JAN/FEB/MAR 2009 Ladies!!! :arrow:

[Lady_J]

Good Morning Ladies!!! Sorry I wasn’t posting all weekend. It’s harder for me on weekends since DH works nights, so the only time we really get to spend time together is on the weeekdns so we r usually out and about. Well, here I am at work, bored, no boss, which means I will be doing nothing all day. I see that the forum was very busy this weekend. I hope I get to post for everyone.

CAFirstInvitro... Welcome to the board. I am so thrilled that ladies are still popping in to join. The more the merrier. I am glad that u took the time to read all the posts so that you can get to know all the ladies and their stories, but sorry it took u hours. Well at least u are caught up now and have an idea as to what an IVF cycle is like. As for your story, sorry about the previous failed inseminations. But now u can get a little help with the process and hopefully get your long awaited BFP. As for your questions... As for meds for stimming ovaries, there are different kind, I will be taking Follistim. You may be using the same or a different kind. The Stims is what usually produces Follicles, so most likey once u start stims, u will produce a lot more. Did they mention how u already have 5 on each if u r not stimming? U don’t have PCOS by any chance do u? I don’t think BCP will stop u from ovulating, that is how a lot of women get pg while on BCPs, but once u start Lupron, that will keep u from ovulating next cycle. As for Tkat, that lucky girl, she is probably still celebrating. Welcome again and Good Luck.

Molly... Congrats on that big turn around. It’s amazing how quickly the stims seem to work. Good Luck, hope u get to ER very soon.

Espinoza... I am so happy that u get to start right away. I hope you get your BFP this time. As for checking your Uterus again... it is completely up to you, but I myself would probably get it checked out just to make sure and clear my mind to make sure nothing is there. But that is just me. So at FET how many do u plan on transferring? Espinoza, I wish u so much luck this time. I hope u can continue to share your journey with us.

waiting & jenn.... I hope nothing gets in the way of haveing your ER/ET. I will keep my fingers crossed that everything will be under control for your next US.

Chris... Yipee!!! No more BCPs for you. Now AF better hurry and get her ugly butt over here for you. Well, at least u know that it can come anywhere within 3-10 days. If it passes the 10 days then u will need to call your RE. So how was the movie? What movie did u watch?

Kcraven & Rosario... congrats on starting stims. The fun begins. Good Luck ladies. Hope u get a lot of embies to choose from.

Kimbob... Welcome to u as well. I have put u on the schedule. Good Luck tomorrow with your scan. Keep us posted. Hope u enjoy this forum and lots of luck to you with this journey.

Barb... looks like your cycle is going great. I hope that you will get your BFP with this FET. I will be praying for you. Good Luck.

Mandeekins.... Welcome to the dreaded 2WW. It’s so exciting and I can honestly feel a BFP coming your way. Thats awesome that they let your Mom be in the room with you. Lots of sticky dust headed your way. You are officially PUPO!!! Good Luck Mandee, how do you feel today? When is your beta hun?

Nursegator... Welcome to the board. Looks like u r moving along just fine. Except for the whole AF issue. It’s as if Afs know, cuz both IVF cycle, my AF started up so late. I just hope it isn’t late when I stop BCPs to start stims. Aaarg. No need to do anything special to join, just let us know how u r doing with your cycle, highs & lows. Good Luck.

As for myself... still on BCPs. I start Lupron on Friday so that’s exciting. And I got my Box of Meds on Saturday. Yipee!!!. I got a whole bunch of little vials of Heparin and 2 boxes of Baby Aspirin plus my Vivelle Dot Estrogen patches were switched to Dell Estrogen Injections. Everything else is the same. Since Baby Aspirin and Heparin are both Blood thinners, do you know why they would prescribe both or add to my cycle? Havnt had a chance to ask RE.

Well, I will check back in, in a few.

