TTC 1st child 35+ (Please spoiler any PG news/announcements).

[Pennyb]

Hi Ladies

I have a POAS addication How many days DPO do you start testing I start at 10 days, am I really nutty ?

 

[purplelou]

missy - that's lovely! thank you xx

Penny -step away from the test strips lol - no you are not nutty, I think some of us like to test and some would rather wait and see, whatever suits is good for you! I think 10 dpo is a good start, but if negative it's not a definite

Dwrgi - thanks for doing the list, that's useful for all of us and for any new ladies that find us xx

Twinkle - Daggy ?! Lmao! I remember being at school and there was a craze of saying that (and rack off you dag!) neighbours first started :hehe:

HA - how are you doing?? are the giant orange sized ovaries ok?? (Im still completely shocked about that!)

Never - 12 weeks?? yay!!

 

[purplelou]

Big loves to everyone else - to Daska, LadyH, Nikki, carole, skye (I hope you are ok and just super busy with shirin) lava, Northstar, Asry, FM (how are you chick?? Haven't seen you in ages) - Butterfly (Im off to have a little stalk in your journal in a minute to see how you are doing)and anyone I am forgetting (sorry)

Twinkle - you are so right, the ladies in here are completely wonderful (and that includes you!!) I would be completely Bonkers if it wasn't for all if you!! https://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-whacky078.gif

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[Asryellah]

Dwirgi, so happy to hear about your friend who finally got pregnant I had news today also that one friend of mine who has been trying for 2 yrs now - changed doctors - and straight to ISCI is now preggers
She totally had an asswipe doc first, did totally pointless IUI's with crappy spermcounts. New doc was the one who told them that..

AFM, we got the results from SA today and they were perfect last sentence was something like " very good ability to fertilize". So its great news in a way, in other way whattahelliswrong??!! So there is something wrong with me in other words. I guess the next step is IUI for us then. Hopefully soon, after this cycle. But I think I want it to be made to natural cycle, as I'm now enjoying reflexology and sepia pills are working. Dont really feel like going crazy with hormones again

 

[missyt]

Oh and forgot to mention that anasazi beans area great source of protein too!

PennyB, its so hard not to obsess. Like purple said, step away from the strips! LOL. I was driving myself nuts doing that as well. But I disciplined myself to just wait for AF to arrive. I had to put my foot down and tell myself "no more testing!".

Asry, there is nothing wrong with you. It takes two and didn't your tests come up all clear? I know how you feel with your natural stuff going well and being torn with IUI meds. I was in the same boat. I would do the natural stuff for a month or so and then jump on the IUI bandwagon which didn't give my body enough time to get used to either. Do what you feel is right but don't rush into something right away. Just got the result back. Take a breather to think on it. Like your friend, I had an ass wipe of an RE too. Hence why I need a break, for my own sanity really. We did an IUI with a really low sperm count once too. Makes me wonder. He never told us we had male factor but DH's sperm count was atrocious that one time.

 

[Asryellah]

Yes, my tests have been all ok I guess I really don't need to decide right now. But so happy you see how I feel
Sorry for being all focused on myself here

You all are special to me

 

[Dwrgi]

Twinkle, you are an angel. Thank you for those lyrics.

I'm sure you're not at all daggy!!

Lots of love to you!

P.S. You'll probably find all the pumpkin seeds in the hamster's cheeks-I don't fancy your chances Twinks!!!

PennyB-step away from the strips, very gently there, just put them down, sit down and turn away from them. Phew, now, do you feel better???!! It is easy to get obsessed with these things, you'll recognise a pattern when you've done a few cycles, but I guess it all depends on the individual!

Purple-how are you hun?? Rack off, you dag!!! OMG-I'd forgotten THAT one!! xxx

Love to you all!

And where on earth are Luv, and FM, and NS (you should be back from your jaunt by now, s'what I'm thinking, you know what I'm saaaaaaaaaaaaaaying????).

