Fall 2010 Cycle Group

[riogirl71]

Hi Lou, I was told 25mg 3 times a day. I can't remember shit so I takt 75mg one time a day which is 3 pills. The CoQ10 I got at costco and it is 200 mg pill so I take 2 every night. I have DH take 2 CoQ10 also and a male vitamin and his count improved too! I know 11 follies is peanuts compared to some of the girls here but I was told I have a low AFC and it was between 7 and 8 about 2 motnhs ago. Now it could be over 11 since she didn't really count. I wanted to try royal jelly and wheatgrass too which I heard also helps a ton but never got around to it. I was nervous about DHEA and hormones but my RE recommended it! I am doing:

225 follistim, 150 menopur and femara on pill form for 5 days. on Sunday my follistim goes to 300. I never heard of femara before but looked interesting. I was on BCP for a month but then she wanted me on a natural cycle no BCP and it was way better than when she did an US and I was on BCP! I hope this gives you food for thought and maybe you can ask your RE some questions! Do you do menopur too?

[karin1]

Kbillsby........I got gonal f from freedom too. I went to their website to confirm my order and saw that u can get $500 off your 2nd cycle. I did get $250 and would have gotten the full amount, but I didn't order as much because I had some left over from my previous cycle. She sent me a card and if I order more, I would get the rest. It was about a month ago. U should go to the website to see if the offer is still there. If so, call them.

Sonya, Kaylie and Baby........great numbers!

Osi.......love the pics!

[moorebaby]

kaylie, sonya, babyblu- congrats on some awesome 2nd beta #s!!! i'm so happy for you all! let's keep the bfp's coming!!!

[crystal335]

Hello everyone: retrieval went well today, although, I'm quite sore right now. They were able to retrieve 15 eggs. Praying for a good fertilization report tomorrow.

[Lauren]

Quick ?? Im getting nervous for my follie count.. Should i be uncomfotable like really feeling my ovaries??? I feel twinges but thats it!

Why do I worry?

[TammyS]

Crystal...that is terrific. Get some rest.

Lauren1171...Glad everything went well...get some rest. If I dont get a BFP this cycle...my next and last try ever...would be Dec 3rd as well...from what I can tell....unless I am cancelled, then it will be even sooner. DH and I agreed to go only to the end of this year. You and I are going to be pregnant real soon!

Sonya...Woohoo! Awesome beta numbers from all of you girls. Sooo exciting!

Rio...yep, I never do anything the way you are supposed to. lol Yes, I was told that they have a freezer full of Bill sperm. We didnt know this till recently. lol

Lauren...You are fine...no worries. I've done sooo many cycles now...sometimes I feel nothing and sometimes I have twinges. Both are normal.

AFM: As if things werent worse than they already are in my mind...my doctor called tonight and made it even worse. We had a halloween costume contest and parade to go to tonight in our neighborhood...Zach won...but that is another story...so anyhow, I didnt take my phone and of course, that is when he called and left me the message. A different doc saw my chart all week and gave me the go ahead for trigger tonight...and my regular RE said that after looking at my charts tonight that when I go in Saturday morning...that they want to do an ultrasound first to see if they are even gonna be able to get to my right ovary. This is the one that always goes shy and they can never get anything out of it...everything is in my right this time...and there is nothing in my left above 10 mm. Just my freakin luck, huh? He did say that as of right now...my right ovary is in a good position...but it always is as of right now...but then it always goes shy right before retrieval. I am sooo worried that I am still going to get cancelled at the last minute. He doesnt want to put me under if we arent going to be able to get to that ovary. There went my PMA that I found this afternoon.

[kynlee]

Congrats BETA trio.... Awesome numbers

Karin- you have me laughing over here when you said they had to search your bag at the concert & the guy asking whats in the bottle... Too funny!!!!! He must have been red...

[baby_blu73]

Karin - your "afm" had me crackin' up! I had to do my Lupron at work 5 days a week. I'm a city bus driver. So, I would either have to run into a gas station bathroom with my "drugs" (YUCK!) or wait until the bus was empty towards the end of a route and pull over to stick myself. We have video cameras throughout, so I was always worried about an accident or dispute on the bus cuz then they would have to review the tape and possibly catch me looking like a junkie.

Tammy - I'm so sorry about the discouraging voicemail. But you can't lose hope! Maybe since the right ovary is so full this time it'll be different. I'm sure everything will go great Saturday. Sending prayers and tons of positivity your way.

Riogirl - I'm so glad for your good news! Grow, follies, grows!!!

Crystal - Congrats on the excellent ER!!! 15 eggs is fantastic! Praying with you for a great report tomorrow

Hoping everyone else is doing well!

[Lauren]

Tammy-dont lose ur PMA like u said in the past sometimes ur right ovary hides so maybe the doc is os just being cautious and preparing u that they want to check it first so u dont go under anesthesia and then find out! Dont lose hope...is there anyway u can call and talk to someone tomorrow? I am sending u some PMA ur way!!!!!!! And whats this zach won?? Need to see pics?!

