Ok 1 week till we go pick up all the drugs and get taught how to use the needles, this is starting to feel real

they put you to sleep for the egg retrival? i was told they wouldn't do that and i would just get a general, only been put to sleep once before and it wasn't a pleasant experience, i'm trying to stay optimistic but i guess it's just all so unknown and frightening.

I'm from the uk and i believe they are now stopping ivf on the nhs but as we started a while ago i get two rounds for free, if i lived 5 miles down the road i would only get one round, doesn't make any sense to me, i just feel bad for all the people out there who are just starting their infertility ...

i smoked for over ten years and the nhs said they wouldn't fund my ivf unless i quit, i haven't had a cigarette in over 20 weeks now and start my first round of ivf in late april early may depending on my stupid irregular cycles. don't even feel the need to smoke anymore.

How was the egg retrival i think that scares me more than the blood tests, i have a tilted womb so most procedures down there tend to be more painful for me anyway, i understand what you mean about the people that have already had kids, i don't think they can possibly understand the pain of never ...

i don't know how everyone keeps so positive on here, i've really been struggling especially since it seems like everyone around me keeps getting pregnant a lot of which who weren't even trying, i have friends who were having infertility testing and each of them got pregnant on the first or second ...

I am a noob on this forum or any other for that matter, i went to a consultation today and have just been told that i have a zero percent chance of conceiving naturally. IVF is the only thing i can do, i get two rounds free on the nhs. However i have a crippling fear of needles, i have never met ...