1st IVF in August - Any possible cycle buddies?

Lindsey_08 · Post by **Lindsey_08** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:26 pm

I am so upset. My retrieval was set for 9/11 but I just got a call from my RE office and they say that they want to see me again on Monday and then either do the trigger shot then or on Tuesday which means I will be doing the retrieval either 9/12 or 9/13. I don't even know why this upsets me so much but I just feel like they say that everything is going really well but now they are pushing things back. I have 20 follicles currently Mostly 15's, 14's, and 13's. I know they are just doing what they feel is in our best interest but I am at work and now really upset.

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:38 pm

lindsey Just know that they're doing this in every reason to benefit you. It stinks because you just want it to be done with and onto the next 2 weeks, but just keep telling yourself its for the best! Look at it this way, right now I am 2 days away from having my retrieval and about 4 hours away from the HCG shot and am psychin myself alllll out! Soooo, just relax and keep yourself busy in the next few days and it will be here b4 you know it. I almost would trade places with you right now : )

So, yep-you heard it ladies, the dr's office just called and yep. 8:30am Sunday morning for RETRIEVAL....Tuesday for TRANSFER.....eeeeek! Im totally psychin myself up over this, when i need to just keep tellin myself everything will be FINE....I just dont want to feel anything during the procedure....thats all.....PLEASE say big prayers for us that our babies want to hang around for awhile! I am praying for 2-im crazy arent I??? But if I get 1 that'll be a miracle in itself....soooo, im praying for one of them to stick around!!!

Much Love
Meggan

julianna26 · Post by **julianna26** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:13 am

Lindsey -
I second what meggs said. As hard as it is to wait another day or two, they are doing what they think is best to get the eggs out of you in the best possible condition they can be. And once you get to this 2ww, it's absolute torture and you almost wish you could go back to ER time! LOL... I'm dying during this 2ww!!!

Meggs -
I know it's scary when you haven't been through it. I was nervous before ER but I couldn't believe when I woke up and I was like "you're done?" NO waY!! It was a cinch! You may have slight cramping after ER and you may want to go back home and lay down and sleep through it for a couple hours but after that, no biggie. Then you can just start praying for your little fertilized embies to GROW GROW GROW!!!

Sending sticky vibes and baby dust to both of you!!!!

HANG IN THERE! The 2ww is around the corner and that is the absolute WORST part of all this!!!

I've got my beta test on Monday and it couldn't come any sooner! I'm DYING but I still haven't caved in and done a HPT because I agree with everyone, it sounds evil and I'm TOO SCARED for a ----- Result!!!!

Hopefully I'm on my way to a BFP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:25 am

Good Luck to you Juiliana! Thanks for your lil "pep talk" before my big day. Yeah-i'll probably wanna sleep anyway as i have to get up at like 5 to get ready to go do this, im going to be exhausted. Im ready to just chill for the day : ) And for 3 days after, thats gonna "kill" me i think. I hate being a couch potato, but if im doing it for good cause-i'll do anything for this to stick in the right spot! Good Luck-let us know what you find out!!!

~Meggan

julianna26 · Post by **julianna26** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:07 pm

Meggs1012-
How did your ER go today? Do you feel OK?

Less than 24 hours left to go now before my BETA... HOLY CRAP!!!

Babyb · Post by **Babyb** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:21 pm

Julianna: Good luck tomorrow. Hoping you get a BFP! I am set for a transfer on Friday (blasts). Our donor did her retrieval today (26 eggs) and hoping for a high fertilization rate tomorrow and then hopefully embies that grow nicely into blasts. This is technically my 2nd try (last cycle failed with donor eggs -- no grade A embies and frosties don't look good at all). Prior to this last failed cycle, my donor backed out last minute. So, 3rd donor, 2nd try. Keeping fingers crossed that this one will stick (wouldn't mind twins

) Sending baby dust your way. I'll look for your update.

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:13 pm

hey girls! Im back from ER, feeling a little more rested but still tired....25 eggs retrieved!!! Wooohoo, i'll keep ya updated to fertilization tomorrow!

Babyb · Post by **Babyb** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:58 pm

Meggs1012: Looks like we are going to go through the 2ww together. My donor retrieved today (Sun) and produced 26 eggs. My transfer is on Fri (doing blasts if all goes well). I'll have my fertilization numbers tomorrow (there was a little issue with the HCG and the donor -- almost cancelled the cycle). I'm hoping low HCG doesn't impact fertilization rate (a bit concerned, but Dr. seems to think that if there were a problem, he wouldn't have been able to get the eggs).

So, hanging in there right with you. Hope you recover wll from ER. Check in with you tomorrow on your fert numbers.

Lindsey_08 · Post by **Lindsey_08** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:10 am

Hey ladies,

Just wanted to update ....my ER is set for Wednesday morning and I am doing my HCG tonight. Wish me luck!

Once again congrats on so many ferts meggs!

Lindsey

Bean · Post by **Bean** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:14 pm

Hi ladies
How are you doing?
Linddsey good luck to you
Julianna good luck with your test
Meggs I hope you fine after ER
I just come back from my RE office had ER today -they got #33 eggs,will see how many fertilized.Feel pain )))this was the painfull procedure for me since we've started IVF_ICSI cycle
have quistions to you:
My Re told us that he would transfer only 1 embrio on day 5,but we would really want 2 embrio
he asked us WHY we want to transfer 2?
He said that if we want to do so we should wait for couple months for FET
He said that I might have Overstim.ovaries after ER and ET will see)))
I 'm still scheduled for ET.
(I know that this is very convenient for them transfer 1 for better pregnancy rate and better statistics they care about there sucess rate more than as they should have)
Feel so upset about RE conversation ...
I would really appreciate if you have any advice or ideas ...
thank you

Babyb · Post by **Babyb** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:33 am

Bean: I am doing a 5 day transfer as well on Fri and am transferring 3! Yes, this is an EXTREMELY aggressive position but I am OK with multiples and after everything me and my husband have gone through, we need to give us the best chance of a pregnancy -- can't afford another donor cycle.

