IVF/ICSI May/June

[Cauliflower82]

Hi everyone

I’m creating a new thread with the hope of finding people with similar dates to me. I am due to start medication on May 13th with the hope egg collection will be June 19th. I’m 34, female factor fertility.

Anyone else out there with similar dates?

Thanks @jemimafuddleduck and @LittleOne3 One top quality blast transferred and will find out tomorrow if 1 or 2 are suitable for freezing. There's still no guarantees it'll work but feel really lucky that we got to this stage. Will be keeping everything crossed that your transfer goes ahead tomorrow.

@mouse1234567 are you planning for a FET? Sorry I've been on holiday and trying to catch up and can't remember! So my nurse told me it doesn't matter what time for the Buserelin. She said do it at bed time just so you're in a routine but time doesn't matter.

Hi everyone. I was around a few weeks ago but took a break for a two week holiday. I'm now back home with the holiday blues 😫 I start injecting Buserelin on Tuesday for a FET. Now that I'm back and it's actually happening I'm Bleugh about it. Until now it was just always after the holiday which felt like it will never come. Also feel frustrated that I don't know if that was our last holiday just us and whether I can book something for later in the year or not!!

Anyone else a similar time with preparing for FET?

Hi all, hope I can join. I've been on here on and off for some time, and have followed your stories.
FET is planned for this coming Friday. Been on metformin for 10 days and they're making me feel so ill. Constantly queasy.
Had planned on being active in the run up, to feel good and fit before the transfer but have spent any time not at work in bed feeling sick! Trying to listen to my body though.
Hope everyone's having a relaxing Sunday.

@TwistofFate that's great news. Now the dreaded waiting begins!

@Ginandtonic31 that's a double whammy of starting on this insane journey and post holiday blues. I'm starting buserelin tomorrow, although fresh rather than FET. The limbo is horrendous. I love to travel and haven't been able to go to any of the places I'd like to for ages thanks to Zika and endless waiting...

@Booksandstuff welcome. Almost there now and you can be drug-free in a week.

@TwistofFate excellent news! I hope you manage to get at least on those in the freezer.

@Ginandtonic31 so true! It’s incredibly frustrating not being able to book a holiday or even a weekend away. Like someone said a couple of pages back, it’s like putting your life on hold and it’s beyond agonising.

@Booksandstuff I heard lots of people end up with insomnia on fertility drugs, but, like you, all I want to do is sleep too. Rest up and take it easy. Not long left now.

@KittyKatSmile well we've just been to the south and south east of Florida and although the website says there's no reported cases of zika this year or in 2018 I got bit to death and I now paranoid! Also I wanted to book Dubai and Maldives for November but there's zika in Maldives so I can't. I will either be lucky and pregnant or still going so either way it's a no go! I would usually have something booked by now but it's killing me having to wait. I've also gained so so much weight I don't want to transfer this big. I'm hoping I can still diet and exercise whilst on the drugs and they won't really impact.

@Twistoffate Brilliant news 👍. Are you working your 2ww or taking some time off?

@ginandtonic31 How long before ET on a FET? I'm on my first fresh cycle so quite ignorant about the drugs/timings.

@booksandstuff Metformin sounds worse than buserelin! I'm on a fresh cycle but we might end up in the 2 week wait together. Although all depends on how my EC goes next Thurs. Not counting any chickens 😕

On holidays, we have a week booked at the end of june when this is all done. If it's successful we'll go hiking in Scotland with the dog. If not then we're thinking Vegas for roulette and cocktails. Not cultural but therapeutic... 😁😁😁

@LittleOne3 I think it's about 5-6 weeks 😫I've two weeks of Buserelin then if everything ok two weeks of Buserelin and estrogen tablets then back again abs if lining thick enough they will book in for transfer. I'm dreading it though and what impact the drugs will have on my mental health.

@littleone3 glad it’s not just me that feels like that! I’ve had a much better day today though!

@twistoffate fingers crossed for you!

@ginandtonic welcome back! Sorry you have the holiday blues! We have booked for Aug this year in Europe wanted to go further afield but like you say zika is a pain! So it will either be a last holiday as 3 or one to get over a bfn! I don’t think we should put our lives on hold I’ve only been one my job 9 weeks and new I’d be doing this so I think you just need to carry on living and when you get pregnant you change your plans

@FinallytakingtheplungewithIVF I don't think it's so much putting life on hold. It's more that I know my Holiday choices are limited regardless or I can't book anything just yet until I've had this transfer in June and I know what the situation is. Otherwise it feels like throwing money at stuff we might not be able to do if that makes sense.

@Ginandtonic31 if you're not worried so much that you won't be able to leave the uk due to clinic appointments etc in November then why don't you just book Dubai? You'd be around 4-5months then which would be fine to travel there I'd say.

Give you something to look forward to (and I can send you my hotel tips; I was there the same time last year for pretty much the same reason!)

@KittyKatSmile I think it's because we go every year so I was trying to shake it up 😂and we've been talking about when to go and whether to do the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix again but if this transfer doesn't work then it could end up being too early. I think I just need to wait until the summer and see which is a killer 😂

So today is day 1 of buserelin and I had a dream last night that I was stuck in a house fire

Goodness knows what I'll be like if I get any night sweats! It at least spurred me on to jump out of bed and head to spin class first thing. I want to exercise as much as I can in case I don't feel like it later on (I felt like a watermelon when I had my eggs frozen a few years ago).

