Can anyone shed some light on IUI odds?

[MissyMooMoo]

I just wished I hadn't wasted a year trying for nothing but hey thats life eh

 

[MarsMaiden]

missymoo - hi, good luck! Hopefully you might get lucky naturally in the meantime!

Britt - whoo! Hoping for a natural miracle haha! When do you think your IUI might be?

I'm slightly less hopeful today, cm has gone back to white and sticky and still nowhere near a pos opk plus a little bit more... *drumroll* spotting! I seem to be spotting more than I don't lately!

 

[mrssunshine78]

morning ladies

hope everyone is well. had my iui on monday, and did preg test on monday and it was pos yay - 1st time i've ever seen a pos preg test, didn't tell hubby i'd done it cos he'd had thought i was being silly! so in 2ww again, tbh i'm pretty chilled out this month, don't even know what cd i'm on, don't know when i ov'd, and i don't care!!! very strange feeling for me!

has anyone else had their iui this week?

mars - how are you today? still spotting? sounds like a complete nightmare for you

take care and good luck to everyone
xx

 

[MissyMooMoo]

Mrs sunshine - I'm new here. I don't understand that if you had your IUI on Monday that you don't know what cd you are on. Am I being thick? Also if you had tested already would it show up as pos already????

 

[MarsMaiden]

mrssunshine - that suonds great and the perfect attitude to have, hopefully it will mean the tww will sail by for you! Yep, my cycles are just turning into one long nightmare! CD19 now and still no pos opk so I'm fairly sure this cycle is anovulatory. I have to start taking norethisterone in a couple of days ready for the next IUI cycle so if I do ov late it will be too late then anyway (although my totally natural cycles were averaging 24 days so I can't see me ov'ing now!) I can't wait to see the FS in November and try and get a handle on what's going on.

missymoo - Mrssunshine had a hcg trigger shot for her iui so took a hpt just for the novelty of seeing the positive. It is of course a false positive at the moment. (sorry mrssunshine, don't mean to speak for you!)

 

[Wallie]

Mrs Sunshine, maybe the relaxed way, is the way to go. I had my tracking scan today and I've got one lead follicle at 17mm and 2 others at 14mm, so I've to trigger tomorrow (thursday 4pm) at work and then go in with OH to do IUI on Saturday morning at 8:30am. I'm still feeling pretty positive about this IUI but I'm sure that'll change in a week or so but long may it continue!

MissyMooMoo when doing IUI and if you're getting scans and a medicated cycle they'll induce ovulation with a trigger shot. This shot gives you the preganancy hormone, so when you POAS it's positive, it's fab!!! Just hope it stays though This is also how they work out the timing for the actual IUI to take place.

 

[MissyMooMoo]

Oh right! hehe that's really funny. It all makes sense now. So MrsSunshine was ammused at the positive and happy cos shes not see that before. I would be like that too. The few times I have poas I have seen nothing, not even the faintest of lines. Yeah I suppose it would be great to see a pos. Even better if it stays.

I am looking forward to having my IUI next year. Does it hurt?

Also if you get the pos do you just keep testing over and over day after day to see if the pos stays or do you give it a break and test when you should be due af? x

Oh and also is that why Mrs Sunshine said she didn't know what cd she was on because they induce the ov so it makes your cycle differ or something? Sorry I sound dumb lol x

Also sorry for all the questions but is IVF as good as IUI. I am not sure which to have. I just want to make sure my chances are good. I am 41 you see but feel and look 27.

 

[Wallie]

Oh right! hehe that's really funny. It all makes sense now. So MrsSunshine was ammused at the positive and happy cos shes not see that before. I would be like that too. The few times I have poas I have seen nothing, not even the faintest of lines. Yeah I suppose it would be great to see a pos. Even better if it stays.

I am looking forward to having my IUI next year. Does it hurt?

Also if you get the pos do you just keep testing over and over day after day to see if the pos stays or do you give it a break and test when you should be due af? x

Oh and also is that why Mrs Sunshine said she didn't know what cd she was on because they induce the ov so it makes your cycle differ or something? Sorry I sound dumb lol x

Also sorry for all the questions but is IVF as good as IUI. I am not sure which to have. I just want to make sure my chances are good. I am 41 you see but feel and look 27.

Yeh, it's quite weird seeing a +HPT when you've longed for a real one for so long. No the IUI doesn't hurt, maybe a bit uncomfortable but nothing to be worried about.

Some people do keep testing out the HCG in their system, so when it's gone and then test a few days later, they know it's the real thing. It took 8 days for me for the HCG to come out of my system but others have found it less. I suppose it must have something to do with the dosage.

I think Mrs Sunshine is just having a relaxed cycle however yes, with medicated cycles they are not as your own normal cycle, so they don't induce ovulation when you normally do, it's done earlier.

No IVF is bette than IUI, success rates are higher but there's more involved in IVF. I think the FS like you, in some cases, to try IUI first "just to see if it'll work" with your circumstances before moving to IVF. In most cases is eases the long wait for IVF.

HTH

 

[MissyMooMoo]

I am really a bit (lot to be honest) nervous about aneasthetic with IVF. Is there anyway you can have it without. Do you have to have general aneasthetic or can you have Local. I don't feel as nervous as I did about it because I know they control your breathing with that mask as my OH patiently explained to me one night. But I just get nervous about it. Do you think if I was so nervous about it that if they still did it regardless I might have an adverse reaction to it? My OH said not. He said that even if I was panicking to the point of blacking out if they did general aneasthetic on me it would be exactly the same as if I was really calm and relaxed about the whole thing.