Something you should discuss with your RE: Blasts do not freeze as well as 2-3 day embryos (particularly if they are near the hatching phase). While science is improving and people seem to be having more luck with frozen blasts, you do encounter some risk that you will lose blasts that would ordinarily take if they were fresh. I understand your RE's position -- if your body is not in a position because of overstim to accept a pregnancy, you might be losing a perfectly viable blast. However, you should probably discuss whether this risk is greater than the risk of freezing a blast. It's a tough call. Hopefully your RE will be sensitive to your concerns and guide you in the right direction.

Best of luck. 33 eggs is fantastic!

Lindsey_08 · Post by **Lindsey_08** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:19 pm

I got home today around 11 from my egg retrieval and it went really well. All this time they kept saying that they were seeing 20 eggs but in fact they retrieved 22 today. Now we just have to wait to hear from embryology tomorrow on how many of the eggs fertilized. I am feeling okay just trying to rest and using a heating pad to keep the cramping to a minimum. They think that we will be doing a day 5 transfer (so that would be Monday) but we won't know for sure until tomorrow. I am super excited! We should know two weeks from today if this whole thing has been worth it. I keep teasing DH and saying that they are making our babies today...anyway...I am in good spirits and optomistic which is more than can be said for the past couple of weeks so....2 week wait here we come....

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:05 pm

Hey Lindsey! So glad to hear that all went well! I am soooooo dying in this 2ww already and its only the 2nd day....Really, i think the only thing keeping me in this, is i dont feel so good about it (i dont know why, maybe reading too much on the net), so i figure right now atleast i know that theres still the possibility.
I hope your transfer goes well as im sure it will, its a cinch-took like 5 minutes. Im just stoked that I get to shower tonight!!! Woohoo-about 2 hours away! LOL.....

Much Love
Meggs

meggs1012 · Post by **meggs1012** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:48 pm

WHERE HAVE ALL OF US GONE?!

OUR GROUP SEEMS TO BE LAGGING....

JUST WANTED TO SAY, I POAS TODAY AND GOT A FAINT SECOND LINE....WHATTA YA'LL THINK?! IM 6DP3DT

~MEGGS

kbat · Post by **kbat** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:42 pm

I know that I've been out of the "loop" for a little while. I did go for my follow up last week--on 9/11. I had this thing called a clomid challenge test about 2 years ago--sometime in '05 and my numbers were normal. In '06, I had a day 3 and I forget what my numbers were then. When I switched to this clinic, I did a day 3 and my fsh was 11. They like to see it under 11. I want to say that my 06 numbers were about an 11 also. Basically, I am borderline so they are doing another clomid challenge test to see how my ovarian reserve is. Basically, if on day 10, my fsh is higher than a 15, they are recommending that I stop all treatment because the chances of getting pregnant are slim to none.... It's very discouraging for many reasons. I wish they did this test before I started doing IVF in '06. Also, the new clinic/new doctor said that most clinics wait until at least day 3 to do an egg transfer to see how the eggs are developing. The old doctor, who I had at the clinic I am at now, but I left w/ her to go to the clinic that she switched because she was approved by my insurance, and this doctor who I have now was not approved yet always did a day 2 transfer since I never got a lot of eggs.... Come to find out from the new doctor that many clinics don't like to do a day 2 transfer because they want to see how they are developing. My eggs did not develop properly on day 3 and I was told that probably was the case the other IVF cycles. Now I am thinking that maybe I wasted my time w/ the other doctor/clinic. If they had just waited to find out the eggs developed, maybe we could have figured a way to get better get quality earlier when my numbers may have been higher.

Now, I went from having some hope to having a bleek outcome. I will have another clomid challenge test to see where my numbers are, but I may have had my last IVF cycle. I was surprised though, that there was no discussion on how to get better egg quality even if you have a low ovarian reserve. Instead of saying--gee you may have a low ovarian reserve and even if it takes a lot to stimulate these--if you do a, b & c we can try to make the eggs that you do produce better quality and try to get a pregnancy. It was pretty much if your fsh number is above 15 then ivf won't work for me. Both my husband and I don't want to do donor eggs (and if the shoe was on the other foot--we wouldn't do donor sperm either). I am Catholic and even doing IVF is against what my religion teaches--but we don't want to do something that is only half biologically ours--from a personal and religious point of view... My husband doesn't want to do adoption either because he's a lawyer and represented an adoption agency in a case brought by the adoptive parents, so he's seen the negative part of adoptions.

I know the doctors are only trying to be realistic, but it pretty much sucks out any hope I may have left. My husband says that we have a good life w/o children and we will continue to have a good life w/ or w/o kids. I thinks it's tougher for a woman.

Anyway, I hate to ramble on, but I know that you guys have been really supportive w/ me in the past. I will take the test and hope for the best, but trying to prepare myself for a worst case scenerio.

Best of luck to everyone!!!

1st IVF in August - Any possible cycle buddies?

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