[espinozal23]

Well Lady J I have three embryos frozen and the lab nurse that froze them said that they are great quality and that they are of grade 3 and 4 So we plan on putting back all three if we get one great two even better and three that would be wonderful

[Lady_J]

1st we need to visit with our RE’s...
Uno MAS: 1st stages of IVF Cycle (BW, SA, US)
Kimbob: Jan. 27th
Robin611: Jan. 13th > FET
Sophie1: February Cycle


aspotoftea (Lupron Feb. 6th)
brit1612
CAFirstInvitro (Lupron Feb. 4th)
ct_michele
Espinozal23 (March FET)
Jmomma (Stims Jan. 31st)
Lady_J (Lupron Jan. 30th)
Nursegator (Lupron Feb. 2nd)
SueQiwi
To_have_fun


BarbD (FET)
Brown01
London
okandtxdr
Shelleyj5



JennLB25
JLB380
Kcraven
Molly23
Prayin4BFP
Rosario
Waitingfor4



dys24 (Natural Cycle) (Beta Jan. 28th)
Mandeekins (Beta Feb. 6th)

BETA RESULTS!!!!!

Sisi1: Cycle Canceled!!! (Cycling again in March)
Tkat: BFP!!! 369 YIPEE!!!
Espinozal23: BFN (So Sorry) (FET in March)

[Lady_J]

Espinoza... I am glad that your spirits are up. 3 embies sound good. I really do hope that it will work for you this time. Did the RE tell u why they beleive they didn't stick the first time?

[mandeekins]

I'm not going too crazy to find out if it worked, YET. However, I'm completely paranoid with every little twinge and pain that I've lost one! I layed around pretty much all day Saturday and then went to the movies with my BFF and her DD, sort of a girl's night. Sunday was another lazy day and today I'm back at work. It snowed yesterday all day and today it's icy, so of course, I keep thinking I"m going to fall and ruin everything. I'm having some pains today, but I think it may just be gas pains...I'm hoping.

Ok, TMI, but I have a question. Is it normal when on the POI to still have a slight discharge? I'm so afraid that's not normal and it's my embies coming out!!! Insane, I know!

Ok, back to work ladies!

[aspotofTea]

Jenn LB25 I'm sending you so many good wishes and good vibes right now. I really hope it goes forward as planned.

espinozal, I'm so glad that you get to do FET so soon. I'm happy to see you are staying as positive as you can.

waitin, same for you, I'm hoping for good news for you, and that things go forward.

hi lady j! I always enjoy your posts!

[mandeekins]

Oh yeah, BETA is Feb 6!

[JennLB25]

waiting

Well, I hope you get good news about being able to go ahead with ER!! Prayers going out on your behalf.

As for me, I just got the call.... Estrogen went down a little, not as much as they had hoped, but it went from 4700 to 4200. They told me to go ahead and trigger tonight and ER will be Wednesday morning. ET will probably be Saturday (insurance only covers 3-day transfer). BETA will be Friday the 13th. Do you think that is a good or bad thing. LOL

RE said I'm not out of the woods yet as far as OHSS because Estrogen levels are still high. I was told to start drinking lots and lots of Powerade Zero ASAP.

[Lady_J]

Mandeekin... I have added your Beta on the schedule. Good Luck hun. As for the POI, it is ormal for alot of discharge... it shouldn't be normal, yuk, but yeah, it's part of the injections. As for being paranoid, it is totally understandable. I still sit here and think, what I did wrong that cause mine not to stick. "Was it that time I sneezed too hard and felt a pain in my abdomen right after, or was it the time that i had to use the BR and held it and when it was time to go, I couldnt hold it no more and I had minor uterus cramps, or maybe it was that time that my DH slapt me in the butt and I felt a minor cramp in my abdomen" I just don't know what it was , but I understand the paranoia u r going thru... just be carfeul and I pray for u to get your BFP.

aspotoftea... Thanks for that. I really enjoy writing them. So how r u hadnling BCPs? I don't know if it is the BCPs but I have been a cry baby all week. My DH asks me, "what's wrong"? All I can say while I'm crying "I don't know" How sad is that. But he has a prteey good idea what it is. TG.

ok, off to a late lunch. I will be back later.

[waiting for 4]

Jenn- I did have OHSS last time but it didnt really set in until after ER. Definitely stay hydrated! I will let you know my update and hopefully the levels when the nurse calls at 3ish.

