30 something and TTC #1 for a year

[GettingBroody]

MrsG - how are you feeling?!

 

[MrsG2010]

Nauseas! thanks for asking. Impatient for my scan appt wed morning.

Brassy - what ended up happening ? My fs was open 7 days a
Week so I liked that in case I needed iui over the weekend. Maybe
When you look for your second opinion you can find a similar
Place. Why won't fs do trigger shot ? I liked that i didn't have to rely
On opks. I agree-second opinion. But hopefully this cycle
Will work and it won't be necessary.

 

[brassy]

So, I decided to follow dr's orders and had first iui yesterday morning. Late in the evening I had my first positive opk. Dh's motility, morphology and count/ml seemed to have improved but we only had 1ml in volume. Poor dh had anxiety performance since he knew we were waiting for him outside. Dr seemed pleased with the improvement. We ended up having 7.5 mil for the iui with very good motility, which I know is not optimal, but I think it's ok. I found the procedure a bit painful, but nothing serious, or something I wouldn't do again. We bded this morning so as to have our bases covered.
Dr is expecting a phone call tomorrow morning to let him know if we want to do a second iui. I think I haven't ovulated yet, but what if I do overnight? Would it worth having another try? I am inclined to go in tomorrow just in case...

So, girls, I don't live in the UK (I have in the past), I live in Greece. This is my ob/gyn and not a fs specialist. Usually you see a fs here when you have decided to have ivf. My dr is collaborating with a center of assisted reproduction and have these procedures performed there. So it is not up to him when to schedule something but it depends on their opening hours. The thing is that both me and dh like him and feel comfortable with him. He performed my hysteroscopy and polypectomy, he was there for my hsg, he is not expensive and he has a calming effect on us. We get the idea that he cares and that he doesn't do certain things just for the money. I have read some very good reviews in some Greek forums about him. He is the kind of person who, when his patient is in labour, he will stay by her side no matter how long this might take. Also, he is the kind of dr who won't give prescription for medicine that he doesn't consider really necessary, and I think this is why he didn't want to give me the hcg shot.

The idea of asking for a second opinion is still at the back of my mind, but I don't feel ready for looking for somebody else immediately. I might try another 2-3 rounds of iui with him ( I hope I won't have to...) since also they only cost about 150 euros each, and if nothing then we will have to decide what to do.

 

[cupcakesarah]

Good luck Brassy, hope it works for you.

 

[GettingBroody]

Fx'd Brassy!!! Plenty of lucky baby dust floating around here at the moment so you could be next!!!!

 

[brassy]

Thank you girls! Broody you are right! This has been a very lucky thread lately!

So, I don't think that we are going to have a second iui tomorrow. I got a - opk a couple of hours ago, so I must have ovulated early in the evening. We bded again and even if we went tomorrow I don't think that there would be many spermies left anyways...

 

[MrsPTTC]

Cupcake excellent news, congrats!!! I had a good feeling about this!

Brassy GL hun, FXd for the IUI you've already had & the IUI you're having tomorrow!

x

 

[lilyV]

brassy - I'm so sorry about this cycle of yours. Maybe the next one will greatly improve! OR it's this cycle for you My fs/nurses suggest that I don't even o. They've also said my estrogen is low and that's why they put me on clomid. I took 100mg cd3-7 and got the hcg trigger on cd14, 7 days after my last clomid pills. When I was on 50mg last year, my o day was 8 and 7 days after taking my last pill. What your dr says sounds a bit extreme/extra ordinary. Dr's typically want to wait til the follicle gets to be 2.0cm/2mm. My follicle was 2.2cm when they gave me the hcg trigger on sat (cd14). Maybe lemora is your answer. Or it's just a bad cycle?

MrsPTTC - was it your first clomid and cycle tracking that you got preggers?

aleja - hi there! What's a BT? Blood test?

GettingBroody - hope things go well for you, hon!

mk8 - Hi! how are things on your end? Unexplained is a b!tch. I got that til my fs suggested I have low estrogen... I'm not too convinced, it's hard to trust her.

cupcakesarah - omg that's FANTASTIC!! Congrats!!

