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

[L4hope]

So so happy for you Lucie! Can't wait for more good news on Thursday!

 

[Mells54]

Congrats Lucie! Those are great numbers!

 

[LotusBlossom]

Yayayayayay!!!! So excited for you, Lucie! What a nice big number!

 

[alicatt]

Lots of great news here!

Lucie! YAY! Doubling time is great!!! I really hope that you get great news on Thursday

Brandy.. amazing news for you too! Glad the cerclage is holding and the babies are looking so great!

AFM.. lower back pain and lots of bloating. I've gained 6 lbs in the past 3 days, ugh. US and acupuncture in the morning.. hopefully I get to trigger tomorrow! My friends are all fighting to take me for ER and ET. Especially when I told them I'll be all loopy during ET with all the Valium I get to take. They crack me up!

 

[sekky]

Morning ladies.

Ali sorry about the discomfort. Fx for nice follies

Lucie great numbers. I have a good feeling about Thursday for you.

Brandy and Mo glad your scans went great.

Sandy how are you doing?

How are all you preggo ladies?

Lotus hey! How is your plan for next year progressing? Hope things are fallen into place?

AFM am good. Been lurking all this while just not posting because there is nothing to report.

Hope everyone is doing well

 

[FirstTry]

Lucie: that sounds amazing! I hope the good news continues on Thursday!

Ali: good luck! You are almost there

Doing well here. Haven't had a scan in 8 weeks and none planned for another 4 weeks (!), as they are treating this like a low risk pregnancy. He's very active every day, but I'm still ready to have him measured again.

 

[alicatt]

Morning everyone!

I just got home from my FS office. Looks like my stimming is coming to an end! I now have about 20-25 follicles between the left and right ovaries. Yes! My right ovary was visible and it has some nice follicles on it. YAY! The left has about 15, and the right has about 8-10 they are all in the 14-17mm range, and my lining is a triple line at 10-11mm. So now we just wait for my estrogen level to decide whether I do 1 more full day of stims, or whether we trigger tonight. I hope we trigger tonight for Friday ER, but they may want to push it one more day. My estrogen level was 1597 on Monday, and it doubles every 48 hours at this stage, if it does, that will likely mean we'll trigger tonight. With all that growth (2-3mm in 2 days) I'm guessing that we'll trigger tonight.

So close I can almost taste it!!

BTW.. I have a friend that went into be induced today, she is a week overdue, so here is hoping that her delivery is speedy and uncomplicated and that the baby is healthy!

 

[MoBaby]

Ali that's great! Did you ever figure out the sperm situation.. Are you going with the donor sperm? Rx for trigger soon!!!

 

[alicatt]

Ali that's great! Did you ever figure out the sperm situation.. Are you going with the donor sperm? Rx for trigger soon!!!

Yes, thanks! I am excited, so happy we have follicles on both ovaries, and they are all around the same size. It is amazing how well tuned we have my IVF cycles now! 3rd time is a charm right?

I am using donor sperm, my friend/bf/if just wasn't ready to deal with all the tests, and commitment that goes with having a kid. He wants to be a dad, but then won't commit. We've been having the same issue for a long time with getting serious, so it came as no surprise that he would be the same way with having a child. In retrospect, I should have just ignored his interest, because it caused me a lot of grief, and frustration. Live and learn right? The more I thought about it the more I realized that I wanted the baby to be just mine, and if he was being this uncommunicative and commitment-phobic now, it wouldn't likely get better once the baby was here!

So I went with a sperm donor, he is a counter-intelligence agent (my personal secret agent man), he has similar coloring to me, has an amazing IQ (like 160 or something like that), is athletic, and sounds like he comes from a good family, good morals and strong values. My friends keep saying that I should use the secret agent scenario on my kids.. Sorry baby, I can't tell you who your father is, if I did I'd have to kill you! LOL. Somehow, it adds to the mystique and makes it fun!

Still waiting for my lab results to find out if we're triggering tonight! They usually call around 2pm and its almost 2:30! I wonder if that means they are trying to schedule the ER for Friday and its taking time to get everyone in the right place? Possibly? I'll let you know what they say!

 

[Sweetness_87]

Ali- so glad you have so many follies! Can't wait for you to trigger!!

Lucie- excited for your scan tom

Brandy- glad everything I looking great!

Sandy hope all is well

AFM waiting til fri for my scan. I'm have been on bedrest since yesterday no work etc. due to have multiple Braxton contractions again. They want to check me out before going to work again. They doc did tell me yesterday I need to check into short term disability. Anywho not sure why I have sooooooo many of them. Hope they are still doing great. I mean I feel them move allllllll the time

 

[alicatt]

Sweet - I hope you get some answers on Friday, I wonder what could be causing the braxton hicks? Hopefully whatever it is, is not too concerning!

Lucie - can't wait to hear your update tomorrow!!

AFM - nurse called, they are making me do 1 more night of stims, and back in tomorrow for blood work and US. UGH. I am not happy, I want to trigger tonight! The answer I got is if we do that we run the risk of not getting as many mature eggs. Thing is that my estrogen is 2700, and will likely peak around 4000. That means OHSS, which means no transfer, and possibly a decrease in the quality of the eggs. UGH So I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.

