3 failed IUIs. How do you cope?

[PinkPeony]

EEEK!! That's awesome Strawberry. I had a feeling that's how it would go down. Exciting!! I did the antagonist protocol too. Had 19 days of BC which ended up being plenty of suppression for me.

 

[Maverick007]

You lucky duck not having to take birth control! Man I think that, for me, was the worst part!

 

[Maverick007]

Pink: did you find out this morning whether you can trigger tonight?

 

[PinkPeony]

Still waiting to hear back on my bloods from the nurse - whether it's today or tomorrow will depend on that. Looking at my ultrasound this morning I'm really borderline so she wasn't sure. I'm hoping they give me another day to let the little ones get on board (although this means buying another 300iu of gonal f ). I have a couple of 2.0's now, some 1.7 and 1.8's and a bunch that are like 1.2-1.6.
When I trigger I'm supposed to do 2 ovidrel shots and 450iu's of gonal f. Is that what you guys did? I think it should get a few more of the little guys in the game.

 

[Strawberry13]

Lol I know! But me being the crazy person I am I'm googling everything and figuring out why I'm on this protocol when everyone else I know went on bcp. But I'm going for my class next week and I can ask all of those questions then I guess.

 

[Maverick007]

Strawberry, well let us know how it goes! I'm sure it'll be information overload.

Pink, great #s! I did one ovidrel trigger shot 36 hrs before my ER and that was it, I didn't have to take any other meds. Plus I was not on Gonal-F so that could be part of it.

 

[PinkPeony]

Strawberry stay off google lol! It'll always come up with the most horrifying things when 99.99999% of the time you have nothing to worry about. I'm sure they'll explain it at the clinic. I think most places just do the bcp to line up everyone's cycle.

 

[Strawberry13]

Awesome pink sounds like you will get a lot of eggs in a few days! Let us know when they call. It would be great if the ER was Friday, right? Since then you'd have the whole weekend to rest up.

I know google is the devil but its just always there on my screen waiting to be used lol.

 

[baby.wish]

Hey Guys,

Strawberry it seemed I was on a similiar protocol as you, Gonal-F, Menopur but I was on Cetrotide and I think you said you were on Follitism? My doc said its the short protocol as they already know how your body reacts to certain meds I think. As for the BCP, I did have to take it but like PinkPeony said i've heard they do this to line up cycles as well so they do things on certain days but I could be wrong. Don't worry about it too much just be excited for the journey ahead!!

PinkPeony, finally coming to ER...excited for you as you are coming near the end now.

Maverick how are you feeling? Any symptoms yet??

Hows everyone else doing???

Im on my last day at home before I head back to work. I agree with everyone that Google is horrible. I made the mistake of looking some stuff up yesterday and then stopped myself. I did have a little cramping yesterday but then it went away and now don't feel a thing. I also don't know if its my body or the prometrium. I know most of you didn't have any symptoms so thats making me feel better.

 

[PinkPeony]

Eeek!!! You guys I trigger tonight! ER On Thurs morning!!

 

[Maverick007]

Eeek!!! You guys I trigger tonight! ER On Thurs morning!!

Yayyy!!!

 

[baby.wish]

Eeek!!! You guys I trigger tonight! ER On Thurs morning!!

Good luck!

 

[Maverick007]

Hey Guys,

Strawberry it seemed I was on a similiar protocol as you, Gonal-F, Menopur but I was on Cetrotide and I think you said you were on Follitism? My doc said its the short protocol as they already know how your body reacts to certain meds I think. As for the BCP, I did have to take it but like PinkPeony said i've heard they do this to line up cycles as well so they do things on certain days but I could be wrong. Don't worry about it too much just be excited for the journey ahead!!

PinkPeony, finally coming to ER...excited for you as you are coming near the end now.

Maverick how are you feeling? Any symptoms yet??

Hows everyone else doing???

Im on my last day at home before I head back to work. I agree with everyone that Google is horrible. I made the mistake of looking some stuff up yesterday and then stopped myself. I did have a little cramping yesterday but then it went away and now don't feel a thing. I also don't know if its my body or the prometrium. I know most of you didn't have any symptoms so thats making me feel better.

It's so hard not to symptom-spot, and even for me now, I can't tell if my cramps are pregnancy-related or maybe from the progesterone. I agree that staying off google and various message boards is healthier mentally because it seems like every woman is completely different! It just made me crazier to analyze it to death.

I'm feeling alright so far...just minor little symptoms that come and go but nothing full-blown yet!

ETA: the acne/spots that so quickly appeared on my chest has basically already disappeared. How weird is that? It must've been some kind of hormone flare up that triggered it.