Happy Monday everyone. Hope everyone is feeling happy and positive today.

@jemimafuddleduck good luck, thinking of you.

Thanks @KittyKatSmile !

@TwistofFate that's great news. When's your official test day? Is it urine or blood? And have you found out whether there are any to freeze today?

We have had our transfer!!!! I'm so excited and please. 1 x 4AA blast transferred, one in the freezer and there's another still growing which we will find out about tomorrow. Plus as a bonus my lining seemed to have grown a little! I'm SO pleased. OTD is 30th and they want a blood test, but I have a funeral out of the area that day so I will probably do it Friday 31st. But more than likely will do a FRER well before then 🤦‍♀️ last time I waited like a good girl until my OTD and was crushed, so now I feel like it's better to do it early.

@jemimafuddleduck that’s absolutely amazing. Excellent news! Such wonderful news.

I have a question. Day 7 on buserelin - I feel fat, bloated and swollen today. Even my face feels fat. I’m so sore. I had my first night sweat yesterday and I woke up soaking. I’m feeling so, so down and I have so far to go.

I think I may have just fallen off my chair...

9dp2dt today and have been testing since 5dp2dt because Im a control freak that way.. BFNs every single day. I bought a bunch of cheapies and then one ClearBlue digital for the last day. And Ive been POAS like a crazy person and keep getting BFNs - Even told my husband today that its over and we went to go and look at a smaller house to buy in a nicer area.

Came home this afternoon after using my last cheapie for my first morning wee. Looked at the ClearBlue and thought WTH Im just going to do it and its come up as 1-2 weeks pregnant

Can it possibly be?

Really wish I had some more tests on hand.

oops wrong thread!

@jemimafuddleduck that is brilliant news and good results all round. Fingers crossed for you.

@Cauliflower82 so sorry to hear you're feeling so rubbish today. I don't know what to say to help you other than that this too shall pass. And it will be so worth it if it works out. Are you having acupuncture (sorry, I can't remember). Maybe that will help with the bloated feelings? Sending you good vibes.

@Cauliflower82 thanks! Sorry to hear you're feeling a bit rough. This journey sucks, but this part of it will be over soon and it'll all be worth it when it works x

@mikkyr Congratulations!

@KittyKatSmile @Cauliflower82 @FinallytakingtheplungewithIVF Thanks all!

@Jemimafuddleduck That's wonderful news! My goodness what a rollercoaster this round has been for you, but some good news at last. Just found out we have 2 in the freezer as well. Urine test date is 29th and I'm going to try to hold off testing before that, though waiting is torture.

Hi everyone, haven't posted in a while but I've been keeping up.

@jemimafuddleduck I'm so pleased for you! Will keep everything crossed.

I've not wanted to post as I'm feeling so rubbish and don't want to make others worried about symptoms or bring people down with negativity but hey we're all different and no one in real life "gets" it so sorry, but I will moan on here!

I'm still taking buserilin and on day 5 of menopur too. My lining was good at baseline last week but they couldn't find my right ovary at all and had to stop looking as I was in so much pain. I have endometriosis and have had 6months of agony leading up to this point so I don't feel like my body is in the best position for any of this but the endometriosis clinic said to go ahead with the IVF in the hope that a successful pregnancy will stop/reduce pain. So, I'm having awful pain since I've started the menopur and today I've had the worst headache of my life. Just generally feeling crap. Having to force myself to eat, absolutely exhausted but drenching several times a night with night sweats to the point my partner has been sleeping in spare room to avoid getting soaked
Anyone else on menopur? Symptoms?

@Jemimafuddleduck what great news, to me that’s a perfect scenario, 1 great embryo transferred and 1 (poss 2) in the freezer. Good luck for the next stage.

Those suffering night sweats during downregging, I really feel your pain, I’m exactly the same and was waking up soaked through I ended up putting a spare set of pjs on the floor next to me to change into. Now I’m on to the next phase they have eased off a lot though still pretty warm.

@KittyKatSmile, @jemimafuddleduck Thank you, is this level of bloating normal? My stomach is hard and sore. It’s putting me off eating because afterwards I just feel worse. Injection stung like a bitch tonight. I’m sorry to be a total downer, I’m just feeling there’s no end in sight. My scan to check if I’m downregulated isn’t until two weeks and two days away. It feels ages away.

@TwistofFate that’s excellent - two Frosties!

@Weenumpty vent away - that’s what this form is for. Positivity when it’s there and we’re feeling it but realistically we’ll all have a crap day or two. Although I’m not at your stage, I can empathise. I am hating the drugs. Hating them. I think I’m just having a bad day though. When is potential egg collection for you?

@Spongebob79 ha I feel your pain - I needed more pyjamas last nights

Oh no @Cauliflower82 this worries me. I've just got back from Holiday and gained weight so desperately trying to lose it before a transfer. I start Buserelin tomorrow and was hoping I could diet and lose through it. It sounds like it's going to be hell though 😫