April Cycle Buddies- Come Join the fun!!!

[amysharon]

Zinc. . . haven't heard of that one. However I will keep it in mind, and let him know. He is a physical therapist and a health nut so i am sure if I tell him he will check it out.
Thanks for the info1

[CroElla]

Geckogirl,

Your unusual period is something that happens to me in the last 8-12 months. It would usually start on the day 29-30 of my period, just a spotting, and the ugly brown discharge, and then a couple of days later the real flow would come. I am not on BCP though.

Well, my period started today (finally) and it might be a day too soon. But, I have a doc appointment on Wednesday, so we’ll se what she has to say about it. Can anybody tell me for how many days will I have to take follistim and could that cycle be stretched for a day longer?



Amy and Sharon, good luck girls with your AI. I herd of this advice from my doctor, when trying to conceive sugars are not very good for the body. But, if you can stand the taste of beets it might be a perfect food (or juice) for satisfying the sweet tooth.

The sweet taste of beets reflects their high sugar content making them an important raw material for the production of refined sugar; they have the highest sugar content of all vegetables, yet are very low in calories

(http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tnam ... ce&dbid=49)

[amysharon]

CroElla . . thanks for the advise and well wishes. I will certainly tell DP about the beets. She does not have much of a sweet tooth but loves beets.

[CroElla]

....Talking about beets; the Latin name for it is beta vulgaris…so to all of the girls waiting for that beta test soon…I guess all of us could start munching on beets….

[JackieG]

Hello Ladies,

Great idea with the beets!! I love them!! Thanks Cro Ella!

Amy/ Sharon, good luck to you both. Lots of sticky baby dust to you!!

Well for me, I went to the DR today and no cysts and BW was good. I start stims on Friday. It seems like so far away. I keep looking at the meds and I want to start NOW!!!

Steph and Jess, I hope you are both resting after EC.

To all the rest of us stimming now, hope you are all feeling OK and not too bloated and puffy.

PMA to all!!

JackieXX

[daly]

Jackie - I'm glad to hear you're doing PGD. Great job on your bt and US! You'll be starting in no time!!

Steph and Jess - congratulation ladies!! 14 sounds great Jessica! Hoping you both are relaxing and getting plently pampered!!

Susan - Hope your bt results are good I think I'll be 1 or 2 days right after your ER. I've taken longer in the past to stim also. Sorry you're having to have extra shots! The main thing is that you have alot of follies. That's great! Sending the follie fairie to us both.

Charlie - Sounds like you have an excellent testing plan. I usually can tell if it has worked as well before I test. Sticky Sticky STicky BFP BFP BFP!!

Nicki - Hope Weds scan is fantastic. Sounds like you are good and bloated!! Send some of your follie dust my way I also get increased "motility" during these stims. Glad to hear others get it too. I'm going to start takign my iron again to slow it down!

CroElla - I'm so sorry for this added frustration. I hope they're able to start you now, But if not, don't get too frustrated. (actually get as frustrated as you need, you know what I mean) You will be stimming in no time even if you have a couple weeks of BCP to get through. Sometimes cycles do better with BCP so it is not necessarily just a "hurdle" and may actually enhance the cycle. We'll leave it to your clinic to decide and beilieve what is meant to be will be. You and Jovigal may end up very close together in your cycles.

Sher8 - Tons of luck and sending you the best sticky vibes possible for your ET. Your little frosty will be snuggling in so soon! How exciting. I think your the second April buddy to have embies transfered. When is your BFP test day? Remember, it only takes ONE!!!

Donna - I'm on day 4 of my cycle too. I'm expecting ER on April 8th or 9th. Sounds like you're having a great response if they are backing down on Follistim. The Lupron is not a stim med like Follistim and instead protects from ovulating early. I've had friends need to back down on their FSH meds because they were stimming so much. It's not uncommon. I totally agree that Easter is a perfect day for getting eggs!!! We will be at most a day apart. I'm already getting nervous!! Regarding 2 or 3 embies. Alot of things play into that decision. If you're doing a blast transfer they transfer less due to the higher pregnancy rates per embie. Also, depending on your past history and the quality of embies. Maybe if you have 2 superstar embies they could just transfer 2 and if the quality isn't as high, they could transfer 3. I can't remember all your past history. But, if you have a history of recurrent miscarriage they sometimes transfer more as well. I know my first RE felt being a poor responder was a good reason to transfer more than 2 and transfered 4 on our first cycle We usually transfer as many as we get! Twin pregnancies usually do fine, it's triplets that are much more difficult. If you have a history of cervical incompetence or have had procedures done on your cervix ect that make it at risk for incompetence twins can be risky. O/W I say go twins go!!!

Jovigal - I'm soooo sorry Do they know why your prolactin is up? How frustrating We will be here for your whole cycle even if you have to wait a few weeks. Do something fun for yourself that you couldn't do if you were stimming.

Welcome Amy and Melly! Sending Sharon tons of sticky vibes!

Geckogirl - Good luck downregging. The bcp should help regulate your AF nicely.

US went well for me. I have at least 7 follies (righty hasn't been the same since the ectopic and used to be my star ovary Now he only has 2 follies) But, my RE is very optimistic and swears he will try to get us twins ER will either be Sunday or Monday!! I love doing this near Easter. What a perfect holiday for Egg hunting!!

Babydust to everyone!!

[smattison]

Thank you guys for all the well wishes…I can use all I can get.

