Calling all RMA Ladies (1st page updates)

[Littlee49]

Ladies tell me I'm not losing it. Isn't there a monitoring schedule somewhere on the website?!?I could have sworn I saw one!

Ur not losing it its there: try rmanj.com/schedule

 

[Gabie20]

Thanks you so much little, I couldn't find it geez lol

 

[Littlee49]

Thanks you so much little, I couldn't find it geez lol

Haha no problem

 

[Hopeful_NJ]

Hopeful, I am sorry betas are not rising enough fx'ed that they will. Are they checking your progesterone? Ugh the waiting part is v tough, we all are with you!


I got a call from my nurse yesterday at 7PM, lol yes that late but she gave me a good news that my prolactin is down to 0.5 from 63 in 20 days! I wish i could reach my pitutary and pulled my tumor off so that it would never ever rise again! And as usual low estrogen n progesterone! Have to take provera from tomorrow!

Seems that you're moving along...don't we all wish we could reach inside and fix things, lol. That would be amazing. Anyway, I'm sure you'll be telling us all about your BFP soon.

 

[MissyMaddy]

Thank you Hopeful! lol yes i wish we all could!!
My prolactin was under control in my previous clomid cycles n femara as well, but no bfp yet somehow! But being optimistic helps and so i am.

 

[Kins]

CONGRATS LITTLE ON YOUR GREAT BFP #s. Not sure if I already said that :0) Is it twins?


Hopeful- how did your appt go today?

 

[Littlee49]

CONGRATS LITTLE ON YOUR GREAT BFP #s. Not sure if I already said that :0) Is it twins?


Hopeful- how did your appt go today?

Thanks kins! There were 2 gest sacs and 2 yolk sacs last Wednesday when I went. I was supposed to go tomorrow to see heartbeats, but because of the storm I have to go Thursday. So hopefully there will be 2 strong heartbeats when I go!

So happy to hear that you are doing well and heard the heartbeat!

 

[Kins]

How did everyone make out over night?

 

[Poms Mom]

Well I had to go on Tuesday to get my first U/S after BFP. but good ole sandy decided to come by and wreak havoc!. DH and I woke up Tuesday and saw that the winds died down. So we decided let take a drive by our office, West orange, to see if it was open, and worst case, push onto Morristown carefully. Went to West Orange...there were lights! we live about 15 minutes from West Orange and thank god there was power. They were very short staffed, but i got to see my little jelly bean! (sac and yolk and doing great!) Only 1 from what the RE said, but the beta is consistent of 1 so far. Didnt get my b/w from Tuesday because of the storm.

RE saw a 7-8cm ovarian cyst that is bigger than my jelly bean (sack is 12mm...cyst is 75mm!). RE said nothing to worry about . blood flow to it was good so it should get smaller. Although i did to reading and said that if its bad, could need surgery. hopefully it goes away, but RE assured me that it shouldnt harm the pregnancy. now that was the achiness i felt so bad lately. hopign for the best and my team doestn seem fazed.

Hope you guys are safe. I am sure most of you have no power and hope that you get it back sooner than later.

 

[Littlee49]

I hope u are all doing well out there considering...I know it's pretty chilly in my house right now, but I can't complain considering what everyone else is going through!

Ventured out to somerset today for u/s...we saw and heard 2 heartbeats! (baby a measuring 6weeks 5 days 125 bpm; baby b measuring 6 weeks 4 days 120 bpm)...have a loooong way to go. Just praying they both stay put and stay strong!!

Stay safe everyone!

 

[Hopeful_NJ]

Congrats Little!!!

I did get my results of b/w and ultrasound. Not ectopic (thank God) but not a viable pregnancy. HCG levels have gone down and I'm stopping PIO & estrogen. Hopefully will be able to start with an FET cycle right away.

I felt devastated & defeated, but I am now looking towards the next step.

I hope all you ladies made it safely through the storm.

 

[DaisyQ]

Hopeful, I'm sorry about your news.

Yikes, I hadn't thought about Sandy's impact on RMA... can you imagine if you were supposed to go in for retrieval or transfer in the days immediately after the storm?? I wonder how they coped with that. And I hope all those frosties are all OK.

 

[Gabie20]

Hi ladies, congrats Little that is great!!!

Hopeful- I'm sorry for the news, glad you are looking towards the next step.

afm- it has been a rough week I have a duplex that has a cottage which is were I live, well the cottage was completely flooded and the basement to the duplex which is were I store all of our things and do the laundry... Fortunately the flood water only came to about 6inches from the first floor so my renters were fine... I had saved my injects at my brothers house and continued with the cycle. I didn't want sandy to come in the way of all this stunning I have been doing! I monitored at the Somerset office and at the Morristown office.... Today I went in and had 5 on the left @ 14,15,16,17,17, and 6 on the right @ between 11-13 so I am triggering tonight and since i can't make it to Morristown tomorrow I am doing TI, then an IUI in Eatontown on Monday depending on if it will be open...Does this seem like a lot of follies? I am worried i won't be able to do the iui on Monday.... Do you ladies think my chances will be slim because of only doing TI..... I'm on my phone so I will apologize in advance for the grammatical errors

 

[iheartqueens]

Just joining this thread. Congrats to all with BFPs and lots of luck to all TTC!

I transferred to Dr Grunfeld at RMA NY after terrible experiences with Dr. Keltz at Continuum/St. Lukes.

