MARCH-CYCLE BUDDIES

[nerms]

Hi girls...gonna keep this short as it's funeral today and i have to haed out soon...expecting lots of traffic..not looking forward to it at all Thank you all so much for all yhour messages...it's just so nice to be on this site..really is great support!

Kandice...wow wow wow! 30 follies hey..lets hope you have lots of good quality egss..so excited for you...could hear the drum role matey!!!

Shantala...can't contain my excitement for you...good luck today...hope you get a bril no of folies! So sunday 11th march actually suits me too...is this just going to be super wierd?? I'm quite excited actually! Will you be in your 2ww?? Arggggh...can't believe it's all really happening!

Nimble...11th sounds good for me too...glad to hear ice has melted and your off to sunny lisbon! Enjoy and bring pics with you when we meet up...we'll have to have a birthday lunch for you and shantala!

Sokru...nice pics! You do make a handsome couple! So did you hear about yuour protocol..anything changed? Glad to here AF has arrived!

Steph...ooooh the big day is here..good luck with stimming today!

Vicky...where are you...was thinking about you...hope all is well with you!

Anna....glad to hear flow has arrived...never thought i'd ever say that to another person Hopefully i'm right behind you..i'm due i think on weds 7th march...getting a few cramps otherwiswe haven't really had any effect from meds....hope they are working...well to be honest i have been a bit grouchy since i got back from dubai! Hope you start stimming this weekend!

BWHD...sorry to hear your cylce cancelled...what a bummer! But glad to hear surgery went well....the waiting game is murderous...but you know for all the moaning we all do about it we're ALL actually really good at it! Keep positive..i pray the days fly by for you!

Sha..hello...i totally understand about nagging the DH..last night we had a bad argument...not had one for ages...was going to write and refer to him as the not so "d"h but then i calmed down! Hope you're feeling better.

Nicky...it's real and it's all happening...will bethinking of you on monday as you take you first sniff and then get that awful delayed bad taste which i'm sorry but for me even the mint doesn't get rid of it! Lots seems to happening with you...make sure you take time out to rest!

Katt...sorry to hear your U/S result...but hoepfully the extra days of stimming will be the lazy left a bit more active....sending positive vibes to your ovaries!!!

Reach...hello and welcome!

I know i must have missed others out but thinking of all of you...really better go this has turned out much longer than i expected!

Good luck to all of you with important days today...i've got a good feeling!!!

Best wishes

Nerms
xx

[kia1973]

Hi Girls

Nicki—hope your not stressing yourself out too much!!! But I totally understand the rush, rush, rush. Thinking of you

Kandice—Fantastic news I bet you are flying on cloud nine right now.. will be thinking of you honey, wishing you lots and lots of embies

Sonya—sorry to hear your having bad cramps, good luck for the DR phone call. Love the photos by the way

Katt – grow follies grow lets hope those little ones will grow over the weekend sending you lots of luck

Anna—congrats on AF coming, feels weird saying that on here!!!!! The witch always seems to come when you don’t want her and is always late when you do!!!

Shantala – will be thinking of you this weekend, hope you get lots and lots of follies which turn into lots and lots of embies

Nerms – bad day for you today eh chick, your in my thoughts hope its not to stressful for you.

Nimble- we are sharing the same scan date, I have mine on the 12th too. Just hope that AF shows her ugly head soon!!! She should be here today but no sign!!!

As for me they haven’t admitted me to the mental ward today and thankfully I have the weekend off yipppppppp heeeeeeeeeeee. DH is taking me out for a meal tonight bless him, I think he is afraid of seeing me with a kitchen knife in my hand

Bye for now

[rae76]

Hi ladies,
are you almost ready for the weekend? I know I am!

Anna, great news about AF, finally! That's a good way to start your weekend. I hope you can get started with stimming ASAP!

Katt, that's so cool about the Nine Inch Nails. The distance bw/ Tallinn & Hki is almost like puddle jumping

We did indeed get our happy surprise after so much pain, sorrow and medical intervention. I'm hoping the end of the story will be happy too - and indeed that you all will get your happy endings too, sooner rather than later Sorry to hear about the small number of follies, but hopefully an extra weekend of stimms will do the trick. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!!

Nimble, thank you for the ginger biscuit tip. I'm already taking ginger in capsules and I'm not sure if it makes any difference. But luckily the rest of the week hasn't been as bad as Monday was.

Hugs to you and hopefully you won't feel too forlorn after the funeral - they are always very hard. My thoughts are with you!

Sonya, congrats for AF!! And thank your the book tip - I'll definitely check it out.

