Bron

At last! That's great news - stims at last, 24th for egg collection, you are ahead of me now, and so you should be. Well done, and congratulations for sniffing the longest ever!

Shellie - best of luck for tomorrow, let us know how your follies are doing!

Nickie - how you doing girl, what ...

Hi Shell

I am sooooooo excited for you both!!! I agree with Bina I would DEFINATELY go for 2 embies to be put back (when I had my 1st ICSI in October 2003, my consultant recommended putting 2 back, and freezing my other 5), like Bina says, out of 2, usually only 1 implants anyway, why does dh ...

Blimey - I havn't checked in for a couple of days and look how we've grown!!!

Welcome to our "new girls" I hope we can all be here for each other and offer great reassurance.

Shellie - your cramp pains are quite normal, even though horrible, I remember having these syptoms myself last October ...

Hi Gem
I am just nosing in on this posting, and am so pleased to hear your good news - well done to you both!

I am also having acupuncture at the moment, and I am also hoping this helps me get a +ive this time around :lol:

Dagney - I have been having acupuncture since beginning of March, and I ...

Hi Ya girls

Well things are happening for us all now (well, apart from poor Bronagh who is still sniffing, but let's hope not for long now!)

Nickie - glad you are sniffing now, and hey on the stims on Wednesday - that's great! Was work okay with you "taking time out for a while" or have you just ...

Hi Sue

I can totally sympathise with you on the wait thing. Our hospital in Gateshead is about the same for NHS treatment. I am 39 and my time for NHS tratment is not until I am 41!!!

I took out a bank loan for the first treatment (Oct 2003) and am still paying it off, and we are about to try ...

Hi Girls

DH is "dear husband" - I too used to wonder waht all the abbreviations were - you will pick them up as you go along - honest !

Karen - IVF is very daunting first time around, I am just about to start my 2nd treatment cycle and feel completely different and more relaxed this time as I ...

Welcome Shellie
You will be fine honey, it is very daunting first time around, and I think because of the drugs you are more sensitive to any slight change that your body throws at you, I would imagine the uncomfortable feeling in your tummy is just the drugs doing their thing, and your ovaries ...

Hi Nickie

Let's hope they can advise you to start down regging on Wednesday, It's weird how different clinic's do things differently; I don't have a scan until 9 May, which will be 7 days AFTER I start my burserelin injections, yet you have a scan BEFORE you start your sniffers - strange ...

Hi you two :lol: :lol:

Bron
Damn girl, I was thinking of you over weekend (as I was away from home so unable to check my PC to see how your blood test went until this morning!) and really was hoping you would be telling us you were ready to start the stims, well hopefully after tests today you ...

Hi Bronagh / Jaye

Thanks so much for your help and advice, well that's it then! I will stop the herbs next week (god I will have a huge arguement / discussion on my hands with these chinese people!) I say this to dp every week, and then walk in the door with yet another bag full of the vile stuff ...

Hi Nickie & Bronagh

Ooooooo!!! 3 of us now -we are growing slowly but steadily!

Nickie - my god I think I would have crumbled if my treatment had of been cancelled, especially when you get yourself prepared and focused and nothing else seems to matter, what a bummer. Are you having private or NHS ...

Hi Nickie

NO - YOU ARE NOT ALONE
I too will be cycling in May, I start my burserelin injections on 3 May, this is my 2nd attempts at ICSI, first attempt was in October 2003, then FET in January, so alot more apprehensive this time around, and stressed to the max!

How about you???

Hi

God, that article will make us all fret even more!

First time around I was so sure that it would work, I was hyper and cheerful and never got stressed at all - test was a -tive.

This time around (due to start injecting on 3 May) I am stressed to the max, so we'll see!

Dagny - I am also having ...

Hi Angela

Thanks for your reply, so you start your injections for ICSI in July, I can imagine you are wishing the weeks away. I take it this is your first go at IVF? You will be fine, once the first 1 or 2 injections are over and done with it is quite straight forward after that. My dp did mine ...