IVF or FET November/December 2015 - chat thread

[Hazeleyez]

Kwawen- 10 is better than none good luck

bright&Renaendel good luck on your transfer's next week are you doing anything special to prepare?

 

[Wish2BMom]

kuawen - 10 is great, I'd kill for 10! you'll most likely have enough for frosties, even if 50% fertilize, they aren't going to put 5 back into you (are they!?) So you should have at least a couple left over.

Hi Ren! :wave:

I go in for my second scan tomorrow and I hope I have more than the 5 they saw the other day. But either way, I hope these 5 are progressing. Certainly feels like they are!! I'm getting more and more fatigued as the week goes on too. Sheesh.

 

[Kuawen]

The maximum they'll put back is 2, since I'm 30 years old, but the clinic told us at our orientation that typically only 25-30% of eggs make it to day 5 and freezing, so we're anticipating having only 2 or 3 good blasts (best case scenario) by the end of this cycle. I'm wrestling with myself a lot over whether to put back 1 or 2 but we're going to wait until we see what kind of quality they are before making the decision.

 

[Renaendel]

Wish, kuawen, I hope you get every possible EGGIE you could hope for.

My last ultrasound, I hope, is today. We will get to see if the vaginal estrogen did anything to increase my lining from its wimpy 6mm. Going to ask her about alternative therapies like Neupogen wash if it doesn't.

Bright, good luck on your transfer!

 

[Wish2BMom]

good luck, Ren!!!!

 

[Kuawen]

Hope the u/s brings good news, Ren!

 

[Asterimou]

So today we went to the clinic so we could sign the paper work for our treatment and so I could have my pipelle (endometrial scratch). Was a bit of a nightmare, first he scans me and tells me I have a 3cm cyst on one ovary and my remaining tube has hydrosalphinx (fluid in). Then when it comes to the procedure he cant get past my cervix which is firmly closed so he had to clamp it open using a pair of forceps. 30 minutes I was in there with legs flopped open. The things we do to have a chance of getting pregnant! So basically we now know for sure there is no chance of ever getting pregnant naturally and this really is our last shot.
Pick up our drugs from tesco tomorrow and I start injecting on Thursday.

Hi C&J - I had a 4cm cyst on my baseline scan and they wouldn't go ahead until it went down. Last time they scanned it was 18mm, so is shrinking. I'm terrified that when I go in to have the scan the day before starting my meds it will be back. So, are they going ahead for you even with the cyst there? Maybe it was because mine was a bit bigger? It gives me hope that a small cyst won't delay this cycle.

I have hydrosalpinx also but they are small.

Good luck with the injections, hopefully I'll be just over a week behind you

 

[TLK]

Hi ladies, if it's alright I'd like to join the discussion I'm on day 6 of my first IVF cycle and on a low-dose Follistim+Menopur 150/75 because I have pcos. I also take heparin twice a day because of thrombophilia, and a mess of pills. I've done acupuncture for over a year trying to get preggo without ivf but even still sticking myself with the needles really freaked me out for the first couple days and I still find my hands shaking as I prepare the menopur. I have my first follicle count Tuesday the 10th and hoping for ER on Saturday the 14th. I've been following this thread for a little while and think it's great that many of us are in the same stages or have past experiences we can share to help support each other.

Kuawen how did your appt go??

I just got home from the clinic. Unfortunately my results were not as good as I had hoped they would be. I did not respond as well to the stims as my dr assumed I would, as he was of the opinion that I have PCOS and now he thinks I don't. I only have 10 follicles total, 4 on the right and 6 on the left. They're growing pretty uniformly but the largest is only 17mm, so he's having me double my Follistim from 150 to 300 and start Genirelix in the morning. He's very confident this cycle will result in a pregnancy, and I'm sure he's right, but I had hoped we would have enough eggs to end up with some frosties for later I feel like I'm being greedy and ungrateful. It really sucks being so uncomfortable for only 10 'small' follicles.

I was/am in the same situation as you, but you never know. I started off with 5 follicles, then I somehow managed to get 12 eggs. 7 fertilized. By day 3 two were looking great and the rest not so much. So it's still up in the air if there will be any left to be frozen. But I just implanted 2 and am hopeful for a BFP in 2 weeks!

 

[TeeinAZ]

Good afternoon!!! Good luck to all of you! I have my scan tomorrow to check my estrogen and lining for my transfer on Tuesday! I also start PIO on Friday. EEK!

For the ladies transferring next week, which day? It'll be nice to have some ladies to go crazy with during the TWW

 

[Kuawen]

If all goes well, I should be doing my first fresh transfer on Thursday

 

[C&J]

So today we went to the clinic so we could sign the paper work for our treatment and so I could have my pipelle (endometrial scratch). Was a bit of a nightmare, first he scans me and tells me I have a 3cm cyst on one ovary and my remaining tube has hydrosalphinx (fluid in). Then when it comes to the procedure he cant get past my cervix which is firmly closed so he had to clamp it open using a pair of forceps. 30 minutes I was in there with legs flopped open. The things we do to have a chance of getting pregnant! So basically we now know for sure there is no chance of ever getting pregnant naturally and this really is our last shot.
Pick up our drugs from tesco tomorrow and I start injecting on Thursday.

