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

[LLbean]

DHA is a fatty acid, isn't it?

yes, an omega-3/fish oil

FYI here is info on improving your egg quality
https://www.squidoo.com/egg-health

 

[dachsundmom]

I used to take spirulina for weight loss, lol

 

[Milty]

Ok I've read the fine print and it says the DHA is derived from 310mg of fish oil.

The EPA is actually Eicosapentaenoic Acid and I think is another type of omega 3

 

[sarahincanada]

Well I'm excited and had a great appointment today!

She loved my FF charts by the way. So she reviewed all my info from over the years which was a lot since I've been seeing her for about 20 years.

She gave me the results from my ultrasound I had in Jan. that I didn't really remember much about.

Normal uterus : good!
endometrium linning: 11mm
Right Ovary: Posteromedially positioned?: containing 1 - 2.2 follicle 1 - 2.4 follicle and 1 - .7 follicle for a total of 3
Left Ovary: containing 1 - 2.3 follicle and several subcentimeter follicles basicly 1 ready for use.

So she wants me to do a progesterone test on day 21 to make sure I'm actually releasing a follicle. She thinks I might be having trouble releasing one of the ones I'm producing. So I'm schedule on Nov. 7th for that which is actually CD 22.

She also made me feel better about anything else she might have me do and we can go as fast or slow as I like. Overall very good!

glad you had a good appointment! so what are your thoughts on treatments etc?

Indigo I cant wait for your appointment, do you have to get any blood work done ahead of time?

 

[Indigo77]

Nope.

 

[ksluice]

Nope.

I'm so happy for your good appt Milty! And GL to you too, Indigo.

I'm just popping in to say I took my first day of 5 days of pills today. I'm so nervous, but so far so good. No SE, but it is a little early I realize. If I understand how this all works, the femara should shut down my estrogen production so I imagine SE's won't start until my current estrogen flushes out. In any case, its started. FC for me please.

Im trying to plan lots of activities to keep my mind off things, including (I just decided) an xtra acupuncture. I think I'll email her now to see if she can fit me in. Stress reduction, here I come

 

[GreenFingers]

Ksluice....relaxation is the way to go...good luck on this cycle, i have everything crossed for you!

Milty, sounds like you had a good appointment and are on your way! My nutritionalist advised fish oil liquid, 1 tea spoon a day. Its vile but she said you would need to take 9 capsules to get the same levels!! I've been taking it for 2 months now.

Afm- its only 5dp5dt and it is dragging, I've already started to poas but all bfn so far, what do i expect this early, lol!

 

[readyformore]

Nope.

I'm so happy for your good appt Milty! And GL to you too, Indigo.

I'm just popping in to say I took my first day of 5 days of pills today. I'm so nervous, but so far so good. No SE, but it is a little early I realize. If I understand how this all works, the femara should shut down my estrogen production so I imagine SE's won't start until my current estrogen flushes out. In any case, its started. FC for me please.

Im trying to plan lots of activities to keep my mind off things, including (I just decided) an xtra acupuncture. I think I'll email her now to see if she can fit me in. Stress reduction, here I come

My SE started about 12 hours or so post first dose of femara.
I hope you breeze by without an issue.

 

[readyformore]

While talking to DH last night, I was complaining about femara, and he told me to try clomid again. But, that has a higher chance of multiples. It thinned my lining too, but I know that estrace will work to counteract it.

So, I'm torn. . . . . .

I think I will decide this winter, probably the day prior to my first dose, lol.

 

[dachsundmom]

Ready, the chance of mutiples is so slim...and Femara gave you the ignored 2nd follie anyway....

 

[Milty]

glad you had a good appointment! so what are your thoughts on treatments etc?

Indigo I cant wait for your appointment, do you have to get any blood work done ahead of time?[/QUOTE]

Well she my Doc feels as though we may have a follicile release problem or an egg quality problem due to my hyper O. I had some test done about 10 yrs ago and they didn't find anything but it could be different now. Now this is the part of the appt. I started to zone out a little bit. Anyway she says she can give me something to trigger the release if thats the problem.

If it is egg quality she may want me to try some other things. She mentioned clomid and I almost had a cow. I am sooo worried about multilples as every time they have ever checked me I have a several eggs ready to go. Also my family is so full of twins I can't even count how many there are. My mom and grandmother are both twins. Plus there are two sets of triplets. All of this completely natural I can't imagine what would happen when taking something. She tried to ease my worry about that saying the odds were not that much greater and there was otherthings besides clomid but I pretty much wasn't listing at that point.

 

[Milty]

Indigo: It would drive me crazy to wait for 2 weeks...you seem so calm and collected.

Ready: Did you take anything with your first IUI? I understand your thoughts on multiples but I think I'm extra paranoid.

Greenfingers:

I am so werid, acupuncture sounds really nice but here I am afraid to take pills and I have difficulty with taking tests.

 

[readyformore]

She mentioned clomid and I almost had a cow. I am sooo worried about multilples as every time they have ever checked me I have a several eggs ready to go. Also my family is so full of twins I can't even count how many there are. My mom and grandmother are both twins. Plus there are two sets of triplets. All of this completely natural I can't imagine what would happen when taking something. She tried to ease my worry about that saying the odds were not that much greater and there was otherthings besides clomid but I pretty much wasn't listing at that point.

