OCT / NOV / DEC 2008 Buddies

[NY4thtry]

Bonnie and wonderce CONGRATS!!!

This board is really cooking!!!

My ET tomorrow at 3:30

Baby dust all

[bonnie_bc]

Thanks everyone for the congrats! I am taking it easy today, just waiting for tomorrow to go in and get re-tested. Going to watch 5 hour 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth. Ha! It's really good if you haven't seen it.

Wonderce: congrats on your bfp!!!! That is awesome!!!!

Babyhope1: thanks for praying! I think we had late implantation. I have been spotting since Monday and still it keep going but it's all brown and my bbs are finally sore today! Sigh. Relieved to have a sign finally!

[Love_my_baby]

My E2 levels did not go down, so they can't do the IVF ..

Please take me off of the listings..

Thanks

[to_have_fun08]

Cycling:

October Stims:
amanda 717- ER Nov 5 !! ET Nov 8
gina- trigger Nov 4 !! ER is Nov 6!
Oct/Nov Stims:
kke - stims Oct 30
babyhope- polyp removed, stims around Oct 25
prayin4BFP- on bcps Oct 28, stims Nov 20
johnson 1902- stims Oct 29
mrs.cutter- stims Oct 31
Much Hope-Donor Egg. ET Nov 2/3
chenry- stims Oct 24
keesha2008 - end of Oct
Biddy - Fet Oct/Nov

November Stims:
rwb08- FET Nov 4?
Foreverlove -on bcp's, Lupron Nov 7, ER/ET week of Thanksgiving
to_have_fun08-Lupron Oct 24, praying to start stims Nov 14th.
abp - ET middle of Nov.
kinababy - stims Nov 6, ER & ET middle of NOV
havbaby1627 - start stims Nov 4
JDC- mid Nov stims, estrace 1st
bell 02- Lupron Oct 25, FET Nov 28
Lady J- on bcp's, Lupron Oct 26, Nov stims
Lynnie- end of Nov stims
not hopless yet -Lupron then stims Nov 20
wishing4baby - FET
cocosmomma - FET Nov
dagnytaggart - bcps Oct 9, ER Nov 19
jnitschke- nov?
sol2009 - Nov cycle
mally - first u/s Nov 4 - superfact injections
detroit- FET early Dec
JennJenn - BCP 11/1 - Lupron 11/10 ER early Dec

December stims:
Kas101 - on DHEA- bcps early Nov, stims early Dec
Rosario- stims Dec
Natasha- Donor Egg cycle
sprouthaus - stims Dec 6th

Dec 08/January 09 Stims:
JennLB25 - tube removal 10/08, Lupron in December, ER/ET in mid January

2WW --- PUPOLittle embies snuggle in tight and stick!!!


karenvanc.island- 2 ET Oct 30, Beta Nov 13
wickedwheel - ET Oct 30, Beta Nov 11.
xcited@Bpreggers (michelle)- ET Oct 30, Beta Nov 12
Grateful- 2ET Nov 1, beta Nov 12
Robin- 2ET Nov 4, beta Nov 14

almost there :
NY4thtry- ER got at least 7 mature eggs! ET Nov 6?
Melo- ER Nov 3, 12 fertilized! ET Nov 6

Beta Results PLEASE BRING US ALL BFP's!!!!!
AJDEC - BFP!!! Beta 340 -
SLOAN- BFP !!! Beta 166 !!!!!
Melissa- negative..hoping and praying next time will be yours
bonniebc- BFP!!!!
wonderce- -BFP!!!!!:lol:
Love_my_baby- cycle canceled

[Kas101]

NY4th Good luck with the ET, this when all Dr Toth's treatments are going to really pay off

Love my baby Sorry. That just really sucks. Hopefully for the next cycle they will learn from this and alter the amount of Lupron or change protocol altogether, making NEXT TIME the one. Thinking about you.....

