TTC 40 plus!! Lets share the ups and downs!

[Mistyy]

Just a quick check in to say hi.

Sorry to hear the news about your friends husband PoP. Just terrible.

:wave: to Butterfly, Pippi, PDMCD, Booth, Pussycat, Maryanne, Barnie (how are you?), Garife, Nice, Maddy and everyone i've missed.

AFM DPO16

Don't feel too well at the mo. Headachey and run down. With regards to FF i've decided to just stick with the free version. We have begun to move house. Got the keys to the new place yesterday. Did some cleaning, warmed it up (heating been off for weeks). The garden is blooming huge! I don't think i really took it in when we viewed it! And the lawn is so long ...... aarrgghh. Big furniture doesn't go till 27th, so we can shuttle between the two houses for a while. Makes it all (a bit) less stressful.

anyway

 

[Maddy40]

Hi everyone...

Mistyy the house moving and unpacking sounds tiring. I hope your new house starts to look like a home soon

PieceofPiece I'm so sorry about your friend's situation. How awful!

Butterfly the TSH is hard, you may recall mine is "over the optimum limit" for TTC but still falls within our national guidelines for what is considered normal. So I was nearly rejected by our specialist for fertility treatment because it was too high, but a doctor wouldn't prescribe meds because it's not high enough

Pippi hope the meds kick in real soon

Garfie any news hon

AFM just taking things day by day. Repeating my new mantra ad nauseum: What will be, will be!

 

[pieceofpie]

Hello all, I repeat everything Maddy said to everyone.

I hate moving because I dont like packing and unpacking...your garden sounds wonderful..I could surely enjoy it with my dog.

will post again later..just got up to take my bt so still is a bit sleepy... 5:30 am here.

Goodnite ladies.

 

[garfie]

Afternoon Ladies

POP - I'm so sorry to hear about your friend - how terrible

Misty - Sorry you're not feeling well - probably all the stress of moving - glad it is going well

AFM - See signature for update and - Phoned docs at 8.30 this morning and said results are back but doc not read them (waiting for next HCG/PROG levels)

Phoned at lunch to be told the doc is very busy with other patients and will get back to me - I hated to do this so I asked for an emergency call back

He called me and gave me the results HCG 1660 PROG 44

He asked me to pass these on to my specialist and see whether it made a difference the prog level had dropped or was he going to recommend injections or something.

Rang the specialist - answer phone, so rang emergency number - answer phone - getting worried so phoned my doc back - asked for another call back

He phoned back within 5minutes told him the situation - said to leave it with him

Got a call from the nurse saying my specialist was out of the country and they couldn't wait - so Ive got an early scan tomorrow at 11.00am.

So now I know I won't sleep tonight - but in a way I should hopefully begin to have answers tomorrow right



X

 

[pieceofpie]

Garfe,

I can imagine the excitment you must be feeling but I must confess that I am completely with everything that you mention above. What is a PROG? and should it be 44 or more and what impact would it have on your pregnancy?

However whatever the result, I will be routing for you.

 

[Nise]

PoP - I'm so sorry to read your post, what an absolutely awful thing to happen, my heart goes out to your friend and you.

 

[Nise]

WOW!!! This is the place to be.

Maddy Am over the moon to read your news - bloody fantastic.

...and Garfie Too! Fantastic news, I'm on for you both.

Butterfly - Great news from you too, hopefully a 3rd bfp will follow soon. Good luck to you.

Misty, Greens, Booth, PDMC and everybody else big big hugs and here's to all your bfps.

AFM - All is going well here, I barely get a minute to myself these days, hence my lack of posting! K is mostly a delight and continues to settle in well. She got a glowing school report last week so I'm dead proud of her.

 

[pdmcd17]

Garfie wonderful news!!!!!

Misty feel better! I hate moving I'm still settling in and were almost at the yr mark ( granted renos make it harder)

Nise how wonderful that things are going good with k!!!

