FETs April 2025 ✨

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Anybody else starting or in middle of treatment?

Bit about my experience so far..
My last treatment was in december and had to come to a stop after finding a polyp during the scan. Have since removed the polylp and given the green light to go again. currently on estrodiol and due for a lining thickness scan next week. If all goes to plan I think the frozen transfer will be during 1st wk of april (Fingers X’ed!)

Sending you all positive and sticky vibes!

.. and ps, i'm sorry to anyone who is out already. It's such a pile of sh*t! xx

@Foreverhoping33 @jenk91 @Hopefulheart77 My transfer was 23rd - so similar dates, with OTD on the 4th. Well done on you all for not testing. I've just gone down the rabbit hole.
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So sorry @TheCandidPug hope you are looking after yourself!

@Evi83 welcome! And that’s great news about the positive test, fingers crossed for you!
I’ve not tested and I won’t yet, im trying sooo hard not to overanalyse every twinge! I forgot that I kept a diary of symptoms during my last transfer so I’ve been keeping one this time and comparing. Not sure if it’s helpful because things are feeling different so not sure if it’s making me overthink even more 😂

for those in tww, if you follow the evewell on instagram they are doing a tww transfer diary which weirdly started on the day of my transfer, so it’s quite interesting

@jenk91 Thank you. (it's not really a positive, i think it's just hcg from the trigger). Well done for not testing (although symptoms are hard to avoid!). Fingers crossed for you this week 🙂
p.s. just look at that insta thread (very useful thanks), and one of the things they suggest for today is a digital detox and avoiding forums 😂😂😂

@Sara237 Hi - I'm sorry you're having a sht time of it. Hopefully consultants can plan a good way forward for you. Just wanted to share that I totally feel your pain about age (41 😭) and the sibling gap growing (daughter turns 4 this summer). Sometimes it does all feel hopeless. The positive that i have to cling on to (and hopefully you can cling onto this too) is that your body has done it before, so it can* do it. Fingers crossed the stars align for you v soon!

@TheCandidPug ah I’m so sorry it was a bfn I was really feeling good for you. Eurgh ivf is the worst, it always leaves you clinging to tiny bits of hope just to destroy you later. Hope you are doing ok. Xxx

@Evi83 welcome! There’s quite a few of us with test dates over bank holiday which is nice. Good you have some faint lines already hopefully they get darker!
I still haven’t tested yet and have literally no symptoms at all. No idea which way to think. But I’m holding out for Friday!

hope everyone else is doing well! Xxx

@TheCandidPug im so sorry about your bfn. Hope you are doing okay. It’s such a grim process!

@Evi83 welcome! Yes there is a few around the same date. Got my transfer on 23rd too! Hope your positives keep coming. I haven’t tested yet either, really going to try and hold out until Monday. Thought I’m kind of debating maybe testing on Saturday so if it’s a negative we would have all weekend to be sad before going back to work. Don't know what to do!

Hope everyone is doing well in the TTW! Fingers crossed for all of us 🤞💕

@Evi83 yes I 100% failed at the digital detox 😂

@Hopefulheart77 @Foreverhoping33 how are you guys feeling? I was starting to feel different about this transfer but then I was woken in the night by some really bad cramps, they didn’t last long but this happened around 6 days post transfer with my failed transfer too so I’m pretty sure it means I’m out. This is all so exhausting isn’t it!

@Hopefulheart77 oh god it’s so hard. I convinced myself I was so much more chilled out this time… and evidently I am not!
Hope you are managing to distract yourself. Nice idea to give yourself some time on the weekend if it’s not the news you want. Maybe you can plan something nice, either as a celebration or to cheer up! (Fingers crossed for the former!) 😀

Hey @jenk91 still going strong with the no testing. I’m back to work today as I took a few days off after the transfer. I’m feeling so tired but I think it’s the progesterone and woke up the cramps this morning so feeling a bit down. Hopefully that’s not us out yet 💕

@Evi83 yeah I’m back to work today so distracting myself alright. I definitely notice a big change in myself from the fresh transfer to this one, think it was because it’s an easier process with no injections etc. I think we might just test on Saturday, really don’t want to go into the week feeling sad! Yeah we are definitely going to do something on the Monday to cheer us up/celebrate. How are you feeling?

@Hopefulheart77 Thanks, feeling fine. Slight metallic taste in my mouth, but thats probably just progresterone. Yes, frozen transfers are much easier. I barely even knew this one was happenning. Did another test this am. Still v faint (barely darker than yesterday), so probs another CP. I know it's still too early, but i feel like i just know this time. Funny, because last time i felt the opposite - and it was s cp. Maybe I'm just protecting myself this time by being non-optimistic. Clearly symptoms / lines, don't really mean anything until otd! Stay strong!😊

@Evi83 thanks you for the message. It meant a lot. I'm still lurking... hopeful that I'll get back in the ring soon! I've just found out there's a 44 week wait for the hysteroscopy to get rid of polyp so I can try again as my lining was fine and I have great blasts frozen as used donor eggs this time. Looking into private hysteroscopy treatment abroad as gynaecology in UK is so stretched. It's only 670 in Brno but husband worries about safety. It's 3000 here so bit of a difference! IVF takes over doesn't it and gives such purpose with all the stages and rollercoasters so I'm just feeling incredibly flat and in limbo. Again, thanks for your message and everything crossed for your result.

