3 failed IUIs. How do you cope?

[PinkPeony]

Sending you good vibes Babywish! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Chris - hope you're Ok. I know when you have lot's of eggs retrieved it can be more painful. Drink lots of water.

 

[Chris_25]

Thanks ladies.
Basically I have a lot of fluid inside me and I did develop the ohss again but he said he's not going by what he's sees today and wants to see what it looks like on Monday. So if I do still have fluid he said he will drain it which I can't even think about and then they have to freeze the embryos and I have to wait till I heal. Or if it looks better he will put them in. He said if he puts them in while I have this fluid and ohss and I did get pregnant I will end up in the hospital while pregnant. So I have to go in Monday no matter what and I'm not sure if I will be doing the transfer or freezing them and draining the fluid.

 

[PinkPeony]

eek! Thought that might be the case. I've seen a few BnB ladies develop OHSS at this stage or later. Does he have you on a self-care regime? I got this data sheet which I could use if I started to have major symptoms - it was tracking fluid intake and outake and waist measurements. I think you're supposed to increase sodium and drink gatorade. Hope it calms down over the weekend.

 

[Chris_25]

eek! Thought that might be the case. I've seen a few BnB ladies develop OHSS at this stage or later. Does he have you on a self-care regime? I got this data sheet which I could use if I started to have major symptoms - it was tracking fluid intake and outake and waist measurements. I think you're supposed to increase sodium and drink gatorade. Hope it calms down over the weekend.

I keep reading different things about the sodium. So more sodium to my diet? Basically he didn't tell me anything just to keep drinking and peeing and lay down with my bottom upright like in a recliner. This pain is not fun at all and it goes all the way to my chest and through my shoulder.
Thank you!

 

[PinkPeony]

Yowch. Sorry you're feeling so crap. They told me to eat stuff like canned soup and drink v8. I'm not 100% sure if that was to prevent the ohss or to help resolve it. I think the idea is the extra salt helps soak up the fluid. Not sure why they want you to keep drinking at the same time though. Does seem to contradict. I'll try and dig out the data sheet they gave me at my clinic for you.

 

[Chris_25]

Yowch. Sorry you're feeling so crap. They told me to eat stuff like canned soup and drink v8. I'm not 100% sure if that was to prevent the ohss or to help resolve it. I think the idea is the extra salt helps soak up the fluid. Not sure why they want you to keep drinking at the same time though. Does seem to contradict. I'll try and dig out the data sheet they gave me at my clinic for you.

Yes, the doctor told me even though I am filled with fluid they still want me to drink a lot and to keep flushing it out of my body. As for the salt I asked the nurse when she called tonight and she said not to add extra salt. I think eating salt is to prevent it.

 

[PinkPeony]

Ok definitely listen to the nurse lol! really hope you feel better in a couple days.

 

[Chris_25]

Ok definitely listen to the nurse lol! really hope you feel better in a couple days.

Thank you!

 

[March312]

So sorry you are going through that Chris!

 

[Luciola]

Chris Let us know how it goes, and congratulations on the amazing numbers - that's the positive side...!

Baby wish Good luck!!

I just had my scan#2 today, Day 11, after 9 days of stim. I had 4 and 6 measurable (ranging from 9.6 to 20mm) on my left and right side respectively. Lining was 11.3mm.

Tomorrow I will have my last stim+Cetrotide jabs in the morning, then trigger in the evening, egg retrieval is on Tuesday 19th! at 7.30am!!

Since my E2 was ridiculously high today (10638, yes you read it right!), RE prescribed me Superfact (Buserelin) as trigger instead of Ovidrel. I hope I won't have to deal with OHSS, but it is less of a concern since I will only do the transfer next year, this cycle is only to produce snow babies!!

I am really hoping we end up with some good embies... RE said they never retrieved 20 or 30 oocytes, but I am praying for more than 10. Only less than 3 days to go!

 

[Chris_25]

Thank you ladies. I'm actually feeling a tad better today so maybe it's a good sign that the fluid is getting better!
The lab just called and 11 embies are going strong so far on day 3.

 

[Chris_25]

Chris Let us know how it goes, and congratulations on the amazing numbers - that's the positive side...!

Baby wish Good luck!!

I just had my scan#2 today, Day 11, after 9 days of stim. I had 4 and 6 measurable (ranging from 9.6 to 20mm) on my left and right side respectively. Lining was 11.3mm.

Tomorrow I will have my last stim+Cetrotide jabs in the morning, then trigger in the evening, egg retrieval is on Tuesday 19th! at 7.30am!!

Since my E2 was ridiculously high today (10638, yes you read it right!), RE prescribed me Superfact (Buserelin) as trigger instead of Ovidrel. I hope I won't have to deal with OHSS, but it is less of a concern since I will only do the transfer next year, this cycle is only to produce snow babies!!

I am really hoping we end up with some good embies... RE said they never retrieved 20 or 30 oocytes, but I am praying for more than 10. Only less than 3 days to go!

Make sure to keep drinking a lot and peeing a lot! You don't want ohss it's not a fun time! I'm sure you will end up with a good amount sounds like you are coming along well!

