IVF/FET in Aug'13' - Aug'14' buddies wanted!!*13 BFP's!!**Updates on first page**

[flagirlie7]

Starting stims tonight! Any tips? Does menopur have to be kept in the fridge at all times? I know gonal does but plan on pulling it out 30 min before. For right now, all my meds are pretty much in the fridge. I also plan on leaving menopur out mixed for ten minutes or so before injecting. What time of day is the best? I was thinking 8pm, which gives me an hour up and down. I take lupron at 7:45am plus minus hour. In addition, how do I alternate injection sites? I just go left and right about an inch from my belly button for lupron. I was thinking make like four quadrants?

 

[Katielbkr]

Starting stims tonight! Any tips? Does menopur have to be kept in the fridge at all times? I know gonal does but plan on pulling it out 30 min before. For right now, all my meds are pretty much in the fridge. I also plan on leaving menopur out mixed for ten minutes or so before injecting. What time of day is the best? I was thinking 8pm, which gives me an hour up and down. I take lupron at 7:45am plus minus hour. In addition, how do I alternate injection sites? I just go left and right about an inch from my belly button for lupron. I was thinking make like four quadrants?

I was told menopur did not have to be kept in the fridge. Also for giving myself the injections on the even days I used my right side on the odd I used my left. So 3 shots on one side and it would give my other side a rest. Worked well for me.

 

[Disneyfan88]

Starting stims tonight! Any tips? Does menopur have to be kept in the fridge at all times? I know gonal does but plan on pulling it out 30 min before. For right now, all my meds are pretty much in the fridge. I also plan on leaving menopur out mixed for ten minutes or so before injecting. What time of day is the best? I was thinking 8pm, which gives me an hour up and down. I take lupron at 7:45am plus minus hour. In addition, how do I alternate injection sites? I just go left and right about an inch from my belly button for lupron. I was thinking make like four quadrants?

I kept my gonal-f in the fridge but not the menopur. My doctors office let me mix those two medications so that I just had a single injection. I usually did mine around 8:00 pm, and I also took the gonal-f out of the fridge for about 20-ish minutes before DH would mix my meds for me. I usually iced the area I planned to inject for about 5 minutes or so before I gave myself the injection. After you swab your skin with an alcohol wipe, make sure that you let the area dry completely. I learned the hard way that it BURNS if you don't. I found it helpful to push the plunger on the syringe down very slowly as I injected my meds, then I counted to about 10 before I pulled the needle out. I used my gauze pad to gently massage the area afterwards for a few minutes. As for rotating injection spots, I usually just alternated which size of the belly button I injected on. Good luck!!

 

[Katielbkr]

The lab called today out of my 13 mature eggs, 8 have fertilized. Next report tomorrow. I hope 8 is a good number.

 

[flagirlie7]

Thank you, ladies, I will keep you posted.

 

[Hennapop]

Katie - great number - good luck on the embabies!

Flagirlie - I kept menopur at room temp - refrig lupron & follistim

I did shots at 9 and went to bed after to relax. The menopur always burned. Also, make sure you have cotton pads on hand for any blood spots and my DH and I set up shop in our spare bedroom and put xs and the side (l or r) on out paper med schedule. We also noted any changes on the calendar.

Make sure you put in at 90 degrees (angle of needle not temp!).
Good luck -- you'll do great.

Thanks for your super responses Disney - sure appreciate it

 

[flagirlie7]

Ok everything went well. Only thing I forgot was to clean the tops of sodium and menopur, oops. Hope it's not a big deal! Did clean gonal. Let gonal out for 30 min and once mixed menopur let it sit for about 10. Strangely enough, I did not feel a thing with either! Hope that's fine too. Used the same side as lupron this am.

 

[Disneyfan88]

The lab called today out of my 13 mature eggs, 8 have fertilized. Next report tomorrow. I hope 8 is a good number.

That's great, Katie! I hope you get a great report tomorrow.

Ok everything went well. Only thing I forgot was to clean the tops of sodium and menopur, oops. Hope it's not a big deal! Did clean gonal. Let gonal out for 30 min and once mixed menopur let it sit for about 10. Strangely enough, I did not feel a thing with either! Hope that's fine too. Used the same side as lupron this am.

You're doing great! Your ER will be here before you know it.

 

[Chickadeedee]

The lab called today out of my 13 mature eggs, 8 have fertilized. Next report tomorrow. I hope 8 is a good number.

Katie - 8 is a great number!! I know we all want frosties, but remember, all it takes is one
Do you have an estimated ET date? (Sorry if you already posted and I missed it..)

 

[Chickadeedee]

A droplet - any news?? Are you still testing out the trigger or is it a BFP!?!?!

 

[Chickadeedee]

Samsfan - Did you have an appointment today? How are you doing?

Yeah, Samsfan - is everything ok?? Just popping in to see how you were doing?

 

[ChloeNicolle]

woke up this morning with pink blood on tissue and now it's abit more on the toilet paper and it's dark red only a very little bit throughout the day but it must be ad on her way. I missed the progesterone last night so that maybe why it's come so upset and to add to it I been in work past 2 days 12 hour shifts! On my second cycle will they be able to find what went wrong in this one and change it? How long till I can get started again?

Hope is everyone else doing?

Xxx

 

[bettybee1]

chole - am sorry

sometimes theres nothing that really can be done because it can just simply be chance

on my 3rd cycle i went all out

i drank i pint of milk a day i ate 4 brazil nuts and 4 walnuts i took extra b6 50mg

aswell as my prenatels i aslo took etra folic acid so i was taking 800mg becoz if you drink tea it breaks it down too much i dranks 2x green tea a day i also avoided chocalte and crap ,

after EC i took asprin 75mg , pinapple core and drank a pint iff milk & pinapple juice a day !

i have also been on 600mg urogesrton(progestrone) ,400mg cyclogest (progestrone) and 6mg estrogen daily --- but on my failed cycles my period came 9 days past EC both times
so this could be why i got my BFP



but all the other things helped i think because this cycle i stimmed for 5 less days is still go a good amount off eggs and i also had better cell diviosn x

 

[adroplet]

A droplet - any news?? Are you still testing out the trigger or is it a BFP!?!?!

I did a test again this morning and the second line is still there. Today is 6dp5dt. And 6dp 5000mg of HCG shot.
I've been getting shooting pains, little cramps, hot flashes, legs are tired and crampy, had my massive abdominal pains at 2dpt and 5dpt.
I've decided to stop testing for now. I will test the day before my OTD/beta test.
I've been keeping busy prepping the house/kitchen for Thanksgiving. I host it every year.

 

[Plex]

Chloe - Really hope its not af I Am cycling again in Dec if i get af before then but i have had a couple of different opinions on it, one doc says wait 2 months and my doc says wait a month - its so confusing!! xx

Betty - Did you have to ask ur doc before taking all that extra stuff? Im really interested as its something I may do too xx

 

[Plex]

Have now updated the front page - please let me know if there are any errors and i will correct them asap xxxx

 

[bundlesofjoy]

Great job plex

 

[Katielbkr]

Nurse called with my day 2 update...

1- 1 cell
3- 3 cell
3- 4 cell
1- 5 cell

The nurse said that was great. Not sure what they want to see at day 2 but they seem happy! We are scheduled for a day 5 transfer on Wednesday!!!!

 

[Plex]

Sounds good so far Katie!! wish u the best of luck for wed xx

 

[Katielbkr]

Is there somewhere that tells me what the lingo is? When I see af, dh, etc I am not sure what it all means...