June Cycle Buddies

[Bronagh]

Dana,
Hi girls and over in the May thread after also being in the March and April one from down regs so long anyway. Just wanted to congratulate Dana your result is a great one . I had 4 eggs and 3 fertilised and I was happy so you might have a clutch to freeze. you are also doing ET the same day as me so I'm wishing you luck with it.


Dagny- glad to see you can see some progress.

Pma
Bro

[loopylou57uk]

aternoon ladies!
hope your all fine and well,i have started downregging yesterday so i really feel like things are on the move now,do you girls reckon its ok to exercise up until ec as i always have and has never affected the eggs i usually have around 30 and about half fertilise,grade one embies twice of 8 cell,my clinic have never said not to,but i am a bit concerned about the blood flow.
anyway i havent had a ciggy since sunday,so im really pleased with myself,i am just eating more.must stop!
dana,you have a nice amount of eggs there so dont worry,try to relax,i wish you the best of luck.
debra, have a great time in amsterdam,dont let dh look through too many windows!hope your cold is better.
dagney,i hope your feeling ok today,i hope you get your drugs sorted and are able to get going.
i hope all you other girls are ok,must dash,love loopy.

[caz1]

Hello there - hope you dont mind me butting in - hope you are all doing welL!!!
Just to say I exercised right up to et. I think as long as you feel comfortable its fine - I found it really helped to take my mind off things. I think they just say that when your ovaries get enormous you just need to be a bit careful of twisting yourself about too much. Bike, cross trainer, swimming - all worked for me!
Good luck!
Cazx

[Dagny]

Hello girls

Dana - Wow what a lovely batch of eggs, well done!! Fingers crossed now for ET.

Debra - Have fun in Amsterdam. You must go to the Anne Frank House, it is a step back in time and quite interesting. Also try the Venus sex museum It's a real eye opener. It's down the road on the right hand side if you are facing away from the Centraal Station. Made me laugh and snigger. There is a male prostitute called 'Swift Nick' and his house is the tall pink house joined on the left of the church on the left hand side facing away from the station. Have a look if you can see him. His curtains were closed when I was last in A'dam so missed seeing what he looks like. He is the only male prostitute and the female ones didn't want him in there area so he is up the other end and not in the Red Light District. Keep DH away from the Red Light Distict there are some right old dogs there!!! Woof, woof!

Loopy - hope the down regging is going well? You do get a bumper crop normally don't you? Twice as much as me. I think limited exercise is ok just nothing too strenuous.

I have to have more blood tests It only seems like yesterday that I had my HIV, HepB and HepC and now I have to have it again. It's a yearly thing now I said to my GP that I was worried about the IVF drugs and cancer scares and so I am having a blood test to see if my ovaries are OK. Don't ask me how or what they look for I just agreed to have it but I suspect it will be giving me something extra to worry about

Love Dagny xkx

[Shoegal]

Hi girls

I'm a late joiner to the JCB. It's my first cycle and first injection of menopur tonight - I am a bit nervous - but I think my DH is more so!

I have another scan on Tuesday - (the bank holiday is going to stuff things up a bit, as I should have one on Monday) and then maybe one on Wednesday depending how Tuesday goes. Unfortunately my clinic only does scans Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

I'm on a short cycle apparently - I have no idea why - but if all goes well, could be EC the second week of June.

Bit apprehensive about the side effects of the injections, but pleased to be actually starting.

Shoegal
xx

[TERESAWANTBABY]

Hi everyone,
I just want to wish everyone luck. I am going to get my protocle and sign consent forms tomorrow. I am on CD5 and I was wondering would I start my first IVF/ICSI the first day of my next period ?? I know I will get all the info tomorrow but I am just a little curious...
Talk to you all soon !
-Teresa

[DebraP]

Hi JCBs, last post until Monday. I MUST start my packing soon, we leave at 0900 tomorrow.

Dagny, hmmm, thanks for the A'dam info...not sure it will be too much use. We've a heavy museum/gallery schedule planned plus a little shopping and some serious eating out to do, esp. Indonesian! We'll also hit the veggie places as there are none here. Good luck with the tests. We had to repeat our HIV/HEP tests too as our last full ivf tmt was more than 12m ago. I also hope the ovarian test comes up trumps.

Loopy. I started down-regging today so am only 1 day behind you When/what do you start jabbing? Have you draft dates for EC - if all goes well? Congrats on the no smokes. Exercise can be a great help.

Dana (and Bro), good luck with ET tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you. Dana - great number of eggs, well done.

Shoegal (anything more personal we can call you??), good luck starting the injections.

Teresa, sorry I can't help with your Q. I'm on a different regime. I can only tell you that I started downregging today (Day 21) and my first injection is Day 34 (from my May AF). There should be a new AF end of next week. Not sure if that helps at all. Sorry.

I had my uterine wall scan today and was told all looks good. I forgot to ask about our HIV/HEP results but they would have said today if something was wrong. I did ask if DF could take any vits to help his end of the bargain but was told sperm take 3m to create from scratch so there's no point doing anything now. For us it's a tube problem, not sperm so it's not too important.

Fingers crossed for all of us,
love
Debra.

[Kel]

Hello JCB'S!!

