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

[Plex]

Woo-hoo Ms. T awesome news!

Had my u/s and b/w today and I have 23 follies - biggest one is at 21mm. I have to go back in tmoro too, hopefully for my ER date.

Hey cycle buddy, me too! I also had 23 follicles today. My biggest was 19 though. I go back tomorrow also. They think my ER date will be Wednesday or Thursday.

yay for both ur reports!!! so close too xxx

 

[Plex]

Hey plex - I start stimm tomorrow.

3 follies in rt 7 in left. It seems like a low # but I'm not sure. This is my first cycle and I'm a bit excited and anxious about the whole thing. My next us is Wed, with another Friday and EC planned for the following Wed if all goes as planned!

Thanks to everyone on this list, I've learned so much and feel a bit more informed about what to expect. How about you Plex?
I'm doing accupuncture and trying to eat lots of iron rich foods.

ur numbers sounds great are they all a decent size for where u are in ur cycle do u know? Do u have far to go to get to ur clinic too? im lucky mines only 30mins away so can go after work if needed (i work nights). have u found that once uve started things have gone quickly or slowly?

Im completely clueless to whats what with ivf. I know the basics like what meds i'll be on and timescales etc but the actual experience is something else. It worrys me as to how i'll be on the meds, if I'll get ohss cos of my pcos and how i'll be during and after the ec. If i can get to ec and they get enough eggs and im feeling as good as i can be then i'll be happy. All that is before waiting for the fertilisation reports and if the embies progress - then the bloomin tww!! Writing this, i think i'd be going outta my mind during the whole process xxxx

Hi Plex, Im just as clueless. Im following all the med protocol, but just feel a little in the dark about the whole thing! We just did our first day of stimms and it took awhile. My DH was pretty stressed about the whole thing. It will be easier tomorrow. When do you go for your first pre-stimm us? I go Wed.

Im about 15-20m away from clinic (in the city so depends on traffic). My DH likes to go, so we go early in the morning before work. Where are you in your cycle? Good Luck!!

Have a great week!!

glad im not alone about being in the dark by all this Im still waiting to start, waiting for THE call then af then I begin I think i'll be starting sometime towards the end of Sept!! Dont know if I can wait that long tho

Good luck for ur u/s on Wed! 15-20 mins away is good, least u can get there and back relatively easily. xxx

 

[sunshine8]

Sunshine - u shud be fine hun I've taken the trigger shot for 9 months and never got it precisely in the best spot and ov'd also its normal to have a lil bit on the end of the needle too as this has happened to me quite a few times too. As long as the plunger is pushed all the way down u shud he fine. Are u going to call the clinic just to make sure? I was on ovitrelle 6500iu xxxx

Hey Plex,

No I won't . The thing is my EC and hopefully ER is in another city, they don't do it where we live. But for everything else like blood work we have to do it locally. So there is a lot to coordinate. So I will just leave it- just hoping we did all ok.
I go for my EC tomorrow morning its a one and half hour drive. so we will have to get up really early. we got to be there at 7:30 morning. So scared and nervous. You know at every step I have had so much of worry. I really hope all goes well tomorrow.

How are you sweet? work all well? I know the long wait, I did it all June and July, but once it starts its all quick.Hugs

 

[Izabela]

Plex thanks for support. yes I will get a free IVF where I can keep them all. I think I don't have to pay for meds. I typed wrong I have 8 in my left at great size so it looks I will have the minimum for sharing. We decided to keep if we have 9 or above and to donate if there are 8 or less. Gutted as I wanted to get pregnant now after 3 fresh and 1 frozen since December 11 and even more my sister is 8 weeks pregnant after 2 months of trying naturally and she is expecting twins. We accepted that we have to use donor sperm and now this.. Not a lot of luck.

Thats good to know about the next cycle if u donate them all Im really hoping you get enough to do the egg share this cycle though hun Wud u both consider still doing the egg share if you only got 8?

