Good luck for the egg collection Aleja.

I really hope that they offer me IUI. When i look at the list of treatments at the fertility clinic, i just think it's the one that would suit me best. Delilah did you do IUI with hormones then or without. I read on the clinic website that you can do it either way.

MK8 try as i might i find the chilling out thing hard but that's my mission this year, i can't forget about it but i'm just trying to stop my constant thoughts about it...we can but try

Good luck tomor Aleja! I hope they collect lots of healthy eggies and that it isn't too painful!

Cupcake, I did take hormones. I took Femara for a few days, it's just a pill sort of similarish to clomid, then I took Follistim injections. They monitored my follicles at the start and then on CD12 and then gave me a shot to trigger ovulation and we did the IUI the next day.

I think whether you would do IUI on it's own or with hormones depends on what your diagnosis is. For me, since my AMH was low the medications were in hopes of getting me either more eggs or a better/healthier egg. In the end I only had 1 follicle/egg and I thought it wasn't going to work, but apparently that 1 egg must have been healthier because it worked. I think maybe before the medication my egg wasn't maturing enough by the right time.

For us the hormones were actually more important/crucial than the IUI. The doctor told us the IUI part was somewhat optional actually and we could just do the deed at home. However, in her personal experience she said the IUI seemed to increase the chances of it working and most of her patients who did meds and tried at home a few times ended up eventually doing the IUI and then getting success. We figured if we were doing the meds we wanted the highest chances and just dove in for what would give us the best possible chances and it worked for us.

From my limited experience and people I talk to though, typically they have you at least try IUI a few times before moving to IVF. Our doctor told us she'd recommend we try IUI 3 times before moving to IVF. Of course it depends on your issue, like if sperm is an issue the treatment would be different.

Hurrah it's egg day Aleja! Best of luck

Hope everything went well today Aleja!

Rang the FS a while ago and spoke to a lovely nurse who told me that they got my referral letter last week and that she'd be ringing me in the morning to arrange my appointment! Why she couldn't arrange it while I was on the phone is a bit of a mystery!!!

woo hoo broody! your turn next

aleja- i really hope it went well today. best of luck for the next step. thinking of you!

as for me, still in fertile period i think. positive opk yest but lots of ewcm yest and sticky cm today. go figure!

hi ladies,
thank you so much for your kind thoughts and well wishes. I wanted to post in when I had some definite outcomes from the EPU. It has been a very emotionally and physically draining couple of days but today I feel much better. Yesterday I was very sore and slept most of the day.

Well the EPU went ahead. I was heavily sedated so I don't remember any of it!! I was glad to see my FS's friendly face just before they knocked me out!!
i woke up to find out they got 16 eggs out of me!!
No wonder i felt so bloated and like my ovaries had doubled in size. Later in the day they rang to confirm 15 of those were mature eggs and this morning the embryologist rang to say that all 15 started fertilizing overnight

I am so happy and relieved today but it really is an emotional rollercoaster. The whole cycle is all about waiting and more waiting and it can all go wrong at any time. So now I wait.
Next they call me on Thursday to tell me if any of the embies are growing well. If all goes to plan i have a transfer on Saturday.

GL and baby dust to all

Mk, just for it honey, sticky or not a positive OPK is a positive. GL

maybe they had to check the FS's diary? well at least they got the referral letter. Fx they call you today

Wow, Aleja, 16 eggs!! That's a lot! No wonder you were sore! Are you still in a lot of pain today? It's great that so many of them started fertilising. The whole procedure is just amazing really! How many of them do you think they will transfer? Do they do an ultrasound or something to measure your lining?