Cycle buddies Oct/Nov 16

[Hope2409]

Hello,

Is anyone else about to start a cycle?
I start down regulating on Sunday, estimated embryo transfer week beginning 21st Nov, this will be my first round of IVF/ICSI after 3.5 years trying to concieve.

Mixture of emotions, excited to be starting after waiting so long to get here, nervous about side effects of drugs and injecting and terrified it wont work! The joys of infertility!

Xxx

Hope try not too worry about the numbers is the quality that counts, they don't sound concerned so you shouldn't be and you could still be on track for Tuesday with a Sunday scan

Blue good luck for tomorrow (I didn't know it was possible to overfill your bladder!)

LoPI hope the gonal f goes ok

Hobbes if they didn't mention your drugs needing refrigerating it'll be ok, mine did need to be in the fridge and were delivered in a massive cool box

Sara glad the scan went well and that your feeling better now, sometimes the best thing is a good cry

Thanks ladies hopefully they do just need a boost, just very tearful today, i think i have found this bit the hardest so far.

hobbes my clinic and drug company specified that my gonal f had to go in the fridge and got delivered seperate in a massive cool box like custards! So would of thought yours would of too if they had needed refridgerating.

blue good luck tomorrow!

sara glad i'm not the only one crying before/after scans it is just so bloody emotional isnt it! Glad yr scan went well tho xx

Thanks for the kind wishes. I have a 3BC blastocyst on board and I'm thrilled! Two potential candidates for freezing if they develop further overnight - we'll find out tomorrow. DH was incredibly nervous though, more than me! There was a hairy moment though when we first arrived and the embryologist took us into a meeting room rather than the surgical area, and seriously kept us in suspense while she went through our notes...we were fully expecting to be told that there were no embryos to transfer. After then being told that there was a leading blastocyst, we nearly did a happy dance in the office.

That's great news Blue! Now relax and put your feet up and will keep fingers crossed for you for the tww xxx

blue wonderful news! Well done. You must be so relieved. Fancy them making you wait like that though, they don't consider the stress it causes.
Take it easy x

That's great Blue, you'd think they'd have more sense than to keep you in suspense like that!

I'm not feeling great today keep getting mild cramps, I've been really busy and stressed the last couple of days and I keep thinking that one or the other or both will have caused a problem. I'm paranoid every time I go to the loo that I'll have started bleeding (I bled on 10dpt last cycle). I keep trying to tell myself that I'm pregnant until proven otherwise but I'm just a bit miserable today.

Thanks great blue wonderful news! Fingers crossed your others will be ready to freeze tomorrow too xx

custard sorry to hear yr feeling down today, i dont know much about symptoms after transfer as im not that far yet but try to stay positive and if you can try and get some rest xx

I'm nervous about my scan tomorrow, really hoping my follies will have grown and now be a good size, i'm pretty uncomfortable and sore so fingers crossed thats a good sign! Got to get up stupid early to make it to the clinic on time!!

Thanks everyone!

Custard cramping isn't unusual so don't worry about that. Can you take some time out to relax?

Hope good luck with the scan tomorrow.

I'm going to spend a week in Cornwall, driving down tomorrow. Hoping just to chill with DH, we're staying in a cosy cottage with a sea view. Distraction for the 2ww. Hoping hurricane Angus doesn't do too much damage!

Hope hope the scan went well

Blue that sounds lovely, hope the storm hasn't made too much mess! I'll be thinking about you this week x

Hi all - hope everyone is having a good weekend?

Hope - good luck with scan tomorrow, will be thinking of you and hopefully you'll have lots of lovely juicy follicles

Blue Aw, a cottage in Cornwall overlooking the sea, sounds totally idyllic! Enjoy xx

AFM - I'm on day 4 of stimms and I'm not sure if I'm imagining it or not but I feel very conscious of my ovaries (if that makes any sense?!) - feel little twinges etc and feel a bit bloaty... is that normal? X

blue get thee to the cottage and forget about the fuckwits. It sound lush - I've been watching poldark and I want to go too!
Hobbes yep all those Follys may make you feel bloated. I am on day ten and last couple of days also lost appetite. There's a lot going on and with all the drugs you may feel quite crampy.
hope how did scan go today? Have things picked up? Thinking of you.
custard how are you doing? Hope you're OK.
I'm having intralipids in the morning and scan ec some time later in the week.

Hello everyone,

blue your week in cornwall sounds lovely, i love cornwall, have a nice relaxing time xx

hobbes i felt similar a few days into stimms, bit bloated and sore a crampy like i could feel whats going on and i wasnt sure if i was imagining it but i dont think i was as its got worse now!

Had my scan this morning, most uncomfortable one yet like i could feel it pushing my follicles about! And she struggled big time to get any blood! I'm booked in for EC on tuesday, doing my trigger shot at 10.30pm tonight!
Got 6 follicles in total, sizes 19/20mm, another 5 at 16mm ish but my clinic wants them 18mm and over to count so there might be one or two more on the day if i'm lucky, my lining is at 13mm. They seemed happy with everything and i feel a bit better knowing some have grown to a good size. Roll on triggering tonight!

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend xxx

Hobbes yes it's perfectly normal to feel twinges and a bit bloated at this stage, when will you be having a scan?

Hope that's great news, good luck with the trigger shot tonight

Sara I'm a bit better today thanks, I still have cramps just trying to ignore them as much as I can

Hobbes perfectly normal!