Jessica-Congrats..14 wow. I thought 13 was amazing. You must have been waddling...LOL

Donna-I am putting back 3 if we have enough and we did put back 3 last time. Good luck with the ER and I am not calm but I try! LOL

Welcome Amy!!! We have lots of support to give…Good Luck!

CroElla-I took Follistim and Menopur for 11 days.

JackieG-Wow congrats for being cyst free!

As for me..I am home feeling like sh** but they did get 13 mature eggies. I will know in the morning how many fertilized. I can’t wait. That is 2 more than last time. Maybe I will have some snow babies…YEA!!! Everyone I missed sorry..I have to run not feeling really good right now.

[bigwhitehapydog@aol.com]

YEAAAHHHH! STEPHANIE! That's wonderful news! 13 is GREAT! You must be so sore. Sorry you're not feeling well. Rest up now hon. You'll be bringing those embies back home soon.

Jackie: So excited to have someone stimming the same time as me. Good Luck Dear!

Baselines went fine. I have one simple cyst on my right ovary, but I had it last cycle too. It wasn't estrogen forming, so it didn't affect anything last time. They tested my estrogen today anyway, just to check it. I think it will be fine. First Lupron tomorrow a.m. I'm ready to get rolling.

WELCOME AMYSHARON!

[rebeccaj]

hello ladies!

Jess, stephanie - congratulations!! you've both done so well and should be very proud of your follicles, rest up now!

I was really excited to go for my scan this morning as the Menopur seemed to kick everything into action and I had lots of tummy pains and bloating. I was really disappointed to see that my left ovary isn't playing ball and has really tiny follicles. My right overy only has 4 of a decent size (all around 11mm) plus a few little ones. I'm on day 11 of stimming!!! what is going on? i'm so fed up. My oestrogen level was only 767. They want me to start on the ganirelex and microdose tomorrow night but don't want to see me until Thursday. I'm really scared. Last time i got 25 eggs but only 4 were mature enough and we had a big fat ZERO fertilisation - it seems like we're following the same pattern this time.

sorry to be so down, just wish that there was something i could do to make things work.

please send the follie fairy over to the west coast, i need her

Love to all, Rebecca

[gbnut]

Just a quick one form me i will be back later to catch up but wanted to say well done to Jess and Stephenie. You both did really well. hope you are both fie and hope you get good news today on how they fertilised. snding loads of baby dust your way

susan x

[Jovigal]

I wanted to say congrats to Jess and Stephanie. I hope all fertilize for you!!!

Rebecca, I'm doing the follie dance for you. Hang in there, they're gonna surprise you and give you lots!

BWHD - sounds like you're doing good so far. Hopefully that's a nonfunctioning cyst. Let us know how your bw turns out. I know your anxious to get started.

Daly, sounds like your scan went well. Maybe you'll have a better response this time.

Well I started the Dostinex for my prolactin problem (only 2 pills a week). RE said he thought my elavated prolactin level is due to my last pg (not a tumor) so not to worry. He said my levels should go down in about 3 weeks. Sorry if TMI but the milk production has been quite bothersome. Too bad I couldn't have just adopted a newborn, I would have been able to breastfeed and put it to use....

[JesJes]

Good Morning all!

So far, so good here. Just got the call that of the 14 eggs collected yesterday 9 were good and all nine have fertilized. We are pleased so far and praying for the best. My transfer is scheduled for Thursday afternnon so hopefully most of them last until then and keep dividing!

Steph- How are you feeling today? Hope most of the pain has gone away! Keep us posted when you hear anything!

Rebecca~ Sending your follies wishes that they keep growing, hang in there!

Charlie~ Still sending thos sticky vibes everyday! I hope your 2ww is getting shorter...test day is right around the corner!!!

Daly ~ Good luck this weekend with your ER!

Welcome Amyshron - good luck to you and nice to meet ya!

WOndering how Anie, Hopeful, & Marcia all did yesterday. Sending you all best wishes vibes for great news!

Everyone else, glad to see everyone progressing so well, looks like This APril buddy group is going to produce lots of babies!

[Anie2007]

Hi Ladies,

Just wanted to post an update, EC went went well this morning at 7:30. RE collected 14 eggs and he will let me know tomorrow how many fertilized, I can't wait.

I was asleep the whole procedure the last thing I remember they took me to the operating room then the nurse helped me lay down put my hand on the rest board, the next thing I know I woke up in the recovery room. Right now I'm a little sore and sleepy from anesthia.

I hope everyone is doing well, I'm going back to bed now and rest..Talk to you all later..

[JesJes]

Anie~

14, eggs, thats great! Go get some sleep, you will feel better tomorrow! At least I do, I finally feel like I have my body back for the moment! Keep us posted and congrats again!

[smattison]

This has been really rough for me. I am still hurting pretty bad and I get dizzy when I stand. I hope this goes away. Well we got the call and 10 fertilized. They are going to look at them again tomorrow on day 2 and see what is happening...if we still have 10 then we are waiting on a day 5 transfer. Last time we could not wait since we only had 1 8-cell on day 3. I am hoping for lots of grade A embies so we can have some snow babies. Wish me luck and I will check in again tomorrow I need to go lay down.

Hope everyone is doing OK!!! This is kicking my butt!

Congrats Jessica that is terrific...maybe you ca have some snow babies also!!!

Anie let us know tomorrow when you hear the news.