39 and trying to conceive:-(

[PositiveUs]

I could swear I saw a post on here about an amh of 0.00 and the woman still got pregnant. I think her afc was really low too.
I already decided I will do donor egg if this doesn't work.
I have no quams about it anymore, just want a little one to hold..

 

[PositiveUs]

I am still stubborn though, I want to give one more round of ivf a try and then maybe switch to donor egg if need be.
Stubborn....

 

[PositiveUs]

I can't wait to try it naturally in the next 3 weeks or so. I plan to buy more preseed, BD everyday and maybe even use the softcups one time without actual intercourse (maybe, I mean what the hell!) just get his stuff in the cup w some preseed and put the cup up there! (ive read about this on bnb or I would never try such tactics).
I'm gonna do mucinex and the pineapple core.
I will take mornings off work ahead of time because that's the only time I can catch him.
I am even thinking of buying red bed sheets like the author of The Fertile Female, what the hell......
I guess feeling like I have unblocked tubes and good looking ovaries and tubes makes me assume that "it has to happen this time".
It's crazy how even after all the trying you still carry that true hope, that seems to prevail even after every disaster. Wow. I am blinded by the possibility of success.

 

[Bonnie1990]

Why is the pineapple core thing?

I have heard really good things about DHEA...

 

[trying4four]

Go for it Positive!!

 

[PositiveUs]

Pinapple core has Bromelain which is some enzyme that supposedly helps with implantation. You're supposed to eat a piece of pinapple core each day from like O to 5dpo or something like that. I figure if you just do every little tiny, seemingly insignificant thing, maybe they will all add up to a bfp. It takes each tiny snowflake to stack up over time to break a tree branch (that's a poor form of the metaphor I read in this book The Fertile Female. Doesn't do it justice but you get the idea.

 

[PositiveUs]

Not to scare anyone about laproscopic surgery, but I am in serious PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My shoulders are killing me and my neck. It feels like I did 1000 push ups last night, my upper arm muscles are killing me. They only gave me 5mg percocet every 4 hrs...yeah right! It's more like 2 every 4 hrs and that's not even enough. The pelvic area is fine, I think it's the leftover gas in my system that has to dissapate. I am asking for a doctor's note for tomorrow. I should have taken off yesterday.

Hope everyone is well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Just_married]

Positive have you spoken to a doctor about the shoulder pain as it can be a symptom of other things I really don't want to panic you, but it's better to ask and be told it's ok, please ask someone to check you over xxx

 

[BabyBean14]

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[trying4four]

I hope you feel better soon positive

 

[PositiveUs]

Thanks everyone for their kind words!
Still barely spotting ever since the procedure.
I started with migrating shoulder and neck and upper arm pain monday night. Felt like arthritis of the shoulders and like I did 1000 push ups on the upper arms, and the neck and shoulder muscles were so painful. This pain became unbearable by tues morning at work, so i got the drs office to write a note to have off the next day and write for more pain meds. They expect me to take one 5mg percocet every 6 hrs! Thats a joke, i have to take 2 every 4 hrs.
Today is thurs and I am still having moderate neck and shoulder pain, still taking 2 every 4 hrs. I am at work, can't keep taking off work because sick leave is "a privelage". It's such bullshit. The dr said the pain is due to the anesthesia and some people get it worse than others.
My pelvic area is fine, and theres no more gas bubbles. I am just left with neck and shoulder pain. Using heat and castor oil pack to neck area.
Tuesday night the pain was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad that I took 2 percocet then I took a naproxen and then had 2 daqueris and after the alcohol, the pain went away. It was incredible. Alcohol really did work and I was straight as an arrow. Anyone else taking these pills with drinks would have been in a coma, so it just goes to show you that all the meds and alcohol went straight to the pain. I tell you I was not the least bit tipsy at all. It took that much to rid me of the pain for a few hours and it came back the next morning but not quite as bad.
No more alcohol for me though. I only drank cuz it was a last resort, I didn't even think of it until someone else mentioned alcohol as a pain reliever. Well, in some cases, you have to do what you have to do. I was pacing the floors and couldnt sit let alon lay down before the bright idea came to have a couple stiff drinks.
Hope everyone is well.
I can't bd for 2 weeks after the procedure, then I will get AF! It's like 3 weeks of abstinance! Geez.

