Hopefully find others in a similar boat 🙏
Just made my ‘Day One’ call to the clinic this week to set the ball rolling this will be my second cycle, first one failed on 12th Feb 2024.
Bit of background to how we got here, I have had 4 ectopics since Nov 2020 2 resulting in emergency surgery and losing both my tubes. No reason why our first cycle failed, we will be doing IVF/ICSI this time round.
Anyone joining me in the April emotional rollercoaster? X
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Vian67 · 21/03/2024 18:15
Natty2 · 21/03/2024 19:22
Hi @Vian67 I think we spoke back in January.
I seemed abit too behind for the March group and a little early for April.. I'm currently on second round of IVF/ICSI and day 8 stims
Background:
I'm almost 34 and DH is 34 with low morphology, no other known issues
Our last NHS ICSI cycle in Jan ended with 14 eggs only 5 were mature, 3 fertilised and 1 made it to day 5, which was frozen as my progesterone was too high for a fresh transfer.
After much consideration, we decided to do another round of egg retrieval, as if it had worked (which would have been great!) my maturity in a few years trying for a sibling would be worse. (The low maturity was a shock for us and the clinic!)
I've been swapped from Ovaleap to Meriofert this time starting on 300iu
Although now have 40 follicles (albeit many are very small) so at risk of OHSS so could end up with another freeze all! They've now decreased my meds to 150iu
How are you feeling this time round?
HopefulllHolly · 21/03/2024 20:14
@Vian67 ahh thanks. Strangely I’m not at all scared of the injections because to me that’s the easy bit, I don’t mind a routine anyway 🤣 for me I’m most scared of it not working, I’m scared of my eggs being rubbish and our sperm not working because of morphology (1%), and not ending with any blasts or anything.
Im finding the part I’m hating really is the trying to constantly balance my feelings between being hopeful and thinking “why can’t it be us that it works for? It works for other people” but then trying to stop myself from being too hopeful because what if we are still here in 5 years time trying (we’ve been TTC for 5 years plus already). I think that’s what I’m finding most hard. The injections for me are fine because I’ll be doing what I can and have a job that I can do successfully. 🙂 Can you tell I’m all over the place?!?
Hey @Natty2 i think I remember you briefly the March group. ☺️ I also have a low AMH (4.9), and my AFC is 6.
The more I say our situation to people, the less hopeful I am. Gah - whys this so hard?!
HopefulllHolly · 21/03/2024 20:14
@Vian67 ahh thanks. Strangely I’m not at all scared of the injections because to me that’s the easy bit, I don’t mind a routine anyway 🤣 for me I’m most scared of it not working, I’m scared of my eggs being rubbish and our sperm not working because of morphology (1%), and not ending with any blasts or anything.
Im finding the part I’m hating really is the trying to constantly balance my feelings between being hopeful and thinking “why can’t it be us that it works for? It works for other people” but then trying to stop myself from being too hopeful because what if we are still here in 5 years time trying (we’ve been TTC for 5 years plus already). I think that’s what I’m finding most hard. The injections for me are fine because I’ll be doing what I can and have a job that I can do successfully. 🙂 Can you tell I’m all over the place?!?
Hey @Natty2 i think I remember you briefly the March group. ☺️ I also have a low AMH (4.9), and my AFC is 6.
The more I say our situation to people, the less hopeful I am. Gah - whys this so hard?!
Vian67 · 21/03/2024 20:22
Ah yeh get strapped in for an emotional rollercoaster.
My OH is so laid back he is very we will deal with things as/if/when they happen. Where as I have gone over every single ‘what if’ about 20 times. He is a lot more positive than me which is nice but my theory now is why build it up cos it’s just further to fall 😔.
and i definitely get the more you say it the less hopeful. I have barely spoken to any of my family or friends about it all because I can’t. It’s easier for it to feel like it is happening to someone else and I’m just observing.
HopefulllHolly · 21/03/2024 20:14
@Vian67 ahh thanks. Strangely I’m not at all scared of the injections because to me that’s the easy bit, I don’t mind a routine anyway 🤣 for me I’m most scared of it not working, I’m scared of my eggs being rubbish and our sperm not working because of morphology (1%), and not ending with any blasts or anything.
Im finding the part I’m hating really is the trying to constantly balance my feelings between being hopeful and thinking “why can’t it be us that it works for? It works for other people” but then trying to stop myself from being too hopeful because what if we are still here in 5 years time trying (we’ve been TTC for 5 years plus already). I think that’s what I’m finding most hard. The injections for me are fine because I’ll be doing what I can and have a job that I can do successfully. 🙂 Can you tell I’m all over the place?!?