 

[Dwrgi]

Yes, my tests have been all ok I guess I really don't need to decide right now. But so happy you see how I feel
Sorry for being all focused on myself here

You all are special to me

I know exactly how you feel. It's actually nice to know if there is a cause as it can then be specifically treated. Do they test the CM in Sweden (think you're in Sweden), to check for hostile CM like my friend had??

 

[Dwrgi]

HA-I think you said it's EC tomorrow, so good luck to you hun! How are things Hope you're okay and let's hope they catch as many of those eggies as they can! Try not to stress, EC is a breeze, although you WILL feel a little bit uncomfortable afterwards, but this soon passes. Take it easy and try and relax as much as you can-and remember the theory about watching loads of comedies? Get the chuckle dust going!

Thinking of you hun, and sending you LOADS of positive vibes your way, and obviously LOADS of good luck!

 

[dashka]

I am addicted to this thread!!! so much great support.... you ladies are awesome...
I can't stay away!

AFM - I am waiting to Ov in the next few days..

Good luck to all!!!!

 

[Lady H]

Hello everyone! Wow is this thread moving fast! Hello to you all and hope you are having a great week.

So this month I am charting and today Fertility Friend thinks I ovulated on CD10 (though dotted line cross), now on CD 13. Had some odd pains on my right hand side today and this evening loads of CM with some blood in it. I don't want to get my hopes up as it is first time charting and I have read FF can be a little unreliable. Plus 3DPO is early for IB I thought. IF I did O then I dtd on the day of O and the day after. I'm not convinced though as I did not think my OPK's were dark enough. Ho hum, it's all a big learning curve and I'm more chilled this month as I want to see a full cycle. Firstly to check my CD goes back to the 26/27 days I had before last month and secondly so I can make sense of my chart.

It's flippin' cold here tonight, -4 already and dropping. Feel an early night and a just in case BD coming on!

 

[manuiti]

Hey ladies!

Sorry I've been absent so long! I'm just going to slide on in here. I always find it hard coming on here when hubby's away as I don't feel like I'm even ttc and so feel a bit out of it.

But I'm back now and should hopefully be sticking around as I finally plucked up the courage to contact my sister's RE, so hopefully even when DH is away, we'll still be trying. This RE's apparently the best in the country so we'll see if he can work his magic on DH and I. lol

Anyway, we're just starting with prelim tests - bloods and tubes xray for me & sperm analysis for hubby when he gets home (except the recommended lab is apparently on holiday for the southern hemisphere summer and won't be open again until March! Grrrr).

I've put all my blood results in my other post but my FSH came back *really* high at 25.92 and LH at 15.26. Estradiol, progesterone, prolactin, T3, T4, TSH all in normal ranges. So I'm sat here waiting to hear back from the RE while I quietly freak out over here. From what I've googled, having FSH this high sounds like it's all over really.

Anyway, I hope everyone's been doing okay and hanging in there.

xxx

 

[LilSluz]

Hey ladies!

Sorry I've been absent so long! I'm just going to slide on in here. I always find it hard coming on here when hubby's away as I don't feel like I'm even ttc and so feel a bit out of it.

But I'm back now and should hopefully be sticking around as I finally plucked up the courage to contact my sister's RE, so hopefully even when DH is away, we'll still be trying. This RE's apparently the best in the country so we'll see if he can work his magic on DH and I. lol

Anyway, we're just starting with prelim tests - bloods and tubes xray for me & sperm analysis for hubby when he gets home (except the recommended lab is apparently on holiday for the southern hemisphere summer and won't be open again until March! Grrrr).

I've put all my blood results in my other post but my FSH came back *really* high at 25.92 and LH at 15.26. Estradiol, progesterone, prolactin, T3, T4, TSH all in normal ranges. So I'm sat here waiting to hear back from the RE while I quietly freak out over here. From what I've googled, having FSH this high sounds like it's all over really.

Anyway, I hope everyone's been doing okay and hanging in there.

xxx

It ain't over til its over, darlin!