What I am trying to say is.....(very badly trying to say)...or even ask is if I was really nervous about it would they still do the procedure (because I want it!!!) or would they say I am too nervous and not do it. If they did do it and I went into the operating theatre in a state would I be ok because I worry that if I am nervous that it might affect my breathing and I might not wake up :sad:. But my OH said he would stay with me and that this would not be possible because aneasthetic totally paralyses you and the mask controls your breathing. Sorry I just have a fear about it all. I feel so embarrased now

 

[Wallie]

Sorry, I've no idea about IVF really, that's my next step if IUI doesn't work. Best to check out someone's IVF journal.

 

[missmarls]

OMG!! Ladies I am soo pissed off!
So, since my clinic is over an hour away, I have to do my bloodwork at the lab up the road from me. Anyways, yesterday they had a fuck up and guess who's blood didn't get out on time? So my fertility clinic called them this afternoon and found out »I actually surged yesterday and should have done my IUI this morning
So, I just put my self through another Clomid cycle, plus four days straight of bloodwork for nothing. The clinic said not to stress...get a bottle of wine and have a date night! Seriously? Date nights haven't worked for the past three years, why would they work now? Sorry, rant over..

 

[MissyMooMoo]

That's awful. So unprofessional of them. Sorry you had to go through all that

 

[mrssunshine78]

Mrs sunshine - I'm new here. I don't understand that if you had your IUI on Monday that you don't know what cd you are on. Am I being thick? Also if you had tested already would it show up as pos already????

thank you everyone for replying for me wasn't at a computer yesterday

i normally use a fertilty monitor and fertility friend so pretty much always know what cd i'm on, but this month i'm not bothering with either cos i'm just so stressed out with it all

i haven't done another preg test, think af will be due about the 20th sept, so gonna leave it til then seeing the pos was fab but seeing negs is so depressing

missmarls thats so rubbish for you, i can totally understand you will feel like the hell of clomid was for no reason why do they do your bloodwork everyday? do you not get a trigger shot?

wallie those follies sound good, fingers crossed for you this cycle

mars do you only have iui every other month cos of the meds you take?

hope i haven't missed anyone
xx

 

[MarsMaiden]

missmarls - that's terrible! Will they refund you the costs of the cycle? Could they not have done the IUI when they realised or was it many hours too late? So sorry for you, what a total pain!

mrssunshine - yeah I think so! I think with medicated cycles there is a greater chance of cysts so my clinic always has a break month inbetween to allow the ovaries to settle and recover. I also think that it is to make sure the cycles are spread over a longer period. My PCT wont refer you for IVF until you have been ttc for 3 years so it is basically to fill in the gap between the start of the 2nd year when they get around to offering the IUI and the 3rd year when they will offer IVF. With my first failed cycle and all the palava with starting off on bcp's and whatnot, it will take the best part of 12 months to complete my 4 IUI cycles!

 

[Wallie]

Miss Marls, no wonder you're pissed off, I would be too. It's just so disappointing when your ttc and you miss a month and it's not your fault. Date night! what a thing to say, some folk have no idea!

 

[missmarls]

Hi ladies...I'm feeling slightly less homicidal today! It wasn't my actual fertility clinic's fault...it was the lab in my city that didn't send out the blood in time and then when they had results, didn't bother sending them to my clinic (the nurse actually tore them a new one over the phone ). The only cost I'm out is the $40 for Clomid...all of the blood and ultrasounds are covered by the province. They don't do the trigger if Isurge on my own before day 16 but I have that option which I will definately do next month (I almost did this month, but thought I'd save myself the $90 since last month the monitoring and IUI went smoothly).
So, since I'm out, I can dedicate all of my positive thoughts to all of you...hopefully I'll be the only one on this thread next month as you'll all get your BFP's

 

[mrssunshine78]

missmarls i feel so much for you, as if taking clomid isn't bad enough, it seems most other places you get trigger shot regardless if whether you ov on your own, so i'd def go for it next month. Good luck

 

[Britt11]

Hello girls
how are you?

I just came back from my unmedicated IUI, but I think I may have already o'd...as temp spiked this morning and cm is like post O, but the nurse said no, rely on the OPKs and if it was +ve yesterday all should be ok today...who knows? was a bit painful but quick....

Missmarls- OMG, i would be livid too, got to love our health care system some days hey??...good luck, hope you guys caught the eggy

MrsS- good luck in the 2ww, when are you testing?

Mars- where are you at in your cycle

Zee- are you still checking this thread? how are you doing?

 

[Amb434]

Hi ladies!

Whew, I just finished reading this thread from the beginning, it's a long one, lol. Mind if I join?

I'm sure I'll be joining some of you first time IUIers pretty soon. I'm going to see an FS for the first time next Thursday after 3 failed Clomid/Hcg trigger cycles with my OB.

Lots of luck to everyone and, hopefully, I'll have good news to report soon.

 

[Britt11]

Hi ladies!

Whew, I just finished reading this thread from the beginning, it's a long one, lol. Mind if I join?

I'm sure I'll be joining some of you first time IUIers pretty soon. I'm going to see an FS for the first time next Thursday after 3 failed Clomid/Hcg trigger cycles with my OB.

Lots of luck to everyone and, hopefully, I'll have good news to report soon.

welcome and good luck to you!! a lot of girls get a bfp first IUI...some longer than others like me