Can anyone shed some light on IUI odds?

[missmarls]

Hey girls! Just thought I'd say hi! I'm 5DPIUI and hoping for a positive outcome. We had 11.5mil motile sperm and 6 mature follies! I'll gladly take 2, as long as I get at least 1!

So, I can't read through 112 pages tonight... Am I silly for getting my hopes up?

Hi Megg,
I don't think you're silly at all! The more eggs the more chances right? My first IUI didn't work but I wasn't that devastated...I feel like this will be the answer for a lot of us, it just might take a few tries for me. There have been people on here that have had success with less eggs and under 3 mil sperm. Keep up your positive attitude...we are all pulling for you!

 

[Megg33k]

Hey girls! Just thought I'd say hi! I'm 5DPIUI and hoping for a positive outcome. We had 11.5mil motile sperm and 6 mature follies! I'll gladly take 2, as long as I get at least 1!

So, I can't read through 112 pages tonight... Am I silly for getting my hopes up?

Hi Megg,
I don't think you're silly at all! The more eggs the more chances right? My first IUI didn't work but I wasn't that devastated...I feel like this will be the answer for a lot of us, it just might take a few tries for me. There have been people on here that have had success with less eggs and under 3 mil sperm. Keep up your positive attitude...we are all pulling for you!

Thank you! We just feel like this is it for us... and I'm going to be ever so sad if not, ya know?

FX'd that everyone's journey is about to end in the best way!

 

[mrssunshine78]

Those figures sound great - i'd def be getting my hopes up with those!! good luck

think i'm out again this month, no flow as yet, but have back and stomach pain, so thinking its not far away. Fed up but think i expected it to fail again - after all this is my 4th iui!!

how are the other ladies in 2ww??

xx

 

[Amb434]

Missy - Thanks, hun! I live in the states, actually, so no such thing as NHS here, unfortunately. Luckily, I have really good insurance that has some infertility coverage so I'm not paying for everything out of pocket. Thank God for that!

Megg - Wow, those are great numbers! FX'd for you!

Mrssunshine - Sorry about your cycle. Will you be doing another IUI or will you move on to something else?

 

[MissyMooMoo]

Amb - Sounds like your FS is switched on and fx for you this month and hope you get your . We have NHS here in the UK but not sure how long the waiting list is but if it comes to it I am going to go Private but the insurance here doesn't cover that. x But I don't care lol

 

[Megg33k]

I'm so relieved to hear the #s sound good for us! I hope we can all be done/pregnant at the end of this cycle!!! I'd love a TON of IUI success bump buddies!

 

[Wallie]

Hi Ladies,

I'm just one day off the same point I got AF last IUI cycle. I'm convinced it's going to happen again, get AF I mean! It's so depressing.

 

[mrssunshine78]

well af arrived in full flow last night i'm so sick of it all, started clomid again this morning and now onto cycle 5 of iui, why they wont let me just go for ivf i will never know, its absolute torture going through this every month

good luck wallie - hope your news is better than mine

good luck to everyone else out there

xx

 

[Wallie]

oh shoot Mrs Sunshine. I really feel for you, this is so hard Have you asked why they won't let you do IVF?

 

[mrssunshine78]

i wanted to go straight onto ivf when we went to see the consultant in august, but he just said guidelines suggest 6 iui in unexplained and then we can have ivf, i just think that its pretty obvious that the iui isn't working and we should be able to have ivf if we want, but cos we're getting it for free i have to do what consultant suggests however annoying it may be. I'm just feeling really frustrated

 

[MissyMooMoo]

I'm so sorry to hear that MrsSunshine It's such a shame you can't choose IVF

 

[Wallie]

Yeh, it's a shame but I only get 2 goes at IUI and I would love another go to be on the safe side and we have a good go at it however if it's not going to work, it's not going to work and it's a lot of undue stress to go through six times!!! We had to pay for our IUI's since we're on the NHS IVF waiting list, it's not too expensive though luckily.

 

[mrssunshine78]

yeah i admit that i wouldn't have been happy only doing 2 cycles, cos there always would be that what if? but 6 i think is very excessive grrrr bloody nhs, but then again am glad we don't have to pay for treatment

 

[MissyMooMoo]

How long did you wait for the IUI with the NHS? X

 

[mrssunshine78]

i could have had iui after about 2 and half yrs, but went with clomid 1st, and started iui in june, so that was nearly 3 yrs, i'm lucky i can have them back to back cos i know some people can't

 

[MissyMooMoo]

You waited 3 yrs with NHS?????

 

[Wallie]

We finally were seen by the FS in April 2010 and we did our first IUI in July. Seemed like ages at the time but I suppose it wasn't really. We get two goes while waiting on IVF which is an 18 month wait. So it will be October 2011 before we are entitled to IVF but I've pursuaded OH and we'll be doing IVF ourselves if this cycle fails. I think there's about an 8 weeks waiting list for private patients at our clinic. I know we have to get a few other blood tests before we can start that too.

 

[Megg33k]

I'm so sorry its so rough today... I don't unerstand the necessity for 6 IUI's before IVF. If this cycle doesn't take, I could do IVF next cycle if I chose to. I could have done it this cycle if I'd wanted to. I'm almost regretting that I didn't. I'm worried I'm wasting my time with IUI.

 

[MissyMooMoo]

I'm going to check on the waiting time at University College in London for new year now!

 

[mrssunshine78]

were unexplained and so they leave you longer cos they think you'll fall preg naturally, if they'd explained things better to me, i'd have prob been starting ivf now, they let me make decisions that affected my course of treatment.