 

[MrsPTTC]

Hi lily, no it was month 8 I'd given up hope! I had tracking on month 1, 2-6 went with the flow, had 1 months break as instructed, month 7 I was on holiday so couldn't have tracking like they wanted then month 8 had tracking again (assume just to ensure it was still working) & voila! Funny thing was they weren't sure from the scans that the folly even popped & I remember getting very pee'd off that they wouldn't give me a progesterone test to check as 'we don't do it like that' then a week or so later I had great pleasure in ringing them up & telling them I got my BFP! x

 

[aleja]

Oh cupcake I am so happy for you!!!!! I think the key to first time success is to get one embryo only ;-)

So are you having a blood test or just waiting for scan?

MrsG I can't wait to hear about your scan tomorrow x

Brassy I am glad you decided to go through with the IUI. You gotta be in it to win it so you never know!

Lily, yes a BT is blood test- sorry its a bit of IVF speak !
I am well -the bump is growing a bit but its soft rather than a hard one!!
At the moment I have horrible back pain ><

Hi MK x

 

[cupcakesarah]

Hi ladies how's everyone getting one, brassy hope you're relaxing. Lily are you also having IUI this month?

As for me, I am very very bloated, literally dressing for work this morning I didn't fit into anything except a wrap dress. I have this pain all in my tummy that's getting worse, only way I can describe it is like I've done a thousand sit ups, the worst of it is on my diaphragm, which is why I'm having trouble taking deep breaths? The bloating is the biggest pain, how can this be so quickly??? Anyway this is what I wanted to be pregnant so I'd best settle into it. Might go to docs about bloating and diaphragm area pain, surely that's not right? Oh also I am quite nautious, nice.

What's the news with everyone else, two days of the working week done, hoorah!

 

[GettingBroody]

Cupcake - I didn't really have any bloat so I'm not sure. If you'd had more eggs retrieved I'd suggest ohss but surely that's unlikely? I think it's worth checking with your dr though if you're very uncomfortable. You're going to have to call in at some stage and tell them about your pregnancy anyway!

Edit: just reread your post, I can definitely relate to the sit-ups pain! I had exactly the same thing the week after my bfp! Even described it the same way when I was talking to other people!

 

[Trulyoo]

Hello ladies, I poke my head in from time to time and coming back to find so many BFP&#8217;s!!! Quite incredible, Congrats ladies! I&#8217;m truly happy for those of you who have finally reached the pot of gold. I can&#8217;t imagine that feeling when the journey has been so long and arduous.
MrsG, your experience totally supports the most recent studies about spontaneous pregnancies without medical interventions for couples trying for more than 2 years+. I wish this could happen to me &#61516;, but I know that my age and everything that we&#8217;ve tried up to this point which hasn&#8217;t worked points out to maybe something even more sinister going on. Or, at least something we can&#8217;t fix with IUI&#8217;s and perfect natural scenarios. I&#8217;m convinced something is wrong and we&#8217;ll always need help.
Cupcake, I&#8217;ve been going back to read your posts. Thanks for posting your IVF updates. Really helpful, and hopeful for me since I think that is our next step.
Since my last post, I updated that I was doing my 3rd Clomid/IUI cycle&#8230;&#8230;..that was the last cycle and it was canceled because I didn&#8217;t respond too well. There were lots of follicles but they were all about 9-10mm in size. I was pissed at my RE who if you recalled prescribed me yet again 50mg of Clomid for the 3rd time!!!! I started crying to him and said &#8220; I told you so!&#8221;, why would you prescribe me the same damn dose!!! Then, he said, &#8220;well, we can do it again with 100mg&#8221;. I was so upset, I told him I wanted to go straight to injectables.
Fast forward to this cycle. First, I switched back to my original RE, who is also the director of the clinic. She is so great, so experienced and she makes me feel calmer. I did Menopur. Took shots for 6 days and had a great response &#8211; did too good and had mild OHSS. I made about 10 follicles, with 3 being about 16-18mm. RE suggested we cancel the IUI because of the risk of multiples and because if I did the trigger shot, I would surely come down with moderate OHSS.
DH and I looked at each other and simultaneously nodded to go for it. No way did I go through days of stomach injections for nothing. So RE let me trigger with just half the dose. Subsequent IUI went great with DH sperm wash being the highest and best we&#8217;ve had. We were so happy that we had our first picture perfect cycle. After IUI, I was quite uncomfortable, bloated and put on some other meds to counter OHSS. I was feeling okay that whole week mentally&#8230;&#8230;happy, hopeful and allowed myself to dream of babies. DH and I even dared talk about multiples destroying our house and we happily laughed about living in shambles. Progesterone results came in a week later and I was off the charts >60 but started progesterone suppositories as planned by RE for this cycle. Cruel joke progesterone is&#8230;&#8230;..makes you feel pregnant with all the symptoms. And AF won&#8217;t even come until you are told to stop, which of course is the day beta results are.
So now Fast forward to today&#8230;&#8230;..I&#8217;m closing in on my TWW with B/W scheduled for this weekend. And I&#8217;m back in that familiar place again confirmed by familiar cramping that started a couple days ago. That cramping that is followed by tears, heartache, helplessness, and impending depression that life will never be how we planned it as a married couple. But I don&#8217;t really know because this time with the progesterone, what am I supposed to feel? Are these AF cramps trying to break through? Or is it progesterone cramping??? All I know is that the more it gets closer to beta testing, the more skeptical I am. After all, it&#8217;s just an IUI. IUI&#8217;s fail more than they work. And I&#8217;m now feeling it didn&#8217;t work, because I&#8217;m never lucky.
Case in point, DH and I were at a restaurant for dinner&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..he held out 5 packets of sugar&#8230;&#8230;..one was a pink packaged sugar indicated a BFP and four others were ordinary white packets&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;he told me to pick with my eyes closed&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..I picked a white packet =(.

