Hello everyone! sorry it has taken me a few days to get on here since my appointment at herts and essex on thursday. Well overall.....good news!!!!!!! depending on a lot of blood tests coming back fine (mostly for sti's), we are going to be egg sharing and having icsi in a couple of months!
Let me tell you the whole story. The journey to the centre was vey stressful!!! Steve said we should leave at 9am to get there for 10.30 -its an hours journey. However due to me faffing around asking steve which shoes I should wear (like some women do!) we left about 9.20. Due to traffic etc we realised quite soon that we would just make it in time. I hate hate hate being late!!!!! and of course for an appointment like this I really did not want to be late. Anyhow about half way into the journey I looked down and my feet and almost had a heart attack! I had on one grey plimsoll type shoe and one black ballet pump on!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh I have never felt so sick in my life!!!! Now please don't think this is something I have ever ever done before!!! I would not put different shoes on!! However I had put one shoe on one foot and a different one on the other to ask steve which ones to wear! that was 2 mins before we left. So I just put jacket on and got in the car still in odd shoes! Anyway to cut a long story short we managed to find a superstore at 9.26. I sprinted in like a crazy women, grabbed a pair of shoes, paid for them and ran out!!!! i felt like I was on a tv show!!! -Also got a lot of funny looks!!!!
Arrived at the centre at 10.32!!! how lucky was that!!! I ran in to the reception to say we had arrived at was so out of breath!! the lady there was so nice though, she calmed me down and told me to sit down and have a drink and that we weren't late. My hands were shaking as I handed over our forms!!! and I was almost crying with relief-I think it was the adrenalin.
Ok so now the stuff you actually (maybe) wanted to know! We met with the nurse and were weighed, measured etc and sign lots of forms. Then steve had to give a sperm sample (poor thing) but I went in with him to help! Then we went to meet the consultant who (and I wasn't expecting this just thought we were gonna talk to him) straight away said he was gonna do an ultrasound based on my long cycles. I could see the screen as he was doing something and heard him say polycystic to the nurse.
Back in his office he explained that I have pcos! Now I know I have long cycles but never thought I actually has anything wrong with me!!! so was a bit of a shock. he said my ovaries were enlarged and that I was waking up lots and lots of eggs every month? I can't remember what else he said about it, it was too much to take in! So with steve having v.low sperm etc and me having pcos no wonder we have never got a bfp-we don't stand a chance!!!!! I say this because when steve's sperm sample came back whilst we were still there we found out he only had 27 present! and no not million, only 27 solitary sperm! with only one of those moving
This was a huge shock as his last sample had 2 million in total and the time before that 7million in total! I can't believe it has declined so badly!!!! Im angry that people are not told this will happen with vr's.
Anyway now for some good news-the consultant said we should be able to do egg sharing and that actually me have pcos is quite helpful for egg sharing as I will likely develop a lot of eggs!!!!!! however this also increases my risk of ohs. He said all our drugs and ivf would be free but actually due to steve's sperm we will need to have icsi and possibly also pesa for steve. both of those have to paid for. and of course if we wanted embryos frozen we would pay for that too. Of course this would still come to a lot less than paying for everything. He has put me on metformin and the pill. The pill to stop me ovulating until they find a recipient for my eggs, and im not exactly sure what the metformin does? -apart from give really nasty side effects!!
So after that we filled in even more forms, and to cut a long story short that was that!
We were there 3 and a half hrs.
Im sure there is more to write but I apologise for writing so much already!!!
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for a sticky bean Rivet. Make sure everyone else does the lifting when you move. Stand there and supervise 
Good luck with the scan, I really hope all goes well for you 
Let us know how you get on!
I had what seemed to be implantation spotting 2 days ago which Ive never had before so I was getting my hopes high - stupidly! But if did implant on 7DPO it would have shown on a FRER, wouldn't it?!
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I am sure the spotting was enough to totally freak you out! I panic at everything so this would have been enough to turn my world upside down. Fingers are still tightly crossed for you! 
about the shoes. Just shows how stressed you were about it all that you left with different shoes!
