March/April cycle buddies??

[Sara30]

Michele I did a 4dt so I might give the HPT a go on friday, what the hell if it says negative I know I tested too early!! I guess because we do a POAS test to check for a positive result and they do not check our beta I am not so worried about the POAS test!! Last cycle I tested positive about 3 days early anyway so you never know luck may be with me again.

Welcome wmc sending you lots of good luck for your cycle.

Sisi wooohoooo so glad you got a better follie count, even just one day can make such a huge difference!!!

hopetobeamummy so glad you said that about hair dye having mine done on monday next week and there is no way I can not have it done, I went prematurely grey at 19 perhaps that was the start of my premature menopause!! Ha Ha!! Never thought of that before!!! I would have to be wearing wigs for the next 9 months otherwise!!!

Sarah I have used the suppositories and the crinone gel, the suppositories can be a bit messy but like Michele said I also wore a panty liner with them and its fine, is better to lie down with the supposiories for about 20 mins or so as they tend to leak less then. Good luck with them..
We have had to pay for all of our cycles except the first one, so we have had 3 to pay for, we are very lucky in that our families have helped us out for the last 2, but we do have big debts to pay back so yes I agree the money side of it is a huge added strass.

Kim your in the 2ww now as well!!!!!! AND with 2 embies!!!!!! So what if you cried I agree sometimes we have to use our wits even if we do so unwittingly sometimes, so pleased for you you have a double trouble chance!! Now you get them legs up in the air remember!!!! You ramble all you like I love reading your posts they catch me up on everyone else!!!

aims good luck for next week it will all be happening for you!!! Amazing number of follies way to go girl!!!!

Catch up with you all tommorrow

Lee xxx

[CT_Michele]

lee- I went hpt crazy last time...and of course I was a late implanter, so they were negative almost the whole way...I drove myself crazy with them, atleast one a day from about 8dpo and sometimes twice a day. I actually lost hope at the end, but it all turned out just fine...and I do plane to torture myself again, I will stock up early so I don;t have to keep running to the store. So you will have to let me know how it goes.

aims- I updated you on our list with your dates. 17 mature follies is awesome, sounds like you will have a good ER. Let us know when you get the all clear for trigger...and enjoy your shot free day!

Sisi- so glad your u/s was better and you did not get canceled. I don't know if I could have beared to see you go through that again. Just a couple more days now...keep us posted.

I think all of my side effects are gone from the anesthesia, my tush is a little sore, but I think that is from sitting around all day as I recouped from surgery. MIL is still in medical hospital and we are still in limbo. Hopefully she will get a transfer tomorrow to some sort of psych hospital. We are running out of time, as she gets medically better, she is anxious to go home and has not even had help for the depression or alcoholism yet. Atleast at this point she is still allowing us to be involved, thank you all again for your prayers and wishes. I do hope this gets sorted out soon. She has been there for 8 days now, I can't believe it.

Ok, Ella time, nap is over....and then maybe some schoolwork? (yeah right, I always plan to do coursework and it never gets done, that is the only bad part about courses from home, too many distractions) I will check on you all later.

[melanie_100]

Hey Girls, Didn't look at threads for a few days and I feel like I'm a week behind, Oh my if we're not a busy bunch
I'm hanging in here in my God awful 2ww- actually it's not been that bad, but bad enough, I think the closer I get the longer it feels. I am due for my beta test on 3/18. I am double guessing every single symptom I have.... one minute I must be pregnant.... the next I most definitely am not... Can drive you kinda crazy
Babymex: I wish you would share your news with us, I see you posted earlier in the 2ww thread but never shared your results there either. We would all love to hear from you.
Kim: I am appalled as an RN at some of the things I hear about on this thread. Your experience the other day is unacceptable and I hope they apologized to you. I was quite frankly in disbelief that they would ask you to pay before even having the procedure done, let alone the other huge error. Doesn't say a lot about that clinics priorities. Obviously many people that work at these places have never gone through infertility and can't begin to imagine how to treat someone going through it, but still there is no excuse.
There are other ladies who have had other nurses and doctors act disappointed in their "results", I guess they have no idea how much we hang on every word and their body language to gauge our success. Little do they know how discouraging they can be, and how for days we are depressed by what they have said or done. I am embarrassed for my profession when I hear these stories. The good news is that for every bad story, there are two to three good stories of amazing nurses and doctors out there. We must praise those that do a good job and let them know how much it helps on this horribly emotional voyage.
I always seem to go off on tangents Sorry for that. I have gotta run, my sons movie seems to have ended
I'll keep in touch and keep up the positive vibes ladies

