Going through IVF in February?

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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?

hi ladies how are you all, i had a terrible weekend of hormone overload and tears, feeling a bit better now

Goinggray1978 you sound like such a strong and capable person. I don't have any wise words, it's such a shitty place to be so totally understandable it feels overwhelming at times. Glad to hear your feeling better now. Have you had your baseline scan yet?

I'm back at the clinic at the end of this week - Im hoping they will tell me I'm ready to start stimming. I just want to get on with it and get it all over with now.

Waves to everyone else. I hope your all doing OK X

Goingcrazy53 thanks i have my baseline scan at the end of the week, so yes everything is moving along finally, i don't whether its age or the medication or lack of sleep but i seem to have total memory loss at the moment, can't seem to retain any information given to me!! only way to remember anything is to write it down or put a memo on my phone!!

hope everyone else is well and not feeling too rough with the medication!
had 2 scans as i wasn't ready and had i just started bleeding the night before the first scan, 2nd scan yesterday everything how it should be so now taking progynova until the next scan at the end of the week, feeling quite excited now as the nurse thinks implantation will be within the next 12 days and they will also ring me to let me know how the donor ladies baseline scan goes!

Hello everyone, I posted on the first page but then AF was delayed for a couple of weeks

I'm having a natural (ish!) FET hopefully this month. Have another scan tomorrow and when follicle is big enough I will have an hcg trigger. We are transferring two day 2 embryos (1xgrade 1 and 1xgrade 2)
I'm also having aspirin, clexane, prednisolone and progesterone as I had a failed FET last year and they suspect it is due to my anti thyroid antibodies/immune issues so giving these medications a try

I have to say I'm not that positive as it's going to be a day two transfer but fingers crossed !

Scan yesterday showed follicles not yet ready so I have another scan tomorrow. Egg collection probably Wednesday or Thursday.

waitingimpatient, any spares of mine will be frozen ready for FET, if this cycle doesn't work or for a sibling, fingers crossed for you!
westergille, good luck

Hello everyone! I hope you do not mind me joining the thread.

I am on day 4 of stimming cycle - I did down-reg last month with norethisterone and superfact nasal spary (sure to be some typos there - sorry!), now I am injections of Fostimon and Merional every day and Zomacton every other day plus Dexamethasone tablets... have no idea what it will all do... hopefully give me lots of lovely strong healthy eggs!!

I am 41 years old and single - so using donor sperm - like you everhopeful :). This is my first try at IVF after 5 failed IUI cycles, all unmedicated except for last one (Menopur).. I did go a bit loopy with that so hopefully that won't happen again (it was over Christmas holidays so could keep the cray-cray incognito....!). All this is private - with CRGH in London.

Muddyboots you are amazeballs!! Thank God for people like you

I am on some other threads but felt the need to share with other ivfers... I have no idea what a scratch is? I did have a hysteroscopy a few weeks ago as they found something they wanted to take a closer look at in the DET/3D scan... boy was that painful!

Best of luck to everyone!

Hi Kwick709
Am still downregging, did the norethisterone and on superfract on its own until I have the blood test to check suppression. Was expecting the side effects to be awful, but not been too bad at all. I feel very lucky, as many ladies on here don't seem to have been so fortunate. Im going onto Menopur injections from Fri (hopefully) so hopefully I wont go loopy on that. That is a lot of injections you are having!! Wow!! Best of luck to you

Goinggrey - I was just trawling thru previous posts and meant to respond to you. Am sorry you are having a rough time on the medication but sounds like things are moving fwd now.
Its nice to connect with 2 fellow single ladies having IVF within the same month.

I hope everything is well with everyone else. Westergille - good luck for your EC this week. Waitingimpatient - hope it goes well for your forthcoming transfer. What are these immunity issues, anti thyroid issues you have had? I ve had real difficulty getting my thyroid levels right, because I lost a lot of weight, and as that was happening so to were my thyroid margins. Pain in the arse. Its really difficult to get your body optimally ready for IVF. I have also had to have high dose vit d, and get my iron levels raised too, as well as a huge amount of other supplements for my low ovarian reserve.