 

[Bluebell bun]

Hey Ali, I trigger tonight. Had a scan and bloods Mon and Tues this week. My estradiol was 8,000 Mon and 10,000 yesterday. If it had been >12,000 yesterday my cycle would have been abandoned. I did specifically ask the doctor yesterday as to whether such high levels could negatively affect outcome and she basically said it was just the risk of OHSS that worried them. I have had a reduced dose of menopur the last 2 days. Despite the high levels of estradiol (which I also had in my last cycles) we have never had huge numbers of eggs. I think my biggest follicle on tues was about 18mm so I don't have a clue how many eggs we will get. I seemed to have about 7 or 8 follicles each side ranging in sizes.

 

[alicatt]

Hey Ali, I trigger tonight. Had a scan and bloods Mon and Tues this week. My estradiol was 8,000 Mon and 10,000 yesterday. If it had been >12,000 yesterday my cycle would have been abandoned. I did specifically ask the doctor yesterday as to whether such high levels could negatively affect outcome and she basically said it was just the risk of OHSS that worried them. I have had a reduced dose of menopur the last 2 days. Despite the high levels of estradiol (which I also had in my last cycles) we have never had huge numbers of eggs. I think my biggest follicle on tues was about 18mm so I don't have a clue how many eggs we will get. I seemed to have about 7 or 8 follicles each side ranging in sizes.

OH WOW! That is really high! I don't think I've ever heard of estrogen being that high. They were concerned in my first IVF when mine was 4000. They gave me albumen at the retrieval to help combat it, but I was still very uncomfortable for a few days. It did eventually subside.

I would research high estrogen levels (greater than 4000) and transfer, and/or OHSS. It is a relatively new trend away from transferring if your estrogen is too high, or if OHSS occurs. Apparently your uterus sends up a signal if your estrogen is too high, and in cases of OHSS, your body knows its in trouble and won't let you get pregnant. Of course some women do get pregnant with OHSS, but the rates are lower than for women that don't have OHSS. Discuss doing a freeze all cycle and transferring next month with your FS. To me I'd rather pay a little extra to freeze and transfer later, then to transfer good embryos into an environment that is not as good as it could be.

As for the number of follicles to the number of eggs, I read that with women with PCOS we often have empty follicles, that is why we don't get 15 eggs from 15 follicles. Plus PCOS also causes our estrogen levels to be really high. So it is a concern for women with PCOS. I didn't know if you have PCOS or not, but it could explain your results in the past. Did you down reg with BCP and/or lupron before your cycle? We did that and it worked for IVF #2, but this time my estrogen is a lot higher.

Is your retrieval on Friday? Mine will most likely be Saturday, I can't see them having me stim for yet another day! Hope you are feeling OK! Let me know what you guys decide with respect to transferring or waiting.

 

[LotusBlossom]

Lotus hey! How is your plan for next year progressing? Hope things are fallen into place?

Hi Sekky! I am doing all the tests for the cycle now, since they only have to be less than a year old. The Walter Reed program sent me the list of required tests, I fax them the results, and then I think I go to orientation in Feb or March. I was told the cycle starts in Mar, but the paperwork says April. I think the orientation might be in Mar. Either way, the preparation has begun.

 

[Bluebell bun]

I don't have PCOS, just a high AMH for my age. I will ask them again when I go on Friday about transfer. I am using a different clinic from my previous cycles and nobody there suggested a delay in transfer either. Who knows? Just want it over and done with now one way or another. It's ridiculously stressful doing this time after time isn't it with nothing to show for it other than heartache.

 

[alicatt]

I don't have PCOS, just a high AMH for my age. I will ask them again when I go on Friday about transfer. I am using a different clinic from my previous cycles and nobody there suggested a delay in transfer either. Who knows? Just want it over and done with now one way or another. It's ridiculously stressful doing this time after time isn't it with nothing to show for it other than heartache.

I hear you! But maybe freezing them all is a good idea? That way you can recover from your estrogen levels, and then transfer in a FET later?

Here is an article I found that helps explain the options, and the reasons behind them:

https://thegreeneguide.wordpress.co...uterus-ready-and-able-to-support-a-pregnancy/

 

[~Brandy~]

My estrogen was over 6k at the time of ER and they collected 31 and 21 went on to fertilize. My doctor rarely cancels cycles for high E2 he said.

Seemed to work for us as we only transferred 2 and froze 9. Both took.

Ali- You're almost there 1 more day!!

 

[Sweetness_87]

Ali- they are thinking activity induced and with twins you get them a lot more often so might have to cut back or not work at all and have to do short term disability til they are not as bad or gone. But with activity I get 12-16 in 30 min. When just sitting I get 5-9 in an hour.

 

[alicatt]

Ali- they are thinking activity induced and with twins you get them a lot more often so might have to cut back or not work at all and have to do short term disability til they are not as bad or gone. But with activity I get 12-16 in 30 min. When just sitting I get 5-9 in an hour.

WOW! That is insane. Do they cause any issues (beyond the pain)? Are they putting your twins at risk? Sounds to me like you need to rest more! Is there any way they can put you on a task that is done at a desk? With not as much running around?

 

[Blue12]

Ali- they are thinking activity induced and with twins you get them a lot more often so might have to cut back or not work at all and have to do short term disability til they are not as bad or gone. But with activity I get 12-16 in 30 min. When just sitting I get 5-9 in an hour.

Wow that's shocking the difference between activity and rest Hun!!! I know my dr recommended not working past 30 weeks with twins. I'm worried though as even if I don't work I have a two year old to run after.