Blue I’m so so happy for you - you and DH deserve this so much. What a wonderful birthday present - I very much hope Jovan gets a beautiful brother or sister in 9 months time. I don’t know who you’re seeing for IC but I know from a friend, and from a few posters on FF, that Nick Wales at Chelsea and Westminster is THE go to guy for cerclage. He specialises in a TAC rather than a standard TVC, a friend saw him privately for a pre pregnancy consultation, but he said that as she had such a short cervical length following a LLETZ, she was a good candidate for asking the CCG to fund it. That’s a pre pregnancy stitch, so I imagine a pregnancy cerclage would be much more readily funded. I’m glad you can get into the EPU and NHS system quickly, and hope they will monitor the shit out of you. Larger baps sound like a v positive sign too! Mine went ridiculous very very quickly. There was no hiding anything as my tiny frame had these massive bangers up top all of a sudden….!
Bear sorry about the commute and hope the good feeling is backed up with a second line next week!
Lolly yep you are officially up the duff! Hope the nausea isn’t too rough going and you can keep suitably distracted until the scan
csa likewise to you until your scan!
AFM, saw my lovely consultant this morning, was a productive and actually quite positive appt. 5 days after finishing the course of tamoxifen and I have a 10-11mm follicle, and my lining is around 6mm (hard to be accurate with the coil in, but he took a few different measurements). Which is pretty much exactly where he would hope it would be at this stage. A few other follicles had some early recruitment, so we decided we’d try and give the lining a jump start by getting some more follicles to join the party - so we’ve added in some low dose Gonal-F. He wants to try and use just my body’s own natural hormones - so no extra oestrogen or progesterone, as that’s how my body seems to have done best. Had bloods done to monitor oestrodial and back in a week to rescan (and trigger)
He was very excited about the red bleeding, and said that it didn’t matter about the heaviness of the flow (as there wasn’t much lining TO shed), but the fact there was red blood meant it was coming away from the myometrium, - so was hopefully shedding properly. He said the fact my cervical smear sample 4 days later was bloody, was also a good sign that something was going on!
We talked at length about the prognosis, and whether if - worst case - things didn’t improve, should we draw a line under things and not risk another transfer. Or, if he would support one more crack at the whip (even if only for us to feel like we really had given it every possible chance before moving on). He said he genuinely didn’t think it would be an exercise in futility, and was worth another shot - but would advise if clinically he would caution against wasting an embryo, if he thought it was categorically a no-hoper.
Which he said he didn’t, at this point in time. The red bleeding and initially promising scan were positive signs, he said. He said he had felt very reassured by how good the uterine environment looked when he did the last hysto. And most importantly of all, he said, the fact I have successfully propagated a pregnancy before was what gave him most hope. So he didn’t think all hope was lost yet, and that he hoped that if we could persevere with ovulation induction, that we could teach my body to menstruate, and encourage cyclical regeneration of the endometrium. We’re playing a long game.
For now, that’s a week of low dose jabs (realised it's my 6th Gonal-F cycle!), and will see what next week’s scan shows…
Sorry for rambling on!!