August IVF

[Mseddy]

Had a quick look through but can't find an existing thread. Anyone due to cycle in August after a bit of moral support?

We are due to start our 2nd cycle of icsi for male azoospermia and my premature ovarian aging (full house for us!)

@Bruce2 those numbers sound great!

@kikisparks hope the scan goes well tomorrow

I’ve now started my drugs, so I now have 3 oestrogen patches stuck to me, they are clear and I keep getting paranoid that they’ve come off! Because I started yesterday afternoon my clinic are counting today as day 1, I’ll be having a scan on day 14 and hopefully if all goes well the FET on day 20 which seems a bit late to my mind but DH keeps telling me they know what they’re doing and it’s a 5 day blastocyst.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend

Hope everyone is doing well and those in the tww are finding ways to relax. I've done two days of injections now, struggled with the first but the second was much better once I used an ice pack on the area first (thanks for the tip @kikisparks) No noticeable side effects, fingers crossed it stays that way!

@Custardandcream I think I'd be checking the patches every 5 seconds!

I'm day 4 today, I'm definitely getting more symptoms than last time. I nearly had a full meltdown about leaving the house for a walk yesterday, I don't even know why. I was trying to rationalise it but I literally couldn't pick a reason for the way I was feeling. Anyway I feel better today. Being off work is making the whole thing drag even more!

@Lepatz sorry you've had to up your dose, I'm on 450 of meriofert, same as I was last time. At least they have reacted to something, I'm sure the extra will help boost them little eggs!

Scan done and all fine, to do the trigger/ booster tonight and egg retrieval on Wednesday! Just need to ask work for the time off now (they don’t know I’m doing IVF just a “procedure”).

@kikisparks exciting! I hope work are OK with giving you the time off.

oooo exciting @kikisparks!!

I'm feeling distinctly bleurgh today. Swollen ovaries, grumpy AF, and a weird combo of restless and lethargic. Need to keep having moments of mindfulness to stop me losing my head at OH!! So @Mseddy I can relate to the meltdown!!

I'm working from home, but tempted to take some leave. Not sure I'm my best self today :/. Luckily my work have been supportive.

Have another scan/bloods tomorrow, so hoping that will show good progress!

Happy monday everyone :) x

@kikisparks

Scan done and all fine, to do the trigger/ booster tonight and egg retrieval on Wednesday! Just need to ask work for the time off now (they don’t know I’m doing IVF just a “procedure”).

How exciting!! Xx

@kikisparks thats great, very exciting! Good luck

@kikisparks Awesome news! Good luck with work.

I'm on day 3 of stims and nothing of note so far I don't think. Maybe a little bit of nausea (but I was in the car and it's so hot so may have just been that). I don't know if what's happening is really sinking in. It's strange, I feel quite detached from it. So much anticipation and expectation and now it's just.... happening. I think maybe I'll feel differently before my first monitoring appointment. There just seems to be a big disconnect between doing the injections and ending up pregnant at the end of it. I don't feel bad, I just don't feel like I expected to feel. I think I just needed to write that down.

Thanks @Mseddy @Lepatz @Bruce2 @nextweek and @CardboardCat!

I got the time off work and DH is off on egg retrieval/ collection day, relief on that front. I had to do a Covid test at the hospital and result has to be negative for the collection to go ahead, I have no symptoms but of course I’m still worrying as ever waiting impatiently for the text with the result and crossing everything that it’s fine.

Leopatz- sorry to hear about the side effects- the one comfort I took from mine is that they seemed to indicate the medication was having an effect! Good luck for the scan tomorrow!

CardboardCat- I think that detachment is a totally normal way to feel. Although I do worry and overthink everything, I’m usually just worried about the immediate next thing if that makes sense, the next injection, scan, test etc. Actually thinking about the potential of a pregnancy or baby at the end of it is quite rare for me at the moment (I imagine that might change after an embryo transfer when that’s probably all I’ll be able to think about).

