Purple I wish I could give u real hugs when you feel like that. All the girls here have given you good advice already. Be gentle and patient with yourself and grieve as much as you need. I'm sorry I don't have anything wiser to add but I think you are doing really well since what you went through was so sad and hard.
Butterfly : Yummmy Macwooly: sooo cuuute, I love your avatars girls xx
Butterfly any news from your blood tests? Or did I already miss that info?
Macwooly well done on the weight loss, u go girl.
HA that is the main reason why I caved in to IVF in the end. Time definitely plays against the will and psychology. I wish deciding whic way to go wasn't as difficult. Good luck girl.
Dwrgi I hope this DHEA works, I don't know much about it and I'm very curious to see how it works for you. How will you know if it is working or not. Can they do any tests?? Or is it like a vitamin? BTW I had a horrible headache just before and during my period after my first IVF due to very high levels of eastrogen. Wonder if yours is related. One other thing about your eggs I wonder if your trigger was too late and some of your eggs popped before the collection. Any chance u can check your last Eastrogen level before the trigger?
4ever young good luck, bloody TWW is a bit of a stone in the stomach. Try to watch as many comedies as you can and keep distracted. Pls update on the embies. I hopw they are developing and growing xxx
Awww Bearlake OHSS is really not pleasant. What painkillers are you on? Paracetamols? Drinking helps but I ended up drinking more than I could pea so I got swollen like a pumpkin. So make sure you pea before you top up. Around 2-2.5 litres is good. It doesn't go away easily I'm afraid. Hopefully u would get pregnant (all fingers toes crossed) but if so u can expect it to get worst. I goota go DHs already closed the lights and tugging at my pjs to sleep. Will update tomorrow. xxx
HI Skye
So good to hear from you! I am intrigued about the DHEA-good question about how to check whether it works. I'll do some research, as I had been wondering the exact same thing.
Also, I have had the WORST headache ever with this period, and I'm sure it is related to the treatment. Am glad to hear that others had the same problem too.
I can't get my head around what happened, and I, too, have been wondering if I ovulated before the egg collection. It just doesn't make any sense: twelve follicles=2 eggs!! I also know of another person at my clinic who is 35 and whose amh was 2.0 (mine is 2.9; I am 40) and she had 8 eggs first go and tweleve the second (after taking DHEA). I said this to my consultant, and she said that if you are younger, you may produce more eggs with a lower amh level, but I just can't believe this, as the amh tells you how much eggs you may have left, regardless of age. It just doesn't add up. I know I am going on about this and I'm sure others are really bored with the topic, but if I had follicles of 20mm, 19, and 18mm two days before EC (the scan was at 10am and the trigger taken that evening at 10.15pm), then it has occured to me that these ovulated before EC. I can't get any peace from these thoughts-it has completely devastated me, and I wake up at night in a cold sweat, beside myself thinking I shall never be a mother. It just doesn't add up.
Sorry Skye; thanks so much for thinking about me. It means A LOT!
Hope you are managing to rest as much as you can, you have little bubba to look after too!
Lots of love
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