Goingcrazy - have you started stimming now? Hope things are ok

Hi everyone, it's been a while.

I have my appointment with the nurse tomorrow and will pick up my scripts etc then. I guess I am now about a month behind most of you. Today is CD1 so I'll be starting norethisterone in a couple of weeks.

bespoke is there any particular reason you're going for freeze all? (Sorry, I don't mean to be nosey, am just trying to understand as much as I can about this process and the different options).

kwick I am at CRGH too, so looking forward to the lots of drugs approach! (the growth hormone thing has me a bit worried, but I'm just not going to think about it!!). I'm going straight for hysteroscopy, skipping the saline scan, as I have had two of those before and both times have ended up having a hysteroscopy anyway because of "technical difficulties". The scratch is when they scrape a bit at the lining of your uterus and apparently the healing promotes implantation. CRGH do it within about the month before embryo transfer, so maybe they gave you a little scratch during your hysteroscopy.

So excited for all of you getting close to egg collection or transfers. Best of luck.

Wow NotSpartacus you are very knowledgable will need to ask if they did scratch I will actually be in for a scan and bloods tomorrow... I will be wearing a pink rose (joke!).

Everhopeful I did not have any scans during down-regging... just a baseline on Friday when I had withdrawal bleed - but they seemed satisfied with what they saw.

Some goodies arrived today - 2 for 1 FRER, "Right time baby" (really great book for later motherhood) and a IVF hypnosis CD - very relaxing. I am curious as to why downregging is supposed to be so hard... all I got was a headache with the nasal spray but no real emotional upset... is that normal?

I realised the alternate day injection is growth hormone... blimey I hope my nose does not get any bigger.

everhopeful at my first appt a year ago my TSH was too high at 4.4

Started levothyroxine and it went down to 2.4 then up again to 4.8

After researching it I went privately for bloods to see if I had anti thyroid antibodies which I do. I also have eczema asthma hay fever and allergies and family history of autoimmune disorders. I had a failed FET back in October with a top grade embryo, lining perfect etc etc so they suspect immune issues causing failed implantation.

waitingimpatient that is sad. Are you able to do anything about it?

waitingimpatient - I understand the thyroid issue, because have had hypothyroidism for years. Unfortunately because I needed to lose weight for IVF, the levels have changed as my weight has come down. Was told needed to be 4.2 or under (ideally 2.2) and for me its very hard to get that optimum level. I think it will be some way above that margin now, as my levels went out about a month ago, but since then I ve had a lower dose of thyroxine to bring it down, plus targeted acupuncture for both fertility and thyroid issue, and have had to keep my weight as it is, when ideally I wanted to lose at least another stone. The fertility experts bang on about BMI, but when you have other health issues, its hard to know what the main concern is

Bless you, it sounds like this is a real test for you, hope it can be resolved. Did you get your bloods done thru your fertility clinic? I see from your previous post they have recommended aspirin, clexane, prednisolone and progesterone - that sounds like targeted luteal support!!!

Its possible I could be treading a similar path - but as you have got some frozen embryos, at least hopefully it might not impact on the stimming and retrieving of eggs aspect of my treatment, am just thinking out loud in that I could have the tests in a preventative way rather than wait for a cycle to fail or just go in all guns a - blazo for more luteal support. Also if I have the same issue, regardless of whether I need to move to using donor eggs, I would still need the same treatment. Have you had many rounds of IVF to get your frozen embryos?

Kwik709 - I have a IVF meditation CD arriving today hopefully. I ll take a look at a write up of the book too. Yes I ve had very little probl with the nasal spray, some flushing (hot and cold) some teary episodes (but short lived) infact mostly its made me quite hyper and see the lighter side of things, which cant be usual? I have my blood test to check suppression on Thursday and my baseline scan on Fri 4th. Praying for as many follicles as possible. When is your next scan? Good luck!!

