FET cycle buddies May/June

[Bluemeadowbaby]

Hi ☺️
Just starting up a little thread if anyone wants to join me on their FET journey for May/June. I've never had a FET cycle before and wondered if anyone was or is on their way with this journey to offer support and guidance x

@StrongEagle I totally understand. Make yourself a cuppa and do your best to focus on work until you get the call. I hope it's a good call from the clinic - I really do. Xx

Hello, so I tried to calm myself but couldn't so after my meeting I called my dr and my HCG levels have risen from 121 on Tuesday to 307 on Thursday! So happy, I'm booked in for a scan on 16aug x
I'm struggle to believe this good news xxx but trying to, whilst also being cautious

@StrongEagle that is such good news!!!! Try and enjoy being pregnant now until the scanxiety kicks in and try not to overthink stuff.
Happy Friday!!! Xx

@StrongEagle this is excellent news! Congratulations!! You ARE pregnant 😍 I'm so SO happy for you, this really has been quite the journey. Here's to 16th and a little bit of calm along the way 💕 keep us posted x

@StrongEagle the one magpie little annoying magpie!! 😂 I'll keep you posted with anymore sightings and signs 🥰 I feel much better now thank you. Yes, I got it from my partner. They all went down one by one after the football 🤦🏻‍♀️ but what really annoyed me the most was they went to watch it, in a group of 6, in a HUGE field which was screening the game. Just shows you can't bloody avoid it x

@Pingupp thanks for checking in. I'm struggling at the moment, I'm just counting myself out already. I don't have any symptoms or signs or anything I do feel I have no trust in my body either way after all the negatives I have had after being convinced this time was the time. My boobs were sore and now they aren't and I'm taking that as not a good sign. Whilst logically I know that some people have no symptoms or anything I do feel might be nothing at all and still go on to have good news. I just can't bring myself to have any faith that this will work out. We've decided not to test early and wait till beta on Monday, and I'm just trying to mentally prepare for bad news on Monday. I dunno this whole process sucks. First round I coped really well but this time is seriously getting to me.

So Debbie downer over here, I wish I could pull myself out of the funk but I just don't have it in me at the moment.

@StrongEagle great news! That's a strong positive, congrats!

@Hoping4baby21 it's okay to feel this way ❤️ you feel just how you want to feel lovely. I'm hoping you get the news you want to hear and see I really do. If it's of any comfort I had no symptoms which were associated with pregnancy until at least 8 weeks and even then I never had sore boobs ever they just looked great at the end 😄 just want to give you that bit of comfort. What do you like doing which gives you a warm fuzzy feeling? I know that sounds a bit weird but sometimes when I'm feeling in a bit of a horrible funk - actually feel like that today I feel really low - I do what makes me feel nice. For me it's having a soak in the bath, getting into fresh pjs (wish I could smell them right now!!) getting a throw and a brew, curling up on the sofa and watching mean girls! I don't know why I always flick that film on when I'm feeling shit but it seems to work. Just take the days as they come and know that I'm thinking of you x

@StrongEagle another little sign for you which made me smile today. Today was my first day of freedom 🥳😍 and we took my little boy to an aquarium. I was wearing a T-shirt which has the smallest logo on it which says "good things take time" and a lady looked at me and said "don't worry, good things really do take time". I had no idea what she was on about at first and looked at her gone out but later I remembered my T-shirt. It's honestly such a small logo and I was carrying my boy on the side it was so you could barely see it. Weird, maybe she had the same T-shirt 😂 x

@Bluemeadowbaby I LOVE this!! It's like a magical story my nan would tell me xxx you've cheered me right up and made me smile x my mum went into hospital today with chest pains (she has heart disease and COPD), been worried sick but just picked her up and she's fine. What a day though! Please let me know of any other signs. I am going to try to be more open to signs too and see if I get anything come my way xxx

@StrongEagle oh my goodness! I'm so sorry to hear you've had such a hard time, I'm hoping your mums okay and carries on staying well. I'll send a little thought out to the universe for you and your mum 🥰 I'm a big believer in signs, I love them. Keep your chin up, especially to see those signs ❤️ x

@StrongEagle hope your mum is doing ok now. My dad has COPD so totally get the worry. Big hugs.
I am waiting on our day 2 negative test results - hopefully later tonight. I pushed my morning can back tomorrow til 2.15pm to give a bit of breathing space on results. Fingers crossed !! X

Hi all- how is everyone doing?
Covid test negative - had my scan and now back on the drugs. Transfer pencilled in for 23rd August. Back with the bloat that the drugs give me :-( x

@Pingupp happy to hear you have had a negative test! 🥳 and great to hear about the transfer! It'll soon fly round! How are you feeling? I'm doing okay thank you, just waiting now but starting my norethisterone on 15th to time cycle and have that lovely zoladex injection on 7th September ready to start patches the same day x

