Angie, 6 cycles !!!! that's amazing hunni
Hopinandprayin good luck in the 2ww
How you feeling indichick?
Hello everyone else xx
Not back till tomorrow night. But we did manage to 
last night and hopefully we're still in with a shot tomorrow night too. Will have to phone the fertlity clinic on monday to let them know I got my lh surge so they can organise a scan for my trial run of frozen embryo transfer!! in the run up to ov? xxHi Dancareoi I'm ok thanks, just getting on with it. Got my smiley on opk today and dh is at silverstone watching moto GP
Why do you think you missed the boat hun? didn't you
Hi Dancareoi I'm ok thanks, just getting on with it. Got my smiley on opk today and dh is at silverstone watching moto GP
Why do you think you missed the boat hun? didn't you
BD monday am and monday pm, but as so close together there aren`t so many spermies around!! BD again Tues night. I thought I had OV tues but FF says monday. So although we DTD a few times I`m wandering if the sperm quality was good enough!!!!!!
Hi ladies,
Am checking in again, I guess I'm not doing so so much these days, then I have pages and pages of posts to get through and I feel bad for not being a part of things.
But to be honest, it's all getting to me. To those who don't know me, I've been through 3 IUIs and 2 IVFs, I turn 42 soon, and we've been trying naturally for the past few months after the March IVF.
I drink an awful-tasting TCM tea every morning and every evening, suffer somewhat painful acupuncture once a week, and this stuff is not super-expensive but not cheap either. Gave up my beloved tea, my one vice (due to the caffeine), take 10 pills of vitamins each day (I never did in the past) Vit C, Vit E, CoQ10, Royal Jelly, Fish Oil, 3 DHEA 25mg tabs, 2 folic acid tabs.
The DHEA is beginning to wreak havoc on my face, pimples everywhere and I almost never got those before, and my hair is thinning. I'm on my 3rd month of that treatment. From all I've read it takes 3-6 months of this, I hope I can continue.
I'm in the middle of a TWW and find myself not even really expecting anything to happen - not a loss of hope, but a lack of it. Babies and pregnant women are everywhere and I can't avoid them and DH tries to distract me every time we're around them but he can't really. I get emotional sometimes and he' usually there to help.
Oh, I'm sorry for the rant but I feel I can do this here and I just need to somewhere. I don't want to mess up the otherwise positive vibe as good things seem to be happening with the good ladies here.
It's really nice to be reading some of the success stories here like Crystal, Grey Eyes and Ali and Jess, and I'm sure I'm missing some. Have not seen a post from Marathongirl in awhile. There are new ladies here and I'm still catching up on their situations, so my apologies up front. Good luck tiatammy and AngelSerenity. I haven't heard from Crystal in a while so will reach out to her. Shannon/Georgia Belle, you may want to look into the Paleo diet, it claims to really help with PCOS - if interested I can post links on it.
Ok back to bed, it's 4:30am here.....
Alex
Thank you dancareoi.
Do you (all the ladies here) think there is a difference between TTC after 40 after having had children, versus like me who never had children?
I have posted my situation on another thread, so sorry for the double post but makes it easier than searching:
Hi ladies,
Am checking in again, I guess I'm not doing so so much these days, then I have pages and pages of posts to get through and I feel bad for not being a part of things.
But to be honest, it's all getting to me. To those who don't know me, I've been through 3 IUIs and 2 IVFs, I turn 42 soon, and we've been trying naturally for the past few months after the March IVF.
I drink an awful-tasting TCM tea every morning and every evening, suffer somewhat painful acupuncture once a week, and this stuff is not super-expensive but not cheap either. Gave up my beloved tea, my one vice (due to the caffeine), take 10 pills of vitamins each day (I never did in the past) Vit C, Vit E, CoQ10, Royal Jelly, Fish Oil, 3 DHEA 25mg tabs, 2 folic acid tabs.
The DHEA is beginning to wreak havoc on my face, pimples everywhere and I almost never got those before, and my hair is thinning. I'm on my 3rd month of that treatment. From all I've read it takes 3-6 months of this, I hope I can continue.