[lionoe]

Hello Ladies,

This is my first IVF cycle. I had my ER on 3/12 and am having my ET on 3/17 (St. Patty's Day!). 14 eggs retrieved, 11 injected, 9 fertilized. My embies are now on day 3. I have 1 9-cell, 4 8-cell and 2 7-cell. I didn't have a chance to talk to the nurse, is this good?

[aims327]

CT_Michelle - I got the ok to trigger tonight. It was my last shot! My clinc isn't doing PIO anymore so it's just suppositories now. I will have my ET at 8:30am eastern time on Tuesday.

[tabatha1975]

hello all, i was just reading, i was wondering if you guys could share how your stomachs felt during stims, i'm on gonal-f my stomach feels stretching and pulling on the inside and crampy, is this normal? how long did you all stim for? how many and what size were your follies? i know everyone is different but maybe i could get an average. thanks. i'm on day 5

[Sisi1]

It looks like I may be triggering tonight, at least I hope so cause my ovaries are pretty uncomfortable at this point.

Can't imagine what this must be like with loads of follies!

Cluster not as great, 1.0-1.9 but I have at least one at each seize.....

Waiting for the call..............

[latinosunshine]

On Saturday, I received my meds from Freedom. I didnt realize how many drugs I had to take. Kind of nervous and scared all at the same time.



Did my last BCP today!!! Im so glad because I have felt awful on them.

Having my sonogram and my bloodwork on Friday so if all goes well. I start Lupron, Menopur and Gonal F.

[cymplicity27]

Oooohhh, I'm so jealous of you triggering ladies...I can't wait! I'm am sick of shots, lol.

Tabatha, I'm on day 3 of stims and I feel like crap! I'm still getting the night sweats from the lupron I assume and with the gonal-f came back pain. It reminds me of back pain I use to get when I was younger during that time of the month so I'm not surprised. I have a retroverted uterus (backwards/tilted) and apparently that causes the back pain. I just figured this all out this past January mind you. Years of pap smears and no one ever mentioned it It only came up at my HSG when I experienced the worse pain I ever felt in my life! Anyway, so far stimming NOT FUN and I'm only on day 3 . But I'm trying to remain positive and think about the bigger picture . I also have this weird feeling in my butt cheeks, LOL! I'm sure that's just and extension of the pain in my back. DH seems to find it funny at least. Oh well, counting down to my u/s on Wednesday!

aims - I wish my clinic would be done with the PIO shots!! I still have to talk to them about me getting out of them since DH won't be around to administer them every night. Will try to remember to ask about the suppositories on Wed. I'll deal with the mess over the shot any day!

[latinosunshine]

Sis1, Good luck with the trigger. Im excited for you.
Aims and Lion, cant wait for your ET on Tuesday!! One more day! How fun its on St Pats. Wear Green!
Melanie, just a few more days until the beta. Are you not going to POAS at all?

[kimbob]

Sisi YYYYEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!! I am so happy that your follies are responding. I have everything crossed for you getting to trigger tonight! Yippee!

Tabatha I'm dure your feelingss are normal. It's hard for us not to over analyze evert little feeling we have as we go through this. I didn't feel too much until about day 8 of stimming, but I didn'thave too many follies, so I'm sure you're doing just fine!

aims YEAH!! Trigger tonight for you!!! That is super exciting!! I will be thinking of you on Tuesday morning!!

lionoe We were wonderng how you had made out. Your numbers sound great! It's most likely that you will have a few good embies to transfer and then several to freeze. Do you know how many you want to transfer? Good Luck on the 17th!! I'll be thinking of you and sending lots of sticky blast dust your way!!!

