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 😊

Evening all.

Yay for progress thirty! Thats good growth, and nice to have a potential EC date. Glad you got the job interview sorted too!

Also great news on the transfer clown, now for the 2ww! Youre all getting to the exciting bits and ive not even started stims yet!

Was unwell again this morning and have been off sick today, which is really annoying given all the random appoitments im going to need for scans and leave i want to take for EC etc, but no way I could go in this morning! Much better this evening though, have managed some tea so hopefully it was a 24 hr bug.

Am completely desperate for af to come now so i can start stims. Downing orange juice, had a hot bath and now sat with a hot water bottle on my middle to try and encourage it! OH thinks im crazy!

Floo sorry youre having slow progress. You must be so frsutrated but look what happened with thirty, you might get a nice surprise at your next scan esp as theyre upping your meds. I hope so x

Great news on the progress thirty! And glad you managed to sort your interview. Hopefully that will be a lucky day all round 😉
Congrats on being PUPO clown! It's getting me so excited all these people entering the 2ww! Was it a 5dt?
Floo your follies will grow, like cho said.. Look what happened to thirty! I had my scan today to check my lining which was 9.3mm.. Nurse was very pleased with it as she said they look for anything over 6mm! I know last time it was around 14 so I'm hoping for something around that mark.. I still have 13 days to go though!

Thirty we're going to get a spaniel as current princessdog is a Springer, just not sure if we'll go cocker, sprocker or another Springer... Whatever's available I imagine!!!
My family have labs, such lovely doggies! Can you not persuade your OH that a puppy is essential for the 2ww!?
I'm hoping the bigger dose will do the trick and on Monday there will be 3 or so good follies! I just want one embryo for now, and one for the freezer!
Chang that sucks, how are you feeling now? Hopefully sickness won't interrupt anything and af is on its way!!!
I think in general OH's just don't really understand and therefore are predisposed to thinking we're mental. Mine was all 'well we only need one egg so why are you worrying?' earlier. I felt like screaming the various reasons why one egg does not give us the best chances, but refrained and furiously cleaned the fridge instead!!!

Oooo that's good to know Bill. I actually have no idea how thick it should be, just that it hadn't grown since Monday!
Where are you in your cycle? Have you started stims yet? 13 days seems definitely plenty to grow a nice thick lining!!!

Hi ladies, well I have been an absolute disaster today...again 🙈 It's my ET tomorrow and I'm terrified that there isn't going to be anything to transfer...total fear!!! Anyone been on cyclogest have one the morning of ET? Just for a shock I forgot to ask questions 😂
Everyone sounds so positive, this chat really helps me! I have everything crossed for those in the 2ww and I love the term PUPO XXX

Good luck Leanne!!!
Sorry I don't know about the cyclogest, maybe ring first thing?

Ive been DR for about 2 weeks now, ET planned for 24th. It's a frozen cycle so quite different from everyone else's.
I used cyclogest on my last ET day Leanne, they said not to do it last a certain time though (sorry I can't remember the exact time) but it was basically if I was up really early, because I remember my ET was around mid day.

Leanne that's so exiting! There will be something to put back or they would have told you. It's going to be ok.
We will all be cheering you on!

Re OHs sometimes I thing they are just another breed. I think mine feels so far removed from it. I'm not telling him how grim I feel because I can't be bothered constantly moaning so naturally he thinks it's a price of piss and it's all my fault as I'm leading him to believe it is!
I said to mine tonight I'll need to set my alarm for injection and nasal spray tomorrow morning thinking he'd say aw that's a shame on your day off poor thing You deserve a long lie. Or such a pity you've to do that but it'll be ok. No. He said aye sure at least you come back to bed after it.

Ah that explains it Bill
Gamblers I have NOT been acting like this is a piece of piss 😂 (although actually the stims have helped my mood over just down regging!) And my DH still acts like it's nothing!
The thing that gets me is the waking up at 7 with a burning thirst and desperate need to pee! And then not being able to sleep again because I start worrying!
I have for more relaxed about timings of jabs though as nurse said it just needs to be in a three hour window so if I have a bit of a lie in it's fine! I aim for around 8am, and stick between 7and 9 so I don't fall out of the window 😂... Although I'm always awake at 7 anyways

Today I have this hen do to go to, and I
A) look like crap because I've put on half a stone and it really would have been much better to lose that much instead (and another 2 stone on top of that)
B) have nothing to wear (standard problem) and can't predict the weather as it's changeable today... And how do you decide heels or not when it's an all day thing!?!?
C) can't bloody drink and everybody else will be wasted so am completely in a flap about how will this even be fun, can I just come home after the meal, but then I've paid for taxi anyway and I don't want to miss out on one of my best friends big nights when I've know her since I was born... 😭😭😭
Grrr

Oh she didn't tell me about the 3 hour window. I was moaning about having to get up on the weekend then I remembered it's probably only 1-2 weekends out of my life so I calmed down again. OH lying snoring away, I told him I got the wrong day and the nasal spray doesn't start until tomorrow. All I saw was a hand reach out of the covers and him fall back to sleep. It's very hard for the men ones, they have to go through so much the poor souls! 😂😂😂😂

Floo re the hen do, that's the worst. It's organised and your expected to be there and stay so not as easy just to slink of. I'm not someone who enjoys a night out without alcohol (these people do exist, I just don't know any of them) so I can't tell you it'll be great and you'll have a ball. Maybe the hilarity and the joy of everyone else will give you a slight illusion of being drunk? I had virgin cocktails on the one I went on and it definitely had the placebo affect. It also made me really want wine!

