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

[TeeinAZ]

My doctor just let me now that my estradiol level from this morning came back at 172 after 3 nights of stimming. She says this is great (I have no idea what the numbers mean - LOL). My meds and doses are staying the same. I go back Friday for a follicle and estradiol check.

I don't know what that number means either but sounds like the doc says it's great! SO YAY! I am going in for my second follie scan tomorrow morning! I started stims the day before you.

Good luck!!!

 

[Prayerful]

Hi Ladies! I'd love to join you. I attempted an IVF cycle in July but it was cancelled due to too high estradiol levels. Right now I'm on BCP for my next IVF attempt. ER is tentatively scheduled for Sept 18. My baseline scan is on Tuesday and if all goes well I'll start Lupron 20U that night. I can't wait to get started again!!

Where is everyone else at in your cycles?

 

[Disneyfan88]

My doctor just let me now that my estradiol level from this morning came back at 172 after 3 nights of stimming. She says this is great (I have no idea what the numbers mean - LOL). My meds and doses are staying the same. I go back Friday for a follicle and estradiol check.

I don't know what that number means either but sounds like the doc says it's great! SO YAY! I am going in for my second follie scan tomorrow morning! I started stims the day before you.

Good luck!!!

Thanks! Fingers crossed on good results for you! DH keeps asking me what day my ER will be. You'd think he'd know from the last cycle that I can't pin-point the exact day yet -- LOL. My doctor's guess at the start of this cycle was that my ER will be some day between Wednesday - Friday next week. She'll have a better idea when I go back this Friday.

Hi Ladies! I'd love to join you. I attempted an IVF cycle in July but it was cancelled due to too high estradiol levels. Right now I'm on BCP for my next IVF attempt. ER is tentatively scheduled for Sept 18. My baseline scan is on Tuesday and if all goes well I'll start Lupron 20U that night. I can't wait to get started again!!

Where is everyone else at in your cycles?

Welcome! I hope that everything is right where it should be at the time or your baseline scan. I'm on a repeat IVF cycle as well. Tonight will be day 4 of stimming.

 

[Lucinda7981]

Prayerful welcome!!!! I'm on day 9 of stims and should be triggering by the end of the week.

 

[bizzibii]

HI Ladies, I was wondering if I could join. Im currently on the 6th days of stimms . We were attempting the ivf back in May but got cancelled due to large number of follies ( I had 50 on the 7th day of stimms ) . At the moment I am on 100 units of Gonal F because they are scared I will overstimulate again. ;-)

 

[4magpies]

Hey prayerful I remember you from the other thread. Sorry to hear you didn't get to get going.

I have just started stimming on Tuesday. Have my first monitoring scan on Monday.

xxx

 

[nlk]

Good luck to everyone starting their cycles soon!

I got my thyroid levels back...they're completely normal now, so they are happy for me to stay on the meds to keep it in check, and I'm good to go! The only thing I'm waiting on now is my gp to write to the clinic, confirming that there is nothing in my medical history that would stop me, and I'm going to be matched! It sounds straight forward, but they've been chasing my GP since June...Hopefully he will get his butt into gear soon though!

 

[Hennapop]

Yes good luck mrs t!,

 

[Hennapop]

Hi ladies!

So evicting to see all this progress

I am waiting for AF after stopping BCPs Monday. Scan on Friday will let us know where we are - question -do you begin Simms before AF? I'm concerned I'll be late? Took galinerix m/t and that went fine. Had chic cravings last night so perhaps AFsoon?

I'm worried that I won't begin stimms if no AF?

I'll keep y'all posted

 

[Hennapop]

Lol evicting = exciting

 

[bunyhuny]

:wave: Hello to the newcomers!

and...

We got our first fertilization report!!! Out of our 17 eggs, we attempted regular IVF on 10 and ICSI on 8. Out of those, 6 IVF fertilized (60%) and 7 ICSI fertilized (85-90%). Our clinic doesn't like to grow more than 9 or 10 at a time, as freezing later is more risky, so we went ahead and had 4 of our ICSI embryos frozen today. We'd rather not implant an ICSI embryo without genetic testing if we don't have to, so we're keeping everything crossed that those 6 IVF embies grow into big, strong, healthy blastocysts. (Why does genetic testing have to be so expensive??)

