1st IVF in August - Any possible cycle buddies?

Lindsey_08 · Post by **Lindsey_08** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:47 pm

Hi Ladies,

Just wanted to update and say that I started my stims today. I am on Lupron, Repronex and Follistim. I don't like mixing the Repronex but hey I will do anything at this point. Also my tentative retrieval and transfer got moved. ET set for 9/11/07 and then TR either 9/14 or 9/16. I am thinking of you all and wishing you all the best.

Aliann09 · Post by **Aliann09** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:00 pm

CEIBA YEAH YEAH YEAH Congrats so happy for you!

Jill_n_Mark · Post by **Jill_n_Mark** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:38 pm

Well Girls, I did the HPT and it came back negative

I am going to keep the PMA and assume it is still early - I am just 7dp5dt. I guess I will just wait until beta 9/5 to find out for sure

Please keep me in your prayers and thank you all for the tremendous support

I could not make it thru this without you. It is so hard to try and talk to others about this as they really have no clue what we go thru.

Sticky Baby Vibes!
Jill

ceiba · Post by **ceiba** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:09 pm

Jill, I think 7dpt is too early to tell. Apparently the embryos have a 5 or 6 day window to stick, so there's no telling when it will happen. And false negatives are very common from what I've read. So keep up the PMA and test again a day or two before your blood test!!

Lindsey, welcome to the thick of the process! Things will start moving very quickly now and in no time you'll be in your 2ww!

And thanks to all of you for your good wishes. Isn't it great to know how people all over the country are rooting for your baby(s)? I had my second beta today and the HCG level is 1566- more than double so that's great. I go in again on Monday, and they will schedule my first ultrasound then. We are so excited!!

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:12 pm

Lindsey- We are on almost the same sked. I started stims last week as well, and tenative date for retrieval is the 10th with transfer the 13th/15th....lets stick together and i think things will go great! Are you anxious for the retrieval? I think thats what im most anxious about right now...and the PIO shots...eeekkkk.....
Jill Keep the PMA up-its too early!!!

I'll keep you in my thoughts!!!
Cebia Thats so great that everything is going so well! I get goosebumps whenever i read that peoples levels are doing exactly what they're supposed to since mine never really did!!! ; ) Take care of yourself and those BABIES! : )

I go in again on Tuesday for another ultrasound-am on the gonal F and Lupron now-done with the repronex which i am quite happy about since I didnt like mixing either! I was afraid i was going to screw it up some how....

Hope everyones having a great weekend-and we'll talk soon

~Meggs

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:12 pm

Lindsey- We are on almost the same sked. I started stims last week as well, and tenative date for retrieval is the 10th with transfer the 13th/15th....lets stick together and i think things will go great! Are you anxious for the retrieval? I think thats what im most anxious about right now...and the PIO shots...eeekkkk.....
Jill Keep the PMA up-its too early!!!

I'll keep you in my thoughts!!!
Cebia Thats so great that everything is going so well! I get goosebumps whenever i read that peoples levels are doing exactly what they're supposed to since mine never really did!!! ; ) Take care of yourself and those BABIES! : )

I go in again on Tuesday for another ultrasound-am on the gonal F and Lupron now-done with the repronex which i am quite happy about since I didnt like mixing either! I was afraid i was going to screw it up some how....

Hope everyones having a great weekend-and we'll talk soon

~Meggs

snowsseven · Post by **snowsseven** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:55 am

Well - I had my PT today - it came back positive with a beta of 72. I go back in on Tuesday for another test.

Super Sticky baby dust to all!!!

Lindsey_08 · Post by **Lindsey_08** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:21 am

Meggs- I am definately nervous and excited about the retrieval. My biggest fear though is that I will have issues w/ OHSS and they will cancel the whole thing. I actually don't have to do the PIO shots though....after my transfer I start progesterone suppositories 3x daily. I hope that it works as well though. How many follicles did you have at your baseline ultrasound? Keep me updated on your progress. Good luck!

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:43 pm

Snow-CONGRATS!!!! Love seeing all these BFP's!!!!

