Cycling In 2012 Board (formerly Fall/Winter 2011-2012)

[Sunshine1576]

Wishing us a better day tomorrow, with brand new hope....

[anton]

***CRASHING***

To all the girls out in the States that are affected by the hurricane, STAY SAFE!.... my thoughts are with you my friends!



anton

[krrice28]

Sunshine 1576, I noticed that you are from Panama City and are using an RE in Pensacola. I live in Pace (right outside of Pensacola) and have just found out that both of my tubes are completely blocked and that my only chance for having children is with in vitro. My OB is referring me to Barry Ripps in Pensacola. Have you used him? I'm trying to gauge costs in this area and I know that in Pensacola there is Dr. Ripps and there is the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Gulf Breeze. Any thoughts or advice?? Can you tell me how much IVF is costing you?? I'm new to this so anything would be helpful!!!

[WeHaveHope]

Sunshine 1576, I noticed that you are from Panama City and are using an RE in Pensacola. I live in Pace (right outside of Pensacola) and have just found out that both of my tubes are completely blocked and that my only chance for having children is with in vitro. My OB is referring me to Barry Ripps in Pensacola. Have you used him? I'm trying to gauge costs in this area and I know that in Pensacola there is Dr. Ripps and there is the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Gulf Breeze. Any thoughts or advice?? Can you tell me how much IVF is costing you?? I'm new to this so anything would be helpful!!!

I live in Miami, FL and see Dr. Christie from IVF Florida. They have several locations throughout Florida. I am not sure if any of their locations are anywhere near you but it may be worth looking into this. As for me, I have been absolutely delighted with their office, doctors, and nurses. I can't say enough about them. Although I haven't had that BFP that has brought a baby home yet I know I am very close. They are really great and I would not change them for anything. I know they have some plans that guarantee a baby or you get your money back. I haven't looked into these plans nor have I used it but I know they are available. Let me know if you have any questions. Also let me know if you ate going to be joining our group so I can officially add you to the Fall Roll Call. I wish you all the best. Below is the information for my RE but I've seen a few of the RE's there for ER or ET and they have all been wonderful.

IVF Florida
Main Number: (866) 770-2168

[WeHaveHope]

***CRASHING***

To all the girls out in the States that are affected by the hurricane, STAY SAFE!.... my thoughts are with you my friends!



anton

Anton-so nice to hear from you. I hope you are doing well. When will you be joining us on the Fall Board?

[WeHaveHope]

UPDATED 08-28-11 @ 7:45pm EST. Please let me know if I have missed anyone or if I'm missing any updates. Sending you lots of xoxoxo.









Fvrogers-FET 10/2011


Becca-Fall/2011
Tamera-11/2011
Leorira-Fall/2011
Kiminsh-Fall/2011
Fruit-Fall/2011
Alwaysangel-Fall/2011
Sunshine1576-Fall/2011
Cheri76-Fall/2011
Lyd10-Fall/2011


Akdelp-Waiting for AF for Fall IVF


Blueeyedreamer-on BCP for cycle 10/2011
Kerpupples-on BCP for cycle Fall/2011
Toniaa-on BCP for cycle in Fall/2011
WeHaveHope-on BCP for FET 10/2011 Hcg finally Negative. We now start a new chapter. Praying for a Fall miracle.



K8ielovett-Started on Lupron on 8-24-11
Kendra_n_Michael-on Lupron, estimated ER 9-20-11

[Kendra_n_Michael]

Here is to hope! This is our first IVF cycle.
Me 36, DH 33 (Morp issues)
MC 9/10
IUI #1-3 BFN
IUI #4 BFP, MC 7/11

I start my Lupron injections tomorrow, baseline sono 9/7, should start gonal 9/8,
Estimated ER - 9/20 and we are hoping for a 5dt and lots of nice embies to go in the freezer.

I look forward to hearing from you all. It is nice to have support from people who actually understand.