 

[BabyBean14]

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[Bonnie1990]

Glad your starting to feel better and sorry it was such an ordeal.

3 weeks?-been there done that but for no good reason

 

[Rose38]

Hello, I am 38 and ttc naturally.
Just wanted to wish you good luck with it all.
I have a specialist appointment in a few days so will know more then.
Good luck.

 

[Bonnie1990]

:wave: rose!

 

[BabyBean14]

Hi Rose! FX for you!

 

[PositiveUs]

Still having small amount of spotting if you could call it that every day since the procedure like 11 days ago. It's like a tan/brown color, not much, just using mini pads. No more pain!
The nurse read some of the biopsy results to me and I know nothing about what she was reading and neither did she, it was the pathology report. I have to wait to hear the interpretation of the results until friday. I am dying to know what all that jargon meant. They kept using the word hemmorage and stuff. It is scary. But the nurse assured me that if it was something that needed to be addressed right away, the doc would have called me. But in my mind that still doesn't mean it might not be something really bad that would stop me from conceiving. It sounded like endometriosis (which I already knew, but...). I hate waiting for drs appts!!!!
I was crying sooooooooooo bad at my desk at work on friday, they told me to leave for the day at 9:30am. Then I took off monday (yesterday) too. Couldnt leave the bed. Didn't want to leave the bed today. Very depressed. Tearful at any moment. Fiance DOES NOT KNOW WHAT to say to me or do to make me feel better.
I literally have to tell him how I would treat someone if I saw them in a similar situation. It's like he's emotionally stunted. Like emotionally/mentally challenged. Seriously. Even a mentally challenged person would probably be nicer to me than him.
I don't want to take meds for depression, but maybe I should. IDK.

Welcome Rose!

Good luck to everyone ttc

 

[PositiveUs]

I cannot keep my head on straight. I am mean to my fiance. I don't want to do anything. I told him I'm not cooking anymore and that he has to do all the dishes. I told him that if he ever gets in a car with anyone who is too drunk to drive again (this happens about twice a month) that I will call the non-emergency number and report the persons name, address, and license plate number. I told him he should just go live in a frat house as much as he likes to drink f'ing beer. It's sooooooooooo ridiculous. I feel like I live with a 6 year old.

 

[BabyBean14]

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[LeeC]

Hi Ladies, hope you don't mind me jumping in on your thread. I am usually in the recurrent miscarriage thread but looking for some support while long term TTC and going a bit crazy.

Me: 39, been TTC for 3 years now, have suffered 9 miscarriages (2 earlier in life) and 1 ectopic pregnancy, where I lost my right tube in surgery.

I have had numerous tests throughout the UK for recurrent miscarraige and have a good medical plan in place now, the problem is that now I have all the medications that may finally lead to a healthy pregnancy it's just not happening.

When I was 36/37 I had no problems getting pregnant but I have not had a BFP in 15 months now, my last BFP was in May 2011, which ended in early miscarriage following on from my ectopic in January 2011.

Ladies, I have tried everything I can think of, to name a few: soy isoflaovones, coenzyme q10, EPO and nothing!!! I'm starting to think I am never going to see a BFP again.
I have noticed my CM is practically non existent these days and am going to try some preseed this month after a BFN today at 13dpo.

I am now awaiting an appt with my fertility clinic although I don't qualify for IVF or IUI on the NHS in Scotland.

Just need a bit of support to help me along the way and to try and hold on to what's left of my sanity, any takers???

Good luck to all, I plan to read back through this thread and am hoping to see some success stories. x