@Sara237 i totally feel your pain! 44 weeks
sounds awfully similar to my trust, maybe we are neighbours! I also need a hysteroscopy prior to my 2nd FET and found this waiting list nightmare putting mega road blocks in place! Shocking, considering how much tax we all pay in the UK!! I’ve booked an appointment in the Nuffield with a dr that sounds amazing on paper! So here’s hoping he can see and treat. I think it’s about 3k…

@TheCandidPug it's so shocking isn't it? Women's health is in crisis really, I only wish I'd taken out private health insurance before discovering all this...
Road block is an apt metaphor. My clinic in Portugal have told me to get another scan done to check if it's still there as apparently some are cleared by period so that's for Saturday we'll see. I've looked at the London clinic in UK - it says hysteroscopy from 1975 but I think I want a GA. And on it goes. Let me know how you get on with your appt.
Hope all of you on 2WWs are doing ok!

@Sara237 44 weeks! That so long when you're a woman of a certain age trying to get pregnant (and so long even if you aren't). Hope you find a solution that works. The limbo is the worst. It's always nice to feel you are doing something proactive. Very best of luck with everything xx

@jenk91 @Hopefulheart77 i have been having some cramps too mainly in my back that few exactly like pregnancy cramps. But I didn’t have these last fet and don’t normally get them before my period so I’m counting them as good. Hope you do too!
Gotta keep those positive feelings until otd! 😘😘😘

@Foreverhoping33 i am the same with back pains too. Would never really have a sore back but we were painting before transfer and I kind of thought it was that but Hopefully it’s a good sign 🤞
Feel like time is going so slow now lol fingers crossed for us all to get some good news at the weekend 💕

Hi everyone, I also had my FET this month - do you mind if I join you?

I’ve done something really stupid and tested at 4dp5dt on Monday and got the faintest line ever which I’m now worried is an ident, how’s everyone else doing?

@Hopefulheart77 yes time has come to a complete standstill for me! It was moving by alright but this week is ridiculously slow. I was so tempted to test yesterday but I’m holding strong. Just two more days for me so I’m can do it!
keeping my fingers crossed that the back pain is a positive sign!

@Lostmyusernametoday welcome to the group! Exciting that you have a positive already even if it’s faint.

@Foreverhoping33 thank you! I do have one baby already from a previous cycle in 2022 but since then have had failed transfer and two broken embryos so it’s been really stressful. It’s funny because I’ve never ever had an ident always stark white but now of course I’ve decided I’ve managed to find two idents in two days. Not feeling hopeful as had a lot of symptoms by this point with my successful round.

huge well done to you for not caving - everything crossed for your OTD ☺️

@Lostmyusernametoday sorry to hear about the failed transfers - never fun. I also have a son already born early last year. Definitely find these transfers easier to manage now I have him at least. Are you the same?

I had literally no symptoms at all with his transfer so I wouldn’t worry about lack of symptoms at this stage. Xxx

@Foreverhoping33 so I was but I think getting through 4 embryos in 3 weeks has really thrown me off and sent me into a bit of a spiral. Congrats on your son ❤️❤️❤️

@Lostmyusernametoday Hi! Welcome!. I'm a hundred % a serial / early tester. Why do we do it to ourselves! Sorry about your embryo losses, that's really hard. Yay for a faint line though - really hoping it gets darker for you. No symptoms doesn't really mean anything. I also had a faint line when i first tested 5dpt, and it has got darker, i just feel like it's much fainter than it should be at this stage (7dpt). I feel kind of resigned to the fact it may be another chemical 😭 - i hear you on the spiral!

@Hopefulheart77 time has absolutely stopped and i cannot distract myself sufficiently with anything (other than ordering pregancny tests from amazon!). You can definitely hold out for 2 more days if you've lasted this long. Everything crossed for you!

@jenk91 @Foreverhoping33 Hope you guys are doing ok!

@Evi83 im happy there’s someone else out there as mad as me haha! Congrats on your faint line too….thats exactly my thoughts too as it’s not very dark at all although definitely darker than yesterday just now (at work who am I?! 😂😂😂). Sorry to hear about your chemical. Thanks it was such a shock as they were all 5ABs so just didn’t expect it at all - I hadn’t even really considered the thaw as part of the challenge which was daft of me so i was a bit blindsided

@Lostmyusernametoday Ha! I work from home which means I’m free to test all the flipping time, and it is a serious test of my strength not too (3hrs between tests isn’t long enough right?!!). Ooh, that’s great that yours is getting darker. If definitely means implantation, just fingers crossed the embryos are ok and they can hang on!!
Horrible that you lost some embryos in the defrost process - I never really thought of that either. Hopefully it’s just that the one you have on board now is the one that is meant to be 🙏🏻 😊