3 failed IUIs. How do you cope?

[Mrs. T]

I started 225IU of Puregon on the 16th. As of today I have 17 follicles (although this # slightly changes with every u/s). I have 8 on the right that are a bunch of small 10's and 9's. I have 9 on the left (1x14, 2x13s, 1x12, 1x11 and the rest are smaller). My estrodial only went from 822 on Wednesday to 1327 today.

 

[PinkPeony]

I'm no doctor but I think that all sounds pretty good to me. Don't worry too much yet. Eat lots of protein over the next few days. I know for me there wasn't much going on till day 8 and the lots of growth happened all at once over the next 3 days.

 

[Mrs. T]

Fingers crossed.

 

[Maverick007]

Mrs T, agree with Pink. Don't lose hope.

 

[Maverick007]

Just heard from nurse, I'm done with betas! Yay! Today's was 2862. First u/s on Sept. 4th.

 

[PinkPeony]

Awesome!!

 

[Strawberry13]

Mrs t yeah that doesn't sound bad at all! Why would they cancel if you have all of those follies growing?? Hopefully you get good news on Sunday, praying for ya.

Pink awesome fertilization report! I think that was the same as mavericks right?

Mav awesome beta!

 

[StayHopeful]

Mrs. T, I hope it works out! Those certainly seem like good numbers.

Pink, great report! Are you doing a day 3 transfer?

Mav, great beta! Woohoo! Excited for your first scan.

I had my second scan today, got to hear the baby's heartbeat and see the little guy move a tiny bit. Absolutely amazing!

 

[PinkPeony]

Wow. That's so cool StayHopeful. So glad to hear everything's going well.

Mrs T we're thinking of you. Hope Sunday's scan shows some good action.

AFM - heard from the nurse that all 6 fertilized eggs have become embryos and are all still boogying. I screamed when I hung up the phone. I can't believe something my DH and I made is actually growing and doing what it's supposed to. Starting to feel kind of attached to these lil guys already which I know is completely ridiculous. It's a crazy experience this IVF thing.
I think someone asked what day I doing ET. My clinic only does day 5's. so hopefully at least a couple make it to then. FX!

ETA: Today (Sunday/day 3) all 6 are still going and all are 9 cells. Transfer set for Tues morning. Eeeek!

 

[SashimiMimi]

Amazing Pink!!!!!

 

[Mrs. T]

I'm at work but just putting out a quick update. Friday I was told my cycle would probably be cancelled because follicles did not grow much between Wednesday and Friday. I went for an u/s and b/w this morning and all seems well again. There was much improvement on my follicle growth. I go for one more u/s and b/w tomorrow and will be told when to trigger.

 

[Breaking Dawn]

Yay mrs t that's great news!!! They caught up well!!

 

[Strawberry13]

Mrs t and pink- great news for both of you!

 

[Maverick007]

So happy for you mrsT and Pink! It sounds like things are very positive, can't wait to hear how it goes!

 

[PinkPeony]

I'm so glad to hear that Mrs T!! Your results on day 6 (I think?) were not much different than mine so I had a good feeling things would start rolling.

 

[Mrs. T]

Pink, congrats on your embies and thanks for the protein tip. I've eating crazy protein and I also saw on the net to drink tons of water, use a hot water bottle on the tummy and keep legs elevated to draw blood to the uterus. I did all that.

Today (day 8) they saw 23 follicles, eight on the right 1x15, 1x14, 2x13's and 2x11's and smaller ones and fourteen on the left, 1x19, 1x17, 2x16's, 2x15's, 2x9's and smaller ones. My estrodial is 3233 (which he still thinks is low) and my lining is 8mm.

 

[StayHopeful]

Great news, Mrs. T and Pink! GL to both of you!

 

[Strawberry13]

So someone needs to educate me here. Mrs t if you have so many follicles (which is awesome btw) why is it concerning that your estrodiol is lower than they want? Isn't the end goal to get all of the follicles? Sorry still learning about this.

 

[Mrs. T]

I am just as confused. Sorry I don't have an answer for you. The worst part is I live 16 hrs away from my fertility clinic. I live in a small city that has a small fertility clinic that only does IUIs. The clinic in my city does the IVF monitoring for me but I have to travel to a big city for ER and ET. The clinic in the big city still reviews my chart and calls the shots on the IVF though. So I have never even met my doctor doing the IVF. He just tells the clinic in my city what to tell me. So ultimately it is hard to get answers.

 

[Strawberry13]

Wow that is really frustrating. So does that mean after you trigger you'll have to drive to the other clinic 16 hours away? Kudos to you girl for going to such great lengths for this, I'm sure it will all be worth it in the end.