IVF Cycle Buddies July/August

[BiscuitBill]

Hi all! I know there's a June/July thread but I've started this one as I'm so far behind everyone else and wanted to find others at the same stage as me!

We're due to start a FET after a failed fresh cycle in march resulted in a CP. We got 5 Frosties which I'm so pleased with and we're putting two frozen ones back this time.

AF came yesterday, so I'm booked in for scratch on 24th of this month and start DR on 22nd.

I joined a thread on my last cycle and it helped me so much as I am very private with all of this. So I'm hoping to find others to share with again 😊

Wow I went away for a week and all these messages!!! It's taken me 2 days to properly catch up!

So glad to hear the great news people are having moving forward in their treatment. We were ok taking the syringes etc on the plane was strange to be going back to the room and injecting in secret as most of the family don't know we are currently doing treatment. Felt bloated and tired but other than that a nice week away.

Back to it now we've got our scan on Wednesday to check if we are both down regged bit worried as I've been having them for over 3 weeks now but still no af has anyone else had this? Other half has had hers so hopefully it won't put us back.

My AF came a couple of days later and im NEVER late so down regging possibly has an effect. I'm just off the phone to the clinic as I phoned to ask how many eggs they think they'll get, the said they should get 6/7, I feel this is a low number?

@Missmeluk welcome back! I don't think I can help as think I'm doing something different. Only one injection and af came the next week and another week wait before starting anything else.
@Leanne1185 I'm not sure if that's low or not, you only need one good one so think quality over quantity. Easy for me to say I know.

Im not sure about down regging missmel, I didn't do that. Does it matter if you are both on slightly different schedules? Sorry I can't remember what exactly your plans are?

Leanne I think 6 or 7 is fine for collection, after hours of trawling the web I think anything from 3-25 is 'normal'. And it's definitely about quality and not numbers!!

I had a call this morning and apparently we actually had 21 eggs and 19 have fertilised normally. So now I've got to wait until Monday to see how they are doing, and hoping for a 5day transfer on Wednesday. I'm going to go crazy.

Wow crying, you are an egg machine!!! Sending positive thoughts x

Haha thanks Gambler, I'm well aware it's about quality over quantity though, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

Wow crying that's amazing you must be so pleased 😁 ET on Wednesday 😱 I'm so excited for you!

@crying that is just amazing!!!
@leanne I don't know what normal is, but in my mind I want 3(+) because they'll only put one in now, and that leaves 2 to freeze - if they'll put 2 in for me next time!
Anything extra is a bonus!
@missmel I can't remember what your exact plans are, but if you're both responding to down regs I imagine they can keep dp down regard until you're ready too?
I don't normally cycle at all really, so they gave me norethisterone to induce a bleed, which I guess is always an option!
It's just so scary all of it isn't it!

I've been trying to organise the house because I've taken it upon myself to believe that it's not going quite right because my house isn't ready, so I need to make a good effort towards house organisation so the universe knows I'm serious. Unfortunately this has coincided with another spate of complete tiredness and complete lack o motivation - so now I'm stressing out over the pressure I've put on myself .
Has anyone else decided on any things that need to happen first for cosmic alignment or whatever!?

Well, cosmic alignment. We need to be healthy, happy and relaxed. For that to happen I need to eat lots of salads, exercise a lot and enjoy a wine and a spa day.
The ivf rulers and Chinese doctors have other plans, eat only hot food, give you shit drugs that make you feel so fatigued and makes your joints ache so you can't exercise and they make you stop drinking alcohol.
I think I need to bump off the ivf rulers and the Chinese medicine people and my stars will be aligned?!

Haha I agree, but I gues the medicine probably has a role to play 😕
Today I really really wanted to have a day off jabs (obviously didn't, but I just sat there wanting to not stabbmyself twice in the leg for like 10 minutes!!!) which does not help me feel happy calm and relaxed.

Plus I've been trying to exercise as normal (if not more than because no work and drugs are making me fatter) but this fatigue is a KILLER. I had to walk twice this morning in park run, and then after 2 miles the dog decided she couldn't be bothered with running anymore either so I didn't complete it! I know any run is better than no run, but 2.35 miles shouldn't be hard and doesn't make me feel like I accomplished anything!!!! Grrrrr
Anyway sorry for monologue moaning again! What is the hot food to do with? Do you mean hot temperature or hot spicy!? Not sure I could have spicy foot for brekkie!!!

Renaming what I do moanaloguing, and clarifying that I don't eat feet for breakfast 😂

Hahahahaha hot in temperature. The Chinese fella told me that women should only eat hot food and drink hot water to keep their insides a nice environment.

Oooo I have been drinking a lot more tea (I don't drink tea normally but am hooked on mint and liquorice and chai cinnamon herbal teas at the moment) and hot chocolate!
So hopefully I'm creating a good warm environment 😂
My temperature (before I stopped taking it due to broken phone problems) has been up by about half a degree since taking the meds too - so maybe chinese fella does know what he's talking about!

@Floofles I was drinking loads of aveda liquorice tea then I read that if ttc or pregnant women should avoid liquorice. Something to do with brain development.
Seriously? What can we have?
I keep thinking of charlotte in sex and the city, have you seen it? When she goes to the Chinese dr and can't block out the noise.

