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Day 5 yesterday – no update from clinic?

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yassos · 15/02/2025 13:20

Hi all, just posting as we’re currently a bit in the dark and I’m feeling a bit frustrated and unsure what to think (AIBU?).

We did retrieval on Monday, Tuesday morning were given full results and told we would be contacted with the day-5 results on Friday (i.e. did we get any blastocysts and if so how many). We were also told we would need to inform them by Saturday (today) if we wanted to do PGT-A testing on any of them.

Waited all day yesterday, by 4pm (UK time) had heard nothing back. Treatment was in Athens, so 2 hours ahead there. I’m aware our nurse coordinator often works a split shift so popped her a whatsapp over to check we hadn’t missed an email somehow. She said she would get back to us on the same day, Friday, still. Got to almost 7 (almost 9 where she is, the time she finishes) and I checked quickly if we were still expecting to hear back. She ‘loved’ both messages but didn’t reply.

Today emailed the main address to check if there was an update and to ask for them to let us know what was happening, even if just to tell us we would now hear back on Monday (Saturday is a working day for the clinic).

Again, nothing.

Not really sure what to think. We wouldn’t have minded if they had at least checked in to tell us it would be Monday, but just leaving us hanging around in the dark for days, not knowing the outcome doesn’t seem great. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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CharlotteYorkMacDougal · 15/02/2025 16:12

Hope you’ve heard something by now 🤞 If you had your eggs collected on Monday then I think day 5 would be today as they usually count from the day after egg collection. In my experience clinics will also culture embryos that aren’t yet at blastocyst stage on day 5 until day 6 (or rarely day 7) so it’s possible they are still waiting to see if any can be frozen/ biopsied tomorrow - either way their communication sounds very poor which must be stressful for you Flowers

yassos · 15/02/2025 16:20

CharlotteYorkMacDougal · 15/02/2025 16:12

Hope you’ve heard something by now 🤞 If you had your eggs collected on Monday then I think day 5 would be today as they usually count from the day after egg collection. In my experience clinics will also culture embryos that aren’t yet at blastocyst stage on day 5 until day 6 (or rarely day 7) so it’s possible they are still waiting to see if any can be frozen/ biopsied tomorrow - either way their communication sounds very poor which must be stressful for you Flowers

Hiya! They said they would report back on Friday with our Day 5 results, and we would need to make a decision about how many we want tested. If they were going to carry on for day 6 or 7, I think they should have told us.

I think they’re just busy / the coordinator is overworked. She replied at 4pm yesterday to say sorry for the delay and assured me she would still email me that day.

Today I feel a bit annoyed that no-one bothered to reply to our email – I did say please just let us know what we should expect, even if it’s just that it will now be Monday. I’d have been happy with just an acknowledgment. Just feels a bit crap and disrespectful to leave us hanging on with no idea what’s happening.

Apologies, I’m venting!

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yassos · 15/02/2025 16:21

Good point tho about the days – I’m not sure which day they usually count as day 1?!

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yassos · 15/02/2025 16:22

Love the name as well by the way 😄

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Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 16:34

I had my EC on a Monday, teusday was day 1, I had a 3 day transfer on a Thursday, so maybe the clinic got the day mixed up when they said Friday because today would be day 5.
Mine was also in Greece. Hope you get some good news some time today x

yassos · 15/02/2025 17:02

Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 16:34

I had my EC on a Monday, teusday was day 1, I had a 3 day transfer on a Thursday, so maybe the clinic got the day mixed up when they said Friday because today would be day 5.
Mine was also in Greece. Hope you get some good news some time today x

Thank you! :) I’m resigned to Monday now, I guess they’re just busy and I shouldn’t take it personally. It sounds like they might indeed have got mixed up with the days also. So I guess today is day 5 (I imagine it must be pretty standardised?) The lab is IASO.

I can actually relax more now knowing I won’t hear anything tomorrow! It’s the checking my emails that’s doing my head in 😆

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Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 18:19

I've heard good things about IASO but still they should of contacted you today 🤔 I would be pretty pissed at that but I have zero patience

yassos · 15/02/2025 18:48

Haha @Clocloxx you sound like a kindred spirit 😂😂 They did finally get back to us. We got better news than expected. But now have another dilemma – they seem to want us to confirm tonight how many to test and we’ve realised we really know the square root of fuck all about how the testing works, although I’ve seen threads where people discuss whether they would test or not. I’m 41 so I guess we should test everything. I might go for a shower and a glass of wine after 3 months of abstinence!

I’ve sent an email with some questions so hopefully that will keep the coordinator busy long enough to have a think. 😅

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