anyone over 35 going for fertility treatments this year? IUI, IVF etc

[GreenFingers]

What a lovely conversation you girls are having. I never had a problem with the progesterone although I was told to put them in a totally different hole

Let me tell you that leakage was very unpleasant, I stopped taking them at 10 weeks, thank goodness!!!

As for sex, it has been the furthest thing from my mind during IVF and now pregnant, poor DH...he doesn't seem to mind though!!!

 

[Hopefulmom12]

I am on the prometrium pills - 6 a day. Are the injections more potent? I was happy to hear that I can just take the pills. They seem so easy after everything else.

My transfer went well this morning so now I am in the 2ww - testing on the 28th. FX'd for all of us.

 

[dachsundmom]

 

[sarahincanada]

I am on the prometrium pills - 6 a day. Are the injections more potent? I was happy to hear that I can just take the pills. They seem so easy after everything else.

My transfer went well this morning so now I am in the 2ww - testing on the 28th. FX'd for all of us.

FX'd for you and lots of

 

[Hopefulmom12]

Thanks guys!

Sarah great to hear the acupuncture is going well so far. FX'd for you.

I have to find those baby dust emoticons.

 

[readyformore]

What a lovely conversation you girls are having. I never had a problem with the progesterone although I was told to put them in a totally different hole

Really? Rectal?

Well..........I guess it wouldn't interfere with sex now would it?

 

[googly]

I am on utrogestan - progesterone pessaries - and I find them to be HIDEOUSLY messy and all round pain in the arse (even though they go in the front side ) But yeah, soooo messy, leaky, build-up in there, remembering to take them, awkward when DH is suddenly in the mood, etc etc. Ah well, if they help the process along::::::: can't complain. But I sympathise with anyone else who is taking them!

 

[hockey24]

So does everyone take them in the morning and at night? I feel like I have a small window of happiness in the early afternoon when I don't feel nasty from stuff dripping out. Then its time to shove another one up there for the evening round.

Really really does have an affect on the sex life. Doesn't feel clean or sexy. And my DH is a little scared of the stuff.

 

[readyformore]

I've only ever done them once a day.

Last time (10 years ago), it was more of a creamy type suppository. It was shaped like an oval and you pushed it up. The excess came out kind of clumpy...lovely.

Now, it's a gel. You put the tube in and squirt out the contents. There is no excess clumping, which is nice. But, it warms up and leaks out like urine. It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't actually loosing control of my bladder.

I wonder what exactly what the difference is in the effectiveness of oral, vaginal, or injectable meds. Obviously, injectable will be the most effective. But, I wonder by how much. Now that I think about it, I'll ask when I do my next IUI. If there is a very small percentage of difference, I'll try oral as opposed to vaginal.

 

[crystal443]

I think besides injectable, vaginal is supposed to be the most effective for absorption

HopefulMom- best of luck!!!

 

[LLbean]

well I did the injectables and they also put me on Prometrium (pills) after 6 weeks

 

[GreenFingers]

I am on the prometrium pills - 6 a day. Are the injections more potent? I was happy to hear that I can just take the pills. They seem so easy after everything else.

My transfer went well this morning so now I am in the 2ww - testing on the 28th. FX'd for all of us.

Wow good luck

 

[googly]

On the Utrogestan the doc told me to do 2, 3 times a day... Ugg... But that was such a fag, I did some interwebbing and found others had been told to do 3, twice a day. So now I do that. To try to minimise 'mess', I do the evening lot immediately before I go to bed; then the morning lot I do once I've got to work in the morning (when I usually sit at my desk for the first couple of hours - ie. no movement to mess them around!) I saw others had been told they should lie down for half an hour after putting them in - but who has the time to do that?! So figured this was the next best thing...

 

[crystal443]

Wow Googly, that would be a pain and yeah who's got the time to lay down for 30 mins?Any idea on when you'll be starting IVF?

 

[googly]

Me? Not until mid next year probably... We're eligible for 'free' IUI/IVF from about April (after 9 x cycles Clomid) so we're just going to see those out rather than pay for it now (patience is not a virtue of mine, but that's a lot of $$$ to save!) We also have a big European holiday planned for June so I imagine we might do an IUI or two between April and June and then come back and do IVF in July.

Until then it's just semi-monitored cycles with Clomid, and maybe some FSH injectables experiments.

Looking forward to IUI/IVF though, I'm fairly convinced I'm not going to get a BFP without it. Just a feeling.

 

[Hopefulmom12]

Is anyone else experiencing sore nipples from the prometrium?

Today is day two of bedrest so you will have to pardon my fixation on small things. Having moved to my bed from the sofa last night to sleep I am now stuck upstairs without a tv.

 

[dachsundmom]

How long did your doc ask you to stay on bed rest?

 

[Hopefulmom12]

The doctor didn't say I needed bed rest, just to relax and take it easy. A good friend of mine who did three rounds of IVF suggested it. It can't hurt so I took her advice (she had a set of beautiful twins) and am trying to be distracted. Or as distracted as I can be.

After losing and missing a few opportunities for my IUIs I am making the most of my first IVF.

 

[dachsundmom]

 

[Hopefulmom12]

Mrs Squirrel

Were you told to be on bedrest?