Lindsey-I dont even know what my baseline was, they never told me, i just looked on the screen and saw quite a bit going on and they said everything looks perfect....so i just say OK-and take their word for it! : ) I think im just ready for it all to be "done" and move on, i mean this process is still kinda "fun" bc you're not stressin if its worked or not, and you're not in a huge tizzy about everything....i mean, dont get me wrong would love for it to be a BFP and have to have those worries, but Im glad im still at the point where i havent been let down yet.....

ceiba · Post by **ceiba** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:14 pm

Yay, snowseven!!! That is wonderful! Here's wishing you all the best for a successful pregnancy!

Lindsey, I am on both PIO shots and 1 suppository a day. I MUCH prefer the shots, since I barely feel them and they're clean and over right away. The suppositories are nasty and they leak out and stain the sheets and chafe my delicate areas down there. My nurse told me the other day that soon they will take me off the shots and go to suppositories 3xday, and I said that would be awaful. She said if I tell the doctor I'd prefer the shots, I can stay on them instead. So it sounds like the PIO and suppositories are interchangeable, and should work just the same. Good luck to you and meggs- it will al happen very soon!!

Lindsey_08 · Post by **Lindsey_08** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:55 pm

Thank you for your well wishes Cieba! I guess the only reason I was a little excited about not having the PIO injections is because w/ all of my other shots I am able to self inject. That would have been the only shot they would have made me do intramuscularly. I have heard the negative stories about the suppositories but really....what is one more thing to deal with around here ? LOL Sometimes I feel as though I have given my body over to a lab as a science experiment.

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:34 pm

LOL-oh my goodness, I SOOO hear ya there Lindsey! Cebia-so really, the PIO shots arent terrible?! I am psychin myself all up for those and the retrieval....as i have been for the last month. Then i think to myself-if it were so terrible, i dont think so many women would continuesly go through all of this!!!!

RIGHT!?!?! : )

julianna26 · Post by **julianna26** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:04 pm

Lindsey and meggs - I dont think the PIO shots are too terrible. I mean they aren't anything you would want to do if you didn't have to, but I think as long as you can concentrate on the outcome, it's no big deal at all. And I think all of us have no problems concentrating on the reasons we are going through all of this! LOL

As for me, 2ww is slowly but surely killing me... I've got a week from today to wait until my beta test and every hour of every day just feels like AF is ready to rear her ugly head! I don't know what to think.

Swore to myself I wouldn't take an HPT and it's only 7dp3dt and I'm already tempted to go get one! STOP ME NOW!

I know they are evil but I have to go back to work tomorrow. All this time I've been able to work from home with the laptop but starting tomorrow have to go back into the office. Dreading it. Unsure if any of my work clothes are even going to STILL FIT me!!!

Delaying trying them back on because I don't want to depress myself even more. Trying to keep up the PMA but it's so much easier said than done. I'm positive one minute and reassuring myself and the next minute doubting it and feeling negative.

Anyone out there willing to cheer me up? Hee hee

STICKY BABY DUST TO EVERYONE!!!

Hoping for that BFP for you soon, Jill!!!

Jill_n_Mark · Post by **Jill_n_Mark** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:58 pm

Congrats Snow! Love seeing all the BFPS...hoping for more around here!

Well....I have to admit....I took another EVIL HPT...Negative...and I am 9dp5dt. I thought I would be able to get an accurate result, well maybe it is...maybe I am not pregnant

I am going to take my last one Wednesday morning before my beta b/c I want to be prepared, but I think I pretty much am. I honestly was hoping for a miracle as this is really our only chance. I don't know that we will do IVF again and IUI doesn't work for us

I don't know how you ladies go thru this multiple times and keep the PMA. I am really trying here but it's hard and my DH is devastated as this point. I guess I will have to wait and hope that I had a late implanter and HCG is too low for urine tests.

Julianna - don't do it!!! They are

Take care girls and talk to you all soon!

snowsseven · Post by **snowsseven** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:53 pm

Jill - Stop taking those tests...they are evil...and they make you CRAZY! Prayer and faith are your best bet. I will say a prayer as well. Good luck!

1st IVF in August - Any possible cycle buddies?

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