To Have FUn AARRGG i feel your pain on this. Having been in limbo for the last few days i KNOW how you are feeling on this. I like your idea of 15cc - why not? makes perfect sense to me and we dont all fit into their little boxes, so we often need to 'tailor make' our treatment. Its like the whole DHEA thing. SOme RE's say no way, but if you think it will help,just do it!!! i believe in taking treatment into your own hands. After all no one cares more about making your cycle a success than you!!!! iT MAKES SENSE TO ME AND I SO HOPE YOU GET TO START SOON

WIll post more later

Karen Yeah clinics drive me crazy and depending on my frame of mind/hormone level at the time i either get mad or burst into tears. Right now there are no tears but i know they dented my PMA by their imcompetence. You seem ot be a model of calm in the 2WW craziness

[Lady_J]

Well Ladies.... I have officially gotten my AF today. Now I can start Stims.... yipee.

I have an appt. on Sat., 11/8/08 for US and I am scheduled to start Stims that night.

I am so excited... and with so many BFPs on this cycle.... my hope are way up.

Good luck everyone.

[to_have_fun08]

Kas - I am so glad you get to start your cycle soon. YEAH!!!! I guess RE's are just trying to make all of us crazy this week. I really love my nurse she has been so helpful but today when I was about ready to yell at her. Gosh I just get so frustrated. Oh well, I will do my 15 U and see how it goes.

Karen - So glad you will be able to keep doing progestone after you get your BFP.

NY4thtry - Congrats on your ET tomorrow. Sticky dust to you.

Lady_J - Good luck on starting stims on Saturday. You will be in the 2ww before you know it. YEAH!!!

amanda717 - Congrats on ER.

havbaby1627- Good luck on starting stims. Dealing with the insurance companies are a pain. I deal with that every time i have to get drugs. I guess you can look at it this way, at least we have some coverage for our drugs.

Much Hope - I am so hoping for your BFP. When will they be doing your transfer? How is the PGD going?


Chris

[Rosario]

Hello to all my beautiful cycle buddies. How is everyone doing? Congrats on our BFPs and good luck to everyone still in between cycles. Well my appt is just around the corner 13 days to be exact. I can't wait. I have a quick question though. When i go to my consult will my RE decide a protocol right then and there? They do review records prior to the visit which it has been done in my case already. Do you guys think she will try to wait for another AF to my levels on day 3? What have you guys gone thru in your first visit? When i went to my last RE he decided then and there to start me with Lupron. I ask because AF should be here in the next couple of days which would mean i would have to wait another 3-4 weeks after my appt to start everything. ANy input is greatly appreciated. AAhhhhhh i am so anxious.

[Kas101]

rosario Glad to hear you are moving forward. Since my last (failed) cycle, i also moved because of DH's work and so i had to find a new RE for this cycle. WHen i went for my appointment he asked lots of questions and decided there and then we would do a new protocol. I signed some forms to release my records from my old RE and he said that i wouldnt need to do all my retesting as long as my infectious diseases etc were done less than a year ago (they were) and as long as we had a semen analysis and my bloods (FSH etc) less than 3 months old.

As long as your appointment goes ok i cant see why you wouldnt start as soon as you get AF. My clinic didnt need to retest FSH etc. The only thing they want to do is another trial transfer, but i will find out more on Wed when i go for my calendar etc

[bonnie_bc]

Rosario: what is Lupron? I used Follistim as my stimmy med and then 3 days of Repronex. After retrieval, went on progesterone injections with baby aspirin and then added Vivelle tummy patches for the last 6 days before beta. It's interesting how many different ways there are to get a bunch of eggs out of our bodies! ha!

For any of you that live in Washington state, my RE was amazing. I have had nothing but rave reviews for my RE and all the staff in his small office. The smaller office made it more personal for me.

[Hil]

I apologize for the redundancy! I just noticed I posted in the wrong place. D'op!!!!!!!

Hi All!

