Littlebear 
brummie 
That stinks, I'm sorry 
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Just dropping in to update on my appointment, will reply properly when I get home!
I wish I'd recorded the meeting on my phone now, already struggling to remember...
When looking at the IVF, the consultant said that the scan showed only a couple of potential follicles at the start which was why I was given the maximum dose for stimulation. It also took me longer than expected to get them to the right size, but he was pleased with 8 eggs and said a fertilisation of 7 was excellent. Everything was perfect but sometimes it just doesn't work.
He got an embryologist in to speak to me about the quality of the embryos. She talked me through the three numbers they grade them with, I think one was size, one was the baby bit and the other was the supporting cells bit that forms the placenta but I could have got that muddled. It was all very detailed but basically the two we have frozen are ok but not excellent. If I remember correctly (I should have written it down but didn't) They were 4/5 out of 5, 3 out of 6 and 2 out of 3 on the three grading systems. So it might be that we want to put both in on the frozen cycle. The embryologist explained that freezing them involves dehydrating them, and when they thaw they have to hydrate them again. If the embryo takes on too much water it can burst, if it doesn't take on enough it doesn't thaw properly. 1 in 5 embryos don't survive the thaw. I'm not sure whether putting two in gives us the same chance as putting in one, and then putting in one again another time, as it would be a different month and a different womb lining etc, rather than chancing them both on the same womb lining? I didn't think of this until afterwards but we don't need to make a decision now, we'll see him again before then.  Â
He agrees that with my history of mc as well as failed iui/ivf there is reason to look at the nk cells and have the scratch, they can do both atthe private hospital he also works at but we'd have to pay - I need to call his secretary up there to ask about prices and book in. I thought this might be of interest on here as it sounds the same as Coventry but this is Thornbury hospital in Sheffield.
They will take a bit of the womb lining and test it for nk cells, and also look at progesterone levels and whether it's doing what it's supposed to (something I've always been concerned about with my short lp). Â
If they find nk cells then they still won't prescribe the steroids unless they can prove they will work for me, so they'd give me steroids for a month and then do another biopsy and see if the nk cells had decreased. So if they find nk cells, that's going to put us back a few months.
He was very lovely as usual and asked where dh was. I explained at the beginning. Then at the end of the appointment he said he would be happy to write a letter to his school explaining why these appointments were necessary and why he needed to be there. He also said that we could request a telephone appointment with him if there was anything we wanted to ask 
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Need to see if I can get the at lunch to call the private hospital but might have to be tomorrow.