IVF Article number Bleh - Egg Collection

[CurlySue]

just dropped in to thinking of you hun x x x i have no idea what to say to you hun as i'm a month or so behind you in the ivf road, i just wanted to let you know i'm rooting for you and your toffee crisps x x x x

i hope it doesn't come to this, but i'm at that nottingham clinic you mentioned earlier. am more than happy to pm you all the stuff you need. but i truely hope you don't need it and that i never have to meet you there (in the nicest possible way bud, lol!) x x x i'll drop by friday to catch up x x x

He knows one of the people there, one of the IVF staff. Says that he's excellent and that he could not recommend a clinic more. It's all pioneering, etc, they have this egg study thing going on, he did not give me the details but said that it would be a hell of a lot better than the hospital I am at.

 

[chocci]

Wow 34%, mine is 31% i think....maybe i should start looking elsewhere too since I only got one chance anyway for free! Lucky i got some frosties or i would be more annoyed than you! I cant understand why there is such discrepencies in %, are they overworked, spend less, careless ot are statistics "tweaked" by the private hospitals by them only taking on cases they think stand a higher chance or taking on less patients, i dunno??? very interesting!

How do we even begin looking for a good private hospital?? Does it cost more for treatments? Are waiting lists shorter? I havent even thought about this and maybe i should start doing so like you?

 

[MrsF]

the staff are so friendly and lovely there hun, and i had two nurses do my pre-treatment scan - and they were like long lost best pals - but not too overfamiliar (if that makes sense!) They listened to me and answered my (at times idiotic...) questions. They put me at ease and i have every confidence in them.

they are a pioneering clinic for so many things, and they do have lots of centres up and down the country. They even have satelitte clinics so you can drop in to them for some of the scans etc (useful for you maz? not sure where you live hun).

and as far as waiting lists go i dont think it's that bad, my initial app was made in within a few weeks of the nhs referral, and i think it was about 4 weeks after that i went i attended (ish - bear with me, my timeline is cack at the mo). i could've started that weekend on treatment if i was private (had a cock-up with funding).

hope this helps hun x x x

i'm going down the ICSI route which is 69% success rate at the clinic, and the IVF is 61% (info taken from open evening a couple of months ago - hope that helps too x x x )

 

[chocci]

Hey Mrs F what are the clinic / centres called , have they got a website etc ?

thanks for the info X

 

[MrsF]

heya chocci, i'll pm you with the name - i'm not too sure where we stand about posting names and stuff, lol! x bear with me, i'm on it x They do have a website too x

 

[CurlySue]

Well I'm only doing it really because of a little talk I had with a friend today who is in the medical profession. He's very honest. He tells it like it is. There are certain hospitals where you can elect to have an NHS cycle carried out there. I don't know how you go about it, or if we will, but it's an option. Like he said, if you are laughed at at your consultation and you feel no faith even at that stage it's not a good place to be.

The only problem is the travel. There is a clinic in Manchester. That is, what, 40 miles away from me, so it's not so bad. Same clinic (well, chain of clinic) so I'd probably end up there. It would not really be possible to travel to and from Nottingham.

 

[chocci]

heya chocci, i'll pm you with the name - i'm not too sure where we stand about posting names and stuff, lol! x bear with me, i'm on it x They do have a website too x

Cool ta chic, thats nice of you XX

 

[Oneday]

Hi all
Are you talking about CARE? I have heard other people recommend them. I have been looking on the net for places in the north west and came across Manchester fertilty Services my friend who is currently 41 weeks pregnant had her sterilization sucessfully reversed by one of their consultants and highly recommends him. It really does seem to be a minefield though.

 

[CurlySue]

Hi all
Are you talking about CARE? I have heard other people recommend them. I have been looking on the net for places in the north west and came across Manchester fertilty Services my friend who is currently 41 weeks pregnant had her sterilization sucessfully reversed by one of their consultants and highly recommends him. It really does seem to be a minefield though.

Yeah CARE. Not sure if our PCT is covered by their NHS programme, though. If going private though I would not touch my hospital with a bargepole so I would be looking at going there.

