bip thinking of you. This whole journey puts a strain on any relationship, and Christ knows you guys have weathered some hellishly stormy times. What you said about being insular resonates so much - for our own sanity over the last year DH and I have found ourselves retreating to separate corners of the house, because we need to just try and deal with shit in our own way, and frustrations can easily boil over with us sniping at each other. That, and we just have no chat any more. I have fuck all to say that isn't about IVF or infertility or miscarriage - because that's literally all that's going on in our lives. We've become hermits hiding away from friends, and tbh often just giving ourselves some space from each other. Thank fuck for the Olympics as that gave us something to talk about. Big unmumsnetty hugs.
Hope the queasiness eases and have everything crossed for Panorama.
blondes yep those fanjo bullets ought to have been made from unicorn tears. Won't know whether they actually did make any difference to the lining or not: consultant checked blood flow again and said it was looking terrific, but then again it's always looked decent. Tbh at this point its value is as much in knowing we've thrown everything we possibly could at this cycle, and so whatever the outcome, can't say there was more we could / should have tried
robber how are you doing? Thinking of you (and your follicles). Would they consider converting from ovulation induction to IVF (in a subsequent cycle, if not this one) if you were over responding?
Welcome bloop!
wild I checked out the IVF socks you mentioned, omfg so twee. Socks with PUPO on them. . The lemony uplifting liquid the shaman sprayed over you certainly sounds rather more fragrant than the mental image your anecdote originally conquered up! 
potatoes good luck with operation non-meat-free Monday!
Had EC yesterday - although they classed it as a 'cyst aspiration' as we weren't using the eggs for treatment. Can't remember exactly how many follicles the Dr told me he'd aspirated, as I was still off my tits on sedation, but good news is it wasn't too many - as the whole point was to stim me just enough to grow my lining, not for my ovaries to go off like rockets and risk OHSS. Although it does show how variable response is from cycle to cycle - I used a lower overall dose in May and got a whopping haul, this time I actually stayed on 150iu for longer, and responded much more modestly (Dr said if we'd been doing IVF he'd have upped my stims). Only 3 months apart, very different responses. Bodies, eh?
Can't believe that was my fourth egg collection in 11 months.
Think the plan is to do a final lining check on Weds - but hopefully all being well FET will be on Thu
Made the mistake of looking at timings for this cycle, and they’re so hilariously awful, you couldn’t make it up. If this one takes, then viability scan would be around the time of my due date from the last one. And if I got that far, 10w - when we lost the last one - would be on my bday exactly. Now envisaging a miscarriage as a 35th birthday present. Urgh.