@Bluemeadowbaby I am ok. Just feeling quite bloated. Forgot how I felt last time! I start steroids next weekend and that is when the eating like a horse will kick in.
I am off back to the office for a day on Thurs and really don't know what to wear as busting out of all my original clothes. It's quite depressing!
How are you feeling? X

Hello, how is everyone?
I am 6+4 weeks today but I had a bleed on Wednesday, I was so scared, my GP and the early pregnancy unit were not helpful but thankfully it stopped and I got a scan and saw the heartbeat!!!! I was shocked as I was convinced it was game over!
I am also so so sick, I thought/hoped initially it was the stress of the scare but it's definitely pregnancy sickness. I can barely eat, even drinking is a challenge. I'm living on watermelon. I've been off work for 3 days and have no idea how I can possibly work feeling like this! How on earth do women do it?! Honestly, women amaze me x

Looking forward to updates on how you all are getting on x

@StrongEagle that must've been such a scary time for you but I'm absolutely thrilled to hear you've got a little heartbeat 😍 so wonderful to know this! The sickness really isn't very nice at all. I used those travel wristbands at one point and it really helped me. Also, do you get heartburn before your sickness? I know from my own experience this came for me a little while into my pregnancy but if you're finding you're getting it and Gaviscon isn't hitting it the drs can give you omeprazole which is a game changer! Little & often even if it means living off biscuits and crackers 🙈 but definitely consider the travel bands!
All okay here now finally, my little boy has been so poorly this last 10 days and I'm utterly exhausted. I knew when I signed up to babies they come with illnesses but this really set my anxiety off. Poor lad was in hospital twice, once with suspected milk allergy which turned out to be a sickness bug (I'm emetophobic so I really needed to pull myself together which I did but the slump of the adrenaline got my mind going wild!) then he developed croup which is the scariest thing I've seen and he now has a chest infection but has finally eaten after 5 days! Babies aren't easy but it's all worth it x

@StrongEagle oh you like thing re the morning sickness which I bet isn't just in the morning right! But lovely news that you saw the heartbeat 
I hope you feel better soon and the sickness passes.
@Bluemeadowbaby your poor little one. That must have been mega scary for you but hopefully all on the mend now.
Xx

Hi all! Hope you're all having a lovely weekend.
Found your thread after googling - currently 9dp5dt of a 14 day wait til testing. Noone truely understands what the wait is like, unlike those actually going through it! IVF requires a patience like no other. Reading your posts just helps to not feel crazy 🤪
@Bluemeadowbaby i had the zoladex injection too, I've not come across anyone else who's had it so far! My clinic does the injection as standard for FETs x

Hi @Millie029 welcome! How are you feeling?? It's a very anxious and awful 2 week wait isn't it. I was a nervous wreck on my last one. Trying to be better prepared this time round x

Hi @Pingupp thank you!
I'm just about hanging in there.. physically feel off and just keep repeating to myself 'it's the hormones' ..counting down the days.
Oh isn't it just! I'm trying so hard to manage expectations, this is our first round and first transfer (FET after a freeze all due to risk of OHSS) so know we'd be incredibly lucky if it worked. Kudos to you all that have gone through this and multiple times x

@Millie029 welcome to our thread! Sending lots of sparkly positive dust your way! How are you feeling? If you ever feel the need to rant away, share your journey or just share what you've had for tea...we're here 🥰 the zoladex injection is just wow isn't it! 😳🙈 I used to have it in my bum cheek as prostap injection which is the same as zoladex for my endo and they never froze my butt 😂😭 x

@Bluemeadowbaby @Millie029 I feel like I am missing out! What is zoladex?

On another note - anyone watching love island still??
X

Thank you 😊 @Bluemeadowbaby.. really appreciate the positive dust, I'm feeling so pessimistic at the moment.. spent the weekend on the settee feeling exhausted and achey/crampy. Struggling to distract myself when i physically don't feel normal so it's a constant reminder of what's going on 😩 i hate to moan, but ugh.
Oh lordy it is! I was just told by letter that i was getting it and then made the mistake to Google it... needles make me squeamish and that one was huge 😱 your poor bum!! So glad they used freezing spray 😅

@Pingupp oh don't worry, you're not missing out 😊 it's like a hormone blocker implant. I had it at the start to shut off my natural hormones. It put me into a state of temporary menopause, before i started oestrogen patches. Then in addition, i started oestrogen pills and progesterone pessaries a week before transfer. Had a progesterone blood test day of transfer, which came back a bit low.. so added a daily lubion injection to that. Feel like a walking pharmacy! Xx

@Pingupp yes! Guilty on watching love island... whilst in couch potato mode this weekend, i started watching season one again on catch up.. it's soo much more entertaining than the current season 😊 x

@Millie029 ahhh ok. I think I understand the injection now. If my lining scan is ok Weds I start my lubion on Thurs - joy!

That's a good idea - I might go back and start watching from the start as I never saw series 1! X