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IVF/FET October/November 21

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2021babyhope · 02/09/2021 08:10

I think I'm a bit early on some of the other threads so starting one for October/November 😊

1st fresh cycle in august ended in CP.

Booked for follow up consultation 30th September so hopefully I'll be able to transfer late October early November 🤞🏼

5 frozen blasts. Hoping to transfer 2 this time round but I'm not sure they'll let me 😬

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Gensola · 13/11/2021 11:14

@SunshineAndScience I’m so sorry 💕 it’s so unfair x

ginandtonicformeplease · 13/11/2021 15:00

@SunshineAndScience I'm so sorry to hear this - none of this process ever gets any easier does it.

paintfairy · 13/11/2021 15:04

@SunshineAndScience I'm so sorry. 💔 It is very unfair. 8 years is a bloody long time and you most certainly are due a break! Hugs. 💐💐💐

My digestive system is broken. God. I've had some awful pains. I used fybogel last night and I can't decide if that's made it worse or better. Everything is crampy and angry. Everywhere. Not just my bowel area now but stomach too. It's really unpleasant. 😫

IVFGotThis05 · 13/11/2021 15:56

I've had my day 3 update .. transfer booked in for 1pm Monday ! Out of the 6 we have 5 good ones at this stage so fingers crossed the keep going until Monday 🤞

CycleGirl20 · 13/11/2021 16:13

Congratulations @IVFGotThis05! I didn't get a day 3 update. I could have phoned in for one but I figured no news is good news and thought I'd rather not know beyond that! Sometimes ignoring things helps me relax a bit

IVFGotThis05 · 13/11/2021 16:20

Ah yeah that is a good approach !! Let's just enjoy the weekend and hope there is no phone call on Monday so transfers go ahead !!

Tinyhappypeople · 13/11/2021 17:32

Just checking in to say hi. I’ve been reading and following everyone’s journey but not very good at actually posting Blush

Sorry to see that some of you have been having such a rough time, its such a long and difficult journey and often just so unfair.

I did my last buserelin this morning, starting crinone tonight and lubion tomorrow ready for my FET on Thursday. Nerves kicking in and currently feeling fiercely protective of my little embryos after reading a horror story about a sperm donor withdrawing consent (im doing this solo). It’s a small risk but theoretically possible so I just want them back in where they belong! A bit knackered and nauseous from the progynova but for some reason decided this weekend was the perfect time to decorate the spare room Grin

Justawannabemam · 13/11/2021 19:55

@SunshineAndScience sorry to hear your news

Your time will come soon xx

paintfairy · 13/11/2021 21:45

@IVFGotThis05 that's great! Fingers crossed for Monday. 🤞
@Tinyhappypeople whilst I would think it rare, I completely get why that would play on your mind. It would mine. Good luck for Thursday! 🍀

Meanwhile I cried at the McDonald's advert on TV tonight. Came from absolutely nowhere. 🤣 I'm not enjoying these drugs....

CycleGirl20 · 14/11/2021 08:12

@Tinyhappypeople hello 👋. Not long until Thursday!

@paintfairy these hormones are awful! I was just dreaming I had 3 breasts. It all seemed very real and I couldn't work out why it hasn't occurred to me earlier that 3 was an unusual number of breasts to have. Then I woke up and remembered I only have two.

paintfairy · 14/11/2021 08:46

@CycleGirl20 🤣 thankfully I'm not getting the dreams on this. But I did on all the other stuff. I've definitely had enough of it all now though. 😫

Gensola · 14/11/2021 08:48

@CycleGirl20 I dreamed I took my cat on the London Underground just in my arms not in a cat box to visit my friend’s posh new flat in the Barbican, where he then peed everywhere and I was trying to clear it up but her miniature house pony was getting in my way Grin gotta love these hormone dreams

CycleGirl20 · 14/11/2021 08:51

At least I'm just having weird ones and not terrifying ones like a few people have said!

@Gensola a house pony! That was part of the dream? Now I'm wondering if she has a house pony.