 

[Nicedips]

Good luck Pink!

Strawberry - My doc follows short protocol too, wonder whats the difference

Baby.wish - Hang in there, beta is around the corner

 

[StayHopeful]

Breaking Dawn and Chris, good luck with your IUIs!

Maverick, your beta is awesome! My FS told me they want to see the number rise at least 60% in 48 hours and yours definitely did that. I only had 2 betas so I'm not sure what you're supposed to look for at your next one. Do you have a scan date yet?

Strawberry, that's awesome! That was my original protocol as well, I only ended up going back and doing bcp because I had a cyst on one ovary when I was about to start my stims. I agree with Maverick, no matter how prepared you are it feels like you're racing toward it when it finally starts. But it increases your chances so much!

Pink, good luck! My trigger this time was Novarel, but every FS has a little bit different protocol. Your numbers sound great and I know my follies definitely grew between trigger and ER.

I'm doing pretty good, just counting down the days until my next scan on Friday. I've been back at work for 3 days now and for some reason that just makes everything seem surreal. I think it's because during the summer, I was completely focused on IVF and then being pregnant, and now I'm back in the "real world" and I catch myself doubting that I'm pregnant. I'll feel so much better when I see the little guy/girl's heartbeat again on Friday. My morning sickness has been awful. My nausea was getting worse for a few weeks, but then last Thursday I actually started throwing up. So I started one med that kind of helped, but now I'm trying a different one that seems to help more. I'm still a little nauseous sometimes, but it's nowhere near as bad as last week. Other than that, just super tired all the time. Every time I feel exhausted or nauseous, I tell myself that it's my little one saying hi

 

[Breaking Dawn]

Ladies goodlck to all the exciting ivf -ers!

Can someone explain to me what a sample ivf calender is like?

What cd day is ER , ET.etc?

 

[Maverick007]

Aww, StayHopeful, so sorry your nausea has been so bad! What are you taking for it? I'm glad it seems to be helping. I know what you mean about doubting that you are pregnant when you get back to reality. can't wait to hear how the next scan goes... what would be your estimated due date?

I don't know what they're looking for at the next beta but my guess would be something close to 2000 because if I double 524 from Mon to Wed, it's 1050 and then doubling 1050 from weds to friday would be just over 2000. friday would be 16dp5dt. I had a very realistic dream last night that the nurse called and said my beta went down to 5 and i was crying and stuff. ugh! i hate dreams like that. i don't have a scan date either yet...i think they might wait to see how the betas go first. i would be (i think) 5 weeks as of friday. so maybe a week or week and a half from then?

BreakingDawn, I can send you a pic of my calendar if you are interested, but just in general, my calendar looked like this:

July 1- AF started
July 3-18 bcps
July 20-31 stims
July 22 - AF again
July 31 trigger shot
Aug 2 egg retrieval early morning
Aug 7 egg transfer early morning
Aug 16 first beta scheduled

 

[Bma11]

Stay hopeful- your doctor can prescribe you zofran, if its really bad. I wore sea bands and took emetrol and ginger ale, when I felt sick.

Maverick- you should have your first scan pretty soon!!! I had mine at 5 weeks 6 days because we were going out of town during my 6 week of pregnancy. My scan would have been 6 weeks and 4 days originally, but she took me early to be safe before vacation. I actually saw the heart beat flutter. It just looked like light and you could barely tell but it was the most amazing feeling !! I can't wait for all of y'all to experience that!

Pink- I'm so happy for you!!! Good luck

Strawberry- the BCP are to suppress and quiet down your ovaries. Who knows why some do BCP and some don't? Maybe you'll be on lupron or something. And it's so weird how we are all pumped to do ivf and the. When it gets here we doubt it. Take it step by step and you'll find that is much easier. excited for you!

 

[Maverick007]

Strawberry- now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I was on bcps to get my cycle to line up w/ the clinic's schedule because they do not do IVF ERs and ETs during the entire month of July. So it kinda makes sense that you'd start right after AF.

 

[Bma11]

Breaking dawn-

My memory is failing me... I'm looking back and apparently I was on BCP from April 3-April 17 and then started stims on the 17th. I could have sworn I stop BCP for a couple days. I think I stopped BCP short of the 14 days I was supposed to be on them. There was just no written correspondence of it so I can't remember. My nurse must have told me face to face. I remember spotting and then I started stimming. Here is a pic of my calendar. Hope you can see it. Also- I ended up having to do a FET because my estrogen got too high and they didnt want me to get ohss. So, if everything would have went as planned, this would have been my whole calendar. Instead I did ER April 29 and then waited until I got my next period and started my FET cycle.

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