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

[sarahincanada]

so I didnt get an LH surge today so will be going in tomorrow at 8am for another scan and bloods, and perhaps a trigger shot. Im quite glad as Im interested to see if I still have 4 mature follicles and also I must ask about my lining thickness. will update when I get home!

 

[velo]

so I didnt get an LH surge today so will be going in tomorrow at 8am for another scan and bloods, and perhaps a trigger shot. Im quite glad as Im interested to see if I still have 4 mature follicles and also I must ask about my lining thickness. will update when I get home!

How come they expected a LH surge earlier than you usually do?

 

[sarahincanada]

so I didnt get an LH surge today so will be going in tomorrow at 8am for another scan and bloods, and perhaps a trigger shot. Im quite glad as Im interested to see if I still have 4 mature follicles and also I must ask about my lining thickness. will update when I get home!

How come they expected a LH surge earlier than you usually do?

they didnt even ask when I normally ovulate, she was just going by size. I have ovulated on CD13 twice before, so its not totally unusual. I think they do the trigger as they dont want them over maturing....perhaps clomid makes things move along faster? going soon so will update later

 

[samj]

On the cycles that I have ovulated, it was on CD18/19. On Femara, I had 1 mature folicle 24.4mm on cd13. I had my trigger shot that day too. I cant take an early preg test, as the trigger will show +tive for about 10days. So Femara definately gave me an earlier ovulation. I am sick of this 2WW already. Still 7 days to go.

 

[Isabel209]

hello girls... i am new to this thread... i have been ttc for a year already... have tried clomid and didnt work for me... i had blurred visions and other side effects. so i tried femara... had mature follicles with femara but still no success in conception... my gynae tells me to check if i am ovulating by obeserving my fertile mucous but i dont see that egg white mucous every month... accordign to the 'blind' blood tests, i am ovulating but gynae still tells me that my progesterone levels are low (mines are over 32 but not more than 43. gynae wants it up to 60 or 70). other gynaes tell me that my results are normal.... now i am considering a laparoscopy.. has anyone tried it? as i really want to hear some experiences before i go to it...would love to hear from you girls xxx

 

[sarahincanada]

just got back from my bloods and ultrasound....so I now have 2 large follicles (2.5cm and 2.1cm, or 25 and 21 in mm) and a medium one (1.8 / 18) and the forth hasnt grown since friday (1.65 or 16.5) so they are not counting it (they only count anything over 1.7cm or 17mm). They took bloods and so I am waiting for a call for them to tell me if I need to take the trigger shot or not. I got the medication from the clinic, its in a syringe so that will be hard to inject myself! but I would prefer to do it myself. if my bloods show an LH surge they wont have me do the trigger, but if it doesnt show then they want me to trigger today.

I talked to the nurse a little bit after, she said not all follicles have eggs in them, so hard to know if all 3 will be released or not.

the best part was the nurse looked at my chart and said 'oh wow I just saw your age, you are so young looking!!!!!' that made my day, forget about the follicles!!

so just have to wait for the call! also if I take the trigger I cannot take any pregnancy tests as the trigger shot is hcg and might show up. the only way I can do it is if I start straight away and see the hcg leave my system then I would know. most people say it leaves your system by 10dpo but if I got 2 lines I would be nervous to believe it. I might test to see when it leaves my system, I have so many of those internet cheapies that came free with my ov tests. Also I ignore symptoms which is good as they may be even worse with the trigger shot.

I will probably be BDing tonight and tomorrow morning, but have to just wait to see what they say on the call.

urghhh this 2WW will be so hard! who else is with me on the 2WW? redclaire I know you are already a few days into it.

 

[sarahincanada]

hello girls... i am new to this thread... i have been ttc for a year already... have tried clomid and didnt work for me... i had blurred visions and other side effects. so i tried femara... had mature follicles with femara but still no success in conception... my gynae tells me to check if i am ovulating by obeserving my fertile mucous but i dont see that egg white mucous every month... accordign to the 'blind' blood tests, i am ovulating but gynae still tells me that my progesterone levels are low (mines are over 32 but not more than 43. gynae wants it up to 60 or 70). other gynaes tell me that my results are normal.... now i am considering a laparoscopy.. has anyone tried it? as i really want to hear some experiences before i go to it...would love to hear from you girls xxx

hi! I dont know anything about femara or laparoscopys but just wanted to say hi and welcome

 

[Indigo77]

On the cycles that I have ovulated, it was on CD18/19. On Femara, I had 1 mature folicle 24.4mm on cd13. I had my trigger shot that day too. I cant take an early preg test, as the trigger will show +tive for about 10days. So Femara definately gave me an earlier ovulation. I am sick of this 2WW already. Still 7 days to go.