I also think I expected more of a fanfare and more ceremony around it all but at the hospital it’s so matter of fact and like an everyday thing, which of course to them it is. The fact I haven’t told many people probably adds to that. It’s also a bit of a shock to the system to suddenly be injecting every day, it’s not a normal thing for our brains to have to process. Hopefully it means you can distract yourself more and not feel too stressed out by it all.

Thank you @kikisparks that's a really nice reply 🙂

I think you're right about focusing on the next thing. I know myself that I'll be so nervous before the monitoring appointment on Friday thinking it's all about to be cancelled. So actually, maybe just enjoy this bit of relative calm while it lasts! Totally true about the lack of fanfare as well. When I called the clinic to tell them I was on CD1, I announced it with great excitement and the admin woman was like "uh huh, a nurse will call you back" 🤣

Hope the Covid test comes back quickly! I hate waiting for things like that, so nerve wracking even when it's so unlikely.

Heyyy!
Hope you are all doing ok.
Has anyone been through IVF before? I had my cycle in June . It was freeze all because I had OSH .. over stimulation

Anyway so after egg collection i got my period on cycle day 25 and i was SO HAPPY because i thought that meant everything would come quicker. My clinic said i needee to have 1 month off qhile everything calmed down so i was waiting for mt next period to arrive and hear i am on cycle day 32 and nothing..

Im a 29 day cycle kinda girl

I had dared to think i was one of those people you hear about that got preg the month of IVF but i sat on the loo staring at a vverry verrry negative test haha so iv had a sob and a fly off the handle eaten some chocolate pretzals and im here wondering what else to do

The clinic said if nothing by friday then i need a blood test but has this happrned to anyone else?? Xx

@Ails826

Heyyy! Hope you are all doing ok. Has anyone been through IVF before? I had my cycle in June . It was freeze all because I had OSH .. over stimulation

Anyway so after egg collection i got my period on cycle day 25 and i was SO HAPPY because i thought that meant everything would come quicker. My clinic said i needee to have 1 month off qhile everything calmed down so i was waiting for mt next period to arrive and hear i am on cycle day 32 and nothing..

Im a 29 day cycle kinda girl

I had dared to think i was one of those people you hear about that got preg the month of IVF but i sat on the loo staring at a vverry verrry negative test haha so iv had a sob and a fly off the handle eaten some chocolate pretzals and im here wondering what else to do

The clinic said if nothing by friday then i need a blood test but has this happrned to anyone else?? Xx

Hey

Sorry to hear you ended up with OHSS, I had the mild version and it was horrendous. So I feel your pain.

No advice sorry other than were here to listen to any rants
I hope it comes quickly for you, and we're all going through it together :)

X

@kikisparks & @cardboardcat You guys have totally captured how I've been feeling...a bit detached. I expected to feel more excited or something but I don't. Don't get me wrong, I'm so happy that we've finally got started, but it just doesn't feel real, almost a bit of an anti-climax if that makes sense. I've done 3 days of injections now and no side effects which I'd been expecting.

@kikisparks what was the covid test like? I'm actually quite nervous about getting that done prior to egg collection as it looks like it would be quite uncomfortable.

Morning ladies :)

I've just been for my day 6 stims bloods, and now sitting in an outdoor cafe whilst waiting for my scan. Slightly nervous - hoping my body has started responding! I'm positive I can feel my ovaries swollen, but I always was a bit of a symptom spotter . Also I wake up with light nausea at about 5am, which passes by proper morning.

I had to do my covid test this morning too. @nextweek it wasn't too bad - if not particularly pleasant. Ticklish rather than uncomfortable. A swab to the back of the throat, then the same swab in either nostril. OH had to have it too, which I hadn't realised.

I've been a bit nervous about the COVID test results too - since the restart of the treatment was announced. Would be such a kick in the teeth to have gone through all this to have it cancelled!! No symptoms though, and mostly been isolating, so fingers crossed.

I hear you on the detachment thing - it feels like I'm v engaged with each bit of the process... but it's odd to think it could end up with a pregnancy/baby!! Taking each day as it comes.