But, I can't imagine how you are feeling right now. I am saying a prayer for you & please let us know...

 

[LilSluz]

Glad to see that I am not alone. I will be 36 tomorrow and had ovarian drilling on Friday 02.03.2012. My DH will be 30 in March and we having been TTC since Feb 2009. Diagnosed with endometriosis in 2008. FS is very hopeful and that makes me feel better. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. So overwhelmed by all that is involved for the lil' miracle I want but willing to do what has to be done. Wishing you all your lil' bundles SOON!

Agape Love, Happy Birthday! Yeah, I know - its nothing to celebrate in our predicament, right? But you are still very young. I turned 39 a week ago

Welcome to TTC #1>35!!! Everyone here has been very supportive of each other & of newbies. Don't take this the wrong way, but we all hope you don't stay too long! (of course we'd love a visit though!)

 

[LilSluz]

Dwrgi - Thanks for the protein tips & for getting "the list" together!

Here's my deets: TTC since 1/2011, 2 M/C's, 4-5 rounds Clomid, now natural, charting & acupuncture.

 

[LilSluz]

OK, so temps dipped below the line today . I found out what that meant from FF.

I'm giving it 1 more month au naturale & then I think I should just "go & see" a fertility specialist if no deal. I just want "all the tests" done & all the angles looked at for now. My OBGYN is not so great at fertility I am finding, so I would just like some prof. tips & would feel better w/2nd opinion &/or his "feeling" of what it may be. What if it has been something stupid - or DH -whole time, you know?

I will of course continue acup, reiki, vits & any food/herb tips I can get my hands on.

Thanks for all the tips ladies - I'm trying to absorb it all! I need like a Notes file, I think... start copying pasting things in - hard to rem everything!

 

[LilSluz]

dashka - when you say "eggs and pumpkin seeds are especially good for fertility " - can it be egg whites? Tryin to lose holiday pounds (still!) & I know most of the protein is actually in the whites (but NO fat!) but is it the protein, or? I eat egg whites sometimes but will step it up a notch.

Was going to instinctively abbrev. egg whites, but "EW", well - eeewwwwww! hahaha!!!

 

[LilSluz]

Asry - are you doing reflexology for fertility or relaxation or both? haven't tried that yet...

 

[HappyAuntie]

Hi ladies! We really are moving fast atm!! I read in snippets and by the time I have time to sit and respond, I've forgotten everything and/or the subject has long since changed!!

Welcome back, Manuiti!! Glad to see you again. I can understand why you're concerned about that FSH. The only advice I can offer is wait and see what the dr has to say about it. And make sure it was drawn on CD3 - FSH changes significantly throughout the cycle, so if your bloods were drawn on the wrong day it's a meaningless number.

AFM, we're a go for egg retrieval tomorrow morning! I've been a little overwhelmed the last few days and that's why I haven't posted much.... My E2 is at 1477 and I have follies at 25, 2 at 20, 2 at 19, 17, 15, 12, and 3 at 9. The 12 and the 9s will probably be immature and useless, and the 25 may well be overripe, but those measurements in the context of the E2 indicate 7 mature eggs. FX'd that pans out! I'm really uncomfortable now, so much so that the notion of sticking a giant needle through my vaginal wall is now preferable to another day feeling this heavy and bloated. We'll get a fertilization report on Thursday morning, and transfer will either be Saturday or Monday - all the details are in my journal!

xoxo

 

[manuiti]

Exciting times HA! Got my FXd for you!!!

I'm pretty sure it was CD3, at the most it was CD4 but I tend to spot for a day or two before I start what I call CD1 - full red flow. So yeah, pretty crap result I think. The only thing I can think of that might have affected it is the hydrocortisone ointment I use occasionally on my face to keep odd patches of red, flaky skin under control. It's only 1% ointment though and I use so little of it, I really don't think it could have that much of an effect. But I've emailed the RE to let him know just in case it makes any difference.