December/ January IVF&ICSI

[brighteye3986]

Hi everyone, so we saw the nurse earlier this week and our plan has been set. We are on long protocol and will be looking at starting on my December cycle meaning that I will be due to start buserelin around 6th jan with EC being end of Jan.

Anyone else looking at a December/ January cycle?

@brighteye3986 how exciting...I start buserilin injections tomorrow so we will be about a week apart. I wasn't given the option to do the nasal spray, were you? I have started a journal...it helps to write stuff down and out of my head I find! I'm also doing the mindful IVF mediation app which I recommend as it guides you through each part of the journey.

@jemimafuddleduck Wishing you lots of positive vibes! Lots of people don't have any symptoms and are successful 💛 the 2 week wait is so torturous!

Thanks @Positivity86 - thanks for all of your replies to me, you are living up to your username! 😊

I went into this process convinced that I'd remain positive, but as soon as embryo transfer took place I just felt so negative about it and it hasn't changed. The physical side of ivf has been a doddle, but the emotional side has been truly awful.

@Positivity86 no I wasn't given a choice. Was just told that's what I'd be on. Oh I haven't heard of that app. I will have a look into that. I'm definitely thinking the journal will be a good thing for me.

No problem @jemimafuddleduck 😊 it's an emotional rollercoaster and your feelings are totally normal. I would recommend the mindful IVF app if you haven't tried it...it helps stop the inner chatter. Amazing things do happen ✨

@jemimafuddleduck Gonal F is the stimulation drug. It's more like an epi pen type of injection. I was really worried about the buserelin injections as I'm quite squeamish but it hasn't been half as bad as I expected. I've used an ice cube each morning to numb my skin just before doing it which has helped.

@jemimafuddleduck thank you for the warm welcome and sending positive vibes and lots of baby dust your way. Do have hope, I know many who have gone through similar journey and had no symptoms and had a BFP
@vikkid2007 & @brighteye3986 I am guessing you’ll are on the long protocol?
@Positivity86 will surely look into the app. I do meditation on regular basis, it helped and is still helping with my slipped disc. I was recommended meditation as very early on realises that emotional stress can give you back ache as well and meditation 🧘‍♀️ kind of makes you plan your day ahead and calms you down which it does for me.

From my side, just keeping myself busy. I got a call from my clinic to let me know that I am a Carrier for Thalassemia and that my husband needs to get another rounds of bloods done to make sure that he does not have thalassemia as that could affect our child if we fall pregnant. Taking it one day at a time

Hey everyone. Back from the Christmas break. Got a fridge full of injections and drugs now! 12 days and we start!
Good luck to everyone already on their journey and @jemimafuddleduck and anyone else who has had their transfer! Stay positive! There is no point worrying or predicting doom and disaster because we never know how things will work out. And in life there is just no point wasting the energy worrying about the unknown.

Christmas for me has sucked. Like so many of us I found out we couldn't conceive naturally Sept 2017 and always imagined by this Christmas we would have a baby. It was also the first Christmas in 27 years that I didn't spend with my grandmother (whom I lost in sept). But to top it all off my little sister told me she is pregnant again on Christmas eve. Her first daughter is just 9 months old and once again she has fallen pregnant by accident.
I want to be happy for her... but it just adds on the pressure for this round. Makes me so glad that I haven't told my family about it.

Oh @Ginger951 I know exactly how you feel. By the time we start next week we will be almost 2 years of knowing we are unable to conceive naturally and every Christmas we think this one will be the one. My sister announced her 4th pregnancy on Boxing Day 2015 in which we had been TTC for 6 months at that point. It's difficult trying to be happy for them but I am lucky that I have the support of my family and my husbands. Both families know about us having to go through the IVF to help us conceive but neither ask us when or what's happening. We tell them the things that don't affect us too much but are keeping our start date from them and have just told them it's in the new year.

I've just done my first buserelin injection and it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. I had built it up in my head and had a few tears beforehand...the anticipation was far worse! My husband administered it and was brilliant...think he quite likes his important 'nurse' role 😊

Well done @positivity86. Really not as bad as o expected either :) it will all be worth it in the end x

@Vikkid2007 thank you. It sure will be worth it...we've got this! I hope all went well with your Gonal F x

Well done@Positivity86 ! Glad it went ok 😊

Well done @Positivity86

Thanks @jemimafuddleduck and @brighteye3986 😊

@jemimafuddleduck how are you feeling?

Test day tomorrow. Shitting a brick. Convinced it hasn't worked but I'm too scared to see the BFN 😢

@jemimafuddleduck think positive thoughts.

Good luck and sending you lots of dust and wishes! ✨🙏🏻🤞🏻

@jemimafuddleduck sending you loads of luck and positive vibes x

Sending so much love Jemima

Farewell 2018, hello 2019 and hoping I can join you all. We are an older couple (I’m 47 DH is 50) ttc no1 together for the last 4 1/2 years and referred to NHS after 6 months but delays meant we missed the chance of NHS treatment. Now about to fly to Cyprus for our second round of donor egg ivf. Started meds today, got a scan on Sunday and fly to Cyprus on Thursday 10th. Embryo transfer around cd20 and home a week later to wait for blood test and finding out if this is our time!!

Wishing everyone else uneventful journeys and 2 pink lines!!

It's a BFN.

Oh @jemimafuddleduck I'm so sorry.

Sending you lots of hugs

@jemimafuddleduck so so sorry to hear this. Sending lots of love and a big hug xx

Sorry to read it’s a bfn, @jemimafuddleduck. I remember getting the negative blood test result after our cycle last year, it was heartbreaking but, like oh, I’d built myself up to accepting it hadn’t worked and so was half expecting it. Take time to process the news, grieve a little, discuss with your clinic what they suggest you do different next time if you proceed with another cycle xx

@jemimafuddleduck I'm so sorry, what rubbish news. xx

Hi all, I hope you don't mind me jumping on this thread - ttc no.1 been trying for 18months, failed 3 ovulation induction rounds so starting ivf/icsi. I have pcos and husband has mild subfertility. We've had our pretreatment appointment and AF should arrive any day then it's full steam ahead.

How is everyone finding the process? I'm dreading my moods, as is DH 🤣

@jemimafuddleduck - so sorry to hear your news! xxx