Failure stories

[BipBippadotta]

I'm far past the point where I'm interested in fertility success stories. Tales of lucky couples who triumphed over impossible biological odds to have their miracle baby make me want to self-immolate. Help me feel less alone in my utter irreversible barrenness by telling me about all the fertility treatments, supplements, folk remedies, voodoo, etc you've tried, that work for every other fucker on the Internet, but did bugger all for you.

I'll start!

Things that didn't work for us:
Grapefruit juice
Guaifeneisin
COQ10
Acupuncture
Vitamin E
Royal jelly
Wheatgrass
Pycnogenol
Low carbing
Inositol & melatonin
Cutting caffeine and alcohol
L-Arginine
Baby aspirin
Maca
B6
Starflower oil
Soy isoflavones
Clomid for DH (to increase sperm count)
Clomid for me
Clomid & injectables
High doses of antibiotics
Prednisone
IVF with ICSI

No way is Marion pregnant. God, maybe we could all get instadiffed at 40 if we shagged Brad Pitt.

ICY not Ivy.

I pissed on a clearblue when I got home and it's a very faint positive. Feel a bit bemeaused about it to be honest! OH is away tonight with work including a dinner, so waiting for him to be free to call me.... Never had a faint fucking anything since we started in 2013. Calming tea.

Re Brangelina it's a surprise as they only got married a couple of years ago - papering over cracks?!

Wow, Icy - cautious congrats!

Bet you're going mad waiting for OH to call!

Exactly! Hurry the fuck up!

potatoes I didn't know who she was either pre-Bradgate.

bip yes they said 30 days or so but some of the girls in my Facebook group got the tests back sooner so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's a quick turnaround and obviously that we have a genetically sound snowbaby.

Bip. Fantastic news. Keeping all crossed and good luck with the interview tomorrow

Icy. Congrats

Icy seriously excited for you. Many many many cautious congratulations.

Please send some of that my way....

Cautious congratulations icy!

loki everything crossed for your PGS results. I was told 2 weeks for mine but ended up getting a call after 5 days...! Hoping for one beautiful blast for you xx

Jumping on to this thread to say a big congratulations to all these BFPs - I'm formerly of this parish (currently 25+3) and still occasionally pop back to see how my fellow barrens are getting on. So pleased to see such good news from lots of posters I recognise.

For those who are still trying, 💪🏻 and 👊🏻 to you all. It is shit but you will get through it all one way or another.

loki I had PGS and it took around 10 days to come back and that was over Easter, so hopefully yours isn't too much longer.

bip I have been glued to celebitchy (my favourite sleb gossip site) all evening during some very boring work calls. I feel like an extremely glamorous version of my mum and dad are getting divorced.

Blondes congrats on your scan! Share a scan pic...?

Bip that's fantastic news (also fantastic that you didn't wallop your scan lady)! Again, got a scan photo? Good luck for the results. Will you have another scan at 16 weeks? Also fingers crossed for tomorrow. I know it is the interview - is it also the anniversary? I hope you manage to get through the day as well as is possible.

Banana how are you? Piss sticks still showing appropriate results? How is the pain, are you ok without your meds?

Loki cats love toast, but it may make the shit worse... Sorry time is dragging. Can you call your clinic to get an ETA for the results?

Potatoes how are you lovely?

LH I've had period pains since Saturday, and plenty of women have brown discharge before a BFP. Try and get a good night's sleep laughs hysterically at the hypocritical advice and soon it will be 4am, the inevitable test time. Good luck!

Fistbump Icy! That's great news. I think it is normal to feel disbelieving and excited and terrified all at once. I suspect for most barrens, that disbelieving feeling only goes away when the child turns 30. What did your DH say?

Peeing on things is a sore subject - my bastarding UTI is back, so I'm on another lot of 'pregnancy-safe' antibiotics. I found one out-of-date 10iu stick this morning that DH had missed when confiscating them all, so I peed on that and got a reasonable line. Like Santa Claus, he is going to deliver a 20iu test to the bathroom overnight so it is waiting for my morning test. I wish I'd got a digi today but I was too distracted yelling at my incompetent GP's receptionist for losing my sodding UTI sample so i had to ditch work and deliver another.

OMFG Brangelina. This meme was the highlight of my day:

As starter of this thread I may need to declare is a scan-pic free zone. Enough of that all over Facebook & the rest of the world. Good to have a bit of respite from it when most of us are still trying to get upduffed.

(Not that we're not all pleased & relieved about good scans! Just that it can get a bit much when they're all over your newsfeed / email inbox etc, and you're still some way off getting there yourself)

Fair enough, although I'm sad to lose the chance to make Starship Enterprise jokes.

Robber I will send you a pic of my scan pic

I'm so overjoyed after 10yrs of ttc that happy to splat it anywhere - it's on my FB and the 2 scan pics 7&12w are probably the most liked and commented pics I have. Over 400 comments and likes from all my friends who know what this means to me

But understand some may not like it x

LH and Icy how are you?

Bip good luck today.

OTD and there is definitely a line on a 20ui! Happy and so scared this won't last.

The luck continues - I got a BFP!! Still breathing deeply since 5am. Good positive on FRER and faint one on ClearBlue.

Feeling good - will get some bloods this morning. Wishing you all a day filled with luck and continued hope.

Many congrats Robber, and thank you all for your ongoing support.

Bip, thinking of you today!

I'm really pleased for you, Blondes and it's great that you have got so much can support and validation. I know this pregnancy means a lot to you.

Some of us will never have a successful 12 week scan. Personally I find scan images frightening and upsetting, after seeing my full term baby's non-beating heart on a scan during labour, and learning then that she had died. I learned of the end of my next three pregnancies at ultrasound scans. I find it very hard looking at them.

It doesn't mean I'm not not happy for anyone. But all of us here have had a very hard time or one sort or another. I had hoped this thread might be a place where of course we can be happy for one another, but also where we respect and give space to one anothers' sadness and frustration and distress - as there is little room for that elsewhere. You'll understand that from 10 years ttc. All I'm asking is for a little bit of sensitivity.

Congratulations, robber and LH!

LH!! Let's raise a non alcoholic to even getting this far. It is the closest I've ever been, though obviously still very far away.

Thank you so very much Bip - even as a novice I understand your beautifully written sentiments entirely. While I love to read of any piece of luck for all of us, I also find pictures of scans stressful (for very different reasons to your very real ones).

Blondes, I got away with my cheeky early test (just!). I so hope I make it to a happy and healthy 12 week scan stage like you. Feels like an age away today!

Thank you and you to Robber!! I am putting one caffeinated nespresso shot into my coffee right now - I'm CRAZY.

Thanks Bip andblondes. I'm sorry for causing any upset with the original request, it was the last thing I intended.