 

[Brambletess]

Hiya - we don't have any NHS places near us thankfully so our PCT let us go wherever we want within the UK but as Bristol is really good most go there. Its totally purpose bulit for IVF and is state of the art. so far the staff have been lovely and I have a lot of confidence in them. This is so important. If my two goes are not successful I will go abroad to turkey or Budapest for another as ICSI is too expensive here. We are saving already!!! And if I don't need it maybe I can have a new bathroom. I have said this to chocci but I try too see it as a course of treatment. I think you will feel a whole lot better if you have more control over who treats you.feeling like you have a choice is great.But let's hope you don't need it.x

 

[CurlySue]

It's very important to have faith in those who are treating you, I agree, especially with something so fragile. You don't want to feel rushed or ridiculous and you CERTAINLY don't want to feel like a number (On the day of my EC I was "Number 4 of 12"). It's like a conveyor belt, like a factory, and you don't want that during treatment. You want to feel like a person, like an individual, like there is nothing they couldn't do for you.

I did meet one nice person during all of this. The person that carried out my EC was lovely. If I could take him and put him in the setting of a different hospital then maybe all would be nice. To have just one person you feel comfortable and faithful with/of over the whole course of treatment isn't good. Not during this kind of treatment.

Had another evap this morning. Cheapies. Evil sent from the Devil, they are. Could see it after 5 minutes, which is even MORE of a mindfuck, but it's well and truly ghostish and grey since it dried.

 

[Steph63]

Hey CS, just catching up on everything with you, just wanted to wish you lots of luck with your Toffee Crisps!!

When is your offical test date?

 

[CurlySue]

Official test date next Wednesday, AF due Tuesday. I am the equivalent of 10dpo today.

Erm...I just did another internet cheapie. It's faint, v. faint, but I could see a second line within 60 seconds and I'm pretty sure it's an evap. I don't even know what colour it is. It's the same as the other one, but it dried so faint you can hardly see the colour.

It's still there. it's the faintest thing there ever was, but it's still there.

Two v. faint lines this morning. When i say faint I mean faint. Ridiculously faint. Unlike the evap last night, though, they are visible to the naked eye (sort of - could only see the shadow if I held it up in one room last night, ironically the room which is to be the baby's room). I will try to take a picture. Of course, I might be hallucinating and I might be giving myself false hope, and that's bad.

 

[CurlySue]

Is this the first sign of my Toffee Crisp...

https://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb162/lalazapa/Picture2-22.png?t=1245914831

https://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb162/lalazapa/test.jpg?t=1245914916

...or, am I just really driving myself to a mental breakdown, here? Like i said, it's fainter than faint.

God, I just know it's going to be gone. Or that it's not even there in the first place but I swear even the camera picked up some of it. I don't know why I do this to myself, really.

 

[Lyns]

OMG....that does look rather hopeful. I am really praying for you honey! xx

PS Soz not been around....I'm on my holibops but had to log in to see how you were doing!

 

[Lyns]

PPS....with any of my BFP's I've not got a positive at all on IC's before 11/12dpo, but have had a strong positive on FRER at 8dpo? Maybe try a sensitive branded test tomorrow?

 

[CurlySue]

I want to get one just to put myself out of my misery, really. This one was a Home and Bargain cheapie. 2 for 99p.

 

[Brambletess]

Hiya

Go get yourself a clearblue sensitive one. Its easier to tell with those. Its deffo looking positive and you got nothing yesterday and samething very very faint today. Your hcg would be so low today if the embryo implanated when you got those cramps.

Think we are all desperate to know the outcome ;-)

 

[chocci]

Hiya - we don't have any NHS places near us thankfully so our PCT let us go wherever we want within the UK but as Bristol is really good most go there. Its totally purpose bulit for IVF and is state of the art. so far the staff have been lovely and I have a lot of confidence in them. This is so important. If my two goes are not successful I will go abroad to turkey or Budapest for another as ICSI is too expensive here. We are saving already!!! And if I don't need it maybe I can have a new bathroom. I have said this to chocci but I try too see it as a course of treatment. I think you will feel a whole lot better if you have more control over who treats you.feeling like you have a choice is great.But let's hope you don't need it.x

Hey Chic how much is it in Turkey and why Turkey and how long would you have to go......hope you dont mind me asking again sounds really interesting, I have never thought about that and am hoping I wont have to do it but like you say thinking of a course of treatment is the best way, perhaps it makes any dissapointment along the way seem less harsh? x

 

[chocci]

Is this the first sign of my Toffee Crisp...

https://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb162/lalazapa/Picture2-22.png?t=1245914831

https://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb162/lalazapa/test.jpg?t=1245914916

...or, am I just really driving myself to a mental breakdown, here? Like i said, it's fainter than faint.

God, I just know it's going to be gone. Or that it's not even there in the first place but I swear even the camera picked up some of it. I don't know why I do this to myself, really.

oooooooooooooooooooo, whats the minimum HCG clear blue pics up, i have one here but i cant find it on instructions??