[WeHaveHope]

Here is to hope! This is our first IVF cycle.
Me 36, DH 33 (Morp issues)
MC 9/10
IUI #1-3 BFN
IUI #4 BFP, MC 7/11

I start my Lupron injections tomorrow, baseline sono 9/7, should start gonal 9/8,
Estimated ER - 9/20 and we are hoping for a 5dt and lots of nice embies to go in the freezer.

I look forward to hearing from you all. It is nice to have support from people who actually understand.

Welcome to the Fall Board. You will definantely find lots of support on this board. We have all been through alot. A few of us have been through several cycles and can share lots of information with you. I look forward to reading more about you and sharing our journey together. I will officially add you to the Fall Roll Call in a few minutes. Wishing you all the best.

[Sunshine1576]

Sunshine 1576, I noticed that you are from Panama City and are using an RE in Pensacola. I live in Pace (right outside of Pensacola) and have just found out that both of my tubes are completely blocked and that my only chance for having children is with in vitro. My OB is referring me to Barry Ripps in Pensacola. Have you used him? I'm trying to gauge costs in this area and I know that in Pensacola there is Dr. Ripps and there is the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Gulf Breeze. Any thoughts or advice?? Can you tell me how much IVF is costing you?? I'm new to this so anything would be helpful!!!

Hello krrice,
First of all welcome to the board, and who knows maybe one day this Fall our paths might meet at the clinic, which would be so awesome girl. My sister-in-law (who is fm Clemson, S.C.) had blocked tubes and went through laproscopic surgery to help flush them and this also helped her with the severe case of endometrosis, so determined they tried IVF (with the IVF Attain Refund program mentioend earlier) and it worked on the first attempt! She and my brother both believe it worked on the first attempt because maybe she was relaxed and not stressed with the finances b/c if it didn't work on the first round she still would have two more attempts. The most challenging part is finding a RE who you can trust and has the best proven success rate...Dr. Ripps originally had my chart mainly because of convenience but personally after one year I felt we were spinning wheels and not reaching our goal...and I'll explain more about the cost as you read on.

I was under Dr. Ripps care for fertility treatment from August 2010-July 2011...He has a satelite office in Panama City which my husband first was the courteous one and walked in the clinic while I was at work that day, it took me 6 months until they could finally get me in there, b/c I was so in denial that we needed help. Hey we got pg once before naturally, but after 6 months of no such luck I was finally persuaded by Dr. Terri Bishop at Dr. Ripps office here in town. She doesn't sugar coat anything and told me I wasn't getting any younger. I can still hear her tell me my work schedule was more complicated then any lawyer or doctor she ever dealt with and I worked at a bank (at that time) and their office was only 15 minutes from work...So you would think it shouldn't of been that complicated, but their clinic didn't open any earlier then 8:30 and I was a keyholder at the bank so had to be there to open the branch and get the vault opened at 8am so I really had a schedule conflict. But when they finally got me in, some baseline test were ran... Then Mich and I met with Dr. Ripps, he told us we would only have 5% percent chance of conceiving with iui and our best shot would be an IVF only because we have unexplained infertility. We were told it would cost us $10,000 for an IVF (not including meds), but we felt like we didn't have any other option.

Last October we went through IVF with Ripps...We were able to retrieve 13 eggs with 7 to fertilize...On transfer day we had 2 that made it to blastocyst (day 5) but I kept questioning why none were frozen but there was a gray area and I never found out why. Also I was not happy the night I had to do the trigger shot with lack of support. I was on the board here asking everyone for help b/c she never told me how much saline solution to mix with the powder for the trigger shot. I remember trying to call her from 9 that night all the way up to midnight and we were so upset b/c I couldn't get through to her for this emergency. She told me she was throwing a party for her niece and so her phone was turned off. That was the night my my husband was so mad he threw a chair across the room and we had to wing it the best we could. So this taught me to ALWAYS make sure you have a backup for an emergency contact, because each clinic is going to be different.