Welcome @Ails826. Nothing similar for me - other than the annoyingness of having to wait for a period!! Hope it comes soon :)

Hi @Ails826 welcome. Sorry I don't have any advice because I've never got as far as having a frozen embyro. But I know that when it comes to waiting for a period, there is literally nothing you can do to make it come when you want it to. I guess it's the only bit we can't control in an otherwise very controlled meticulous situation. It's a pain. Fingers crossed your period shows up soon.

I can totally relate to the detached thing! I'm commited 100% to the process I'm at right now, but there are sooooo many things that can go wrong between now and actually getting pregnant that I my head just won't connect them. What if I'm not responding and they cancel the cycle, what if I have covid and they cancel, what if I don't get any eggs, what if none of them fertilise, what If I get no blasts. I can't even get myself to thinking about having a blast put back at this stage because there are soooo many hurdles in betwee! So for now, I just take my injections and stay locked away in the house to try and control at least the covid thing. My DH is at work until tomorrow though so we are still at risk of catching it. Its so so much harder than last time! Although I think I was just so naieve last time

Just had my day 6 scan, and having a little wobble.

I have a good number of follicles - but they aren't progressing equally - some are teeny (

Hi @Lepatz, before my collection I had quite low numbers of follicles at the right size and quite a few small ones they were all over the place! They must have caught up though because I got 18. Everyone told my staying really hydrated might help so that’s all I did. Got everything crossed for you, what day is you collection?

@Mseddy you’re so right! It’s so hard to imagine the end goal when there are so many steps. I find it can drive you crazy trying to I’m just trying to get to the next thing at the minute.

I have finally got a date for transfer 😬😬 it’s 01/09/20 if everything goes ok with lining.
Does anyone know if partners are allowed in for things like collection/transfer at the minute?

@MrsT36 exciting! My partner wasn’t allowed in for either, but could stay by my bed for egg collection and was there waiting when I returned, which was nice. For the transfer he had to wait in reception. It might vary with each clinic though.

@MrsT36 just to let you know at my clinic my partner wasn't allowed to enter the clinic with me at all, not for collection or transfer I'm afraid. I just had to meet his back at the car. Your clinic might be different so I would check if you would prefer to be prepared. Best of luck!

@MrsT36 my DH isn’t allowed into the clinic at all either, for collection or transfer or even to do his sperm sample, he has to do it at home and I take it in. This doesn’t seem very fair as it’s causing him extra stress because he’s been told to do it no later than 1 hour before we arrive but we usually leave 50 minutes to an hour in advance to get there in plenty of time. He’s going to have a tight 10 minute window and a lot of pressure to do it. We do not need more things to worry about! Every time I’ve been at the clinic there have been women in the waiting room with their partners but there might be other reasons for that, DH did come with me one time because he had to have his blood taken.

Ah thanks @MrsT36 - that helped set my mind at ease :) Congrats on your transfer date. Mine's will be a fresh transfer (all being well!!) so could be any time in the last week of Aug.

For collection and transfer I've been told no partners too. Though OH did have to come with me a couple of times - once to see andrologist, and once to re-sign our consent forms as the original ones had expired due to Covid delays.

I am a little freaked about the collection though as not being put under now... would have been good to have a hand holder!!

@Lepatz I think the follicle thing is totally normal (Or at least, it happened to me as well) and freaked me out too. I have quite a few follicles but only 7 are over 14mm which I’m quite disappointed about given my highish AMH and supposedly good response to the drugs. Part of me wonders why they didn’t wait until more were bigger but I know they can lose some of the faster growing ones if they do that. The nurse did say some smaller ones could catch up. I guess I will find out tomorrow how many eggs, if any, come out of this.

Hi ladies,

Does anyone know how many embryos make it from day 3 to 5?

We had 5 fertilised eggs using icsi (out of 11 collected, and I was seriously devastated), all miraculously made it to day 3. I have read there is a big drop off on day 5. I'm really worried. The embryos are in the range of 7-10 cells and grades 1-3.

Waiting for an embryologist's call is a torture.