I need to produce 6 to do the sharing, dont know what id do though if i didnt get enough? Prob give them away then try to save for the meds for my next cycle

Sounds like youve been through a hellova lot with such heartache in the past couple of years A friend of mine is in the same position - with her partner for 6 months then got pregnant she's due to drop anytime now. Its lovely their preggers but upsetting and frustrating that they caught so damn quick - life doesnt seem fair sometimes

Im wishing u all the best for this cycle hun xxx

Thanks Plex
Well I still have the option to share at 8 so my husband and will consider it. We have a sperm donor from European Sperm Bank so hope quality ok. We will have to ask how quick we can start the next free cycle and whats would be the chances to conceive with IUI - frozen. As we bought 5 vials of the same donor. I would like to try IUI with natural cycle. I may be as lucky as my sister who is one year older. But I need to know the frozen cycle chances.


How much do you have to pay for your meds. Is this your first go. Are you entitled to NHS? Sorry if I missed this info. The thread is so big now.
We had 2 goes with NHS and we paid 7000 for the next and now sperm and pregnancy slot costed us close to 3000 pounds. So expensive..

When you starting?

 

[4magpies]

Didn't go as well as I wanted.

Biggest follie is 6.1, she said there are lots of small ones so hard to count. When I asked her how many she said 8/9/10. Ergh.

They're upping my dose, I go back Wednesday. They said there won't be much difference by then but they have to keep an eye on me?

Not feeling very happy or positive at all.

My dose has only been increased to 150? Which is still a very low dose.

I need at least 10 follies for them to do an egg collection and it abandon the cycle, I need 8 or more eggs to share or I have to give them all away?

Sigh.

 

[bunyhuny]

Sorry, double post.

 

[bunyhuny]

sunshine- My clinic told me anywhere in the abdominal area is fine. I think they suggest staying away from the belly button because there is a vein that runs through there that they don't want you to hit. As long as you got it in fat and not a vein or muscle it's totally fine. I hope your ER goes smoothly tomorrow!

*UPDATE*

Home now. They transferred one 3AA blastocyst and are going to freeze a 3AB blastocyst. The third one is looking kinda not so good this afternoon at 3CD-ish, so they're going to let it try to grow another day and see what happens. If it improves they'll freeze it, if not then they won't.

I finally got a chance to talk with the doctor in charge of the clinic. He was insanely nice. And he really set our doctor stright bout what is and is not okay! From here on out, our doctor will not mention ICSI at all, and will be informing the embryologist that it is out of the question. I think the head RE really listened to us. If something goes wrong with a SA in the future, eggs will be frozen to fertilize later. He also let us go last today so that DH was allowed to go into the transfer with me, which is usually against clinic policy. (DH got to wear scrubs and it was totally cute!) The head RE even did the transfer himself and he did a wonderful job.

When we talked to the assistant embryologist today at our transfer, she said we needed to go down and pay for the vitrification process so they could do the freeze. So we went down to reception to pay and found out that we only had to pay $150 instead of $800! It looks like they took away the charges for the prolonged cultivation and daily monitoring and put that money towards our freezing. Also, we're not being charged for ICSI. I feel a lot better about that.

Oh! And we even got a pic of our blastocyst:

 

[Allika]

Just got back from the doctor I have at least 10 on each side measuring 13-15mm. 2 more days of stimming, triggering Wednesday! Eeeeek!!!!!

 

[4magpies]

Glad everyone else's stuff is going well.

 

[sammy1987xxx]

Hi becca. Pma and some more will grow
Keep doing all the right things r u sing hot water bottle.
I am triggering tonight. Good luck chick xxxx

 

[sekky]

Didn't go as well as I wanted.

Biggest follie is 6.1, she said there are lots of small ones so hard to count. When I asked her how many she said 8/9/10. Ergh.

They're upping my dose, I go back Wednesday. They said there won't be much difference by then but they have to keep an eye on me?

Not feeling very happy or positive at all.

My dose has only been increased to 150? Which is still a very low dose.

I need at least 10 follies for them to do an egg collection and it abandon the cycle, I need 8 or more eggs to share or I have to give them all away?

Sigh.

So sorry Maggie's , how many days have you been stimming?

 

[TeeinAZ]

Morning all. I think I posted on here a few weeks ago, but wasn't subscribed so I lost the thread.