Kandice, wow, what a great number of follies and good news on the insurance front too! A good week for you, huh? Congrats for being finally able to trigger, you're almost there....

Janice, I'm very sorry to hear abouth the delay. Well, hopefully all the waiting will pay off in the end... although it must be killing you right now. We'll be here for you! And this time it does sound like they won't postpone again, that's good news.

Sha, good to hear they haven't taken you in yet I completely get the snapping and the crying - I get exactly like that when I'm hormonal... I guess this is something our DHs will just have to live with - and after all, we are carrying much of the physical weight of all this so maybe we can forgive ourselves for making them partial to the suffering... But of course it sucks to nag and complain to the person you love who hasn't done anything wrong. So it's good that you get the opportunity to spend some quality time together this weekend, that'll make little outbursts fade all the quicker... Have fun sweetie!

Nicky, you certainly seem to have your hands full! Don't exhaust yourself too much, OK?

And anybody I might have forgotten this time - have a nice weekend!

[shantala]

hi ladies

just a quick update as i'm really knackered....could barely sleep last night coz i was so nervous and then got up at 4.30am!!!

anyway, good news....EC is on monday at 11!! OMG!! i have 3 follies at 17mm, 2 at 16, 1 at 15, 1 at 14, and about 7 between 10 and 12. they seemed pleased as she said i had enough but not too many, which she said is good.

so i trigger tomorrow night at 12 midnight....

will do more personals later but just wanted to say nerms - the 11th is cool with me.

mrsb - would the 11th be good with you?? it seems that nerms, nimble and i could make the 11th....

nicky - would you be up for meeting or is suffolk too far??

xxx

[sokru8]

Hey Ladies
I finally heard from the Clinic!!! We were really upset because we never heard back from them last night but it turned out she got the pills for me so we didnt have to buy them.

My protocol is:
BCPs 3/3/07-3/15/07
BW and U/S 3/19/07 then Stimming Starts
ER 3/30/07ish
ET 4/4/07ish

We are very excited! Hope you all wont kick me out of the March thread since I wont do ET until April!

I will do personals later!
Sonya

[nimble]

Sonya – woohooooooo, it must be so reassuring that you have your plan. I will be with you every way, and no way are you leaving us……..

Shantala honey, that is great news too, 14 follies is excellent – not too many and not too little, you’ll get a great number of eggs from those. Good luck with the trigger shot tomorrow, will be thinking of you. Are you doing a 2dt or 3day? I’m so excited about the 11th – you’ll have to think of a good place for us to meet – only know the Oracle oh and Costco’s!

Nerms – I hope today went well and that you’re feeling ok. Big Hugs and thinking of you today.

Rae – I am so ready for the weekend tooo…… go on my girlie day in London tomorrow for my friends 40th. First we get our make up done, then we have a car which is taking us to different hotspots in London for photos and then we are off to the OXO tower for dinner and cocktails (well not for me !!) We have been told to dress in “glitz glam” so no doubt we shall get some strange looks from people in London during the day!! Then Sunday we are going out shopping for my birthday present…..so as you can see I’m rearing to go!!

Sha – glad you’re still with us and not been carried off by men in white coats. DH sounds a real rock and so nice to take you out for dinner.
I’m glad we are sharing same scan date – mine is for base-lining – presume that’s the right term for it – making sure lining is right before I start stimms. I’m waiting for AF too, think I have a couple more days to go before she is due.

Anna – all that dancing and jigging must have worked – now yr own yr way too.

Katt – sending Mr Motivator too for your left ovary !! Lets hope its gets a second wind and starts producing more follies for you.

That’s all from me – hi to everyone else – doing this quickly at work as I won’t get time when I get home, rush rush rush….. going to stay at my friends tonight so not an early start for me in the morning…. Will be back on Sunday to check how you ladies are doing

Have a great weekend
Nimble xx

[rae76]

Shantala, CONGRATS! That's wonderful news!!!!

Wow, things are really starting to roll here... I'm keeping my toes crossed for the first ECs - hope you and Kandice will show everyone a great start!!!

Nimble - a girlie weekend - I'm green.... That sounds wonderful! Have fun!

Sonya, congratulations for getting your schedule. That must make it seem so much more real.

[Mrs B]

Hi ladies hope everyone is well i can't belive how big this thread is just so many people!

SONYA Im so glad you have more of a idea of whats going on, your phto of shy made me laugh the other day of her at your laptop.

SHANTALA WOW thats really good news i will be thinking of you on monday you most be so excited. I don't know if i will be able to do the 11th as i would have had my FET done on the 9th and i have to have it done under GA also im a bit worried don't want to do to much to earley on 2ww i know everyone has different views on what you should do, I didn't do alot and then the day i did i started to bleed, so im just a little
worried.

