ARGCers nr 2

Amanda A · Post by **Amanda A** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:23 am

Hi Everyone, How is it going?? I am going a bit stir crazy! You know the feeling, can't wait until Sun but also dreading it! Have been keeping a very low profile as I find it really difficult to talk to friends when going through a cycle, it is so hard for other people to understand. Spoke to my sister yesterday who said that she had a good feeling about this attempt because if it did work, I would be due around her Wedding Day and I am her one and only bridesmaid! Becky, lucky you going shopping for a new kitchen. It is really nice of your mum, we all know how hard it is to spend money on big things like that when we have to think of IVF expenses all the time! My mum is always buying me/us little treats these days, the things that I think well I better not have that because we need to save our money. She has also paid for me to have my nails done every week since we first started fertility treatment, wonder if she realised just how long that would go on for?!! Anyway, time to go. Alison, how are things going with you? Love Rach X

beckym · Post by **beckym** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:57 am

Hi guys Yes I'm really lucky about the kitchen. we had a family windfall straight out of Antiques Roadshow last month. There was a painting my father had inherited from a great aunt which we always thought was a copy, not the original, so it just hung in the living room for years not being insured etc. then my mother decided to just get it valued by a local dealer for the fun of it. He said it was an original and Sothebys valued it at 8-10K. Then when it auctioned at Sotherbys it went for 50K!!! We couldn't believe it. There were two competing dealers, one on the phone from Amsterdam no less!! It was like something out of that latest Jilly Cooper novel! My mum and I were both shaking afterwards and everyone in the cafe at Sotherbys stood up and clapped as they all knew it had gone for way over book value. That was a fantastic day out for both of us and proves that every cloud does have a silver lining. Am getting really nervous about Saturday too and whether I will make it without af arriving. Am on constant knicker check!! LOL beckym xx

Alison · Post by **Alison** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 11:03 am

Blimey Becky - how exciting! Rachael, glad to hear you're still having the odd treat - we certainly deserve them! Lucy, good to hear from you - I hope you manage a good escape. I did have to go back yesterday and am having e/c tomorrow. I got a bit tearful last night. I know this is going to sound odd, but until they phoned and said e/c was Weds none of this had felt real, even though I'd been doing all my injections, visits to the clinic etc.. My completely stupid worry now is that I won't have done the trigger injection properly and when I get there tomorrow there'll be no eggs!! Still, at least today I get a day with no injections at all. I'm not planning to take much time off work. Just tomorrow, and then Monday and Tuesday next week (assuming e/t isn't before Saturday). Anyway, better go. I so hope its good news for the two of you come the weekend. Love Alison x

beckym · Post by **beckym** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 4:10 pm

dear alison , best of luck for e/c tomorrow. know what you mean about the trigger injection. my hand is always shaking when I do the mixing and I'm always hoiking the package out of the bin again to check i really put two powders into one water instead of the other way round!! let us know how you get on!! beckym xx

Amanda A · Post by **Amanda A** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 5:27 pm

Alison, Wishing you loads of luck, will be thinking of you. I know what you mean about things not feeling real, I felt like that a bit this cycle up until the EC stage. I think it was because it was our third attempt and in a funny sort of way you kind of get used to it! I think a part of my brain also told me that it was no use stressing out too early as I might need my strenght at a later stage, if that makes any sense?! The night we did the profasi, we got in a right pickle! DH always does a really good job of getting the injections ready for me but that night he put a needle on which was the wrong one and I was getting worried because we were going past the time at which I should have had the injection! Becky, what a fantastic story about the picture. I am also knicker checking and thinking about how my tummy feels all the time! I have to say though that after years of trying to read the signals each month, I am now totally unsure when I have a pain if it is actually real or just my mind playing tricks on me! Take Care, Rach XX

beckym · Post by **beckym** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:02 pm

Hi Rachael how many heparin injections are you on a day? I am on two and am black and blue all over the sides of my tummy and running out of room. Are we allowed to inject anywhere else? Also do you find your ritodrine tablets give you the shakes for a bit about half an hour after you take them? I am also on dexamethasone, twice daily, which is a steroid accourding to my sister-in-law. Not sure why I am on this. Are you on it? tomorrow evening I am going to meet up with an IVF group in my area which should be interesting. got in touch with them via ISSUE finding I am very sleepy all the time this cycle but am putting that down to the drugs. LOL . beckym xxx

Amanda A · Post by **Amanda A** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:29 pm

