Hopeful Cat, and Gem hope you both are managing ok.
Mbaby, Good luck
Rainbow: any update on your dates?
Some update from me , we move on to the next phase in our journey, the mTese is scheduled for mid March (in 2 weeks time), based on how I respond to medicines. We have seen the FS and also the urologist and we are all set and but extremely nervous.
I have read in many of your posts and seen from your signatures that many of you here have had multiple mTese. This gave me the hope that if things dont work out for us now, then we can try another time. I asked Mr Ramsey how long before we try again , in case we dont find any sperm and his response was that there was no second attempt and this was it. He said we were already pushing things too much. My heart sank when I heard this, I asked him why he would suggest this route over others who go on and have multiple mTese. His response was that , he has previously gone for more than one mTese for some of his patients but those were cases when he first operated on them and then asked them to take medicines and then tried another time. But over the years, he has changed his protocol and he does only one procedure after his patients have taken 3 months of tamoxifen.
He gave us the chances of success as 1 in 5 , 80 pct chance that my eggs would end up being wasted / frozen and said he wished us luck and that we were being brave by choosing to go ahead knowing well how low the chances of success are. After this meeting I became numb and felt like being pushed into another deep dark hole from which I just dint know how to climb out. To add to this, mom called to say , that another cousin was pregnant, I feel very jealous of all these people who can have pleasurable sex and at the end have a baby after few months of trying. We sat down last night to fill the consent forms and it was very painful, not the questions as such but the fact that we are not a normal couple and were about to have just one single attempt at trying to have what we want most in our lives . DH described the next 2 weeks as though it was a trial at the end of which we would know the verdict.
Mbaby, Good luck
Rainbow: any update on your dates?
Some update from me , we move on to the next phase in our journey, the mTese is scheduled for mid March (in 2 weeks time), based on how I respond to medicines. We have seen the FS and also the urologist and we are all set and but extremely nervous.
I have read in many of your posts and seen from your signatures that many of you here have had multiple mTese. This gave me the hope that if things dont work out for us now, then we can try another time. I asked Mr Ramsey how long before we try again , in case we dont find any sperm and his response was that there was no second attempt and this was it. He said we were already pushing things too much. My heart sank when I heard this, I asked him why he would suggest this route over others who go on and have multiple mTese. His response was that , he has previously gone for more than one mTese for some of his patients but those were cases when he first operated on them and then asked them to take medicines and then tried another time. But over the years, he has changed his protocol and he does only one procedure after his patients have taken 3 months of tamoxifen.
He gave us the chances of success as 1 in 5 , 80 pct chance that my eggs would end up being wasted / frozen and said he wished us luck and that we were being brave by choosing to go ahead knowing well how low the chances of success are. After this meeting I became numb and felt like being pushed into another deep dark hole from which I just dint know how to climb out. To add to this, mom called to say , that another cousin was pregnant, I feel very jealous of all these people who can have pleasurable sex and at the end have a baby after few months of trying. We sat down last night to fill the consent forms and it was very painful, not the questions as such but the fact that we are not a normal couple and were about to have just one single attempt at trying to have what we want most in our lives . DH described the next 2 weeks as though it was a trial at the end of which we would know the verdict.
that can also be frozen for future use!!! 
)- thanks! My first appointment's in 2 weeks. It seems like a long time to wait, but after everything being so medical & science-y for so long, I was ready to feel "normal" and natural for a little bit.
