First ivf march 2014! Please join me!

[messica]

Peachy - I'm so sorry it didn't go as anticipated I have heard too you're not supposed to compare cycles but good grief it would be hard not to, especially if things were so different. Fingers crossed it's a good thing, and many blessings for your 9



Anxiously awaiting your results redbrick! (ACK, just saw your update - YAY!!!)

 

[lanet]

Peachy I'm sorry you're disappointed. Just remember you could be pregnant in a couple of weeks and none of this will matter! Praying that they fertilize beautifully. It would be sooooo hard not knowing. I hope you feel better and are able to find a distraction for the next couple of days.
Redbrick yay that's so wonderful! When is your first scan?

 

[mononoke]

Peachy - don't worry like what you said, its quality not quantity; we are all here cheering for your embies!!

Redbrick - yehey congratulations!!!!!!

 

[Peachy1584]

Thanks ladies. This whole ivf thing never goes how I expect and the control freak in me is just crazy pissed at being kept in the dark on my embies. I mean I spent a lot of money and they work for me right? Like talking to me for a few minutes is such a huge inconvenience. Asshats... : ) I've been out of most the day and having a Harry Potter marathon : )

Red I am super excited for you! Did they say when you get an u/s?

Messica when's your next appt?

Mono have you gotten a doppler? I saw a nice one on Groupon for $60.

Lanet don't let my crazy scare you. Trust me I am glad to be over this part I just never want to go through it again but like hubby reminded me today I am so lucky that if it's necessary that I can. (That was well after giving his half of my baby that he would never do it again)

 

[messica]

No doubt peachy!

I'd call and demand information....to heck with their opinion of what you do or don't need to know about what you're freaking paying out the wazoo for. Let your control freak flag fly girlie!


My appointment is Thursday at 1:30 Will do ss, tt and find out what meds I'll start when. Haven't been on bcp's for a loooong time. Just a small whine but my boobs kill and for whatever reason I feel low bloated and hella twingy?? It's not even been a week for criminey's sake. I was under the assumption they would put a halt to everything before gearing up for the big stuff but apparently not.

 

[Peachy1584]

Messica do you take the bcp's at bedtime? That helped me tolerate them easier. My boobs hurt like crazy but it's from the hcg injection. Is Thurs down here or up there?

 

[messica]

I do take them at bedtime because they're also having me take azithromycin and antibiotics usually make me nauseated. I have a small snack and take them both right before I hit the hay. So far so good in the barf dept, didn't anticipate having any side effects from the little reds though.

Thursday is down there. Hubs will still be in ND for work so my sisters will be making the trip with me. There was no way I was going alone! Will be making another trip down Friday so he can sign the legal paperwork, do his STD bloodwork and leave a sample for testing/backup.

PITA but there's not much else I can do. He didn't want to ask for too much time off right away in the beginning, wants to save up his requests for a week after stims so he can take off as much as he needs then and through transfer.

 

[messica]

There's a question you just answered there too....do you typically trigger on an IVF cycle? I didn't know where or even if that fell into the process.


I think come RN consult I'll have a clearer picture, everything is so foggy right now so all I can do is google and/or guess lol

 

[lanet]

I wish I would've taken my bcp at bedtime in the beginning. I was taking them at lunch and feeling so awful the rest of the day. I did move it to around 5pm so it's a little better. I just finished my first pack and have exactly 2 weeks worth left.
We should be getting our infectious disease results back any day. They also did a blood type and then of course thyroid again. I was imagining a terrible scenario where they call and say "uh mam, we got your infectious disease tests back and we need you to come into the office for the results" my mind sometimes!
Messica you do trigger for ivf bc it gives the eggs a final boost of maturation and gets them ready (right girls? Is there another reason too?)
Anyway, today was a beautiful 75 degree day and I spent most of it outside! Much needed. 3 weeks and I'll be in
the thick of things!
So I've taken off work from the 1st to the 19th. I still haven't decided what my excuse is going to be (for my coworkers and clients) but I was thinking about saying knee surgery. Lol! Any ideas?? It will be weird to say no I'm not going anywhere fun, just not working for 3 weeks.
Peachy are you feeling better tonight?

 

[messica]

I'm not working now but I've told everyone but a very few choice people that I'm simply having some more testing done. I don't at all want to deal with people heaping on the pity or prodding me every five minutes for results.

I've gotten lots of requests to go out to dinner, attend birthday parties, baby showers etc in the upcoming month and I've turned the vast majority down in the spirit of being kind to myself. Not knowing how my body will handle this or how things will shake out I don't want to set myself up for any outside pressure to have to pretend!

I don't mind hole-ing up for a bit. I cope better in hermit mode


Surgery sounds like a good excuse to me lanet!

 

[Peachy1584]

Messica your drive sucks just like Lanets does but at least you get to monitor at home. Does he work with oil in ND?

Lanet I am still pissy and will probably be even more so tomorrow when I can think even more clearly. Right now I'm just tired and blah. I have vicodin and don't take meds often so they throw me for a loop : )

 

[Peachy1584]

And what really bothers me is they say that about anxiety but if I call Wed and my transfer is Thurs I'm going to be freaking thinking the worst. Poor quality or most didn't make it etc. Hubby said he's still traumatized from watching and they used a fish hook to put my stitch in lol.

 

[Peachy1584]

Lanet why not add an hour each night? I am not a good liar (this can be unfortunate at times) so I would just say you are taking personal time off. When you don't expound on that most will respect it. If I said knee surgery it would be how did you it? What kind? Will you be doing physical therapy? and I would be trapped stuttering : )

 

[lanet]

True peachy and dh says id have to return to work with a knee brace...lol.
Surely the will give you all the details on Wednesday right? Remind me what the stitch was for? Fishhook yikes!
I'm not sure if hubby will be allowed in with me or not, is that standard?

 

[messica]

I too am curious what the stitch was for if you don't mind sharing! And even though it wasn't a great experience for him it's got to make you feel better that he's got your back when you're out.

Saturday transfer would be cool. Falling on the Ides of March must be some sort of good omen!



(Hubs is a master electrician and foreman for a company out of St. Cloud. He's got a giant crew out in Bismark right now trying to get ahead on their current job so he can take a week or two off for retrieval and transfer )

 

[Peachy1584]

No they won't give me anything just my date of transfer and instructions for it. They said I will learn everything about my embies at transfer. Ridiculous huh? At my other clinic he was not allowed in for retrieval and I was shocked today that he could be there. My first transfer went poorly because of how my cervix is so they put in a stitch with a string on it to pull it down to make it easier to get to and he said it also flattens the the uterus or some such thing to make transfer easier.

 

[lanet]

So they will remove the stitch during transfer? That does really suck, you have every right to know all the info about your embies whenever you want to.

 

[Peachy1584]

One gal at work told me if I come back with a six pack and big perky boobs she'd be pissed. Hopefully after all this is over I can have those surgeries! HA!

 

[Peachy1584]

Yes they will remove it after transfer. I assume they give a little snip and pull it right out. Yeah it sucks and wasn't even a question I had thought to ask about since I had never heard of withholding that info before. Plus I may have mentioned this on my earlier rant not sure since I haven't been myself today but say if you wait for beta they don't even give results until after the second beta.

 

[messica]

Curious if you ever had trouble with IUI's if you did them peachy. My cervix tends to be super retro-something.or.other so each IUI and during HSG doc had to use tenaculum to pull it down and forward, which royally po'd my cervix (made me bleed for days every time).

Wondering if the stitch bit is a better alternative to that ridiculousness....and safer for RE because it took everything I had not to kick multiple people in the face during those stabilizations.