Hope you are ok! I've been looking after my 1 year old nephew today so am knackered now!!!! I have him every wednesday, he's gorgeous but weighs a TON!! So I'm already in my pyjamas!!! I am sooo rock n roll....
Dagny - Thanks so much for what you said, I am definately feeling a lot better now thanks... Just finding it confusing and not helping that I boil up in the night so not been sleeping v.well.. But just gotta go with it! Really hope I can get on to those stimms next week.. My Nans b-day meal was lovely, Nan was really teary which is unheard of!! How is your mad puppy?? Hope you haven't had too many slices out of your toe???! Good news about getting started asap!! Roll on all your tests and those JUNE BFPs!!!!
Loopy & Debra - Good luck with your down regging!
Dana - Great news!! Good luck for ET...
Shoegal - Nice to have you join the June buddies, hope it all goes really well for you - I am due to start menopur next week & am bit scared as my first go too! My DH is going to be at work when I do my first jab as I think I will flap more if he is worrying about me...Don't know if I will feel like that next week though!!
Teresa - It seems each clinic is different but I started my cycle on 1st/2nd day of period, but I know sometimes it's on day 21? Good Luck anyway!
Well I realllllly have rambled on for now! Better get my horlicks (??!! oh god am def scared now....)
Kel x

[alypraying]

Hi JCB's well went to the clinic yesterday everything going well so far, san showed I have downregged and I'm now on the tablets, lookin at E/C for the donor June 8th and E/T on the 11th so fingers crossed she has some good eggs! Hope everyone is OK Kel down regging is a real nightmare I'm either crying or screaming never know which. Dagny why more blood tests surely your last ones are still valid? Debra enjoy your holiday, Shoegal nice to have you on board Loopy how is the down regging going and Teresa I also started mine on the 21st day of cycle but they can do day 1 of period so I'm sure you will find out tomorrow. Right I'm shattered off to bed. Wishing you all a wonderful bank holiday I'm off to Manchester to visit friends so will catch up on Monday. Lot's of hugs
Aly
xxx

[danaatkins]

Hi girls. Thanks for all of your support and kind words. In less than 12 hours I am going to try to be a home for my little embies, and I am so excited. I just hope we all get what we want because this is such a long process.
Side note: no matter what happens, I think we should plan a huge reunion somewhere to celebrate our journey. We all deserve a vacation.
Dana

[Dagny]

Morning all!!

Debra - Hope you got packed in time and you are probably on your way to Holland so HAVE FUN GIRLIE

Aly - Ooooohhhhhh how exciting. ET June 11th fantastic. I don't know why I have to have more blood tests I think they just do it to pi$$ me off I am sure it wasn't a year ago but I am not going to argue I just want to get going.

Kel - The 'mad puppy' goes home tomorrow. She is soooooo naughty. She got hold of Katelyn's teddy bear which was on a pine chest in my lounge next to her photo last night and could I catch her?? Could I boll**ks, she knew she had something she really shouldn't and just pegged it away. I was beside myself and got really upset, arrrrrrrgggggg! I did get it off her eventually and there was no real damage just a bit slathery - yuk! I will miss her company during the day but wont miss her naughtiness.

Teresa - I have always started my treatment on day 1 of my AF. Good luck and we'll be there for you all the way.

Shoegal - Is that your name? Welcome to the JCB's and best of luck for your injections. The first one is always the hardest but from then on it is fine. Just take a deep breath and stab

Dana - How did ET go????

Loopy - Hope you're keeping off the fags? Keep it up.

Love Dagny xkx

[loopylou57uk]

hello buddies,
dana & bro,i hope et went well,and i hope your both resting up and having dh running around the house,don`t forget to tell him how the hoover works!
im on day 3 of downreg and i am fine and dandy,i usually get quite a lot of hot flushes,so they are still to come,et due on 2nd of july,cant wait,
as for when you start treatment,i have never had to wait for af and this is my third fresh cycle,i just get a date and then start they dont ask about af,?
dagney,hope your ok do you have a date to start yet?
well debra will be in amsterdam now,lucky thing,its been nice here today im soon off to doggy class with our german shepherd tara,she is lovely,and she is white,and so clever.
i hope i havent missed anyone ,take care girls,love loopy.

[danaatkins]

hi girls
all went well this morning. the doctor immplanted 2 #1's and now, i'm just lying in my back--bored to death. The doctor said it was a textbook transfer, so now I just get to wait and see! Bro, how did you do?

[Kel]

Hi June Buddies...
How is everyone today??
The sun has been shining here today so I have been hacking down a triffid that has taken over the end of my garden... I guess that's a fairly productive day!! Dodgy blisters now though! (nice)
Went down to Bourn Hall yesterday where we are having ET (as rest of cycle is at my local hospital) which is lovely!! Feel much calmer now that we've seen where we need to go etc, and is such a beautiful place!! Is anyone else at Bourn or been before?
Aly - all sounding good!! Not long now!! You are ET on the 11th, all being well I am booked for ET on the 14th, so quite near you!
Dagny - Can't believe that little puppy has been causing so much mischief! Hope you are ok?
Dana & Bro - Keep up the RESTING!! Well done girls...
And hope all June buddies are ok too....
Kel x

[AMITHIS]

Hi all,

Do you mind if I join you since I'm not sure where else to go at the moment?!

After getting a -tive a few weeks ago, I'm now planning on doing a FET. I initially said I wasn't going to be ready to do it for quite awhile since I was so disappointed over the -tive but I've started to think there is really no point in waiting since it's all I can think about anyway. It's probably better just to take action than sitting around dwelling on it for months. My clinic said that if AF arrives after June 22, I can get started next month (due to their scheduling, they can't take me before that). My cycles are usually really long so I'm guessing that will work for me.

Anyway, I thought a frozen transfer wouldn't involve medication but it turns out I'll have to start downregging on Day 21 of my cycle for about 10 days then take estrogen pills for 7 days then projesterone in oil injections. Has anyone ever heard of taking all these meds for a frozen transfer? I was hoping to never have to look at another needle again! Oh well....

I'm trying to work on feeling positive about this. Hard to get myself to really believe the frosties might work since the fresh cycle didn't even though I have heard some positive stories about frozen transfers. I do feel much better physically now than I did at the time of the fresh transfer so, hopefully, that will count for something.

Staci