I'm in the middle of a TWW and find myself not even really expecting anything to happen - not a loss of hope, but a lack of it. Babies and pregnant women are everywhere and I can't avoid them and DH tries to distract me every time we're around them but he can't really. I get emotional sometimes and he' usually there to help.
Oh, I'm sorry for the rant but I feel I can do this here and I just need to somewhere. I don't want to mess up the otherwise positive vibe as good things seem to be happening with the good ladies here.
It's really nice to be reading some of the success stories here like Crystal, Grey Eyes and Ali and Jess, and I'm sure I'm missing some. Have not seen a post from Marathongirl in awhile. There are new ladies here and I'm still catching up on their situations, so my apologies up front. Good luck tiatammy and AngelSerenity. I haven't heard from Crystal in a while so will reach out to her. Shannon/Georgia Belle, you may want to look into the Paleo diet, it claims to really help with PCOS - if interested I can post links on it.
Ok back to bed, it's 4:30am here.....
Alex
just at the right time hunni. Good luck in the 2ww........ x xDancareoi sounds like you
Byanymeans welcome to this thread. So sorry you're having trouble getting pg. I think the only difference between ladies who have already got children versus those that are ttc their first is that we know we can go full term with a baby, so functionally we know our bodies CAN do it. BUT we could actually both be in the same situation now. Your body probably can do it but just needs a good egg, same as mine. Have you had any testing? I see you've had ivf so presume they tested you for lots of things first. Looks like you've also got egg quality issues which is natural at our age. BUT that doesn't mean it cant happen, so dont give up. I was reading someones blog last night. Must have been reading her story for 2hrs!! She was only 36, had 3ivf's, all unsuccessful, then the 4th ivf, she had the embryos tested and there was only one chromosomally normal one. The other 6 were all abnormal with differing chromosome deficiencies. So they put the one embryo back and she had a healthy baby boy. So out of around 28 embryos there was one good one, so it's just a case of finding the golden egg!! Alternatively there is the donor egg option, which I am considering. Only 20% of the baby comes from the donor mum, the rest is from dh and your own blood and proteins and without you, wouldn't be a baby at all. It's all such a rollercoaster but there is some hope out there so please dont give up
indichick glad you're doing well x
Desperado I dont know how you've stayed sane with 10 losses. I've been going out of my mind with 5! Oh my i've got a long way to go. Hugs xx
amh nearly 13 and hubby's motility was crap . This time both tubes are open , hubby apparently has supersperm , but my amh has dropped to 3.3! So the official diagnosis was old eggs . Suprisingly, the FS has decided we should do Femara, trigger shot and . Was really thinking he would suggest IVF. I'm not feeling too hopeful, so have come on here to try to improve my PMA.
sorry I've been AWOL 
(Despie's going to smack my 
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Glad your new acupuncturist sounds more like 'the real McCoy' and that DP is off to see him too, good luck!! DH's SA came back and morphology is also low for him, Dr wants him to redo it to check it's not an 'off day' and until this is done still won't refer me onwards and upwards I have to admit when I first started TTC (and like you I'm also TTC my first, DH has 3 from his first time round) I did use to think that those already with children had no right to feel as I did having none but having got to know these lovely ladies that do already have them their feelings for #2, #3 #4 or #5th are absolutely no different whatsoever to my own, they have this feeling that their 'family' is incomplete too. So all I can really say in answer to your question is we are all in the same boat together 
soon! ) everyone, big hugs xXx 
Fiona, welcome, PMA comes and goes here but you'll never feel alone with all of us on the same treadmill each cycle. Hope your stay here is a short one
Deco, nice to see you!
Byanymeans, wow you've had a massive journey already, can't imagine having to sink the horrible herbal tea every morning that truly is dedication to the cause. As for is it different TTC#1 to say TTC#3
Inkdchick!! So happy for you lady, marvellous news
Angile, great news, am certain you're gonna have your
Donna, Dancareoi, MrsP (not forgetting you lady!
xx
Don't ever feel bad for the desire to have more children, in fact I feel bad feeling as I did! Now I realise that truly we are no different, the yearning and need for children doesn't lessen because you already have them it's the same for all of us. In fact maybe it's worse for you, after all you know what it's like whereas I have absolutely no idea 
