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

[DaisyQ]

Thanks Crystal! Hit a road bump today - details in my journal. Could be thousands of dollars extra to cycle at RMA NJ vs. RMA NY for me... this might affect our decision. Going to figure it out tomorrow.

 

[DaisyQ]

So while I'm not over 35, my ovaries think the are....

Just got my AMH level back and it's 1 ng. The nurse said 3 times in her message that this is "good" and "normal" but from everything I've read it's borderline - anything under 1 is "low." And for my age, it should probably be higher.

Also got bad news regarding DH - his most recent SA showed 1% morph. Not sure if it's down (from 6%) because it's a new lab, or if it actually went down (stupid hot tub on vacation couldn't have helped). So we are definitely doing ICSI now.

Just feeling blah and bleak over here today. And fighting with DH isn't helping.

No news yet as to my protocol, but I have a feeling we will be switching from lupron/agonist to antagonist... anyone have any info for me on what that protocol is like?

 

[crystal443]

Daisy- I did an antagonist cycle and its pretty straight forward There is no down regulating, on day 2 or 3 of your cycle you start stimming and on day 5 or 6 they scan and if all looks good you start taking your antagonist injection and once the follies look good you trigger and its ER!!

Don't worry too much about your DH's morph, when they do ICSI they choose the best sperm out of the bunch so if you get 10 eggs in reality they only need 10 sperm

 

[DaisyQ]

Thanks Crystal. I hope it's OK I'm on BCP first...

I will find out for sure what my protocol is tomorrow. Nervous I won't respond well.

 

[drsquid]

daisy- fingers crossed for you

 

[crystal443]

Daisy, you'll be fine its totally normal to be worried it won't work...hang in there!!

Dr.Squid- when will you be getting started?

 

[drsquid]

i go for a progesterone level fri then start lupron that night. it is funny. not trying this month has really been quite a relief. ive actually been happy since friday or so.. first time in forever. it has been great. im actually almost torn about starting up again, it has been nice not thinking about it

 

[crystal443]

We always took a break the month before a cycle, just to mentally prepare and it was sooooo nice to just relax

 

[drsquid]

well i was planning on doing a natural cycle but i wasnt definately making a follie and i have to take the week of june 11 off for court (though i just found out i have to take off the 11th-22nd for court which may or may not happen). so i could do ivf that week which meant i didnt have time for the natural iui. plus doc is going to be away all july so id have to skip that month too

 

[Rona]

Daisy,

It can be stressful, but hang in there. I did Antagonist protocol for my first IVF. Almost similar to Crystal. I started my stim on Day 3 menses and had the ultrasound the same day. On Day 7 I started my Cetrotide (sometimes they use Ganirelix) for 4 days. Once my follies big enough, I did HCG trigger and ER around 32 hours after that.

 

[DaisyQ]

Thanks Rona. I'm just so nervous about it all.

I just had a complete melt down actually. It's been a hard day. I baked cookies tonight, and DH was giving me a hard time for eating cookies for dinner (I know, I know), and I just lost it. I hope tomorrow I feel better equipped to deal with it all. At least dh was uncharacteristically good at comforting me tonight.

 

[drsquid]

daisy- tell him this doctor says cookies make an awesome and perfectly acceptable dinner =)

 

[DaisyQ]

Thanks squid!

 

[sarahincanada]

awww Daisy, dont worry too much about the results....you are giving yourself the best chance of a bfp by doing IVF with ICSI and so many people which much worse results have had success. I dont know what a 1 ng means exactly as its a different measurement (mine was 9 and my FS said anything under 5 was low) but they said mine was 'good' as well so dont worry. I was on the Antagonist protocol as well and it was exactly as Crystal and Rona described. And if you want cookies for dinner you have cookies! I dont think men will ever truly understand how hard this is on us and they can only do their best bless them but they dont get it

I put my new scan photo in my siggy, we also found out gender and I will post it today in my spoiler just waiting for some guesses on another thread Im on! Im measuring ahead, nearer 19 weeks, and I didnt hear anything bad so hoping everything looked good (see midwife today, not sure if she will have the ultrasound report yet)

 

[Milty]

I know this isn't the right thread but I'm guessing boy

 

[dachsundmom]

^^^WSS, lol!

 

[sarahincanada]

 

[DaisyQ]

Thank you Sarah. sometimes it's all so overwhelming and hard to stay positive. But as DH says, it's out of our control so I just have to try to let go and stay positive. Not easy for me, but I'm trying.

So glad your scan went well! Can't wait to hear the gender! I'm guessing boy too.

 

[sarahincanada]

glad Im not the sensitive type as if its a girl she must look very manly
just joking, the one in my signature looks just like hubby, this one looks more like me...

 

[DaisyQ]

Lol, now I say girl!