 

[StayHopeful]

Chris, I did have quite a few eggs retrieved. I did have quite a few follies by my last ultrasound, but I was still very surprised when I woke up after ER and they told me the number. We ended up with 19 frozen blasts, which is awesome when we're ready to start trying for baby #2. I did have a rough time for a few days after ER though because of OHSS. I drank a ton of water and gatorade and ate a lot of protein. They did have me increase sodium too, the way the nurse explained it to me is that the sodium draws out the fluid from your tissues, etc. and then the extra fluid that you're drinking helps to flush everything out. They also said that between ER and ET, using a heating pad on your abdomen is fine and that actually helped quite a bit. Glad that you're starting to feel a little better! 12 embryos is great, too! Like Maverick and Pink said, a lot of times IVF can give you insight into what issues you've been having and it sounds like ICSI is definitely doing the trick for you! And yes, we have no idea what we're having. My best friend is throwing the party tonight and she has the envelope from our ultrasound, the nurse sealed it before she gave it to us.

Amazinglife, it's such a hard decision to know when to move on from IUI to IVF. I agree with everything Maverick said. DH and I did 3 IUIs, on the third one the doctor recommended that we just move straight to IVF but we decided to give IUI one more chance anyway. It was very difficult for me emotionally to take that step and say yes, let's do IVF, but I am so glad that I did.

Baby.wish, massive good luck to you! Keep us posted!

Luciola, good luck to you as well!

 

[StayHopeful]

We're team blue! The gender reveal was so much fun, my friend hung a bag in the tree and when we pulled on the sting, blue balloons and streamers and confetti fell down. It was so cute!

 

[Chris_25]

Chris, I did have quite a few eggs retrieved. I did have quite a few follies by my last ultrasound, but I was still very surprised when I woke up after ER and they told me the number. We ended up with 19 frozen blasts, which is awesome when we're ready to start trying for baby #2. I did have a rough time for a few days after ER though because of OHSS. I drank a ton of water and gatorade and ate a lot of protein. They did have me increase sodium too, the way the nurse explained it to me is that the sodium draws out the fluid from your tissues, etc. and then the extra fluid that you're drinking helps to flush everything out. They also said that between ER and ET, using a heating pad on your abdomen is fine and that actually helped quite a bit. Glad that you're starting to feel a little better! 12 embryos is great, too! Like Maverick and Pink said, a lot of times IVF can give you insight into what issues you've been having and it sounds like ICSI is definitely doing the trick for you! And yes, we have no idea what we're having. My best friend is throwing the party tonight and she has the envelope from our ultrasound, the nurse sealed it before she gave it to us.

Amazinglife, it's such a hard decision to know when to move on from IUI to IVF. I agree with everything Maverick said. DH and I did 3 IUIs, on the third one the doctor recommended that we just move straight to IVF but we decided to give IUI one more chance anyway. It was very difficult for me emotionally to take that step and say yes, let's do IVF, but I am so glad that I did.

Baby.wish, massive good luck to you! Keep us posted!

Luciola, good luck to you as well!

That makes sense. Thank you!
Congratulations that's so awesome that your friend did that! Aw a lil boy God bless!

 

[Chris_25]

Have any of you ladies used crinone? I'm sure you have, but I sometimes burn from it and I get brown spotting after inserting it. Did this happen to you?

 

[baby.wish]

Babywish good luck tomorrow! Both my husband and I are physicians and to be honest the majority of the time fellows are more cautious and diligent than attendings. They still have something to prove and often take their time to make sure they do everything right. Attendings have done so many for so long that they can sometimes rush through them. I wouldn't worry you are still in great hands and training to be a re specialist is a very long road so she's probably had a ton of experience...... Hope you feel better!

I really want to thank you, after reading your post I felt so much better. I did not go into the transfer feeling scared and to be honest she seemed very knowledgeable and skilled. thank you again. i see you are almost due, im sooo happy for you. wishing you good luck for the coming weeks.

 

[baby.wish]

We're team blue! The gender reveal was so much fun, my friend hung a bag in the tree and when we pulled on the sting, blue balloons and streamers and confetti fell down. It was so cute!

Stayhopeful soooo happy for you! Wow that sounds like so much fun. A great idea, i'd like to do that one day hopefully if I get the chance

 

[baby.wish]

Well ladies im officially PUPO! transfer went well, so one of our embys had already hatched. i have no clue if thats a good thing or not but we put two back in. she said it had the same chances as the other one but im not so sure. now i wait, the dreadful wait. as per usual im symptom spotting with nothing to report. Yes I know its only two days after transfer hahaha but you know how we all get. My beta test also happens to fall on my husbands birthday so i'm really hoping its going to be a great birthday present for him.

Hows everyone else feeling?? Chris how you holding up, is the pain any better?? Thinking of you

 

[PinkPeony]

Congrats on being PUPO Babywish!!!! So glad everything went smoothly! I think hatching blast is just fine. It just shows it's progressing so it will most likely keep going now that it's where it should be.

Chris - glad you're starting to feel better!