August IVF

[Langpants]

Hi there,

Anyone else doing IVF this month? I’ve had 2 weeks of Buserelin, and just started the oestrogen tablets today. I’ve never known time to go so slowly before. 😬😂

FET planned for end of August.

I’ve been a hormonal wreck. Got AF this weekend, plus all the extra hormones, and the other half doesn’t know what to do with me - or himself! Ha Ha.

Would be nice to connect with others going through IVF at the moment. x

Hello @cariad! Looks like we're cycle twins- I'm on day 2 of stims and start the cetrotide on Tuesday then first scan on Friday 24th. Snap! How funny. How are you going with the jabs? I'm finding them pretty alright to be honest. I sooo hope we're both lucky together. 🤞🤞

CatRen - It would be utterly awesome if we were lucky together. 🤞🤞🤞 I haven’t found the injections too bad to be honest. The biggest challenge seems to be getting the needle to pierce the skin, but once done it’s usually fine. Sometimes it seems to sting a bit more than other times, but typically that sensations passes very quickly.

Hi all,
I'm a couple of weeks in on my injections, doing the long protocol. Had a scan yesterday and there aren't as many eggs as I'd hoped for...looking like only 3! Been my first but of bad news since starting so a bit gutted! They have upped my dose of menopur to 150 now....having 3 injections a day...feel like a pin cushion!

Egg collection is expected to be Friday so still time I guess to get more eggs!
Hope you girls are all doing ok today
Lisa x

Shaw - No advice I’m afraid as I’m starting stims today on my first ever cycle, but I have been doing some googling in anticipation, and there seem to be lots of people who had very few follicles initially but more appeared on subsequent scans, so you never know.

It’s also about quality over quantity.

Sending hugs your way - I had a disappointing baseline scan, and now have a cyst that is refusing to budge, so I know what it’s like to feel that a cycle isn’t going as swimmingly as hoped.

Hi all, how is everyone getting on? Haven’t been on boards too much lately as trying to just get my head down and keep busy! It is working to some degree, but FET day is looming (Thursday) and the anxiety is really building now. Such a rollercoaster. Started progesterone pessaries this morning...all getting quite real 😱 how is everyone else’s sanity holding out? Xx

First injection = done! All starting to feel a bit real now!

Had a friend tell me today that she is pregnant on her first month of trying. Made me feel even more useless that I can’t do this without help.

Hope everyone is feeling ok x

Good work on the first injection Crazyeyes.

Jenbot - I was going to respond to your post yesterday to say that I was feeling absolutely fine but

Sorry sent too soon...

1 day into Fostimon injections and I’m already a mess. It’s probably not helped by the fact that I’ve started bleeding this morning (which isn’t even a listed side effect, although I do have a cyst and the fact that I failed to successfully downreg earlier in the month means that I’m starting it much later in my cycle than usual), and have been suffering from pretty hideous period pain style cramps all day. Also feeling pretty weak and nauseous. I fear that this is going to be a very LONG 4 weeks...

Oh I'm sorry to hear your having a really crap time Cariad2017. I really hope the period pains get better. I haven't had any pain with the injections I'm on at the moment but then that's worrying me because I know that my follicles aren't growing how they should be. Hopefully these pains your having mean that things are happening and u will have lots of eggs.

Well done Crazyeyes3 my husband is doing mine for me and I find that some hurt and some don't! He says that some of the needles are harder to put in than others 😕.

I've got scan tomorrow so really hoping they find more eggs!
Take care girls XX

@Shaw81 my husband is doing mine too at the moment. The right side he does with no pain but seems to hurt when he does them on the left. Sometimes he doesn't push the needle all the way in which really hurts. Its all a learning curve for us.

@Crazyeyes3 well done for the first injection!

Oh no @cariad I'm sorry you're having a tough time. Do you have a nurse's number you can call to find out what's going on and get checked out? They should be providing you with support and care particularly if you're concerned it's not going well. When af was late i called up my place and they immediately ordered a blood test for the next morning. In the end i didn't need it as af came that evening but it gave me peace of mind that they weren't leaving me to it.

I'm on day 4 of my injections and finding it ok, although the one this morning was more sore than others for some reason. Feeling the effects a bit - i cried twice yesterday, once in the singalong moana screening at the cinema with dd and her little friend..! Thank goodness it was dark.

Dh has also been spoken to about meeting any of my mood swings with kindness even if he thinks I'm being ridiculous. I've learned that clear instructions like that are more likely to work (!) than just telling him I'm feeling emotional and letting him work out how to respond. Ahh the joys of marriage.

I'll be starting the cetrotide tomorrow, then a scan on Friday. It feels really good giving up all control of ttc over to the scientists. Perhaps it might not feel so good next cycle if this doesn't work but for now I'm enjoying the lack of responsibility!

Good luck at tomorrow's scan @shaw!