I did 2 IUIs and 2 IVF, all failed except for a chemical with my 2nd IVF at my previous clinic and with only one more IVF covered by my insurance I decided to move to RMA NY and I am so glad I did. The experiences are like night and day.

I did one IUI with Dr Grunfeld in May 2012 which failed. When I went in to see him last month to talk about doing an IVF he said that the reason my IUI failed was because if he had let me go 2 days longer I would have had quadruplets. Seemed like a strange response.

We decided to go ahead with IVF because it is actually seems easier and has better results. Currently we live a few hours from the city but we have family in NYC very close to midtown.

Fast forward to today, had a relatively easy cycle thus far and we were able to get 39 eggs from my ER on Friday 11/2. 32 were ICSIed and yesterday they called to tell me that I have 18 embryos!!!!!! Way more successful than my previous cycles. I am still in awe.

Freaking out until I get the call tomorrow to find out how many made it to day 3 and if we'll do a day 3 or 5 transfer. Praying that even half of them make it to blast and that 3 times is our charm!

 

[Spoiledangel]

Hey ladies hope everyone is doing ok after Sandy......

Daisy I was worried about the same thing when I walked into the office Friday and I seen they were on a generator..... But I am sure they have a. Specific generator just for the frosties because can you imagine the money an legal issues is something happened to ALL of them omg

Hopeful I am so sorry for the drop in beta numbers

Gabie that's a lot of follies for an IUI the TI shouldn't be a problem unless you have a MF I would believe or hostile cervical mucous. Good luck this cycle

AFM well it's been 3 weeks since my retrieval and my FET is Friday, I start my PIO tonight not looking forward to that DH seems to be though lol..... Were transferring both AA blasts praying both thaw correctly.... Both the PA and NJ houses are fine Only problem was I worked every day through the hurricane, so even though I filled my tank before I needed gas desperately by Friday took DH 8 hours for gas 3 stations and even than only $35 allowed not even full tank but today he managed to get gas in 5 minutes just by going up 17 further while the stations near here are still 4 our waits lol

 

[ashknowsbest]

Hi girls! I joined this thread a while back and have been stalking on and off. I've decided to come back now that my IVF cycle is in the process. I just had ER at RMA NY on Friday afternoon. WE retrieved 25 eggs, not sure how many were mature but we have 10 embryos or did as of yesterday that were fertilized naturally, we didn't do ICSI. I didn't hear back today about them, they said that if everything was going fine they wouldn't call but that I'd hear back on day 3 which is tomorrow to talk about wether we're doing a 3 day transfer or a 5 day transfer. I'm very excited but nervous at the same time ... I really hope we get some frosties.

Congratulations to all of the bfps!!! I hope you girls have a happy and healthy 9 months

Now that I've joined I will keep up with all of you ladies but there are A LOT of pages since I stopped posting so I won't be able to go back through all of them.

Spoiled - good luck with your FET cycle!!!

 

[jchic]

Iheart- welcome and good luck! Hoping you have amazing success with this go round. Stay positive!

Gabie- oh geez! Sorry aboutthe flooding and glad ot wasnt too much damage. So sad to see all the devastation in our state, so many lost so much. Really puts things into perspective doesnt it? If you have too many follies can they switch to an IVF cycle? Hoping you can do the IUI though.

Hopeful- so so very sorry about the news gosh that cant be easy. Hoping that next time is the result of a take home baby for you. Do you have a follow up appt to review? Keep us posted xoxo

Spoiled- ugh, gas was a nightmare right?! Still is. Yikes! We also waited forever!!!! So many good vibes for your FET. Woohooooooooo!!!!!

Ash- congrats! Hard part os over now which is stimming. 25 is great. So 10 fertilized and from what my re told me you will most likely see up to 30% make it to day 6 for transfer. If you are doing day 3 or day 5 It may be more since its a day or 3 less than day 6. Are you transferring back 2? We had 14 retrieved I think and 11 were mature. 10 fertilized and had 3 blasts by transfer day. We transferred 2 and have that 1 frostie. I think you will definitely have 3 or more for a day 3 or 5 transfer. Remember to relax after transfer, take it easy and drink loads of water. Good luck!

 

[ashknowsbest]

Jchic - thanks! Your story gives me hope that I'll have a frostie!! We're going to be transferring two I would love twins but even one baby would be wonderful! I have been trying to research how many embryo's normally make it to day 5 so thanks a bunch for letting me know your FS said about 30% that's pretty good! I'll take what I can get. What day did you have your transfer? I'm hoping for a day 5 since I heard they have seen slightly better success rates but I trust my doctor and whatever he says I pretty much listen to him. How's your pregnancy going btw?

 

[Spoiledangel]

Just a note for ladies in the Mahwah area.... On Rt 17 there are about 4 gas stations with hardly no line at all my husband was in and out in 5 minutes filled my car went home got his and filled it in record time I guess everyone is stopping at the first Station they see open and not checking others. Were now safe until about next weekend for work thank goodness hopefully by than this gas madness will be over!!!

 

[jchic]

Ash- we did a day 6 transfer which is standard for RMA NJ. Day 5 will yield less embies but they will be more developed which is what you want! I think if you have 10 now, you will likely have a day 5 transfer. Everything crossed for you!!!!!! When do you hear???