I haven't seen it (just googled a synopsis though) sounds like something that would happen to me though - I've recently moved to a town (from a country orchard - sounds much more idyllic than it was!) and constantly stress over every little noise - it's ruining my sleep haha!
Omg why no liquorice!?!?! I just google this too now - but dear god that's so unfair!!! Everything good just goes doesn't it!

Ok, a little google says it's beneficial to take liquorice root before ovulation, but avoid after - so I guess I'll srink it up until EC then I'll stop until after 12 weeks...
So sad! I was drinking one cup with my headspace meditation and I thought it'd be a good anti morning sickness routine (in an ideal world where I get pregnant first time!) I guess I'll stick to the cinnamon one!

Floof it's absolutely mental, I herbs to avoid I can't remember why? I was about to start taking ginkgo biloba (?sp)
long story but I pee a lot. A whole lot. Sometimes 5/6 times before 12pm and then can go 3 times in an hour after lunch. Chinese fella (he has a lot to answer for) told me that he thought the stress on my kidneys was to blame for infertility and recommended the hot food and drink, sipping hot water rather than loading my kidneys with cold water, acupuncture once a week and the herbs. I felt I couldn't commit to all of that (hate acupuncture as allergic to metal and felt so itchy) so I googled what else I could take and came across ginkgo biloba and started taking that and having. Reflexology. After a few days I felt very dizzy and weird so stopped taking it after another epic google search then stumbled across the rest of the things I shouldn't be taking.
Stuff like ginger, garlic, liquorice, fecking fennel.

Seriously? Most normal people I know go for an all day session, kebab on the way home, have drunken sex in any position without lying with their legs in the air for an hour and get a wee surprise the next month! Fuck sake!

Christ I just had a little pity party in my own head there. Sorry guys!

I've rang the clinic and they said just to carry on and we will see what the situation is on Wednesday at the scan. We are both down regulating to match up mine, other half and egg recipient as we will be doing ivf with my wife's eggs & donor sperm (I will be carrying) also donating eggs at the same time hopefully if we get enough!!

It's all so bloody complicated glad they know what's they're doing!!

Hope everyone is having a good day today and feeling positive x

Hi all 👋🏼 hope everyone is having a good weekend!
Just wanted to share this story with you and see if you all would have been as shocked as I was?!
So.. last night, down the pub with the OH and some of his friends and there gf's. Conversation turns to sex & babies (much to my delight 😒) anyway, some absolute brain dead idiot girl, was telling everyone that if you go to the toilet after sex you can't get pregnant.. and if you want to et pregnant you have to lie with your legs in the air for half an hour after sex........ well blow me down this is where we have all been going wrong ladies 😂 if only I'd met this girl sooner I could have saved £7,000!!!
I had to say something to her, I don't think she liked it but I feel like her poor parter needed to know as well that just because she goes to the toilet after sex doesn't mean she ain't gunna get pregnant 😂
I've never heard anything like it?! It made me quite angry but also at the same time I just had to laugh at how bloody STUPID this girl was?!

Honestly how naivety of some people drives me up the wall, clearly this girl didn't listen during sex Ed!! I'm glad u said something and manage to c the funny side now I think it's quite funny 😂😂

Missmel that does sound quite complicated! Glad clinic aren't worried, I guess they'll just keep everyone down regged until you're all in sync!
I think donating eggs is a lovely thing to do, and I'm going to look into it for round 2 (if round 1 doesn't work, or for imaginary child 2!)

Gamblers I know right! How is it possible that for some people all it takes is a sniff of sperm and they're pregnant, and for us having sex a thousand times doesn't even produce the faintest chance of a child!!!
Biscuit unfortunately I think that is a more widely held belief than is sensible! Not that a quick google wouldn't set her straight!!! And then doctors are all very very keen to put everyone on hormonal contraception (which I clearly never actually needed! They should have just done a day 21 test and gone 'ah well you don't ovulate so I wouldn't bother medicating yourself for the next 10 years...') like having a baby is the worst thing that could ever happen! So much misinformation in the world!!!!
I'm glad you set her straight - otherwise there would be more 'accidents' and she'd be so shocked! 😂
I hope everyone's having a lovely weekend! I'm disgruntled Ecuador I wanted to go campervanning, DH said no, and no the weather's glorious and we definitely could be on a beach somewhere!!!

Christ bill, she should work in sex ed with that valuable information. She sounds similar to the people that tell me that it's excessive the rules we are on and the drugs we have to take. Erm no it's not excessive its researched and it works you dafties!

My OH Is away for a weekend with the lads and my Fitbit report currently looks like this! Oops! I've only moved to get brekkie!

Haha gamblers I went out for a coffee this morning and I'm now back in my jammies watching reality trash for the day 😂I think we're allowed to be lazy during this time...or that's what I keep telling myself!!

I have done 627 steps today... I felt almost productive before I looked!
I have been doing some uni work though so I think that's why...
Will now reward self with cake for lunch and at least one pint of liquid to keep this damn thirst at bay!!!