Melanie I'm sorry that the wait is getting to you. But whoooo hoooo - only two more days!!! Gosh, the wait is killing me, so I know it must be a bizillion times worse for you!! Good Luck - BFP vibes headed your way!!
I think actually your post is the closest that I came to getting an apology! The nurse who was in the room made it clear to the RE that it was not nursing staff who said it and that the receptionist would have said what she did because of the way that it is worded on the sheet she got. RE said he'd bring it up again, which tells me they've had this problem before. The clinic has a process for complaints, either speak to someone (which already I did) or make a written complaint. I don't really want to make a written complaint because I don't want to make a big fuss, but at the same time, they say that they follow-up on written complaints in several ways and then inform you in writing or in person, or both, of the outsome of your complaint. In good conscience I think I would feel better having proof that they changed the way they word the paper. Oh yeah, the RE also said they ask people to pay before the process becuase they have had some people just leave without paying for the freezing. I sympathize with them, but I don't think it's okay to freak people out.

Michele I'm sorry to hear you are still in limbo with mil. It must be hard on her, too only having medical treatment and no treatment for the other issues. That should be illeagal - really, how is it different than tourture? Or at least neglect? Glad your side effects are gone. Do you feel pretty much back to normal? (except in the tush? )

Lee Good luck if you do POAS on Friday!! That's the first day of spring - what a great day for a BFP! (Note the positive thinking!! )

sbr/Sarah I am doing the prometrium suppositories. There are times when they seem much messier than other times. All in all it's not too bad. I do the panty liner thing, too. I think that I am happier to have the suppositories over the PIO shots. It sounds like they can be more painful than the stims. As for the $ side - I'm not sure if anyone in Canada gets insurance coverage. We will have so this all out of pocket, which means accumulating debt. My parents helped us with the first one, which was fabulous. But due to my poor response and DH and I wanting three kids, I have a feeling we'll have to do this again, at least once, if not twice more. Huh, no stress there! (read as sarcastic! )

hopetobeamummy in your professional opinion, would it be safe to do foils and a semi permanent? Would it be better to do just foils? I had to change today's appointment because DH was there when RE said I shouldn't do it and he would freak if I did it. Heck, this would probably be the first time DH even noticed the difference without me telling him, too! I am thinking that RE's thinking is that its not a good idea to do anything 'ify' when you've got less than top-notch embies. That way I can't go blaming myself for doing my hair if it doesn't work. I think I'll wait until after my beta day (Mar 27). Wow - I'll have lots and lots of greys showing by then!

And to everyone else...
Happy Monday!

Kim

[kimbob]

Latino and Cymplicity, I missed you while I was posting! So sorry!

latinosunshine I thought the pile of meds was scary too, but the good news is you only take a little bit at a time. I hope you find it's not so bad after all. I'll cross everything for you on Friday - the first day of Spring - that has to be a good omen!

Cynthia I'm sorry to hear your stiming is not fun. Mine felt so easy and I didn't have such a good response. So maybe all the feelings you're having is a good sign! Good luck on Wednesday! I can't wait to hear what's going on in there! I bet it's all good!

Take care,
Kim

[Sari]

Hi:

latinosunshine - I was scared to death when I saw all the meds. I didn't know if laugh, cry or scream. But then I thought, I never did anything big to try to have a baby. I think we are bless. Many women know they are pregnant at 2 or 3 month, I have heard one knew at 8 month. We know we are pregnant since the moment the big box arrive. So we love our son(s) or daughter(s) or both, since the very moment our body works to have them. It's a nice feeling.

Cynthia - Be strong. I haven't start the stims and already feel the pinch. I was jocking around with DH and told him I'll have so many holes that when I drink water I would seem like a fountain, with water coming out of the holes.

Kim - Sorry about the receptionist. But don't think about that. In PR we said that is "pajitas que le caen a la leche". I don't know how to translate, but it means, things that happen, so take it out of the way the small things and keep going. Don't let it bother you, and think of your babies.

Michelle - Take care of your self and enjoy Ella. Sorry about the situation with your MIL, I hope they tranfer her fast enough. This addiction and deppression are hard to deal with. But let God get a hold of the situation and everything will be allright.