Good to know....early O and positive preggers test...

GL to you!

 

[sarahincanada]

so they just phoned and said to take the trigger shot, I just took it....was nervous when I saw the needle and didnt like the thought of doing it but it didnt hurt at all. in fact I had to double check it had gone in as I didnt feel it (did it on a nice 'fleshy' area of my side stomach ). didnt hurt when I pushed down for the medication to go in either

they've said to BD tomorrow and the next day as you usually ovulate 24-36 hours after the shot. so no BDing tonight.

I hope my updates have helped someone else looking who may go for clomid with monitoring later. Im going to try and not think about TTCing these next 2 weeks and unfortunately that means not coming on here everyday. As much as I love to chat with everyone I feel it just feeds my TTC obsession and I start googling for hours theres not much I can do in the 2WW so its best to try and forget about things. but I will pop on here and there and will of course update at the end of the 2ww.

please wish me luck!

 

[Indigo77]

Good to know the trigger shot did not hurt...
Thanks for sharing your journey....quite helpful...
GL and....

 

[velo]

Good luck!!!

 

[Isabel209]

good luck sarahincanada... baby dust to you XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 

[Natsby]

Good luck gal, I´ll keep everything crossed for you..except my legs, considering what I´m doing that might be a mistake. And yes your update does help a lot, this way I can judge if I want to go down this path too.
hugs

 

[sadie]

Good luck sarah!!! Have fun!!!

 

[GMATP 2011]

Good Luck Sarah!

 

[crystal443]

I was on Clomid one cycle with DD, one with DS and I did 6 rounds of it this time and we didn't fall pregnant Our FS didn't give the option of IUI because she said we'd only have about a 5% chance of it working. So we decided to then go for IVF That was back in December and we're just trying a few cycles of MACA and Evening Primrose and see if that doesn't do the trick We're both fine so we've been given the "unexplained" but I'm hoping it might just be a slight imbalance that maybe the Evening Primrose or MACA can sort I'll try anything at this point, if that doesn't work we'll be moving forward with IVF in a few months. Best of luck!!

 

[sadie]

I was on Clomid one cycle with DD, one with DS and I did 6 rounds of it this time and we didn't fall pregnant Our FS didn't give the option of IUI because she said we'd only have about a 5% chance of it working. So we decided to then go for IVF That was back in December and we're just trying a few cycles of MACA and Evening Primrose and see if that doesn't do the trick We're both fine so we've been given the "unexplained" but I'm hoping it might just be a slight imbalance that maybe the Evening Primrose or MACA can sort I'll try anything at this point, if that doesn't work we'll be moving forward with IVF in a few months. Best of luck!!

hi crystal! i take evening primrose on days 1 to 14. what is maca? also, did you use preseed with the clomid? thanks!

 

[crystal443]

Hi Sadie

MACA is a root that comes in powder or capsule form and is meant to help balance out hormones as well I did use Concieve Plus while on Clomid but no luck I do take vitamin B12 by injection monthly because I don't absorb it well on my own so I wonder if I don't have a slight imbalance somewhere. I was getting migraines when I ovulated and a few days before AF but the Evening Primrose eased the migraine at ovulation but I did get one before AF so I'm hoping with the MACA at the very least it'll help with the migraines. We're going to give it a few last good goes before IVF, surely if we got pregnant twice I can mange it one more time

 

[Isabel209]

I was on Clomid one cycle with DD, one with DS and I did 6 rounds of it this time and we didn't fall pregnant Our FS didn't give the option of IUI because she said we'd only have about a 5% chance of it working. So we decided to then go for IVF That was back in December and we're just trying a few cycles of MACA and Evening Primrose and see if that doesn't do the trick We're both fine so we've been given the "unexplained" but I'm hoping it might just be a slight imbalance that maybe the Evening Primrose or MACA can sort I'll try anything at this point, if that doesn't work we'll be moving forward with IVF in a few months. Best of luck!!

good luck dear.. i really wish to do IVF but i dont know if i can afford it... how much do you think it will cost with 3 cycles of trying?

 

[sarahincanada]

good luck crystal443

hi everyone, just popping it to thank you for the good luck. so yesterday I took the trigger shot and the nurse said to BD today and tomorrow. but yesterday evening I felt crampy and so took an ovulation test and it was +++! so we BD'd last night and this morning instead, I didnt want to miss my ovulation. I see to ovulate within 12 hours of my positive ov test so its a short window.

so I am now taking a week off from researching and this site, I have just been spending waayyy to much time googling and I feel I need to just step away and not think about TTCing for the week. Let my body do what it can as I cant do anything now! will check back in a week, I hope to see some BFPS when I return, to us all!