Hi girls! First,
Terri.... so sorry this cycle didn't work out again, I'm so upset about that. It makes me angry that this has to be so hard. Just know I'm thinking about you, as I know how it feels, and for me, this has been, hands down, the most difficult journey ever. BUT, I'm cheering you on to do a FET lady! I have a lot of confidence in FET, and I'm sure I'm just biased because my FET was the one that worked (while sadly it did not stick around, it did work!). Maybe you're like me, in that your lining just wasn't receptive to the embryos in a fresh cycle. I feel like FET is the answer for us both. Just a gut feeling... And if I can still be optimistic after a failed fresh cycle and a CP, that's saying something! Its hard not to get discouraged, but I dont doubt for a single second that one of my last 4 embies is gonna work, and I have a STRONG feeling that your frosties will work for you too. My FET was considerably cheaper than my full IVF cycle too... so... get to work lady!!
Sorry I've been MIA, ladies. So much going on at work, so not much time to play when I'm here. I have been getting on at home to stay caught up with everyone, I just haven't been staying on long enough to post. This thread is also moving much faster since we've grown w/ our new friends joining us!
Anyway, just thought I'd take some time now to update.
beagle, i'm excited you've started your BCP! Things are moving along for you, and i'm really excited at how close you're getting. Hard to believe we're here, when not even a year ago, we were talking about light topics, like the texture of our CM and just using Preseed, ha! Sometimes I glance at some of those threads and just think to myself, wow, how innocent I still was during all of that!
LadySosa, sorry about the tubes, hun! But since you've already got your IVF plan in place, i'm sure that's not quite as disappointing as it would've been. i'm glad your lap went well and that you're feeling just about back to yourself already.
brighteyez, WUHU!!! Its time, yay! Girl, I was the type of person who had a HUGE fear of needles before i started all this stuff. As it turned out, the subcutaneous shots are NOT bad at all. I got the hang of it so quickly. You'll find that the anxiety leading up to it is worse than the shots themselves, and after your 1st time, you won't even have the anxiety anymore.
You've gotten some good tips from the other girls, so just 1 thing from me... If your menopur is the kind that you mix w/the powder before injecting, my recommendation is to mix that 1st and set it aside for a minute before injecting. That solution stings going in sometimes (but just a teensy), and I found that after the solution mixes w/ the powder and sits for a moment, it didn't sting at all. But that was my experience, I know everyone has different experiences. GL hun!!
knitgirl, so did you do Lupron day21 protocol? Or are you the one doing the Lupron overlapping BCP? If it's the Lupron Day21 protocol, that is the one I did (and I still use the Lupron before my FETs too). I don't recall feeling crappy on the Lupron at all. BUT, they say in the first 5 days of taking the Lupron, it actually sorta stimulates a little before it starts suppressing, so maybe that's where your yucky feelings are coming from. Since you're already a week in, I'd think you'd start to feel better any day now, as the suppression should've started. Although, were you the type of girl who felt crappy on BCP too (if you ever took it before)? BCP suppresses in the same way. I know I never felt crappy back in the day when i took BCP to prevent pregnancy. It just never affected me that way, so the Lupron didn't affect me like that either. Let us know how you're feeling.
booger, I see you picked up your BCP. How long before your FET then? I was thinking you were waiting until Jan, but now I have myself all confused since you picked up the BCP.
This group has gotten larger, so I'm having a little more difficulty keeping up!
kfs, you're starting soon too, wuhu!!! So excited for you!
As for alcohol/caffeine during stims, I don't drink a lot of caffeine anyway, but my RE recommends staying away from it in general when having fertility issues. As for alcohol, mine just said to "limit" consumption, and when I told them I only have a couple drinks a week, they didn't feel it was a problem. Every RE has different opinions, but my RE didn't feel like I drank enough for it to affect the meds at all. So i had beers on football Sunday, and I went to maybe 1 happy hour where i had 2 glasses of wine. They got 20 eggs out of me, and 18 were mature and all fertilized, so it didn't affect that at all. After my ER, for the 5 days leading up to ET, I didn't drink any alcohol at all, as I just didn't want to thin my blood for a healthy lining. But i doubt a couple drinks would've hurt if I had. During the TWW, I avoided all of it obviously.
jkb, sounds like you've got lots of follies, so FXd that they grow grow grow, and you get bunches of eggs! What's your status now??
Moni and Jen, so glad everything is going good for you girls!!
Hello to
Amy and BabyW! Hope you guys are well too! When does everything for start for you two? I may have missed a couple of posts...
AFM, I'm in my natural cycle to take a break after the CP. I got a pos OPK Sat night and Sun morning, so probably O'd today. DH and I have been making sure we BD plenty. No harm in trying naturally. Seems weird given that I'm doing IVF, but no reason to think we have NO chance. We've been PG on our own before (with a low dose of Clomid only), and I do O on my own, and actually did NOT ovulate early this cycle, so my eggs had a good amount of time to mature, and DH's spermies have always been good. So I figured, hey why not! Hehe. I don't hold out much hope obviously, but no reason not to try! Anyway, since I O'd late, I won't be starting the Lupron this week. I'll go in about a week for my P labs, and then start the Lupron the next morning. Then when AF comes about a week after that, I'll schedule my hysteroscopy, and as long as that's clear, begin the E patches again to get ready for my next FET. Still haven't decided about PGS. We might just have 3 put in and go for it.
That must be discouraging. Hang in there chica! And - I'm waiting till Jan if it makes you feel any better! My hubby and I are planning to load up our Flexible Spending Accounts and use that towards the cost. That's what beaglemom was mentioning. It won't cover the whole thing, but it will help (I can do $2500 and he can do $2500). We can use the whole amount as of Jan 1 and then pay it back over the course of the year. The best part is, if we leave our employer(s), we don't have to pay the remaining balance! One little known rule of the FSA. =) But waiting is tough. Longest 2.5 months of my life.
) that you and hubby get that surprise bfp this month! Those reports are my favorite to hear! One good thing is when we have been through fertility treatments and unfortunately losses, our bodies are primed for pregnacy. It not unusual for it to happen.
