List your IVF Successes here

[blessedlife]

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[Maddie30]

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[lovie]

Congratulations on all the bfp's, thank you, it gives me hope! and bump

 

[Maddie30]

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[africaqueen]

Im in the 2ww with x1 miracle embie onboard and praying to be posting my success story very soon god willing. xxx

 

[Maddie30]

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This thread gave me so much hope. I am pregnant following 2nd icsi cycle. Not going to.post full story until after first scan.

Thank you ladies and good luck to everyone else xxx

 

[mrsmax]

Africaqueen - masses of luck!!!

 

[virginialove]

Name: Cyndi
Age: 37
How long TTC: 1 year
Diagnosis or any known issues: one small uterine fibroid removed prior to ivf
Treatments you tried before IVF: IUI X2
How many IVF did you do before success: FIRST TIME WORK!
Are you using donor eggs or sperm: NO
Protocol (meds taken): MENOPUR, GONAL-F, GANIRELEX, LUPRON TRIGGER, ENDOMETRIUM SUPPOSITORY, ESTRACE 2MG TABLETS, AZITHROMAX 500MG PRIOR TO EGG RETRIEVAL
How many follicles at ER: 9 FOLLICLES
How many eggs retrieved: 9 FOLLICLES
How many eggs fertilized: 7 FERTILIZED
How many days between ER and ET: 5 DAYS
How many and quality/rating of embryos/blasts transferred:2 BLASTS (ONE A AND ONE B GRADE)
How many days bed rest: 1 DAY
Symptoms or issues during 2WW: I SPOTTED BRIGHT RED BLOOD EVERY OTHER DAY, STARTING 8 DAYS POST TRANSFER AND STILL SPOTTING AS I WRITE.
What day you got your BFP: 6 DAYS POST 5 DAY TRANSFER
HPT before blood test: yes, yes , yes!!! I started testing out the trigger the the day after the transfer.
Number of first beta: 532
Number of babies: TWO!!!!
Anything else you would have wanted to know before you started this process:
I FEEL THAT IUI WAS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. WE HAVE TO PAY OUT OF POCKET FOR EVERYTHING, SINCE OUR INSURANCE DOES NOT COVER A DIME. IUI COST ABOUT $2000 EACH. ALSO, I SPOTTED BRIGHT RED BLOOD EVERY OTHER DAY STARTING 8 DAYS POST TRANSFER. DOCTOR SAYS ITS NORMAL. I WOULD USE AN EXTRA SUPPOSITORY TO STOP THE BLEEDING. THEN 2 DAYS LATER, IT WILL BLEED AGAIN, THEN USE EXTRA SUPPOSITORY. DOCTOR SAYS IT OK TO USE AN EXTRA ONE HERE AND THERE, BUT IT SHOULDN'T MATTER. I JUST FREAK OUT EVERY TIME I SEE BLOOD. THE ENDOMETRIUM SUPPOSITORY LEAKS OUT ALL THE TIME AND I FEEL THAT IT DOESNT GET ABSORBED ENOUGH.

 

[Maddie30]

Congratulations Cyndi. Twins, how exciting. Did you experience any symptoms between bfp and uss??

Thank you xx

 

[hockey24]

Congrats Virginialove!! Great news!

I see you had a uterine fibroid removed? Did you have a robotic myomectomy or regular? How long after your surgery did you do your IVF cycle?

 

[Maddie30]

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[mrsmax]

congrats virginia!

 

[kazzab25]

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[sarahincanada]

2 years
at least 23 BFNs
3 failed IUIS, 1 failed IVF
so many injections, blood tests, things placed up my hoo-haa
Im finally ready to post in here.....