Gensola · 14/11/2021 09:59

@CycleGirl20 she does have a posh flat in Barbican centre in RL but does definitely not have a house pony 😅😅 the underground in the dream was also all vintage trains like the hogwarts express 🤣
On my way to have my hair cut for first time since August 2020! So excited

IVFGotThis05 · 14/11/2021 10:00

I'm with yous on the dreams !! Mine aren't awful just super weird !!

paintfairy · 14/11/2021 10:50

@Gensola 🤣🤣🤣 house pony.

Is anyone else permanently starving? And I can't stop eating salt and vinegar crisps. 🤣

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Gensola · 14/11/2021 12:10

@pinksam100 I don’t really understand your post, I’m afraid - no clinic I’ve ever heard of would start you on stims if you’re only 8 days past a 5 day transfer - you’d need to wait for Your official test day and then if it’s a negative, most clinics will ask you to wait at least one month if not two before trying again.

CycleGirl20 · 14/11/2021 12:17

@PinkSam100 are you saying this cycle you've had a day 5 transfer and if it fails, next cycle you will be starting stims again so you would need to start stimming when your period comes? So now that you've started bleeding, you're not sure if it's your period? Are you on progesterone?

It sounds like you need to go to your clinic and get a blood test. 8p5dt is quite early buy you may get a positive at home test I think by then, depending on sensitivity of the test. But really sounds like you need to contact your clinic. If you're not pregnant and it is your period and waiting until tomorrow meant starting on day 3 or 4, they'd probably just stimm you for longer. It sucks doesn't it, all this not knowing.

@paintfairy yes! I ate soo many pringles last night!

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2021babyhope · 14/11/2021 12:31

Hi @PinkSam100 😊 I've never known a clinic to start stims so early without any monitoring - but I would definitely wait until your official test day to start again - and usually a week after if still a negative test! Not all bleeding means a failed cycle so you may still have a successful one!

Are you on progesterone at all? What have your clinic said about stopping current medication?

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CycleGirl20 · 14/11/2021 13:14

@PinkSam100 I asked about the progesterone because I've seen other people on here saying it would stop your period, so the bleeding may be something else

theotherfossilsister · 14/11/2021 14:49

Hi all, popping back again (very sporadic as trying to focus on other stuff but it's not working.) Just reading through all your updates.

It seems everyone is at different stages of heartbreak, tentative maybe happiness which could be pulled away at any moment, or waiting, so much waiting.

Good luck to @IVFGotThis05 for Monday, and for those of you trying not to go mad in the tww @MrsC2018 and @TheSnufflet and @strawberrysummer19

It sounds like you had a hell of an experience Snufflet, I hope one (or both) of the embryos stick, so hard. The not getting at your ovary sounds horrible. My clinic does Conscious Sedation so not sure if that's different.

@VenusStarr- ah how I hope it's not a blighted ovum (I hate that term so much, it makes me think of old bibles and potato famines and pulpits and scary things) - I wish they could come up with kinder language to use, for what it a horrible possible situation. But they might still be OK. I loved your update. There is hope, but my God it's difficult.

@SunshineAndScience I'm sorry, there is so much heartbreak and so little justice in this process.

My update is that I have finally started to bleed, right on the day my natural period would have been due, so not sure if the Buserelin has actually done anything, but the lovely nurse I spoke to today seemed upbeat and said it's doing its job, which I guess is good? I started it on cycle day two and now day two of the next cycle (although they say it's not a period) day 28 of Buserelin.

Going for Scan on Tuesday at 7am. They love their morning appointments, but at least it means I can walk there through the park, and also not be late for work. If the lining is thin enough I can start stims on Tuesday with a possible retrieval on 26th, so later that I thought when it was first postponed. I'm really really hoping it works, so so hard. But I know it might not, and we may be looking at a cancelled cycle and starting again next year.

At least I can have wine if it's cancelled, which I will cry into.

strawberrysummer19 · 14/11/2021 16:28

Hey everyone - hope the weekend is going as well as it is going well and people looking after themselves - or have someone looking after them 🥰

Mine is pretty chilled - 1 week done if 2ww
I had my period last cycle in 3 days time so wondering if it will follow suit but still trying to be hopeful

I've felt so tired the last couple of days, tummy has felt sort of like a dull ache and sore boobs but believe that's the progesterone

@paintfairy@MrsC2018 how are you?

Xx

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