Time to play catch up!
BNW Sorry about the eggs not making it to freeze. I understand what you are saying ab out having it as a backup plan because I have felt the same. I did have a reality check with the nurse yesterday though she said that you should never expect to get any left over to freeze, but if you do, just consider it a bonus. From what she said, more people dont have any left over, than people who do. So I am kind of going in now with no expectations in regards to that (or hopes I mean). Like the other ladies said though, hopefully you wont need those two extra eggs anyway!! I have my fingers crossed for good news!
Its exciting that we are all doing it at slightly different times, as I feel just as much invested in everyone elses journey as well as my own, so its like every week there should hopefully be some good news of some sort (I am banking we all get BFPs we can do this
)!
Doxie Thats so strange about the antibiotics? I was always told that you shouldnt take any antibiotics while pregnant. Are they like a different sort or something? Or is it cause theyre out of your system by the time you do the transfer I suppose? (I am half thinking out loud over here haha). Now that I am thinking more about it, my nurse did mention the small risk of infection with egg collection, so maybe sometimes they do give you an antibiotic to decrease that risk. How come youre on steroids? (hope you dont mind me asking). Yay for 8 days till Beta!!!
Ostara Thats great about the 5DT! Good luck today!!
Africaqueen They sound like good sized eggs!! Everything is crossed for you I hope egg collection goes smoothly!!
AFM: Nurse appointment was yesterday. She went through my schedule, which because it is my first IVF I am doing their sort of stock standard cycle (how she explained it). So I take an injection which comes in a pen and starts with P (perv
something-a-rather), from the second day of flow. I should be taking that injection for around 10 days, but possibly a little longer if need be. Then the other injection, which I cant remember the name of at all right now, I take from day 6 to stop me ovulating. Then I take two shots of Ovidrel (think thats how you spell it) when I am ready to trigger. Apparently you normally only take one shot, but my doctor has been recommending patients to take two, as supposably it helps with maturing the eggs. After egg collection, I will then be doing the gel progesterone thing-o (you can tell I am very new at this lol), no needles.
She had it all ready to go for me to take home, but we decided to only take 1 injection pen (6 days worth), as I still havent got my period and if I were by some miracle pregnant right now, I do not get refunded whatever I take home. So the injection I took home is $750 worth, which I could live with, but I couldnt live with wasting $3000-4000 worth lol. I doubt I am preggers now, but it would be sods law wouldnt it. So I will go back once my period begins to collect the rest.
It does make me laugh that instead of not wanting my period to show, I am now running to the loo every 5 minutes because I want to see if it has started already haha. I usually get brown spotting for 2 days before it begins and I havent got anything yet. So impatient to get started, so I cant imagine how bad I am going to be when waiting for fertilisation reports, and in the TWW!!
Really hope there is heaps of great news in here soon!!!
