Hi ladies
Been following your posts and thinking of you all lots, sorry for radio silence, been lots of late nights at work
blue amazing news about your embryos and everything crossed for some beautiful blasts on Sat. How are you feeling?
lolly echoing what the wise ladies have already said, you are doing so amazingly well and I hope Saturday’s beta gives you only good news! I’m sorry you’re feeling so pants on the progesterone, I know a lot of people say they feel ropey on it. Hopefully something is going on to make your natural progesterone levels spike too!! You’re doing so so well, the period between ET and OTD is some kind of special hell, we are all here cheering you on
I'm so so glad we did betas, as if we had just gone on the urine pregnancy test after my FET, we would have just taken the BFP on the HPT as meaning I was pregnant and booked me in for a scan - and obv I would have found out the pregnancy wasn't viable at another heartbreaking scan. Because we were following my hCG levels with serial betas, we could see where the levels were at - and first time round, it was very reassuring to see the numbers were heading up as they were supposed to :)
bear Thinking thick for you! Hopefully you won’t need it, but can definitely recommend doing an aqua scan if it comes to it, as it can give a much clearer picture than a standard ultrasound, and help to visualise the outline of the endometrium, and indicate if there might be any adhesions or similar following the section and ERPC, that might warrant a hysteroscopy, as a standard ultrasound is fairly limited about what it can show. Although if they use the colour doppler when they’re doing a regular scan they can check your uterine blood flow - have they done that yet?
I’m curious about what clinics we are all at, as we’re all in London?! I’m actually not with a clinic per se, I’m with an independent consultant, so I see him at his consulting rooms for all my scans, but EC and ET are at CARE London, and it’s their lab.
csa when is your viability scan? everything crossed for you! Twinges are completely normal - your uterus is stretching, so cramping is definitely to be expected. Spotting isn’t necessarily anything sinister either! I didn’t have any spotting or cramping or bleeding when I had my mc, I had no clue that anything had gone wrong between my 9w and 10w scans, so I really wouldn’t read too much into any symptoms (easier said than done!) I did laugh out loud when I read about your Cyclogest wiggling out incident!
AFM, well I had my bloods done on Monday and it’s a mixed bag. I have been absorbing the patches, but not the cycloprogynova, it seems - as my oestrodial had risen, but my progesterone hadn’t moved, which suggests I haven’t absorbed the progestin in the HRT
Scan on Monday to see what’s going on, but I can’t imagine that anything will happen when I finish the packet, as I presumably won’t have a progesterone withdrawal bleed if there’s no fall in progesterone levels
Dr said in his email that he thought the best way to thicken my lining would be to use some mild stims to try and get me to ovulate, as my body seems to respond better to natural hormones (with an artificial boost) than artificial oestrogen and progesterone on their own. Will discuss on Monday whether we do ovulation induction with Gonal-F or if we give Tamoxifen a whirl. We’d discussed trying Tamoxifen in the past, and he said he was definitely open to seeing how I got on with it; although some clinics use it for donor egg recipients who don’t respond well to oestrogen, my Dr said he used to use it quite routinely instead of Clomid for ovulation induction back in the early 90s. Will also discuss whether we add in extra oestrogen with patches and Cyclogest to make sure my progesterone levels are where they need to be. Oh the indignity of 2 weeks of Cyclogest when I’m on contraception and can’t therefore have any chance of conceiving!