I am officially moving foward and my retreival is set for this Thursday! I am so excited! I am hoping to have a great retreival!!! I just had to share!

So that means that I will be transfering the very first week of September! Anyone else?

 

[sekky]

Bunny, glad things worked out at the end. Sending you lots and lots of sticky vibes. Fx for our first BFP on this thread

 

[sekky]

Morning all. I think I posted on here a few weeks ago, but wasn't subscribed so I lost the thread.

I am officially moving foward and my retreival is set for this Thursday! I am so excited! I am hoping to have a great retreival!!! I just had to share!

So that means that I will be transfering the very first week of September! Anyone else?

All the very best TeeinAZ, hoping you get quality eggs.

AFM AF just showed. So no more risk of inducing it. September 5 is still stimm day

 

[4magpies]

Didn't go as well as I wanted.

Biggest follie is 6.1, she said there are lots of small ones so hard to count. When I asked her how many she said 8/9/10. Ergh.

They're upping my dose, I go back Wednesday. They said there won't be much difference by then but they have to keep an eye on me?

Not feeling very happy or positive at all.

My dose has only been increased to 150? Which is still a very low dose.

I need at least 10 follies for them to do an egg collection and it abandon the cycle, I need 8 or more eggs to share or I have to give them all away?

Sigh.

So sorry Maggie's , how many days have you been stimming?

Today is day 7?

 

[sammy1987xxx]

Hi. I thought I'd posted to u but its not here.
I'm have ec on Wednesday so wer almost together.
How r ur follicles? How r u feeling xxx

 

[Plex]

Sunshine - u shud be fine hun I've taken the trigger shot for 9 months and never got it precisely in the best spot and ov'd also its normal to have a lil bit on the end of the needle too as this has happened to me quite a few times too. As long as the plunger is pushed all the way down u shud he fine. Are u going to call the clinic just to make sure? I was on ovitrelle 6500iu xxxx

Hey Plex,

No I won't . The thing is my EC and hopefully ER is in another city, they don't do it where we live. But for everything else like blood work we have to do it locally. So there is a lot to coordinate. So I will just leave it- just hoping we did all ok.
I go for my EC tomorrow morning its a one and half hour drive. so we will have to get up really early. we got to be there at 7:30 morning. So scared and nervous. You know at every step I have had so much of worry. I really hope all goes well tomorrow.

How are you sweet? work all well? I know the long wait, I did it all June and July, but once it starts its all quick.Hugs

Crikey, thats a long drive hun and setting off soooo early too Im hoping everything goes smoothly for you 2moro and you get good reports on ur embies in the days to come. Im looking forward to heard how ur getting on xxx

Alls good with me trying to keep busy while i wait am back in work wed through to mon am. Hoping i'll know where im at by the end of this week though xxx

 

[Mrs. T]

I am back to them threatening to cancel again! Folicle count went from 23 yesterday to 37 today but my estrogen only went from 3233 yesterday to 3280 today. Not as big of an increase as they hoped. They are worried it may drop and if my blood test doesn't come back satisfactory tomorrow than they will cancel. I feel like I am teetering on the edge of insanity with every U/S and B/W. I am so ready to do this. It is so frustrating.

 

[bundlesofjoy]

Hey everyone so much has happened here.
I was admitted to hospital for ohss last week tue was released today.
Mrs t sorry to hear about your levels fingers crossed they increase

 

[Plex]

Izabela - If you'd get ur next cycle free then its certainly worth considering donating them all, then next time they'll all be for you and you'd prob be able to have some snowbabies. My nurse told me that we were not as likely to get any embies to that point on egg share so not to get our hopes up Also she told me that if this cycle doesnt work we'd have to wait 2 months before trying again - dont know if its different in other places? Its such a long wait if it doesnt work tho
Im not sure how much the meds wud be for a fresh cycle (egg share meds r free) but to do a FET it will cost 110 meds and 875 FET so not bad at all
We had one cycle of clomid to concieve our son back in 2010 (we were VERY lucky considering what we're going through now) and that was our 'go' on the NHS so now we'd have to pay full whack.
Gosh u've spent SO MUCH on ur treatment, do you think u cud afford to do another private in the future? xxx