We did regular freezing of our 4 ICSI embies today, but will do vitrification for any embryos/blastocysts frozen from here on out. Once they are multi-celled, we've been told vitrification is much safer for them.

I am still sore today, but nowhere near as bad as yesterday. After my ER yesterday, I felt like I'd been repeatedly kicked in the ovaries for an hour. They gave me a pain-relief suppository that helped a bit (though not nearly enough) and then I switched over to ibuprofen when I got home. In the evening, I was just so, so sore. Then, at one point, I got up to get myself some milk and had to reach up to a high shelf for a glass. The stretch felt realllllly good, so I strethed as high as I could and leaned back. And WEIRD, I felt my ovaries move back to where they're supposed to be. (I guess they had run away from the needle.) After that, I felt a million times better, and am still feeling a lot better today!

Now I'm just wondering when it's okay to go back to having sex. Anyone been told anything about this?

 

[nlk]

What a fantastic report, buny! Really hope that your little embies grow lots for you!

How weird that stretching helped! Hope you're feeling better soon. Not too sure on the sex thing...sorry!

 

[tcreasey88]

So I've just had all the paperwork sent through to confirm that oh has severe oligozooapermia, but all his blood\hormones and genetics are normal, has anyone else experienced this? Is it straight to iCsi or has anyone heard of this being due to an obstruction tht can be fixed? Would love to here about anything? It said most sperm were broken and none were motile, so I guess if they can't find any in sperm retrieval then it's donor sperm? Xx

 

[nlk]

tcreasey, sorry to hear about your OH I'm not entirely sure, and I'm sure someone else who has more experience of this will join in, but I don't think quality would be affected by an obstruction...I would imagine that could affect count more? However, my OH did have issues with quality, which we managed to fix just by getting him on vitamins and supplements. Does your OH take anything? If not, it's definitely worth trying, if it can improve it naturally. Omega-3, zinc..all these things can help to improve it.

I would imagine that you would need to use icsi. Hope you can get some answers and get things moving in the right direction soon

 

[tcreasey88]

Yeah the count was <.1% so not many to begin with, we have an amazingly healthy lifestyle which is why I'm so worried why he has this is everything else is normal :-/

I think they are planning to give us iCsi as that is all the info they sent through, just worried we'll have to use a donor now xx

 

[nlk]

yeah...we have a really healthy lifestyle as well. I guess sometimes there isn't really a reason for why it's bad. It could still be worth getting some supplements, to try and improve quality.

icsi is a good route to go down. Unless they found that non of his sperm were viable, I really can't see why you would have to go down the route of using donor sperm. And I'm sure they would have told you that straight up if that needed to be the case, anyhow

 

[tcreasey88]

I hope so, it's the not knowing I hate, like why they couldn't tell us his tests were all fine apart from that, so we have weeks of worrying
For no reason! Lol. We're taking the his and hers pregnacare, since jan, so hopefully that's done something xx

 

[Serenyx]

HI Ladies, I was wondering if I could join. Im currently on the 6th days of stimms . We were attempting the ivf back in May but got cancelled due to large number of follies ( I had 50 on the 7th day of stimms ) . At the moment I am on 100 units of Gonal F because they are scared I will overstimulate again. ;-)

What dosage were you initially on when you overstimulated?

I am worried this is going to happen to me I go back in a week for my next scan but because they are aware I am likely to over respond I have been put on 150 from the start.

 

[4magpies]

I'm on the lowest dose my clinic do which is 112.5!

They're really worried about OHSS for me.

xx

 

[adroplet]

Hey girls.

When did you start feeling different on stims? Don't feel anything inside but I feel more mentally unhinged than when I was on burselin and I was bad then!

Poor OH!

After 4 days of stimms for me. just lots of pressure down there and it has increased since then. Is it just me - now I feel like golf balls are trying to come out my anus.

Hunybuny - my clinic said no intercourse as of yesterday (stimm day 6) until they told me...and they haven't told me when that will be. good question!
Thanks! good to know about the stretching. I will keep that in mind when my ER comes around.

Had an ultrasound today (after 6 days of stimms) and had about 13 follicles ranging from 11-16mm there were others under 10mm. I guess they ignore those.