[prayin4BFP]

quick drive by post here...still stimming. Just got the call from RE and I have to increase my Bravelle which if things are anyway similar as last time will mean I will probably go for ER this weekend. REs office said everything looks great...follies are between 9 and 17mm on both sides. More mature follies on my left side of course which is the side they had LOTS of problems getting anything out of last time. But there are more follies in quantity on the right so I am hopeful!
Feeling very tired lately and really tired of all the driving. Dont want to complain but the drive is really taking a toll on me this time. Now we are supposed to have 4 inches of snow tomorrow and my truck with the 4 wheel drive has a cracked windshield so I have ot take DHs car.
I will try to do personals later but lots of prayers for everyone in the meanwhile!

[mandeekins]

prayin - YAY!! Sounds like it's moving along! I know how you feel, although I don't drive as far as you do. I have to drive to Salt Lake which is about an hour and half from me. Driving every other day for the last couple of weeks has been a real drag! Even though it's the dreaded 2WW for me, I'm glad for a reprieve from the driving! Be careful in the snow, I got lucky and had my appointments during our dry spell. Just yesterday the snow started up again...woohoo for my timing!

[nursegator]

Mandeekins: Hope your 2WW speeds by and results in a BFP! Lots of sticky superglue babydust for your little embies.

Prayin4BFP: All of your driving does sound very tiring! I will be channeling an extra energy boost to you to get you through all of the driving and appointments. Congrats on the follicles!

JennLB25: I'm so happy you're able to go forward with ER!!! Such wonderful news. Take good care of yourself in the meantime. NO OHSS.

Espinozal: Hope that you'll have 3 perfect embies for your FET.

LadyJ: thanks for the welcome! You are one organized lady, keeping everyone's cycles straight. I like the little charts you post, much easier to see where everyone is, from that view.

DNT0809: I don't consider you selfish for writing how you feel. You will be in my thoughts and prayers for a BFP on Wednesday.

Molly23: So amazing how quickly those follicles pop out! WOW! How quickly everything changes in a 24 hour period-- what a wild ride.

PMA and well wishes to anyone I've missed. Hope you're having a great day and getting lots of good news.

[aspotofTea]

mandeekins, lots of sticky babydust to you!

jenn, yay for trigger! wishing you the best on this!

lady j, it's been a long while since I've taken BCP, and it's been interesting. My breasts have been sorta sore for a few days, and I felt crampy yesterday for some reason. I've been a little emotional too.

So here's a story that is both awkward and horrifying. I shared this with a friend earlier via email:

My husband and I have not told many people yet about IVF. The main people we have not yet talked about it are his parents

But I told him one of the reasons we need to do it fast is that I had this fear my MIL would ask me to help plan my sister in law's baby shower. I just cannot handle that.

So Saturday we were over at their house. I wasn't there more than ten minutes when the MIL said "Come upstairs, I have to show you something" and she proceeded to show me the little invitations she found for the shower, and a table centerpiece, and what did I think about themes, and could I start thinking of games, and we need to figure out dates, and let's plan a menu!

I was horrified. It took all I had in me not to lose it and start crying. I felt so trapped- I couldn't believe I was standing there, trying to smile and act like I was fine!!

THEN it got worse. She asked me if i felt it was out of line for her to be picking a theme for the shower, and should she be asking SIL about it? Then she said "Well, okay. Because you know, I already have a theme for your baby shower!"

I tried really hard to be gracious and sort of laugh it off. Then I said "uh I have to pee" and ran out of the room. I managed to gain my composure and have a nice dinner with the family, but the whole night, I just felt so off. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. On the way home I told DH and he was horrified. He felt so bad. I mean, she doesn't know yet, so how can I be mad at her?

It was just a little much for me to handle.

[mandeekins]

aspotofTea - I'm glad I'm not the only one that hasn't told the MIL that we're going through this. My DH is 12 years older, my MIL is more like my granny's age! I just don't think she'd understand why we're going through this and spending this kind of money when DH has a son already. My MIL takes care of my step-son and has basically been his mom since birth bit*h walked out on DH. So, needless to say, I don't get to be a parent to my step-son. I was afraid they'd be mad at us, so I left it up to DH to tell or not. He decided not to tell. And it has been hard! We live next door and we're over there quite a bit. I slipped and said something about being off work last week and then had to cover by saying I didn't feel well! Sort of the truth!

Anyway, I just wanted to say you're not alone! If you plan on telling her though, I'd tell her sooner rather than later!