NotSpartacus - Are you on the buserelin spray from day 21 after starting norethisterone or a different protocol? Good luck to you

Good luck to all x

everhopeful no buserelin for me, which is a shame because one of my friends who has just had IVf success tells me that it made her terribly calm, and I could use some of that!

So, I came home from the clinic with an enormously long prescription and now have to try source a zillion drugs. Did anyone find a good (and cheap!!) pharmacy that you'd recommend?

Ahh I wouldn't say it had made me terribly calm, made my moods go up and down, but was already down from all the waiting so it was welcome news to feel hyper and be more light hearted and have energy. A lot of folks have reported the exact opposite tho so who knows!!
What protocol and drugs are you on, it is so strange that there seems to be a lot of variance between us all.

I got all my drugs from Stork, but I didn't have an option as that is the company my clinic uses. They were very efficient with the order and I got within 3 days - had felt quite annoyed that I was delayed last month because the drugs wouldn't be ordered in time and I had 2 weeks. Odd, but who knows what the real reason was.

notspartucus I am surprised CRGH gave you a choice over the meds.... Or maybe they just recommended Healthcare at Home to me. I think Asda may have some of the stuff?

I had one round of mild IVF last April. I have pcos and got 16 eggs but only ended up with 3 frozen embryos and the rest didn't fertilise/fertilised abnormally/arrested and only three were left
My day 3 embryo I used in FET in October but that failed and I was so upset as everything looked perfect. I def think immune issues are to blame. Hopefully all the medications this cycle will help. If not I will ha e to do another mild IVF cycle and hopefully get more/better quality embryos for freezing then restart on the FET path.

I won't lie I thought by now it would have worked so I've been struggling a bit with feeling low. I have day 2 embryos this time too so not sure if they'll work as day 3 or 5 are meant to be better.

I'm hoping the steroids and clexane etc are the magic ingredient in all this!

That all sounds really hard, waitingimpatient. Are you going to put two embryos in this time? I know "they" seem to suggest that further along embryos are better, but labs are surely not as good as a uterus, so who knows what will happen once they are on board. Do you know when your transfer is likely to be?

Kwick I think the choice is because I have been dragging my feet getting started and now have time to shop around. It is making me a bit nervous though - internet drug shopping feels pretty dodgy to me! I"ll probably end up sticking to the supermarkets so I can at least be sure of where they are coming from. I query anyway whether anyone other than healthcare at home will have the growth hormone - it seems a bit niche!

How is everyone else?

hi everyone, sorry been hectic at work and also had a call to say my dates are changing and i have to get another injection in the butt next week as my donor lady has some complications which they can sort this week, so i'm going to have another bleed then another baseline on the 15th march, which is fine by me as it means a bit of time off travelling to london and back !!

my medication came from Healthcare at Home, as well, although i didn't have to pay as i'm an nhs patient

I must confess that I am feeling a bit low. I had my day 6 scan yesterday and bloods... They had to stab me 3 times before they got the blood.... Onoy 2 follicles... Then they rang to confirm my mega dosages should continue and postpone next scan from day 8 to day 9. Come on follies grow and multiply!!!!

I'm with you Kwick, the nurse struggled to find one of my ovaries on the scan this morning! I had a mad thought that it had shrivelled and given up . I have EC scheduled for Friday - hoping the small follicles will have grown so I get an extra good haul. This week has been really stressful. I guess the hormones are making me super emotional and the worry each day about when EC will be, and then when (hopefully) transfer and testing will be ie will testing be on a day when I have an important work meeting which I'll have to make up some excuse to rearrange. And today, having wasted masses of time working out all the different permutations, I should be happy that I won't be missing important or interesting activities but I just feel exhausted with it all. And that it probably won't work anyway

Sorry, Kwick and everyone, I should be trying to be more positive. Let's have some

Westergille it is a hard slog but will be so worth it. i keep on forgetting to tell scanner that I onoybahve one ovary and sometimes they spend ages looking for one not there.
Do you know what a good number of follies would be?
I will keep my fingers crossed for you :)