Sara thinking of downloading Poldark while we're down there as I've never seen it Good luck with the intralipids tomorrow and EC this week.

Hope all sounds great! Good luck with the trigger shot tonight and EC on Tuesday.

Custard glad you're feeling better today. Rest up.

Hi to everyone else, hope you're doing ok.

AFM I had a call from the clinic and 3 embryos have stopped developing and the other one reached blastocyst but too poor quality to freeze So we have all our hope pinned to the little embie on board.

En route to Cornwall and I've done most of the driving as DH was struggling with tiredness. The last few weeks have taken their toll, bless him. We're going to shut ourselves away from the world for a few days to recover. Tomorrow would've been our son's due date. I'd be struggling even more if I wasn't PUPO.

Blue, good luck with your embie - i think the break sounds exactly what you need, hope you can relax and take the time it sounds like you are def in need of to just look after yourselves xxx

Blue thinking of you today

Good evening all,

blue i hope you are having a nice relaxing time in cornwall and that today hasnt been too hard, look after each other

sara how did the intralipids go? Do u know what day u will be having EC yet?

Did my trigger shot last night, just had my tea so i can have a snack later before bed, i am nil by mouth from 12am but not going in for EC till 11.30am tomorrow, i am going to starve!!!!! Bag packed and now uncomfortably waiting, i'm so nervous!

Xxx

blue - thinking about you, and fingers crossed for that embie!

hope you'll be fine, nerves will pop one the hunger! Good luck tomorrow

hobbes completely normal - I wish they could film what was happening in their for the full process so our minds didn't go in to overdrive at every twinge or cramp!

custard congrats on being PUPO, when do you test?

Nothing new from me - just waiting on viability scan next Friday. Praying it goes as planned!

Hope everyone I've not commented directly to is doing well too!

Blue - hope Cornwall is proving a great escape. Thinking of you today, and wishing that embie well.
Hope - good luck for tomorrow and hang in there Custard
Hope everyone else doing OK. I'm back from the parents-out-law where OH's dad is doing OK (all things considered) and operation "make-up bag" went without a hitch.

Hope good luck for tomorrow, it's normal to be nervous but the actual procedure is very straight forward. Fingers crossed for lots of eggs!

Glass it's this weekend, but I bled before my test date last time so I'm trying not to focus on that too much. Your dates seem to have gone very quickly, guessing you don't think the same though!

LoPI glad your OH's dad is doing ok & well done on operation "make-up bag"!

Good luck with EC today Hope!
Just had scan on day 6 of stimms - doc could only count 5/6 follicles of a decent size - I had 13/14 follicles at baseline - why are they not growing..? Feel gutted...

Just to add, they aren't upping my dose of stimms at all and I'm not sure why not if one ovary isn't really responding well ( I had 5 decent size on my left, which had about 6 follicles at baseline, and only 1 on my right when there were about 7-8 at baseline..?!) my lining is 10mm supposedly which I think is one good thing, but gutted about my right ovary being useless :( it was the side my ectopic was on so I'm wondering if my ovary is just f**ked after that??

Sorry you've had a disappointing morning Hobbes, I've never had a baseline scan so can't offer any advice. I know it's hard but try not too get too focused on the numbers its quality not quantity which is important.
I don't know much about the effect of eptopic pregnancy on ovaries, could you ask your clinic about it?

Hello all,

hobbes sorry yr disappointed, my cycle has been different to yrs so im not sure how to help really, i had a down reg scan to check all was 'quiet' so nothing going on, started stimms, then a day 8 stim scan, then a day 10 where i had lots of follicles but none of a size they wanted so they stimmed me for longer at the same dose and rescanned me at day 12 where only 6 follicles were the size thay wanted, there were lots more follicles but they just hadnt grown big enough, most of them were on my right side, only 2 usable ones were on my left.
I was very disheartened as i didnt think 6 was many considering how many more follicles were there but at egg collection today they collected 9 eggs which they seemed happy with and for my first go i am pleased with too, any is better than none!
So i think as custard has said try not to get too upset about numbers, things can change quickly and you do have to trust that the doctors know what they are doing with regards to your dose, you dont want to put yr good size follies at risk by upping your dose if its not needed. Be strong xxx

So EC is done with 9 eggs collected and a good amount of sperm to do ICSI with so now we wait to hear how many make it over night! Desperately hoping they do! I am finding this stage of the process very hard all the waiting and numbers wondering if they are good enough etc.... The procedure itself i was knocked out for but i am in quite a bit of pain now, just resting up!

Hope everyone is doing ok xxx

Hobbes you have a few days to go yet so may get some more however don't get too fixated on the numbers as high follicles doesn't always correlate with quality eggs. Its an emotional rollercoaster though so I completely understand his you feel. I was annoyed that I have 10 when last count was 14. Where did they go?! That said, I wonder if different nurses doing scans are equally good at spotting follys? Hang on in there; your body is doing its thing ...
hope well done! 9 eggs is brill. Fingers crossed for tomorrow. Hope you feel better soon. I agree this is the tense bit after all that stabbing.
AFM had intralipids yesterday all fine. Scan shows 10 Folly's (had 14 last time) so hoping for better quality. Nurse gushed over my lining about the 3 lines on show after shoving dildocam in so quickly i nearly fainted. Omg. Ec predicted for Friday. Scan tomorrow to see. My hopes are pretty low after last time. Hey ho. 😉