IVF Scotland - thread 5

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Hello, made a new thread for us Scots going through IVF, thread 5. Hoping this is the best thread yet for dreams coming true ❤️

@Ellenn ah that sounds difficult with the scan. Good idea to get a private one. Keep us posted.

Waiting for an update tomorrow. I'm so hopeful that our little 8 are doing well. I guess form tomorrow they are early embryos. We've never had embryos before and I'm so so hopeful.

Tonight I'm going to do some work and then watch the apprentice then off to bed.

Last update came fairly early in the morning so hoping that's the case again tomorrow. Its just via a portal message though so in a way that's good as no possibily for me to miss a phone call but also not sure how I feel about it just being a message! By this time tomorrow we will know.

@IVFlife Hope you can relax this evening and best of luck for tomorrow !

@IVFlife best of luck for tomorrow 🤞🏼

Thank you!

Woke up in the night anxious and then this morning I feel so nervous. I think because we've never got to transfer before it's so hard to see it happening this time. Even though completely different eggs

All 8 are still growing.
6 are good quality.
7th one is right cell size but doesn't look as good.
8th is slow growing is only 3 cells and should be 6-9 but it might catch up
So all 8 still in with a chance.
Transfer booked for early Sunday morning !

Hi! Just jumping in if that’s okay. Got my first transfer (FET) coming up on Friday at GCRM.

Hey Jules glad you found us @JulesIVF

@IVFlife That’s good that 6 are looking really positive. Best of luck for your transfer tomorrow! How are you feeling?

We've had really bad news today.. utterly devastated and have to now make some incredibly difficult decisions

Oh no! Hope you’re ok @IVFlife 😘

Welcome @JulesIVF

@IVFlife sorry to hear that, hope you’re okay 🥺. Is your transfer still possible?

@IVFlife so sorry to hear this. I take it whatever decision you have to make is time sensitive? Sending you love x

@IVFlife Oh gosh, hope whatever has happened you’re ok x

Hope everyone is doing ok. I had my lining scan this morning. 3 hour drive for a 10 minute appointment - bonkers! Lining is 7.5mm and a nice triple layer. Transfer will be next Thursday which is later than I thought it would be but never mind.

@ivf24 Oh geez that’s mad isn’t it for a 10 min appointment! The downside of rural life. Great news your lining is looking good. Does seem quite awhile until the transfer? Normally once your lining is good it’s only 6 days or so. Wonder if they just don’t have space to do a transfer until next Thursday? At least you have time to plan. Keeping everything crossed!

Yeah it’s crazy! 3 hours there and 3 hours back. Frustrating that NHS Highland don’t have any fertility services. Yes it is because there is no space until next Thursday.

@ivf24 Can’t imagine how frustrating it must feel to do that long a trip. A satellite clinic would make such a difference for monitoring

Hi all,

Has anyone used embryo glue before?
The clinic just called to say that we are in at 11:30 on Friday and asked if we wanted to use embryo glue. It’s £200 extra. She said they don’t recommend it to people because there’s no data that it helps.

@JulesIVF Hey, I used embryo glue on my 2 FETs that were successful and not on my unsuccessful fresh or FET. We didn’t have to pay extra though.

I also agree evidence is mixed which is why we didn’t used it on first 2 transfers but said yes on the third transfer as also didn’t see harm in it. Used it for most recent transfer because I wanted to do the same as worked on my cycle with DD :)

Thank you @2mumlife . I’m sure it is included in our access fertility package so I have emailed access to check. GCRM have recently changed their agreement with Access and said that I need to pay, but I signed up back in October and remember it was included. Anyway, GCRM said that if access confirms this they will honour it and not charge us.

@JulesIVF We were with GCRM - cycle with my DD was part of access fertility and was included. Most recent round though we paid gcrm direct for FET but was also included. Hopefully can use it if you want to give it a try