Name: sarahincanada
Age: 39
How long TTC: 2 Years
Diagnosis or any known issues: Unexplained Infertility
Treatments you tried before IVF: 1 x Clomid with intercourse, 2 x Clomid with IUI, 1 x Gonal-F with IUI
How many IVF did you do before success: Fresh cycle failed, 1st Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) worked
Are you using donor eggs or sperm: No
Protocol (meds taken): 250 Gonal F plus 75 Repronex for fresh cycle. For FET was just on Progesterone, Estrace and Baby aspirin through to 10 weeks
How many follicles at ER: 19
How many eggs retrieved: 20, all mature and ICSI'd
How many eggs fertilized: 20, ended up with 10 blasts on Day 5
How many days between ER and ET: 5 days
How many and quality/rating of embryos/blasts transferred: 2 on failed fresh cycle, 1 on successful FET
How many days bed rest: Wasnt instructed to bed rest, but did 1 day with fresh cycle and 2 days with FET
Symptoms or issues during 2WW: Nothing much, had more 'symptoms' on my non pregnant cycles. The only 1 thing Id never had before was a short burning feeling right in the area she had the ultrasound during the transfer, so I wondered if that was implantation. I had that a couple of times in the 2ww
What day you got your BFP: 4dp5dt (9dpo)
HPT before blood test: Yes, 3 x a day . I prefered to be let down gently than have my whole life change with one phonecall
Number of first beta: 170
Number of babies: 1
Anything else you would have wanted to know before you started this process:
• That the IVF process isnt as bad as you may imagine. And the FET process is really stress-free. As I was lucky enough to have 8 blasts frozen I decided I wanted to do single transfer as I really wanted one baby at a time. I was prepared for it to take months so was surprised to get a bfp first FET.
• I started acupuncture before my FET and I felt a real change in my body and my stress levels so I highly recommended.
• Took CoQ10 a month before my ER, supposed to help older eggs and I had a great response with 20 mature eggs.
• I recommend adding ICSI to your IVF, especially if you are in your later 30's, incase your egg shell is hard. For me it was only $1200 more so I didnt want to chance any good eggs being wasted if the sperm didnt get to them in the dish. I dont know why they dont ICSI more often, I see a lot of people on here with bad fertilization reports that I wonder if it would have been different if they'd ICSI'd. A friend on here (my age) had half ICSI'd, and most of them fertilized meanwhile the ones left on their own had a much smaller fertilization rate.
• Ate pineapple core for 5 days after my FET too.
• For my fresh cycle I tested out my trigger shot with frer and saw it fade out then faint lines come back. They didnt get dark and my beta was a '6' as if something tried to happen. With my FET I didnt have a trigger and so when I saw a faint line I knew it was all bub. They got darker day by day. I recommend the frer if you are going to test, my ICs didnt show a line till later so glad I wasnt just using them.
• Hope this gives some hope to people who fail fresh cycles, FETs do work!

heres my tests if anyones interested. Good luck to you all

 

[Missy01]

Congratulations Sarahincanada! I am so happy for you!

 

[sarahincanada]

you too Missy01! how far along are you now?

 

[Missy01]

Only 7 weeks and 1 day (the ultrasound was yesterday). I am still very nervous. Did you have late beta check? I had a beta done at 5 weeks and 2 days (21dp3dt and it was 7527 which is really high for one baby). I was wondering if others have high betas with the one bub?

You must be so relieved to be through the first trimester! I am having another ultrasound at 9 weeks and it couldn't come soon enough!

 

[sarahincanada]

Only 7 weeks and 1 day (the ultrasound was yesterday). I am still very nervous. Did you have late beta check? I had a beta done at 5 weeks and 2 days (21dp3dt and it was 7527 which is really high for one baby). I was wondering if others have high betas with the one bub?

You must be so relieved to be through the first trimester! I am having another ultrasound at 9 weeks and it couldn't come soon enough!

I did have 2 more betas while waiting for my 7 week scan, I think 24dpo I was 6335 and then 30 dpo 29,040. You are lucky to have a scan @ 9 weeks, I had to wait till 11 weeks and now have to wait till 20 weeks, its awful!

 

[Bookworm]

Name: Bookworm
Age: 31
How long TTC: 2.5yrs

Diagnosis or any known issues: Obstructive Azoospermia (male factor infertility meaning that while there is sperm production none of those guys are getting out for some reason - in our case this is because DH is a cystic fibrosis carrier and this caused a complication.

Treatments you tried before IVF: 0 - nothing doing for us except IVF with ICSI

How many IVF did you do before success: 0 - success first go

Are you using donor eggs or sperm: No

Protocol (meds taken): Down reg: Suprefact (1 shot daily) - Hormone; mind's gone blank!! (2 shots daily) Trigger; ovitrel; Progesterone pessaries 2weeks

How many follicles at ER: 17
How many eggs retrieved: 11
How many eggs fertilized: 5
How many days between ER and ET: 3
How many and quality/rating of embryos/blasts transferred: 2
How many days bed rest: 0 prescribed but 3 self-imposed

Symptoms or issues during 2WW: a little light nausea, tender bbs, bloody snot in mornings

What day you got your BFP: 12DPT
HPT before blood test: No
Number of first beta: ?? Not a UK thing??
Number of babies: 2

Anything else you would have wanted to know before you started this process:
The main thing I wanted was a crystal ball to know the final outcome - but no-one can do that for you! I drove myself nuts in the 2ww because lots of the symptoms can be pg symptoms or Progesterone side-effects... so be good to yourself and expect to obsess. Maybe try to plan activities to keep you busy - but I did find a couple of days rest after helped me feel like I'd given it every chance (even though it wasn't medically prescribed).

 

[sunshine314]

Congrats Bookworm!!!