used to get angry and upset but now I try to take it in my stride. Not easy!!