start dr today

[tillyann2013]

After 5 years of secondary infertility we are at the start of our first IVF cycle. Nervous and a little bit excited at the same time. Will start buserlin this evening. Anyone else due to start?

Hey girls, hope you're both well. Little poot that's a fab no of eggs, great news! Hope you're resting up nicely. Did you husband not have to go in at the same time as you? We were told that ec and sample happen at the same time so I've arranged for a family member to come and watch our son for the morning.
Lemonade sorry you're feeling so uncomfortable, never heard of kissing ovaries either. Hopefully you can trigger Monday
My scan was good this morning too, lots of follicles on both sides measuring about 14 or so. Still not there yet so he's increased my dose again to 400 and will see me again Monday morning.

Great stuff Tilly - they're definitely ready to go for Monday I reckon. Yes - dh followed about half an hour behind me so he could drop ds at a friend's. We thought a 7am drop off might not be so popular.... And its an hour of admission and checks and then collection before they get any eggs so it didn't matter be was a bit later. Fingers crossed they're doing their stuff.

So if I trigger Monday night we could be flying out Tuesday with egg collection wed? Would that be right?

Yep - if you trigger at say 9pm Monday, collection would be 9am Wednesday. You're just itching to buy your flights aren't you?! So hard not to know for definite!

Ha ha ha, yes I am little poot! Well spotted. I was so tired last night, think I was in bed at 9 and completely zonked by half past.
Thank goodness for the weekend. Anything nice planned? We have a kiddies party to go to but other than that, no plans.

Nothing much planned here. Need to spend a bit of time on my garden but I'm still pretty uncomfortable so probably not this morning! I'm finding it harder and harder not to obsess over everything. I'm also now on twice a day progesterone pessaries which is grim.

When will you hear from them little poot? Any idea? Hope its soon. Fingers crossed for you. Is that cyclogest? I've got them too. Yuck. Still, needs must eh? All these hours I'm wishing away, just can't wait till Monday morning. Never said that before lol!

They said they call before 2pm, but I seem to remember from last time its more like 12pm. Yes - Cyclogest. Revolting stuff. I think I'd rather do more injections, and that's saying something.

Had a very early start this morning as they asked me to come in for another scan, and another early scan tomorrowas they are worried about me over stimulating, cut the final-f back to 100 but hopefully egg collection will be Tuesday! Just picking up my trigger shot but have to wait an hour for the pharmacy to open!

Littlepoot Fingers crossed for you today!

Tilly hope you can busy yourself this weekend so that Monday comes around quickly!

Sounds a bit scary lemonade so really glad they're keeping a close eye on you. Hopefully you'll be good to trigger tomorrow then and let those ovaries have a rest. Hope you're not too uncomfortable.

Now, am I being unfair or is my husband being a dick? This morning he got up with ds (because I had to let the pessary dissolve!!) and has been busying around getting washing on and doing a bit of tidying up and has now taken ds out for a swim. All sounds great, yes? But he hasn't once asked how I'm feeling. Hasn't asked how my stomach is. Hasn't asked when the phone call is due or how I'm feeling about it. Just carrying on as if it's a normal Saturday. WHICH IT BLOODY ISN'T!!! Insensitive arse.

I don't think your being unfair how he's acting sounds really annoying. After my egg collection I expect full on pampering! After all this treatment is for the benefit of both of you! Sometimes I don't think men dont realise how much we are putting our bodies through. But maybe he is worried about today's phone all and trying to put his head n the sand. But he could at least ask how you are feeling! Hope you can enjoy some time to yourself whist they're swimming!x

Thanks!! I think he sees him doing extra cleaning and child stuff as pampering.... Anyway, now I'm not growing eggs I'm dyeing my hair and eating chocolate! Then I'm going to sit out in the garden in the sun. Healthy diet to build womb lining can start tomorrow.....

Sounds good enjoy it!

Just got the call - out of those 20, 16 were mature enough to inject and 14 fertilised! Only 10 fertilised last time so that's fantastic!

Yay littlepoot! That is totally fab news, delighted for you.
What happens now? I'm a bit clueless after this bit.
And yes, men are insensitive prats a lot of the time!

Now we just have to wait and see how they grow. They check tomorrow and the next day and tell me how many cells each embryo has and what quality they are. Then day 4 they leave them be because that's when they try and turn into blastocysts. Day 5 they tell me how many blastocysts there are and in my case they then biopsy them and count chromosomes. If any are ok I'll have a day 6 transfer. Normally transfer would be day 5 or if there's only 2/3 embryos to start with then they often do a day 3 transfer instead.

Congratulations Littlepoot that is fantastic news!!! Fingers crossed for the next few days, it's a real waiting game isn't it!

I've found a really nice apartment 10 mins from the hospital on air bnb. It's perfect, got great reviews and is available. My husband is now stalling and saying he'd rather a hotel but it's more than double the cost. He reckons it would be more relaxing in a hotel and it's got a pool, restaurant eye and would be more like a holiday. I think he is MAD and would rather save what we can. Any thoughts?

I wouldn't worry too much about the money (the amount we've spent already, a bit more doesn't really make any difference!!) but more what's going to be the most relaxing for you. For example, will you have to share a room with your little one in either case and if so how is that? (Mine snores so I can't share with him!) Pool will be nice for dh and ds but you aren't meant to go in the pool, especially after collection (infection risk). Hotel will have a cleaner but presumably the apartment will have more rooms so you don't all have to be in the same one the whole time. In the apartment, you'll be able to leave stuff out and make it feel homely but then you will have to do your own cleaning. There are a lot of restaurants in London so having one in the hotel won't make any difference! Personally I'd prefer an apartment but only because I wouldn't want to only have a bedroom and to have to share it with my noisy child!

Humm that's a tricky one. I can see how it would be nice to treat it as a holiday, and stay in a nice hotel, but also nice to have somewhere you can hang out all day and not be on top of one another ( hotel rooms in London always seem so small!) I think it depends on how you will feel after egg collection, I guess your going to want to rest most of they day, so it's whether you'd prefer that to be hotel or more of a homely environment, although room service is appealing!

Omg, just went to do my jabs and just realised I don't have enough gonalf for tomorrow nights. I thought all the boxes were 900's but the last one is only 450. So instead of doing 400, I'll only have 287.5 left.
What a nightmare, just had a complete meltdown.

Oh crap - that's not what you need! Where did you get them from in the first place, was it through the post? Call your clinic for advice (do they have an out of hours number?). And check for out of hours pharmacies to call this morning and see if you can track down some more? If not, all it will do is possibly slow things down a tiny bit - it won't ruin anything. Try not to worry too much (easier said than done I'm sure). Xxx

Oh no what a nightmare! Hopefully there will be a pharmacy open today. We're you supposed to be doing gonal-f today as well?

As Littlepoot say It won't ruin anything just may slow things down, but it's something you shouldnt have to worry about!

Yes it's gonal f. I've just called the lister emergency number and she's basically said there's nothing they can do I'll just have to take what I've got.
My husband is gonna get a thump too, he's like surely 100ml doesn't make that much difference? And rolls over back to sleep. Knob.
She's going to email the doctor to see if I can get a script. Fingers crossed.

Hope you manage to get it sorted Tilly, but please try not to worry too much. Your husband could have been a lot more supportive though! They are hopeless aren't they?! But ultimately, that amount is not going to make a massive impact so if that's all you can do then it will all still be fine. x