IVF/ICSI @ Liverpool Womens Hospital

[little_angel]

Hi All,

Hope you're all keeping warm and the bad weather isn't affecting you too much.

MrsE - Good luck, hope everything goes OK.
Likkle - that's great news!
Sammy - Sending hugs x

Everyone else, as I know I've missed people - sending love and hugs and positive thoughts.

Had our appointment at the hospital today with the nurse to talk about our drugs - it went well, the lady we saw as really lovely, put us really at ease and I'm all ready to start my first injections on Sunday. So didn't need the DVD (like you all said anyway!). I'm ready and raring to go now!!

Anyway - another quick one from me - just popping by to say hello and to thank you all for your kind support, lovely words and for just really listening to me, I really appreciate it.

Love

Shelly xxx

 

[Likklegemz]

Hey girls

Mrse glad you made it to London in one piece and wishing you all the best tomorrow! Just think this time tomorrow you'll be PUPO!! Yey!

Sammy I'm sorry hun, as upsetting as it is, try and stay positive no matter how hard it feels! Your husband is gonna be your rock so don't worry of you lean on him more than normal - hell want you too!! We're all here if you need to talk

Little angel Yey for getting ready to start!

Bugs nice to see you back on here, fx everything goes well I'm rooting for you x

Lovetoeatcake didn't use eeva, we used the embroscope which was 700 quid. Despite our first round now working - I would use it again. They gave us a USB pen which had the embryo they put back growing. Was very emotional and cried like a baby. Was really hard to let go afterwards thou as I kept watching it

Hi to everyone else - AQ, bear, Susiesue and lindylou!

Afm been thinking of stuff I need to think off to ask specialist what I red to be aware of. My original lap was 7 years ago and it's been agreed that's 85% likely the cause of my tubes being wrecked. What should I ask him other than the risks? Or do you just think I'm being panicky because of what's happened in my past?

Hope you've all enjoyed the great british snow! Have discovered my white cat is actually cream and doesn't like the snow one bit!

 

[Lovetoeatcake]

Thanks everyone.
Melbram what dose of vitamin E is your husband on? Did you get everything from Holland and Barratt?
MrsE glad you got to London safe. I hope everything goes well tomorrow! X

 

[Lovetoeatcake]

I forgot to add
Little angel good luck for your first injection on Sunday!

 

[africaqueen]

Bear- Thank you and yes i have had 2 laps before and found the recovery process the worst part but i did have the laps to have my tubes removed so obviously was more sore. im hoping this time around i will recover quicker as not going to be dangerously ill getting it done like previous times x

Sammy- Ah im so sorry i know the agony of IVF failing and its awful but somehow we do bounce back. I think we end up accepting there is nothing we can do about the fail and we become hopeful again of another go. Without hope life means nothing. Stay strong and its good your dh is strong. Mine wasnt. It was my dad who got me through our failed cycles x

Lovetoeatcake- Yay for getting the green light and 3wks will fly by. Personally having been pregnant twice naturally and 2 failed IVF's, i am really not bothered that next cycle is going to be ICSI as it will give us the best chance and as long as we get our baby, i dont care how that comes about x

Melbram- Yay for the early dart from work and not long till you start now! x

Bugs- Glad to see you back here and best of luck with this cycle! when is EC scheduled? x

angel- Glad your appt went well and good luck for sun x

Gemz- The way i see it, there is risk with every operation so i dont see the point in going into it as i know i need it and it will be happening so no point scaring myself before hand. With my previous op's it was emergency surgery so this time scale is giving me lots of time to dwell on it but im closing my mind to it until the day. What will be will be x

MrsE- TONS of luck for tomorrow! hope all goes well an you report back to us asap x

Hi to all the rest of the gang xxx

 

[cvaeh]

Good luck tomorrow Mrse x x 9

 

[Lindylou]

Hope it went well mrse x

 

[MrsE75]

Morning ladies. Well I'm now PUPO with one early Blasto on board. We lost the 7 cell embryo but the other one they are leaving until tomorrow in hope I will complete Blasto process and then freeze it!

So otd is in 12 days so 31st jan I work that to be! I just pray to go that this one snuggles in and sticks!

So now it's all over to you all with your ops and cycles - wishing you lots of luck xx

 

[Boofle]

Sorry to jump in on your thread ladies but was finding it interesting to read. And lindylou so good to see you're nearly there there's only a couple of ladies from our old thread that I lost track with. How are you feeling?

Anyway just wondering are all you ladies at the Liverpool fertility clinic? We're considering transferring to this clinic since we're so unhappy at our current clinic. I'm worried about jumping out of the frying pan into the fire if you know what I mean - any recommendations would be great. Also does anyone know what the waiting times are?