NIMBLE WOW your weeknd sound great i hope you have lots of fun im sure you will , l would love to met up but as you can see from above im a bit unsure about it and DH is very protective he has taking most of the 2ww off (BLESS)

NERMS Im thinking off you today such a sad thing my thoughts are with you all.

Just a quick update i had a scan today to check the lining its about 6mm and needs to be thicker they also saw a cyst but couldn't see my left ovary, i have had a few pains for the last 2 days and felt quite unwell yesterday, Anyway i have to go back on tuesday for another scan and if all is well FET will go ahead for the 9th or maybe 8th and they will just drain the cyst theni can't belive that ins in a week!!!!

HELLO TO ALL TO ALL THE LADIES I HAVE MISSED

[shantala]

mrsb - aaww, honey, i completely understand!!! i'm easy....i can always do any other weekend in march....how about the 17th?? i would suggest the weekend after that but it will be the weekend after my test and if its not good news then i'm not sure if i'll feel like meeting up...if you know what i mean...

mrsb, nerms, nimble, nicky - how about the 17th?? mrsb - would that still be too soon?? would you prefer to do it after the 2ww is over?? nerms, nimble, nicky...how are you guys for the 17th??

i'm always happy to do both!

rae - thank you honey!! i hope kandice and i will be good examples!!

nimble - we're doing a 2day...so hopefully if everything goes to plan the ET will be on wednesday. as for meeting, not sure where the best place would be...the oracle does have some lovely restaurants and bars for lunch and stuff (and coffee shops but we're all off coffee!! ) so i would say the oracle....what do you think??

nerms - hope you are ok...and hope the funeral went as well as it can...xx

xxx

[nicolamark]

Firstly, Shantala, Great news about the folly count and date for EC!! Wahooo!!!!

Trigger at midnight!!!! I hope mines not that late!!! been going to bed early recently!! Or will you sleep then set alarm???
But then i guess you have to get 36hrs!!!

where are you actaully meeting, guys?? Is it, just you girlies or are your dh's coming too???
11th March, not sure I can make that date anyway, we are about 3hrs from Reading!! We are on the suffolk/Norfolk boarder!

I have my schedule and synerol!!!

Confused about schedule, can anyone explain???

day 21 of this cycle is monday, I start synerol, then.Then i thought the bleed happened, about7-9 days later, and then that was day1, and then the base line and then injections, and then EC on day 13-14
So i had worked out all dates, and told work what time i need off and now its all changed.

I have to use synerol for 22 days, and i do get bleed at 7-9 later but injections and base line isnt til 22 days later, and this is day1, so if i started bleeding, what are the days inbwteen?? and also why does Zita west say different, for long protocol????

Can someone explain???


My schedule is:
5mar-synerol
27mar-baseline
28mar injections start (day1)
4apr-scan(day8)
6apr-scan(day10)
9Apr-scan(day13) and trigger shot
11 apr-EC
16apr-blasto transfer
27apr- test date!

[mandeeq]

Hi Ladies !! Just wanted to pop in and let you know I had my lining scan today, the lining slight improve 4.8mm last week was 4mm, so Dr told me to continue Patches and to started to night Cycloges 400mg -(Progesterone) for vaginal use. Twice daily one in the morning one in the evening.

I have to go back to the clinic next Thursday to do for another scan to check up and if all is well go a head FET (this waiting process is so stressful).

I would like to ask a question the ladies who is doing FET cycle are you taking Progesterone? if yes for how long?

Take care all, sending lots BFP

[nicolamark]

Sonya, I dont think your'll be kicked out of March!!! Look at me, my dates have all changed!!! Now it seems i should be in april, but i am hanging in here, i started in march!!!!

Anyway, i have made some great mates here now!!!

Love ya all!! x x x

[nicolamark]