Hi C&J - I had a 4cm cyst on my baseline scan and they wouldn't go ahead until it went down. Last time they scanned it was 18mm, so is shrinking. I'm terrified that when I go in to have the scan the day before starting my meds it will be back. So, are they going ahead for you even with the cyst there? Maybe it was because mine was a bit bigger? It gives me hope that a small cyst won't delay this cycle.

I have hydrosalpinx also but they are small.

Good luck with the injections, hopefully I'll be just over a week behind you

The consultant who did the endometrial scratch and scanned me said it was fine to go ahead with the treatment he didn't seem concerned at all. Regarding the hydrosalphinx he said that he recommended getting the tube clipped or removed completely but that was my decision and they were still happy to go ahead without me having that done. First injection later tonight, finally feels like things are starting

 

[Disneyfan88]

Looks like lots of you ladies have gotten things started. Best of luck for great linings and lots of eggs (depending on which procedure you are prepping for). My IVF cycles (2) yielded 5 eggs and 6.

AFM, my period finally started last night, so I'm waiting to find out next steps. It started very different than normal with a couple of days of dark spotting and then a light flow. Things are already picking up today, and I'm feeling crampy this morning (sorry TMI).

 

[Renaendel]

TeeinAZ- It looks like I'll be transferring on Monday.

On the issue of hydrosalpinx. They looked for that when diagnosing my bleeding and repeat ectopic. My doctor made it very clear that if we found one I would need to have the tube clipped. There are a few methods of thoughts on this that docs have. Some believe that the dripping from the tube is what causes implantation failure, and some believe the fluid changes the receptivity of the lining. So some doctors are ok keeping it around and some are adamant that it needs to be removed. I wish there was a consistent way of handling this.

Transfer on Monday! Wahoo she said my frosty looked great. My nurse mangled my blood draw and it turns out I didn't even need to have it done. lining is up to 7.44mm so I feel a bit better about things. Hope I can be at 8mm by transfer.

 

[Kuawen]

Woohoo so happy for the good news for you Ren! I'm starting the 2 hour drive to my dr's now to find out how my follicles have been growing. Hopefully I get to trigger tonight!

 

[Wish2BMom]

that's awesome news, Ren and I'm sure your lining will be perfect by Monday!!

good luck to you and your follies, Kuawen!

afm - got the call with my next instructions and I am not going back in for another scan until Sunday. I hope things blossom over the next 3 days...I only have enough meds to last until Monday and DH and I already agreed we wouldn't spend beyond that. Ugh. Maybe one more gonal-F pen? what's another $700...sigh.

 

[ttcbaby117]

Ren-awesome your lining is cooperating. Congrats

Wish - I know this stuff is so expensive.

 

[Kuawen]

Copied and pasted from my journal:

Ok so good news first: at today's ultrasound, Dr R found a 5th follicle hiding out on my right ovary, so now there's 5 on the right and 6 on the left.

The not-as-good-news: one of the follicles on my right ovary has become dominant, measuring at 26mm. Another on my left is 21mm, and the rest are between 15 and 12. If I were to trigger tonight then I would probably only get 2 mature eggs, so I won't be triggering tonight. Dr R wants me to continue stimming for one, probably two more days and go ahead and let the two largest follicles get 'too mature' so that the smaller ones can catch up. He's confident that if they continue to grow at the rate he's seeing then I can expect 5 mature eggs at retrieval. Retrieval has been postponed until Sunday, probably Monday. Transfer for 3day embryos would be Thursday the 19th but we're hoping to transfer day 5 blastocyst(s) on Saturday the 21st.

Given how upset I was finding out that there were 10 follicles, I'm surprised I'm not more upset about this news now. Not sure if it's just that I needed to get my head on straight, but if all 5 of those eggs become healthy blastocysts then I'll be over-the-moon happy. I'm definitely going to be using my hot pad tonight and thinking happy, growing thoughts and prayers over my eggs.

 

[Kuawen]

Wish - I totally hear you about the costs. I had to purchase another 300 IU Follistim and 75IU Menopur, and I will probably have to do it again tomorrow if the Dr wants me to stim one more day. I'm taking comfort in knowing that now that I'm at the point where it's one day at a time, the finish line is incredibly close. I hope everything blossoms for you over the weekend and that no additional meds will be needed.

 

[brighteyez73]

No not doing anything special to prepare just vitamins and rest.

 

[Disneyfan88]

Kuawen - Don't get discouraged with a possible low number of eggs. I only got 5 the first time and 6 the second time around. The first time, 4 fertilized and made it to day 5, and the second time, all 6 fertilized and I had 4 remaining by the time they did the day 5 biopsy & freeze.

Some of you are getting close to your retrievals and transfers. Good luck to everyone!

Today is cycle day 2 for me. I started my birth control pills this evening, and I have a saline ultrasound scheduled for next Monday. Fingers crossed that everything looks good. I got my calendar, and I will be starting my other oral meds right around Thanksgiving if all goes well. We are still aiming to transfer mid-December after we come back from vacation. We are also in the middle of an attempt to redo the floors in our house. We are still waiting on final bids, but between that and paying out of pocket for this FET, all I can do is . Please, please, please let this work on the first shot. Boy could I use a money tree!