Anyone doing FET/IVF in Jan 2013 till everyone's BFP (Everyone Welcome)

[annmc30]

Scerena - Can I say thank you on behalf of whoever gets your eggs! I may have to go on the list if the cycle fails, as next step is cancer treatment which will probably damage my ovaries, and I think egg sharing is an amazing thing to do.

Cali - so sorry to hear about the OHSS. If I remember correctly you had a very low AMH? I guess that was a mistake and they overdid it. Good you have at 4 FET for later cycles, but hope you feel well soon.
- Oh, I see it's up to 6. Even better!

everhopeful - I'm at the Lister too! We may have shared a waiting room.

Annmc - congrats on the fertilization. Are you doing ICSI?

Em and Boofle - good luck for the upcoming cycles.

Scerena, you may want to think about the Lister. They told me they had the largest egg sharing in the country - but then they would say that I suppose! Otherwise have you been in touch wiht Altrui?

They only do altruistic egg-donation (where you donate all the eggs), but they probably know all the slightly unusual people who are looking for eggs. We are both white english, and they get lots of donors at the Lister, but they said if we wanted mixed race, or asian etc eggs, then Altrui can help. (this is a weird thing to write about - hope you know what I mean!)

AFM: Things still going fine. 12-15 good size follicles on Monday, and I am going for EC on Thursday. I'm bloated, and getting some odd pains today, plus some (warning, TMI) really running bowel movements today. I've taken my last injection tonight, and they actually told me to skip the last Menopur which I am taking as a good sign that I'm moving along well.

I'm still taking all the supplements, and having acupuncture. I think the acupuncture is good for side effects, as I've been quite hormonal (sore boobs, bloated) but headaches and moodiness has been minimal. My husband is pleased, as he was primed for some serious grumpiness!

Some potentially good news on the cancer front.. but I'll find out more tomorrow after the consultants have their multi-disciplinary meeting where they discuss the case. I'll update when I know the news.

Im doing ivf oh sperm was of good quality

 

[scerena]

em yes I'm thinking of calling other clinics in a few weeks if still no match, just seems my luck is rubbish all the time
I am somsorryntomhear you had ops to remove tummies I am so glad that the doc managed to save your ovaries that's fantastic news wishing you all the best for this ivf cycle

time2deal b,ess you thanks it was a no brained for me, after my long TTC journey I knew there was people even worse off than myself who have had to deal with never having children at all without the hope of donar eggs and I can never image living the rest of mylp life childless spy, so to help another lady get her dream I would help her tomorrow

I heard the lister is the best clinic in the uk so I will definitely have a look in a few weeks and thank you for the website for egg donation I will also check that out in a sec

Great news EC is Thursday and everything crossed that you get good news on the cancer front

cali, Ali & first I hope af hurries up for all of you ladies so that you can get started ASAP

ann great news you're doing IVF we also will be doing standard IVF if we don't get a good report from this one we will just add in ICSI next time

 

[Boofle]

I'm waiting for the call back to see if we can go ahead this cycle - I'm feeling so anxious don't think I can face another set back. Please ring soon

 

[scerena]

boofle fx'd you get the go ahead... Imhopemthey call you soon the worse thing is waiting around for a call

 

[Boofle]

Thank you and welcome to our thread. I'm sorry I didn't say earlier I'm reading everyone's posts but struggling to take it in as I'm feeling so darn anxious about my own situation.
I hope everyone else is okay

 

[scerena]

boofle thank you that's okay I totally understand you being anxious about your own situation sending you tons of luck

 

[WannabeeMum]

Phantom - they only transferred one 5-day blast. Next beta tomorrow. When do you go for yours??

Em - yeah for being able to do your first transfer!!

 

[everhopeful]

Hi All - feel like I have missed a LOT!!

Scerena - when I was going through the donor egg thing at Lister they had already matched me with e recipient before all my tests came back so I really do think they have quite a long list!!

Time - how funny!! I was just there on Monday - wonder if we do cross paths??? I have found them excellent there and hope that you are getting great treatment too!!

Boofle - really hope you hear some great news today!!
xx

 

[time2deal]

Hi All - feel like I have missed a LOT!!

Scerena - when I was going through the donor egg thing at Lister they had already matched me with e recipient before all my tests came back so I really do think they have quite a long list!!

Time - how funny!! I was just there on Monday - wonder if we do cross paths??? I have found them excellent there and hope that you are getting great treatment too!!

Boofle - really hope you hear some great news today!!
xx

I was there. From nine till about ten thirty. We should probably stop this now or will identify each other!

 

[scerena]

ever thank you, I will have to enquire there if I don't hear back soon, seems as if there aren't any mixed race people needing me here, but fx'd someone pops up- I was quite annoyed as I was told I'd be matched immediately after my nurses appointment and then got that news

How have you been??

 

[Sandy83]

Boofle - Hope you hear something soon if it was me i'm so impatient that i would have called them by now! xx

 

[Sandy83]

Scerena - Hope you get a match soon

Wanna - Good luck for beta tomorrow

xx

 

[scerena]

sandy thank you, I hope all goes well with your ET not long now how exciting

 

[Em260]

Boofle - I hope you hear something soon! Fx!

 

[Em260]

For those of you that have used a mail order pharmacy for meds, which one did you use and how was the service? I've only used a local pharmacy because my two cycles were so rushed that I didn't have time for mail order. I want to compare the prices since I have a little more time leading up to this cycle.

 

[FirstTry]

Hi :wave:

Got AF today; FET scheduled for March 6!

 

[Sandy83]

Yay for AF xx

 

[alicatt]

For those of you that have used a mail order pharmacy for meds, which one did you use and how was the service? I've only used a local pharmacy because my two cycles were so rushed that I didn't have time for mail order. I want to compare the prices since I have a little more time leading up to this cycle.

I've used Freedom Pharmacy, and IVFMeds.
Freedom is in the NE and so the costs are high, as they can charge full price for meds. IVFMeds is in England and they have the same meds for about 40-60% off. My experience with them was that they came through in the end, but not without a lot of stress in the mean time. Since they are in England, it takes 2 weeks for the drugs to arrive in the US, and when I was ordering they had a backlog and a shortage. So it literally took 6-7 weeks for my meds to arrive, and they ended up doing expedited shipping to get them here on time. So if you do not have 6-8 weeks lead time, then I wouldn't recommend them. My FS suggested a Canadian IVF meds company that had promised to have items shipped much more quickly and we were going to use them if IVFMeds couldn't deliver. I am not 100% sure on the name, but it was something like BigMountain, or GreenMountain. One thing is that the Canadian company didn't have Bravelle (which I was using), so I would have had to get that from Freedom. Regardless, using the Canadian or European meds didn't make a difference in my cycle other than to save me about $3000. Yes, that is how much I saved! So it is definitely worth looking into. Your FS office may have more details, or have other mail order options. My FS office was in the 'know' and they were the ones that recommended using the alternate pharmacies. So see what they recommend?

 

[alicatt]

Hi :wave:

Got AF today; FET scheduled for March 6!

YAY! I hope to be right behind you! I think my AF should be here in the next 3-6 days. I am not sure whether I O'd last weekend or this past weekend, if it was this past weekend, then I will have longer to wait.

I just really want to have this baby in 2013, and if I am to do that we need to get AF to HURRY UP!

 

[L4hope]

EM, I use Walgreens Specialty pharmacy. I haven't had any issues with them. Everything comes within a day if I need it that soon. Prices seem to be pretty good too.