It took me a bit to wipe off the disappointment from my last cycle BUT I am back....And ready for my third try.
I just had a telephone consult w/Dr. Schoolcraft(sp) in Colorado. He sounds great BUT If I choose to go with him I would have to: wait at least two months to begin my cycle (and by then I could have NO eggs), I would have to travel, and it would be more $$$$$. I wish I were rich (actually I wish I were pregnant!!!!!!!! Ok, rich and pregnant ☺)
He seemed to actually confer with the treatment that my local RE is giving me so I think I am leaning towards staying local even though he has an amazing reputation. Especially since he thought I only had a 10% chance of having a live birth. (By the way, Lynniecat, he recommended the estrogen priming protocol for me too--he stressed though that there is no "magic protocol".) My local RE, however, has me on a standard Antagon protocol (the same that I was on last time). I only produced 9 follicles, which resulted in 6 eggs and only 3 fertilized. My first cycle of IVF I used lupron and only got 5 follicles—so we cancelled the cycle and converted to an iui. I think my RE is concerned about my reaction to Lupron and that is why he does not want to put me on the estrogen priming protocol. In any event, after talking to three different RE’s it sounds egg quality is the key factor and neither protocol assures getting quality eggs.

Anyway, if my AF comes on time I will begin stimming on the 9th of November.

Baby dust to all!!!!!!

Hil

[Much Hope]

Hi Ladies:

ET is tomorrow at 1 pm. We are so excited, our embies yesterday at day 3 looked great. I got a call this morning from reprogenetics, they are doing the PGD, they said the cells look good and my center should have the results by this evening or first thing in the morning.

We have great embies both graded 1 and 2. I do hope we have expanded blasts for transfer tomorrow.

This so far has been an amazing journey and I look so forward to continuing it with all of you amazing womem.

Much sticky baby dust
Elida

[valerie68]

Crashing!!!

Elida~ Wishing you the best tomorrow for your ET!! I know....I just know that you will get your BFP! So glad to see that you are having such beautiful embies. I'm really excited for you! I'll keep following your journey.

To all the other ladies on the board, I'm wishing you all the best and sending all of you tons of sticky baby dust.

Much love,

Val

[karenvancouverisland]

hi all, valerie- nice to see you crashing. happy bday too .

much hope and NY- good luck tomorrow with ET's...sending those embies sticky energy!

wonder- CONGRATULATIONS! and 100 is a good #. way to go!! woohoo.awesome news. you and your dh deserve to celebrate this.

amanda- yes, my ER hurt too. i was awake, sedated. i felt quite 'doped up', but it still hurt! WTF! glad you're through it. aside of the pain; it's so worth it. awesome you got 19 eggs. good luck with ET sat!

ladyj. thrilled to hear you're stimming saturday! the fun begins for you.

lovemybaby, i'm so sorry you got postponed sounds like you're very bummed about this. so what will happen next? i hope you stick around on our thread and just get the support you need here- you don't need to be cycling to be a part of this support.

robin- of course i talk to my embies too why not??

prayin4BFP- you don't need to do personal here- just involve yourself however it works for you. catching up on what everyone is doing is too much work if you're out of the grove (that's why we have the update board), so i don't think any of us care if you only post about yourself- do what you need to.

nothopeless yet-4 weeks to go YAHH

kke- i think 12 days of stims is usually the most, but it is all individual, so talk to your clinic and what's usual for one lady, is very different for another.

chris- i was so bummed to hear your first post about quitting..then glad to hear you've upped your lupron. hope it works, and it sounds like, regardless of whatever outcome awaits, at least you feel empowered now, and are making the best choice for you.

hi to rosario and mally and anyone else out there too!

so, for me, the 2WW is ok. i've got some twinges, no spotting, unusually tired and hungry at times. all of this could be stress or the progesterone, so who knows? 1 week to go- not sure if i'll POAS..probably not, never have before in ivf 2WW... energetically- i think i'm PG. I BELIEVE...who knows if this is just my desperate wish, or if i can really feel it.

love to all, karen

[amanda717]

Yay!!! We have fertilization; ET will be Saturday as I had originally thought.

Much hope and NY - Good luck with ET tomorrow, I'll be right behind you.

Karen - Not much longer now; can't wait to hear about your BFP!

lovemybaby - sorry to hear about your cycle being cancelled; you will be in my prayers.