 

[MrsPTTC]

Cupcake hope you're feeling better soon hun. I don't really know anything about IVF so no idea what it could be but it can't do any harm seeing a Dr.

Trulyoo Sorry things aren't working out hun & you're down, but I still think you've got a good chance with IUI, we get 5 rounds free in the UK on the nhs, they wouldn't do that many if there wasn't a good chance

x

 

[aleja]

Hi cupcake
I felt pretty bloated and crampy for several weeks after my bfp. I think it's because of the surge of pregnancy hormones topped up by progesterone for the IVF. You may as well get used to feeling like your body is out of wack!! X

Truly it's great to hear from you. This cycle sounds really promising. I totally get the feeling about good things never happening to you but sometimes life can surprise you. I felt like I was getting my AF and even started spotting. It's the progesterone that makes us go batty. Will you POAS? I really hope you see those double lines hon xxx

 

[aleja]

MrsG how did the scan go???

 

[GettingBroody]

MrsG - ^^wss^^!

Truly - don't give up on this cycle yet!! I had awful cramps the night before my bfp too, they felt exactly like af pains and much worse than what I usually get. I even got the aches and pains in my legs that for me are always a sure sign that af is on the way... But the very next day - bfp! So don't give up When is your beta? How many dpo are you now? Are you going to poas before the beta?

 

[Trulyoo]

I know girls, To POAS or not to POAS, that is the question. I'm 11dpiui and bloodwork is scheduled in 3 more days (14dpiui). The cramping is now on and off, 100% like af mild cramping. And my super duper sore boobs have lessened even while on the progesterone suppositiories........so hope is diminished to zilch. =(

Since beta is on Saturday, I'm thinking to POAS the same day. If it's negative then I will stop the progesterone to bring on AF so I can start the new cycle. What do you girls think? Because nurse will probably not call until Monday and give me the bad news so I don't want to stay on the suppositories and delay AF for no good reason.

 

[GettingBroody]

Well, obviously it's totally up to you but there's no way I could wait! I poas at 9dpo (bfn) and again at 12dpo (bfp!) Regardless of what the hpts say I would definitely wait until the clinic tells you to stop your progesterone...

 

[Trulyoo]

Since we've all been on this road together for awhile, those with BFP's with help.....what do you think was ever the reason why it didn't work in the first place? I'm trying to remember everyone's issues. With our diagnosis of unexplained, I don't think we'll know until IVF or ever.