THIS IS OUR GROUP




AMANDA: Missouri, US (age25)
ANNA: Ohio, US (age33)
BIG WHITE DOG (Janice): Virginia, US (40)
BRIDGET JONES: Surrey, UK (age45)
CARBEV aka Caroline: Singapore
CHVONNE: Essex, UK
COCO: Winter wonderland, US (age37)
COOKHOLME: California, US (25)
HOLLY: The Netherlands.
IDONVITO aka Lisa: New York, US
JENN: Toronto (age28)
JILL (jstandlund): Minnesota, US (29)
KANDICE: (26)
KAREN (moonk): Connecticut, US (28.)
KARIA:
KARINA: Northern Ireland
KARINA1: Aberdeen, Scotland
KARMA_K: San Francisco Bay (age35)
KAT: Tallinn,Estonia (age 30)
KIA aka SHA: Portsmouth UK (age33)
LUCY: West Yorkshire, UK (age26)
MANDEEQ: London, UK
MARCIA: Coventry, UK (age33)
MRS B: Reading, UK (age25)
NERMS: Middlesex, UK (age32)
NIMBLE (Jackie): Surrey, UK (age38.)
NICKI: Suffolk, UK (age31)
PEP23 (Steph): Indianapolis, US (age28.)
RAE: Dallas, US (age30)
REACH AEJ: Charlotte, NC (Age 35)
SHANTALA: Berkshire, UK (age21)
SHER8: Pennsylvania, US (38.)
SMATTISON: Texas
SOKRU (Sonya): N.Carolina, US (33)
VICKY: Florida, US (age29)




FUN STUFF…… NON-IVF RELATED STUFF THAT’S OCCURING!



17 Feb—Holly- -Skiing holiday in France
5th Mar – Kandice Wedding Anniversary (2nd)
7 Mar – Nimble B’day
9 Mar – Shantala B’day
24 Mar—Nicki and DH -- wedd.Anni (6yrs)
April—Karen -- 29th birthday this month
02 Oct—Nicki -- B’day!!!
01 Aug Sonya—B’Day




DOWN REGGING, SCANS,INJECTIONS etc…..




3 Mar—Sonya- BCP’s
4 Mar—Jill- Lupron
5 Mar-- Nicki- Down regging (sniffing)
5 Mar—Marcia—Down regging (Buserelin)
6 Mar—Nerms—Scan to check lining’s thin
6 Mar—Nerms—Injections start
6 Mar-REACH AEJ-Estrogen Patch
6 Mar- MrsB- scan to check lining
8 mar- Mandeeq- scan to check lining
9 Mar—Holly—starting IVF injections
9 Mar—Amanda—Stimms
11 Mar—Vicky -- BCP’s
12 Mar—Nimble—Scan
12 Mar—Nerms—Follicle scan
13 Mar – Jill—base line scan
14 Mar—Nerms—Follicle Scan
14 Mar—Jill—Stimms
19 Mar- Sonya- Bloodwork, scan, stimms
19/21/23 Mar—Jill - Scans
21 Mar—Nimble—Scan
22 Mar—Marcia—Start injections
23 Mar—Nimble--Scan
25 Mar—Nimble—Scan
27 Mar- Nicki- Baseline
28 Mar- Injections start
31 Mar—Marcia—follicle scan
1 Apr—Karia—Starts sniffing
4 Apr—Nicki-Scan
6 apr- Nicki –scan
9 apr- Nicki- scan & trigger shot
APRIL—Karina- Starting IVF in April now…..


FOLLICLE COUNT


Kandice=30 follicles
Shantala=14 follicles
Nimble=
Nicki=
Sokru=


EGG COLLECTION/ RETRIEVAL



3rd Mar – Kandice - EC
5 Mar – Shantala—EC
7 Mar-Kat-EC
12 Mar —Steph—EC
16 or 19 Mar—Nerms--EC
18 mar —Amanda—EC
Mid Mar—Chvonne –EC
23 Mar—Holly--EC
26 Mar —Nimble—EC
26 Mar —Kia – EC
30 Mar- Sonya-EC
2nd Apr—Smattison--EC
4 apr (ish) – Marcia-- EC
11 april -- Nicki- EC



EMBRYO TRANSFER



4th or 6th – kandice - ET
8 Mar (ish) —Shantala—ET
15 Mar—Steph—ET
17 or 20 Mar—Nerms-- ET
21 Mar—Amanda—ET
28 Mar—Nimble—ET
29 Mar—Kia—ET
29/30 Mar—Blastocyst transfer
4 April—Marcia—ET
4 April- Sonya- Blasto transfer
16 April -- Nicki – Blastocyst transfer


FET




6 March- Bridget Jones—FET
8 March—Mandeeq-- FET
9 Mar- MrsB—FET
13 Mar—Katrina1--FET
End Mar—Carbev—FET
End Mar—Karen—FET
End Mar—sher—FET
End Mar—Cookholme—FET
End Apr—Vicky --FET


On the 2WW





6th March-Bridget
9th March-MrsB

TEST DATES



Bridget- 20 March
Shantala 22 March
Jill—9th April
Nimble— 11 April
Marcia—18 April
Nicki—27 April


CONGRATULATIONS!!!! BFP!!!




30th Jan= RAE!!!! Natural BFP…… Congratulations Babe!!!

PREGNANT MARCH CYCLERS- DUE DATES





RAE- 8th October 07


IN WAITING …..