Hey @Natty2 i think I remember you briefly the March group. ☺️ I also have a low AMH (4.9), and my AFC is 6.
The more I say our situation to people, the less hopeful I am. Gah - whys this so hard?!
EggsFrozenNow · 21/03/2024 20:47
@HopefulllHolly It seems our situations are kind of similar. Has your partner been told to do more sperm related investigations like DNA fragmentation? After my first cycle, a few of the consultants I've spoken to since have requested this (+ one consultant requested HBA), which makes me wonder if we should have done it before the first try, since results seem to have some guidance value and we might have put my husband on supplements etc earlier on, especially as male factors are sometimes easier to 'fix'...
HopefulllHolly · 21/03/2024 20:14
@Vian67 ahh thanks. Strangely I’m not at all scared of the injections because to me that’s the easy bit, I don’t mind a routine anyway 🤣 for me I’m most scared of it not working, I’m scared of my eggs being rubbish and our sperm not working because of morphology (1%), and not ending with any blasts or anything.
Im finding the part I’m hating really is the trying to constantly balance my feelings between being hopeful and thinking “why can’t it be us that it works for? It works for other people” but then trying to stop myself from being too hopeful because what if we are still here in 5 years time trying (we’ve been TTC for 5 years plus already). I think that’s what I’m finding most hard. The injections for me are fine because I’ll be doing what I can and have a job that I can do successfully. 🙂 Can you tell I’m all over the place?!?
Hey @Natty2 i think I remember you briefly the March group. ☺️ I also have a low AMH (4.9), and my AFC is 6.
The more I say our situation to people, the less hopeful I am. Gah - whys this so hard?!
Lucylaughing · 21/03/2024 21:08
@Natty2 haha, thanks! Yes I think first injection will be Sat afternoon, then from Sunday morning onwards if all goes to plan. I think they just treat your day 2 as if it was a day 3 if the scan looks ok. I don't know if they're taking bloods as well. I guess there's a chance I might get bumped to Monday but I hope not as I'll have to call in sick
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HopefulllHolly · 22/03/2024 15:10
Hey @EggsFrozenNow how you doing today? No we haven’t done any fragmentation tests and haven’t been told told. Not sure why! I guess we’ll get to that after the first cycle. I’m seeing this one as a test anyway and under no illusions it’ll work for us first time, though we’d love to be that lucky of course! He’s been really down because of the low morphology and not great progressive results either, and they actually got worse in the most recent test despite him being on increased supplements for the last 3 months in between, reduced caffeine to one coffee a day and alcohol he’s having two small cans of beer on the weekends but that’s it and upped his exercise too. I feel sorry for him tbh, so another test making him feel crap doesn’t feel like the right thing to do just yet, though it’s handy to know! Because I don’t have many eggs and we’re having ICSI we won’t have many embryos to pick from anyway so the consultant told us not to bother with PGTA testing either, but we can add it on if we get a surprise amount of eggs.
I know we’re doing all we can, I’ve not drank for months, I’m eating really well, drink 3 litres of water every day, exercise, have both taken all the supplements and done everything recommended in the it starts with an egg book. So I think we’re just going to see how we get on this cycle and go from
there. Baby steps! 😊
Have you changed a lot this cycle to the other, or are you planning to?
EggsFrozenNow · 21/03/2024 20:47
@HopefulllHolly It seems our situations are kind of similar. Has your partner been told to do more sperm related investigations like DNA fragmentation? After my first cycle, a few of the consultants I've spoken to since have requested this (+ one consultant requested HBA), which makes me wonder if we should have done it before the first try, since results seem to have some guidance value and we might have put my husband on supplements etc earlier on, especially as male factors are sometimes easier to 'fix'...
HopefulllHolly · 21/03/2024 20:14
@Vian67 ahh thanks. Strangely I’m not at all scared of the injections because to me that’s the easy bit, I don’t mind a routine anyway 🤣 for me I’m most scared of it not working, I’m scared of my eggs being rubbish and our sperm not working because of morphology (1%), and not ending with any blasts or anything.
Im finding the part I’m hating really is the trying to constantly balance my feelings between being hopeful and thinking “why can’t it be us that it works for? It works for other people” but then trying to stop myself from being too hopeful because what if we are still here in 5 years time trying (we’ve been TTC for 5 years plus already). I think that’s what I’m finding most hard. The injections for me are fine because I’ll be doing what I can and have a job that I can do successfully. 🙂 Can you tell I’m all over the place?!?
Hey @Natty2 i think I remember you briefly the March group. ☺️ I also have a low AMH (4.9), and my AFC is 6.
The more I say our situation to people, the less hopeful I am. Gah - whys this so hard?!
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