AFM - Today AF show her face, so I feel like going back to bed. My appointment is on Wednesday. So finally it all begings.

Hoping to hear BFP soon from all of you.

[CT_Michele]

ok, let's see if I have time to catch up now...

Sari- so glad you will finally get to start. You are so right about knowing exactly when your baby was conceived, it is amazing. Thanks for the thoughts about my mil, with any luck, and an open bed, she will get a transfer today.

kimbob- I agree that making medical decisions based on insurance coverage should be illegal. And the company should cover everything, not just pick and choose what they want to cover. It sucks. As far as receptionist go, no offense to anyone here who might be one, I honestly think it is in their job description to be pains, or rude, or confusing, or unhelpful. Hopefully you won't have to go through any of that again.

Latino- it is a bit overwhelming to see all the meds for the first time. Yay for your last bcp, lots of people here are really getting going.

cymplicity- sorry to hear you are feeling crummy and it is only day 3. Hopefully you start to feel better soon...like you said, just try to stay positive and know that it will all be worth it in the end.

sisi- yay for trigger! I am so glad you did not get canceled and get to have ER. Let us know when you get the call.

tabatha- good to see you still around. We were wondering how your cycle was going. All i can say about what I remember was feeling super bloated, and it probably started a few days in and got really bad by the end, like I felt like I was going to pop. I might have felt a cramp here or there, but nothing significant.

aims- yay for trigger! We will be thinking about you on Tuesday morning, can't wait for the news, and congrats on not having to do the pio shots!

lionoe- good to hear from you again too! Those embies sound pretty good to me on day 3. I think at my 3 day transfer I had all 8-celled embryos, the RE called them perfect, so grade wise they were good. I think they like to see atleast 6 cell by day 3, someone can correct me if they know better.

melanie- Yes, if you miss a few days here you will be lost. I try to keep up and it is hard even being on here a couple times a day. Your beta is so close, just 2 more days. Have you done an hpt yet or are you staying away from them? Let us know....we can't wait to here beta news.

afm- clinic called this morning to tell me analysis on my polyp came back normal, nothing to be concerned about. It looks like I need to call them when af comes to go in for another us/bw. Then a couple of weeks on bcp's and hopefully starting stims on 4/10. I just need af to come in time, if the surgery did not affect anything, then it should be next in the next 5-10 days or say, I am horrible at tracking it and writing it down.

Ok, I will check on you all later, and I will post our list again to keep it fresh and available.

[CT_Michele]

lionoe - ER - Mar 12, 9 Fertilized Embies! ET - Mar 17
aims327 - Stimming! ER Mar 17 ET Mar 20 or 22
Wishing4Baby - Stim start Mar 6, estimated ER Mar 18
millie 09 - Stimming!
Sisi1 - Stimming!
cymplicity27 - Stim start Mar 14
tabatha1975 - Stimming! Expected ER Mar 24?



babymex - ET Mar 1, Beta Mar 12
melanie_100 - ET Mar 7, Beta Mar 18
faithseverything - ET Mar 9, Beta???
Sara30 - FET Mar 11, Beta Mar 25
kimbob - ET Mar 14, Beta???


SunMoon&Stars – DE w/icsi, ET Mar 16
wmcgrath - FET Mar 23
Latinosunshine – Last BCP Mar 16, ER around Mar 30
Sari - Start stims Mar 18, ER Mar 30? ET Apr 2?
Trying for another angel – Stim Start end of March, ER Apr 3???
Waiting For 4 - Consult w/ RE Mar 13
dys24 - on bcp's, waiting for af to start stims
sprouthaus - ganirelix/antagonist cycle - Apr
milpagan - BCP start Mar 7? RE consult Mar 9, ER/ET early Apr
sbr - FET Apr 2
biancajb - Last bcp Mar 20, stim start Mar 25
wishfull27 (carolyn) - ET around early April, ICSI/DE
Hjw – down-reg start Mar 5, baseline Apr 2, ER around Apr 13
kline - down reg start Mar 8, stim start mar 26?
hope2beamummy - IVF w/icsi April
statsgoddess - IVF Apr/May?
CT_Michele – Start stims 4/10, ER/ET/fresh TESE week of 4/20

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