I'm right there with you.

I did clomid/IUI for my first son. My cycle that worked, I had 3 follicles and 1 resulted in a baby. I was at a different point in my life and made different choices than I would now. If I was in my late thirties/fourties without any children, I would welcome a twin pregnancy.

Currently, I do NOT want twins, for a variety of reasons which I'm sure nobody wants to hear.
I did femara last cycle b/c there was a 7% chance as opposed to 10% or better with clomid. My goal was single digit risk, lol.

I'm just not sure. IUI only has a 15-20% chance of success each cycle, then it's 10% or so for twins. So, you are more than likely to not get pregnant with any baby at all. But, still, as much of a pessimist/realist that I am, I am afraid it would be my luck somehow to get specifically the one thing I was afraid of. If that makes any sense.........

 

[Indigo77]

There is nothing more I can do about it, so that is why I am calm, I guess.
I have 2 appts with the 2 REs here and I am on both their cancellation lists...

 

[readyformore]

Yeah, may as well just sit back and relax.

When I had an appointment with my RE, they called me 2 days before and told me they had to cancel and move my appointment 2 weeks away. I hung up the phone and cried for 20 minutes straight. I had to wait for the next cycle for treatment. I'm sure somebody remembers that. It put me into a tailspin. I just couldn't do one more cycle without help.
It's funny now, b/c I have skipped the next 2 cycles with treatment. I guess it provided some reassurance. I am ovulating. Noone seems concerned about my yucky amh and fsh, and dh has swimmers.

Like you said Indigo, at this point, what's one more month?

 

[hockey24]

Alright - I'm starting to think anything is worth trying once. I booked a consultation with an acupuncturist for tomorrow to see how they can help me get that !

 

[sarahincanada]

Alright - I'm starting to think anything is worth trying once. I booked a consultation with an acupuncturist for tomorrow to see how they can help me get that !

oooh thats great! Im going to request acupuncture with my IVF, I think they do before and after the transfer to prepare your body for the embryos. I did call and leave a message for the acupuncture place associated with my clinic but no reply, so will have to ask my clinic on day 1 if they can arrange.

I got another cheque yesterday, Im so close! I revised the amount I need to $11,000 as Im hoping meds with only be $3800. The set cost is $6000 for the IVF and $1200 for ICSI. I will have an extra few thousand in my account as a just incase, I also have to think about the freezing cost if I have any extra.

Also I will be on 300ml of gonal f per day....so when I go CD3 they will probably sell me the 900 pen....but Im going to ask for 3 lots of the 300ml pen. reason being each pen has an overfill and you can usually get out an extra 100ml. so over 3 pens thats an extra 300ml! anyone else do that? the 900ml pen probably has the same overfill, so you lose out. I managed to get out an extra 75ml from each of my 300ml pens and theres was some left.

 

[ksluice]

Alright - I'm starting to think anything is worth trying once. I booked a consultation with an acupuncturist for tomorrow to see how they can help me get that !

oooh thats great! Im going to request acupuncture with my IVF, I think they do before and after the transfer to prepare your body for the embryos. I did call and leave a message for the acupuncture place associated with my clinic but no reply, so will have to ask my clinic on day 1 if they can arrange.

I got another cheque yesterday, Im so close! I revised the amount I need to $11,000 as Im hoping meds with only be $3800. The set cost is $6000 for the IVF and $1200 for ICSI. I will have an extra few thousand in my account as a just incase, I also have to think about the freezing cost if I have any extra.

Also I will be on 300ml of gonal f per day....so when I go CD3 they will probably sell me the 900 pen....but Im going to ask for 3 lots of the 300ml pen. reason being each pen has an overfill and you can usually get out an extra 100ml. so over 3 pens thats an extra 300ml! anyone else do that? the 900ml pen probably has the same overfill, so you lose out. I managed to get out an extra 75ml from each of my 300ml pens and theres was some left.

Wowsers! Hurray for your ticker! That is awesome. And I love how smart and strategic you are with the meds. That is just great.

 

[ksluice]

Oh and btw, I LOVE acupuncture. I've been doing it since mid-july and its totally made a difference in my cycle. TMI but my period is different in length and quantity and my whole cycle just feels smoother somehow. If I weren't already 40 I would probably give it another 6 mos w/o doing a ART. Plus, it totally does chill me out. For the first month or so, 1 treatment would make everything feel like water off a duck's back for about an entire day. It still makes me feel calm, but not quite as out of it as it did at first.

My doc fit me in for an xtra appt. today at 1:00. Im so happy. So far SE are pretty mild, but this AM i felt SO tired. Like I did when I was a teenager and could sleep until 1pm. Good news: so far no headache (your FX are clearly working Ready, thank you!). The tireds seem to come in waves but if Im really lucky the acupuncture will help.

So, that's the Femara update.

 

[hockey24]

Sarah I thought about that with my pen going through the last round of injections. I was taking 300ml a day out of 900ml vials. I now have 3 vials with a little left in the bottom. I thought about using it but didn't want to stick myself 3 times. Next time I will definitely be more strategic like you!

Can you continue to use the same vials if you have extra next month? I have 600ml left in another one. I'm assuming they don't expire that quickly right?

Ksluice - glad to hear on the acupuncture. That seems to be the consensus so worth a shot! Good luck with the doc today!