 

[africaqueen]

MrsE- Wonderful news! congrats on being pupo! your OTD is same date as my surgery x

Boofle- Welcome to the thread and good luck with your cycle x

 

[Lindylou]

Congratulations mrse- stick stick stick

So great to see you Boofle. Did you go to CARE before? When are you hoping to start cycle? The girls on here are fabulous and supportive even if you don't end up at the women's. sending hugs and so pleased to see you xxxx

 

[Lindylou]

Ps Boofle the thing that concerned me at the women's was I never met a consultant (but a fabulous registrar did help us) and they didn't use ultrasound to do transfer BUT I was going to have my 2nd cycle there.

 

[Boofle]

Thanks Lindy I haven't moved from St Mary's - having a dreadful time with them we have one frozen embie left and I really hope it works but if not we're onto cycle number two and that's what I need to decide whether to transfer to Liverpool on the nhs or go private at care!! Don't get me wrong we haven't got lots of money but we do have some savings to go through one cycle - I just want to make the right choice. Hopefully I won't have to though. Af is due any day and I'll be requesting treatment fingers crossed they accept us this month - if you cross all yours that's forty I'm doing a natural cycle so no drugs involved - I think my mc last time was down to the lining thickness so hopefully with no drugs it won't get so thick. I've been having acupuncture too.
I'm really glad you're okay and am so excited for you

 

[Lindylou]

That all sounds positive boofs. My acupuncturist got a natural cycle done for his wife and they have twin girls. Let us know if you can do transfer this cycle. I do hope this works for you and you don't have to look at changing Did they give any explanation for increased thickness?

 

[Bear253]

congratulations mrse! hope this is it for you and hope you get your frostie too!

noticed a few people on here have been having acupuncture, does anyone know of one in the lancs area - preston, chorley or lytham kind of area??? don't know where everyone is from but thought I'd ask as I don't know where to start.

xx

 

[susiesue]

MrsE great news on your lovely little blasto, praying that its a sticky bean. Hope the 2ww isn't too bad for you, are you having any time off? xx

Hi Boofle I got pregnant with my cycle at the women's so I did have a positive personal experience however before I got my bfp I did have a few concerns if I had needed a second cycle. Like Lindy I wasn't happy that they didnt use ultrasound for transfer, and that a didnt see a doctor all the way through. We had a brilliant registrar (same one as Lindy) but that was only after bfp. Good luck with your decision. x

Bear I didn't have acupuncture but I'm sure some of the other girls can help x

Bugs good luck with your cycle, really hope this is your time x

Hi to everyone else xx

 

[Boofle]

Bear I'm Cheshire and I just did a search on line - Lindy told me she was seeing a zita west accupuncturist and that's what i searched for. It's pretty expensive but I really think it is helping me because my periods have not been as heavy since starting the accupuncture so hopefully my lining won't be as thick.

Lindy I had a second endiometrial biopsy done in November and although my lining is think there is no explanation as to why. The drugs on the last cycle would of increased it even more so hence the natural cycle. Did you continue to have accupuncture when u got ur bfp?

 

[Boofle]

Thanks Susie - another thread that I am on the ladies there have said they dot have ultrasound for et! I wonder how they know where to put the catheter if they don't use u/s!!

Do u know what the waiting times are like at Liverpool?

 

[bugs]

Hi Boofle and welcome, I'm with Care at the minute and I'm not 100% sure but I think Care will do NHS cycles aswell I'm sure you can have your funding allocated there. It might be worth having a look at the Care forum for more info. If you can use your NHS goes first I would do that coz some trusts take your funding away once you've paid for a cycle.

In my honest opinion I prefer Care but I am proving to be a difficult case so I would love any clinic that got me that illusive BFP.

Good luck with your journey xxxx

 

[bugs]

Well just an update from me coz I think I need some opinions here.

I did the short protocol again on full dose Menopur of 6 vials, stimmed for 11 days. Egg collection retrieved 10 eggs now those who have seen me about before will no I have a problem with lots of immature eggs and this cycle was no different. Only 5 mature and 2 fertilised. So I had a 3dt on Tuesday of a 5 cell and a 7 cell both with fragmentation. This is the poorest quality we've had to transfer as yet. So out of 6 cycles we've transferred 11 embryo's with not so much as a frostie in sight.

Now don't get me wrong I'm pleased we got to transfer but I just feel this is doomed from the start. We had extra drugs this time I'm on clexane, pio injections, steroids and intralipids so we've really threw everything at it but we won't really know now if it's my low AMH causing the problem or the immune stuff.

Sorry for rambling but you guys understand I know you do xxxx