I promise there were paragraphs in that above post.. sorry about the block of text!

Thank you for your kind words Shaw and CatRen - feeling a bit better this morning. Spotting seems to be grinding to a halt (hopefully) but I’ll definitely call the clinic if it resumes.

Shaw - wishing you lots of luck for your scan later today. Do let us know how it goes.

Good work surviving the hormotions CatRen. I’m really hoping I can survive the next 3 weeks at work without getting overly hormotional. Xxx

I'm on day 11 of Buserelin injections and AF just arrived, 3 days late.

I'm having a trial embryo transfer on the same day as my baseline scan. Relieved that is now scheduled, pretty sure they forgot I needed it before I chased them about it!

Good idea to give husband instructions on dealing with mood swings. I have only had a couple but my partner is very good about it. I had a meltdown when he got drunk the other day because I was like, I am doing all this because you don't have enough sperm and you are not helping things by drinking! But I have also had a couple of wines when I fancied them since starting treatment so I am not perfect either.

And since we are having ICSI only a few good sperms are needed anyway so...

Think the emotional side effects are starting to hit me. Yesterday I nearly cried at a country fair when a girl needed her dad to help her show a cow during judging and wept whilst watching Peter rabbit in the evening. Today I feel on edge, anxious almost and abit teary. Rather have this side effect than dizzy/nausea etc though so I'm not complaining.

What sort of time of work is everyone taking whilst going through treatment? I've currently got the week of EC off due to not knowing the exact date and need potential need for scans. I don't know what to do for the transfer. Is that about a week after EC? would it be wise to take that week off too?

I'm off now till 1 week after implant. But thats mainly cause I work in a kids home so have to be careful and my bosses daughter has been through and is going through IVF so she is really understanding. I know you can't drive for 24 hours after egg collection.

My scan went better today, I have 2 really good potential eggs that have grown well and a few smaller ones, having egg collection on Wednesday...glad it's so soon as feels like I've been having injections forever and beginning to get really irritable and grumpy 😒😒

Snowfee they have just told me that transfer will be 3-5 days after egg collection depending on how it goes...can't give exact day until it happens! It's so hard to plan!

@Shaw81 I haven't told work what I'm doing, I expect they would be understanding but would worry about if things don't work out as planned if you know what I mean.
Think I may book the second week off just to be on the safe side

Shaw - I’m glad today’s scan looked more promising. It must be such a relief to be on the home straight.

Thund4cat - Yay for AF arriving and CD1. I’m glad your baseline scan and funny transfer have been booked.

SnowFee - My clinic indicated that transfer would be any day from Days 2-6 after egg collection, with day 5 being the most common.

My work has a fairly generous HR policy around fertility treatment which lets you take up to 2 weeks off per year for treatment so I’m planning on taking the day of EC off and then a few days off after transfer (although in practice, as we’re going on holiday, depending on when the transfer happens I might go straight from time off for the transfer to holiday without going back into the office).

I had more spotting today. I tried to call the clinic but they never got back to me. I’m hoping it will disappear tomorrow, not least as today’s bleed was brown whereas yesterday’s was pink...

I’m trying to work on the basis that today would only be the equivalent of CD5 had I started Fostimon on CD3 so presumably if the bleeding stops, there should be plenty of time for my lining to thicken up again before transfer.

Sorry Thund4cat - meant to write dummy not funny transfer! 😳

Snow - I’ve been very open with everyone, both work and friends, but in hindsight I’m not sure this was a brilliant idea. It’s really tricky - I now feel that I’m taking everyone on this huge rollercoaster with us, and if it works, I’m not sure I want to be telling the entire world at 4 weeks, particularly as I know better than most that a BFP doesn’t guarantee a baby at the end of it having suffered two losses, plus I had spotting for a month during my last pregnancy which was utterly petrifying. I also think that telling Work has led to a perception that I’m not particularly career minded right now, which is hardly ideal...

Hello ladies, how lovely that we're all on this journey with support for each other!
My medication is being delivered on Wednesday with me starting Menopur when my period arrives - due someday this week. Nervous about the first injection, but my friend is a nurse and has said she'll do the first one 🤞

Im not sure what to do about work, I'm on leave next week anyway so I'm currently thinking that I'll see how I am on the medication without the stress of being in work and make decisions from there. My ideal is to work as much as possible to keep my mind off EVERY single twinge. However, I'm not sure how realistic that is as I struggle to manage my stress at work a lot of the time. I guess I'll just see how I go!

@Cariad2017 I'm similar to you, I'm happy to be open about what I'm doing and I have been to a number of people. Now regretting it as people would be able to put 2 and 2 together and realise when I may be getting that elusive BFP. What I'm thinking of doing is telling people we've decided to freeze embryos and transfer them after Christmas (although actually doing the transfer in September). Hoping that would take the pressure off esp if it is a BFP