When the first IVF didn't work, (AND most of the time it will take more then one attempt, but had to learn that the hard way) anyway, we met with Dr. Ripps who tried to talk us into trying another IVF with PGD testing (where they test the embryos)--BUT I didn't understand the point of testing the embryos, I mean this was our first time with IVF, two made it to blastocyst and I was 34 so thought it would be an expensive procedure that would only tell us the quality of embtryos tested for that particular month, and we were told each month the quality of embryo makeup will be different. I told Ripps that I wanted to have laproscopic surgery because I wanted to see if they medically could fix something wrong and if not an IUI might be all we need...So in March we had the surgery and come to find out nothing was wrong, still no diagnosis for us..But at the next consultation he told us our chances for an IUI being successful would now be 15-20% so we tried two times with Terri, but what I never understood was why bloodwork wasn't being monitored at all during the IUIs. She said we will use a opk test to detect ovulation and once we detect ov to call her. Overall I wasn't satisfied with this particular clinic because I felt limited and at times not having the support I personally needed. Not to mention with Ripps everything is paid upfront and they want your credit card number in case you have any remaining charges...

One of my coworkers had been talking to me about their success with Dr. Inge in Gulf Breeze but I felt the drive would be long and didn't know how I would be able to make it work with my job...Months later I'm visiting my favorite obgyn in Panama City and he tells me about the same clinic in Gulf Breeze offering financing options AND they have an IVF ATTAIN REFUND PROGRAM, where you can get 3 tries for around 17,000 and if you don't bring home a baby you'll get 60% of that money back.Personally it says alot that my own obgyn is closely linked to this fertility clinic, where they pass out brochures/ with online advocate care to patients seeking fertility treatment, yet there is a 2.5 hour driving distance apart. So long story short, I changed jobs in April and now able to travel to the the Center of Reproductive Center in Gulf Breeze! Dr. K is wanting to try 2 iuis before moving back into IVF....We completed our first iui cycle with 7 robust follicles...He recommended that I cancel b/c this was SO RISKY for multiples but I didn't, however it ended with a negative pg test. He is rechecking my thyroid levels and will get those results back tomorrow. Overall I like them so far (I'm still new) but they seem a little more aggressive then Ripps and definately have the state of art equipment (more upscale machines) and they are always available, because even if they are at lunch they have an answering service and will call you back. I finally feel like I'm in the best care. nNow if we can get them to open satelite office in Panama City (which is greatly needed) life would be very good!

[blueeyedreamer]

Hi All,

Still here but been busy with work so not doing much online lately.

Leorira- I think of you often.

Still putzing away on bcp while waiting. I got my schedule and will start the estrogen patches in Sept.

I have a lot of catching up to do but can't do it now.

Take care!

[anton]

Hi everyone!

I wish you all a great week! and Hurricane FREE!!


I hope you all doing OK and you are getting ready to get that BFP and bring home your baby/ies!! I wish you Good Luck in succeeding that! You are all amazingly strong women and you all deserve bringing home your baby/ies SOON!!! . ...I wish there wasn’t a Fall board for all of my previous cycle buddies and that we all continued posting in the PAT board ...but things in life don’t come easy and we all learned that in the hard way! some harder than others...so this Fall may be the winning one for all of us! May we all get our BFP’s and have healthy pregnancies with healthy babies!!!! Is that too much to ask for?!!

I’ve missed you all and even though I haven’t been posting regularly since my last BFN in July, I am always thinking of you and I was stalking you from time to time...

So, I had an insanely busy week with friends visiting from Greece and UK and from other towns staying with us. It’s been a year since I got redundancy from my job and I was home trying to have a baby, and these past 2 weeks where the most tiring weeks ever! I feel I need a holiday from the holiday! Anyways, overall it was great having them over and it make us feel good (me and DH) having them over. After all, things might be different if I wasn’t so into it! ...I mean I always try to please everyone and make them feel like home and I cook and clean and make them feel comfortable and at the end I get SO tired I drop dead at night! Thank God DH was doing massage for me almost every night. That is from the guilt of course but I’ll take anything!