Big White Happy Dog (Janice) – postponed til March

[annag]

Sonya! Great to hear you got your schedule!!! You're on your way!!!

Shantala, Yey!!!! Good number of follies! Good luck with trigger and EC...Keep us posted!

Mrs. B, good luck with your next scan! Hope you can go ahead with the FET on the 9th!

Just a quick update for me....Bloods and baseline scan were good today so I start stims tomorrow . Also got my meds from the mail today and my goodness, there's a lot of drugs in there. Some of those needles are pretty scary too, especially the progesterone ones.

So my schedule now is:
Stimming with Menopur and Follistim: 3/3
First follie scan 3/7, then 3/9, and 3/11...
EC 3/13ish
ET 3/16ish

I'm quite nervous and excited to finally do this....I can't believe it's here.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Anna

[vicky77]

Sorry girls, been MIA !!!!!!!!!. But everytime I wanted to come and post there were 80000000000 new posts and I would say "ok, later when I have time I will read them and write" and everytime there were more and more posts and it was a neverending story, so today I decided I should finally write and stop the snowball.....so here I am, read everything finally!!!........
****LARGE POST ALERT******

Steph.....congrats on starting your stims!!!, how is it going?, so 3 injections a day?, did you ask your nurse whether you can combine some of them to make them less than 3???. ....

Mrs. B......wow, FET on 8th or 9th, that is next week!!!!! ...congratulations!!!

Nerms.....welcome back!!, I would love to know Dubai, seen some pictures and it seems to be a great place, with a lot of new architecture and astonishing places. I am sorry about the sad news when you came back though, that is very tough.....BTW, thank you for asking wheter I was alive or not, that was basically what gave me the strength to read all the posts and finally write...

Rae....sorry to hear you are still feeling sick, I guess it will go away after you hit week 12-13, not too long to go!!. When is your next scan??

Mandeeq.....will do a "grow lining grow" dance for you ...hope it works.... And about your question, I will do FET too, and they told me they will put me on progesterone on the second half of the month to mimick the normal cycle...

Nicky....congrats on starting your downreg!!, Monday is around the corner already!!!!. I am sorry I never used Synerol so can't help much about your protocol. Looking at your schedule it looks like we might be close in our dates.........it all depends on my AF, and you know how stubborn she is...

Nimble....Did you decide yet where are you going for your b'day??, Barcelona or Lisboa???....I know Barcelona and it is beautiful!!, but I heard Lisboa is very beautiful too, so it will be a tough decision, let us know what you chose........BTW, will do an AF jig for you

BWHD.....sorry your cycle was postponed again!!, that just sucks!!!. But hey, we will be cycling together!! (not that that is any consolation, but at least I will not be cycling alone... ). Glad your surgery went ok!!

Shantala....good luck with your trigger tomorrow!!. And will keep my fingers crossed for your EC on Monday!!!

Sonya....Congrats on AF!!!!!!, apparently your AF is not as stubborn as mine, you lucky girl ...BTW, loved your wedding picture, you are both a very handsome couple!!, I bet your embies will be beautiful...

Kandice....wooooooooooowwwwwww 30 follies!!, that is great!!!. You have enough to have cuadriplets or more there ...I also want twins. I was talking to a friend about that today actually, I was telling her that I would have probably never wanted twins if I didn't have fertility problems, but when you start with this rollercoaster you end up wanting mutliples, in a way you feel you get all your family at once just in case you cannot do it again....at least that is how I feel.... How great that the insurance will cover your DH's aspiration, that must be such a relief!!

Sha....I laughed so much at your story about yelling to DH, I could see myself in that picture, as a matter of fact I told my DH about your story, so he can see I am not the only one . How was dinner out tonight??

Katt....Sorry about your stimms being delayed, but if your RE suggests that there must be a reason, he has been doing this long enough to know what is good or not, if he didn't think it would work he would have cancelled the cycle, so keep the faith!!

Anna...woohoo AF arrived, congratulations!!!!. I understand what you say about your meds and needles, when I received mine last cycle I was terrified, but it ended up being nothing, they don't hurt at all, so relax...

Ok, I hope I haven't missed anybody, if I did I am sorry......

As per me, not much going on, I will paste here what I wrote on another thread if you don't mind...I am playing like I am on the 2ww now, since I ovulated around Monday and we did our homework with DH (sorry if TMI ), so in a way I could be considered being on the 2ww, only that if I get preggo it will be a BFP, but if I don't then it won't be a BFN, we'll just pretend nothing happened since we are not cycling ......sounds good huh!!!...only good news accepted .....

Have a great weekend everybody!!!