Hi Becky, Yep, I am also on 2 heparin a day, although this time I am not bruising as much as I did last time, not sure why! You could call the clinic and see if you can inject into your leg instead, it may be worth a try. The ritodrine tablets def give me the shakes, sometimes for quite a long time after I have taken them. They also give me slight palpatations. One of the embryologists told me that the dexamethasone (which I am also taking)is something to do with the immune system, so sounds as though your sister in law is right. The funny thing was that on my last cycle in June, I didn't get hayfever and I usually get it really bad and have to have a steriod injection for it. As I was on a cycle I couldn't have the injection and was really worried that I would suffer but I didn't have a single symptom and I think it may well have been down to the dexamethasone tablets. Your meeting sounds really good, I think I must try and see if there is anything similiar in my area. I did make a kind of half-hearted effort a while ago but then let it go. Let me know how you get on. I am pretty tired too but I put that down to really not doing anything! You know what it is like, doing nothing makes you tired! Anyway, we are going to stay at my parents for the next couple of days, a change of environment will do me good and it will be nice to be looked after! Enjoy your meeting and talk soon, Love Rach XX

Alison · Post by **Alison** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 2:43 pm

Rachael, Becky, Hi! I'm so glad I wasn't the only one to get stressed about the Profasi. Rach, enjoy having some time at your parents - I think mine would drive me nuts at the moment (more so than usual!) Anyway, I must have done the injection OK cos they got 18 eggs this morning, which I was really pleased about. Obviously I'm still having a little worry that perhaps none will fertilise, but I'm hoping that's just irrational and cos I need to worry about something! We were in and out really quickly this morning - I was home by 10.30. I went back to bed and have just woken up, and when I went downstairs DH is sound asleep on the sofa - bless him! He has though promised me a big spag bol for tea! Yum! Keep my fingers crossed for you, Alison x

beckym · Post by **beckym** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 3:15 pm

Alison, good to hear that ec went well. fingers crossed now for the embies over the next three days. you and me both on tenterhooks then for Thursday, Friday and Sat am!! I am going up on Sat am at around 9am to test. How quickly do the results come back? Hope they don't lose them!! beckym xxx

luce · Post by **luce** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:57 pm

Hi Alison, fab news about your 18 eggs. I will keep everything crossed that they fertilise and go on to divide as they should. Are you going for blasts again? And what about PGD? Love Lucy xxx

Alison · Post by **Alison** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:10 pm

Hi Lucy - great to hear from you. I read about the trip you've got planned, which sounds fab. We're definitely not doing PGD (just too yuk for us, not to mention expensive!) When they called today 11 had fertilised successfully, so I guess we'll see how they're doing tomorrow and then decide about blasto. Feel in two minds about it - in some ways I think I just want to have them put back in on Saturday, but I'll see what they advise. Lots of love Alison x

luce · Post by **luce** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:23 pm

Hi again Alison I have been watching for your post all day...I'm really hoping that this one is the one for you! I don't blame you about PGD, we felt the same. Did Mr T think you should try it? Great news on the fertilisation. I will keep my fingers crossed that they keep on going from here on. I'm sorry I'm going to be away so I'll miss the news on whatever you decide, but I'll try and login from abroad as I also want to see how Beckym and Rachael get on at the weekend! Take good care of yourself and hang in there Love Lucy PS Ladies, do you think I should bother with a follow up at ARGC? I haven't organised one yet as I'm not sure there's a point to it (apart from the fact that it's one thing you don't pay for!)

Amanda A · Post by **Amanda A** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:56 am

Hi Everyone, Well done Alison, EC sounds as though it went really well, I hope that the embies are continuing to do what they should! How are you feeling physically? Becky, hope you are o.k. expect you are getting really anxious, I am! ahhhhhhh!! hate all this waiting!! Lucy, I don't know what to say about the consultation,I suppose that it might give you some closure? Difficult one, did you tell them that you thought that this would be your last go? Love to all, Rach XX

beckym · Post by **beckym** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 3:58 pm

Hi rachael, alison, luce Well realy biting my knuckles now! This time tomorrow I will know. I am consoling myself with the fact that at least if it is a -ve I will at least be out of this horrible state of limbo. the last 4 days of the 2ww are the pits!! alison - all the best for et today/tomorrow. keeping fingers crossed. the IVF meeting I went to on Wed night was really good. It was organised by someone from the Fertility Friends website at her house in South Croydon. There were 6 of us there but she has about 22 or so members from as far a field as Berkshire. Alison, was thinking SC is pretty local to you, isn't it? It took me about 40 minutes to get there from Sevenoaks. let me know if you fancy coming to the next meeting on 10 December and I will let you have details. will post tomorrow afternoon and let you all know results. LOL. becky xxx

Amanda A · Post by **Amanda A** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 5:00 pm

Becky, Wishing you all the luck in the world!!!!! Don't have any candles but will say a prayer for you tonight! Will try & keep a look out on the site, although I will be out tomorrow and we have decided to stay over at my sisters on Sat night, as they are nearer and it will hopefully help to take our minds off things a bit! yeh right!! Glad that your meeting went well, sounds like they are quite a big and organised group, which is promising. Loads & loads of luck!!!!! Love Rach XX

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