Sonya-awesome beta!!! So happy for you!!

Afm at work, trying not to stress and get a good report in am about my follies!! Not delivering too many babies tonight the labor room is calm so far tonight! Gtg

[DandMe]

Sonya...Do you want to know the funny part (not funny haha by any means)....my ovaries don't even work! I do not ovulate. Each month my blood work shows that I do no ovulate, hense the IVF. So now, when I thought this woul dbe the easy part, they aren't cooperating...now suddenly they don't want to be shut down!? How frustrating! My mom and I were talking about this last night, and I was wondering if it may be because they are still feeling the effects of the stims a month ago? Who the heck knows! You seem so educated on all of this and I admire you for that. I am going through this blindly and I wonder if it doesn't bite me in the ass sometimes? It all goes back to December when I was trying to schedule my HSG...when AF came the nurse said that the RE was going to be out of town and we would have to wait until my next AF. Well when my nest AF came, I was still bleeding when my HSG rolled around so they pushed it back a week....why could they have pushed it back a week the month before?? Then I asked if we could start in April, the same month as my trial transfer and they said no because RE wanted a month in between. Well by the time my next AF came around I had 3 dormoids. I feel like if I were more educated or more confident in all of this I could have stood up for myself and had my first IVF last April. Now the year is coming to an end and I haven't even had a transfer yet. I have insurance coverage and with my surgery my deductible is met for the year. Once we get into Jaunary, I start over again. Sorry for the novel....long story short, I wish I had you knowledge and voice through this whole thing!

karenthescorpio...YAY FOR STARTING STIMS!!!!

Margi...another POAS addict? Are you our next Sonya? Let's see pics whent hose BFPs start showing up!

You know what... I was totally ignorant about all this until I miscarried in July 2008. I dealt with it through educating myself. It was what I did to handle the grief. I read and I wrote and read and wrote. I actually had a pharmacist call me the other day to ask how I suggested administer a hcg shot! LOL

I became fascinated with my own body, the simplicity and complexity of how conception works. I read on hormones, cycles, medications for this and that, and when we finally moved onto IVF, I knew what we were doing. I was also blessed (cursed) to be from a small town with a horrible obgyn who used to do some RE work a long, long time ago. He is a certified quack and I learned a lot from his retarded attempts of making me pregnant. Like how putting a woman on clomid for twelve months straight can be dangerous (I had begun to have vision issues - trailing images, spots, etc.). Or proving that I had a bona fide progesterone deficiency by insisting I be tested in the very early stages of miscarriages (chemical pregnancies or early miscarriages that I lost before 21dpo). Yadda yadda yadda.

I believe we NEED to be warriors and protectors of our fertility and bodies. Not all doctors are right, and not all doctors are compassionate. If we don't question them, they don't question themselves. A patient who is educated is someone they know to take seriously... they know we won't just tuck tail and listen... we want to know WHY.... HOW... what makes you think that?

You are going to be just fine. Everything will work out.....

[DandMe]

Hello everyone: retrieval went well today, although, I'm quite sore right now. They were able to retrieve 15 eggs. Praying for a good fertilization report tomorrow.

One for each egg.

good luck with the fert report!!

[DandMe]

Quick ?? Im getting nervous for my follie count.. Should i be uncomfotable like really feeling my ovaries??? I feel twinges but thats it!

Why do I worry?

Lauren you should totally be feeling your ovaries. they are the size of plums and the follies get to be about 2 cm across.. or about the size of a medium sized blueberry. I had 32 of them across two ovaries. I imagine a red, swollen meaty plum with 16 pimples the size of blueberries on each one. Nice eh? and yeah... you'll feel it!

[DandMe]

AFM: As if things werent worse than they already are in my mind...my doctor called tonight and made it even worse. We had a halloween costume contest and parade to go to tonight in our neighborhood...Zach won...but that is another story...so anyhow, I didnt take my phone and of course, that is when he called and left me the message. A different doc saw my chart all week and gave me the go ahead for trigger tonight...and my regular RE said that after looking at my charts tonight that when I go in Saturday morning...that they want to do an ultrasound first to see if they are even gonna be able to get to my right ovary. This is the one that always goes shy and they can never get anything out of it...everything is in my right this time...and there is nothing in my left above 10 mm. Just my freakin luck, huh? He did say that as of right now...my right ovary is in a good position...but it always is as of right now...but then it always goes shy right before retrieval. I am sooo worried that I am still going to get cancelled at the last minute. He doesnt want to put me under if we arent going to be able to get to that ovary. There went my PMA that I found this afternoon.

Geesh. I am so sorry you were put in the middle of that.... You know that the chances are great that your ovary will be fine, right? Try to relax and do some visual meditation. I know that sounds silly, but try it.. it can't hurt. I will be praying for you. When will you know? Saturday?

[Karian]

Congrats on your second betas!......

AF is here!!!!!... finally!.... I go tomorrow morning to see the doctor and hopefully start stims on saturday!.... I'm so exited!

[DandMe]

That's awesome news, Karian - you are on your way