Just waiting to go in for transfer...not been that nervous in a while till the embryologist came and said all 4 were looking strong, one in particular...phew!!! In my nervous state I pulled the emergency cord by accident and the whole staff ran to my aid to find my husband crying with laughter and me crying with embarrassment 😂

All done ✅ I'm officially PUPO

Aw Leanne I'm delighted for you and what a funny story. I hope you tell it to your grandchildren! Aw baws. Now I'm crying witty happiness!
You are PUPO love that wee phrase. Do your happy dance. But do it in sitting and don't really move at all. Heck just smile.

Well done leanne glad it all went well and your emergency cord story had me laughing out loud! Are you off for lunch or something now to relax?

Lol at your OH gamblers, they have it tough in this process dont they 😂To be fair to mine, if he ever moans about something (usually how difficult it is to use the tiny sample collection pots!) he always says 'I know its nothing compared to what youre going through' first - probably because he knows id be super sarcastic back to him and say something like 'oh you poor thing however are you coping!'

floof thats bad timing for the hen do isnt it! Do people know why youre not drinking? Good idea about the mocktails and hoping for the placebo effect gamblers. And big fat no for me to heels for a day/evening do, no way I could cope with that!

Sooo, AF is here!!!! Ive never been so glad! Going to start my stims this evening. Will feel too rushed to do them in a morning before work. I tried to keep mine roughly at a similar time last time, around 7.30pm, but anytime between about 6.45pm and 8.15pm.

I know gamblers, these menfolk have it tough. I made mine get up EVERY day to do my jabs at 6am. He dared to start to protest on the 4th morning and I just gave him the death stare...say no more.

Floo I think the lining can suddenly just increase so try not to stress, I never knew what mine was.

Yay Cho, glad you can get started on those stims!

Congrats clown and Leanne. You can both join me in being manic symptom spotters if you want eating random foodstuffs and trying not to google too much. I'm 3dp5dt now and already going barmy. Have had period type aching on and off since this morning which I'm not sure if it's good or bad. Ergh.

What did you decide about testing crying? Are you going to do it early or wait til the date your clinic told you to test? You'll be analysing every ache and twinge now wont you, the waiting is torture! I think theres a good chance of feeling something with implantation so hope thats what it is!

I may have done cheapies everyday since ET Day1 was faint positive (trigger) and the last two I think have been shadows. I think Monday is when the game starts to get serious, that will be 5dp5dt. My OH has been good and said I can test whenever I want, although he won't believe anything until Sunday (which is when the hospital have said we can test 11dp5dt).

So much going on ladies.
I'm not even thinking what the 2ww will feel like as that sounds like the best and worst but. For a lot of us it may be the only time we are every preggers. I don't want to test until the day they tell me but I'd also love to see a positive test as I've never held one in my hands and at least you know you get one from the trigger. Is that crazy talk?

I bought the innocent bubbles, it's fab! Get that in a champagne flute and let's pretend we can have a tipple!

Haha thats exactly what ill be doing too crying. I want need to know when the trigger is gone or ill be driving myself crazy wondering when i inevitably cave in and test before clinic date. Yeah 5dp5dt is a good starting point to look out for a real positive. I feel so nervous for everyone im so hopeful that everyone gets their bfp!

Cross post with you there gamblers. I dont know if its crazy, but I can totally understand just wanting to see a positive test. I guess everyone is different in how they feel about the waiting. Personally, I need to know whats happening every step of the way (control freak, me?!), but i kind of wish I was one of those people who can just wait til test day and find out for sure then, I envy the willpower!

Thanks ladies Iv honestly never been so nervous I couldn't even string a sentence together! I feel so happy now that it's in and we have a Frostie back up! We've just been to wagamamas and im now on the couch for trash tv day! Let the symptom spotting begin 😫 I'm going to use every bit of will power to not test till my bloods which r scheduled for a week on Tuesday! Everyone's making such good progress it's so exciting xx

Oh how I envy those people to!

Did your clinic tell you about perfume? Mine had a big sign up saying it can affect your eggs and sperm so don't wear them. Totally forgot and bathed in my perfume today.
It's amazing anyone every gets pregnant considering how much we've got to cut out and do!! Madness!

I wear perfume but we're told tat on transfer day neither me or DH were to wear anything like deodorant or perfume and we washed without soap too xx

Yep, no make up, perfume, strong deoderants or nail varnish on EC or ET day. Youre fine on a normal day though, its just in the theatre area when there 'out'!

Sounds like an ideal day leanne!