Hi maddy I like your new mantra

Piece I don't temp or any of it anymore too stressful were just doing it the old fashioned way well for a few more months

So I finally got my official af ugh it's horrible I have to change my tampon every hour it's so heavy for 2 days now and I feel like I'm wearing a diaper with the pads . Poor dh has been good I'm emotional and grumpy and no bd for almost 3 wks with td spotting and gushes

I saw my dr today and he wants to send me for test to make sure it's not something else. He suggested the Merina I'm not going that route again I had it before wasn't fun. But I have to go for blood work and an ultrasound once af stops, then have a fu visit

It's a long weekend here and were gonna have summer weather here's hoping the witch slows down or she'll blow my weekend plans

Have a good day ladies and keep up all those great bfp!!! Good news comes in 3 so it's one of you guys

 

[Butterfly67]

Good news Garfie I'll keep everything crossed

Pdmdc hope your doc can get you sorted

Nise, so glad to hear K is settled well

Mistyy good luck with the move and fx the doesn't show

 

[Maddy40]

Garfie OMG I hope they get on top of the Progesterone drop with pessaries or shots or something. That's a high HCG, are they thinking it might be twins?

GOOD LUCK at the scan

 

[Maddy40]

Garfe,

I can imagine the excitment you must be feeling but I must confess that I am completely with everything that you mention above. What is a PROG? and should it be 44 or more and what impact would it have on your pregnancy?

POP, prog is progesterone, which your body produces throughout pregnancy and a certain level is necessary to sustain a pregnancy. My clinic prefers it to be over 40 in the first couple of weeks. You can get extra progesterone from creams that you rub on your skin, shots or medication that you insert vaginally.

Some doctors believe that a lot of women with unexplained infertility actually produce insufficient progesterone to sustain a pregnancy.

 

[pieceofpie]

Maddy please kick the crop out of me for not knowing better of course I know what progesterone is all about, I have a problem with mine and take B6 to assist with it.

I am seeing so many strange terms used on this post I thought it was something else and not a shorten form of the words..no idea where my head was at. Please send me a virtual kick so I can get some sense.... however, I dont know how much is considered normal.

How are you doing? Too much sky juice is getting to my head.

 

[Maddy40]

POP I know what you mean. At my clinic they call progesterone "P4" so I get confused when I see it referred to as anything else

 

[booth19]

Garfie - hows things? Hope scan went well and you have some good news to share xx

Helloooo to everyone elsex

 

[garfie]

Evening Ladies

Ok it looks like I'm officially pregnant 4-5 weeks

I went for my scan and the sonographer was lovely (I've had some brisk ones in the past) anyway he magnified the sac so I could see it and guess what we saw a little dot - which he explained is the beginning of the yolk sac:

I go back for a repeat scan next Friday - until then I

No more bloods - just scans - so far I'm booked in for another two



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[Pippi_elk]

Great news Garfie. Brilliant they as going to bring you back in again next week. Fingers crossed. Its great at least that you got into the system and were able to call them to get checked out so early.

Hope your feeling better soon Misty...

Glad to hear the doc is going to do some test pdmc. Even if they find noting...reassurance that all is ok would be good.

Hello everyone else...

Afm.
I may have ovulated on wed/thur and luckily we did the deed on tuesday night. Opks had a faintish band for 2days in a row and now back to being totally negative. My temps are a bit all over the place so only time will tell whether ivf/chemical delayed ovulation only by 5 days...or else its just an an annovulatery cycle. Guess still have to keep bd every 3 days just in case....every 2 days is just too much for us over 40s.

 

[Butterfly67]

Great news garfie, will keep everything crossed for you

Pippi, I know my cycles were a bit wonky after the mc so fingers crossed you don't have an anovulatory one

 

[pieceofpie]

So happy and congratulation.

Glad that the doctors will be seeing you again next week.

 

[Mistyy]

Oh Garfie i sent you some yesterday but i must have pressed 'preview' instead of 'submit'

So happy for you hon

PDMCD - i hope AF is slowing down for you, and that you get some answers from the Doc. Glad to hear hubby is being thoughtful. It makes all the difference doesn't it?

Pippi - i would just keep up regular BD, as you say, and then you cant go wrong. So frustrating trying to work out whats going on with our own bodies sometimes.

AFM - i'll jinx myself right here and now by saying this - but to hell with it, i'm - i'm DPO18 today with no sign of AF and my temps still creeping up. Have said NOTHING to DH this time. Not making that mistake again. Please for me ladies.

(oh and i just paid for 3 months more VIP on FF ..... sucker!)

 

[Pussycat1]

Garfie, congrats, that's fantastic news and great that you have another scan next week.