So, as I told on the Summer board a couple of weeks back, I have started doing Job searching and I have sent my CV to a Job Head Hunter (they can get you good jobs if your CV is up to their standards...) So, on Thursday 1st Sept I have an interview at Coca Cola for the position of Trade Marketing Officer for all the brands of the Coca Cola group. Money wise is not bad so we’ll see how it goes. ....even though this is a small part of the Marketing and I have a Marketing backround and 7yrs of experience in retail Marketing and I would prefer a more into a Marketing job but hey! Times are tough so I shouldn’t complain I guess...

Is going to be a bit tough, I guess, doing such a stress job that demands everyday market visits to the point of sale of the brands among others, while trying to conceive with IVF. I will definitely ask at the interview how much time of my job I will need to drive around the market with the car etc. If this job was available at a different stage of my life I would be very pleased to get it and live the experience. But now I guess my priorities are on the Baby making...God this is taking SO long!!! ...this is SO aqward, I have worked so hard in my life to get "that" big position in a big company and make a great career and now all that seems SO far away! I just want to make our family and get a job just to have a job and bring home some money....times are changing!

So! the plan is to go early October to my RE and arrange for that Israeli doctor friend of his to come from Israel and perform that mild kind of D&C to me (Leorira done this if I remember well. It is that 5min “thing” that the doctor does to your endo. I can’t remember the name of the procedure! Leorira can you please give me some feedback? I remember you said is not a pain full thing to do...) and then November we start a fresh IVF cycle, our 8th so far and hopefully the last one! In 2yrs time we have done so far 6 fresh IVF’s and 1 FET. The plan is to produce enough eggs this time that will make enough embryos so that we can sent them for PGD/CGH test and transfer the normal ones. Maybe all are normal or maybe none and that’s why no implantation so far. PGD doesn’t promise success and doesn't help implantation rates but the purpose in our case is to find out if the embies are not normal and that is why no baby yet. And also that test can show if my eggs are still good quality. If nothing is ok then we (hopefully I will persuade my DH) will proceed with egg donor the next time. I am praying that this time we get some answers and bring home a baby or two!

I will try and catch up with all of you and promise to do personals next time.
Wehavehope- Hi there my friend you can now officially add me in the Fall board.... Even though I might not be posting everyday this month and the following, until I start my BFP cycle which looks like is going to be in November

Sorry for the long post girls! It’s been a while to post ...I needed a short break from the IVF stuff....and so I had so much to share with you! and still do....

Baby dust to us all!!

anton

[Tamera]

Anton welcome to the fall board, I think this fall is going to bring great things to all of us.

[WeHaveHope]

UPDATED 08-29-11 @ 7:51amEST. Please let me know if I have missed anyone or if I'm missing any updates. Sending you lots of xoxoxo.









Fvrogers-FET 10/2011


Becca-Fall/2011
Tamera-11/2011
Leorira-Fall/2011
Kiminsh-Fall/2011
Fruit-Fall/2011
Alwaysangel-Fall/2011
Sunshine1576-Fall/2011
Cheri76-Fall/2011
Lyd10-Fall/2011
Anton-Fall/2011


Akdelp-Waiting for AF for Fall IVF


Blueeyedreamer-on BCP for cycle 10/2011
Kerpupples-on BCP for cycle Fall/2011
Toniaa-on BCP for cycle in Fall/2011
WeHaveHope-on BCP for FET 10/2011 Hcg finally Negative. We now start a new chapter. Praying for a Fall miracle.



K8ielovett-Started on Lupron on 8-24-11
Kendra_n_Michael-on Lupron, estimated ER 9-20-11

[WeHaveHope]

Dear friends,
Here is the inspirational quote for this week. Remember, don't ever give up on your dreams. Please feel free to share your favorite inspirational quotes today and everyday. We all need a little, sometimes alot, of inspiration and encouragement. Sending you all much love.



"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."-Henry Ford

[hackneyfl]

Crashing ...

WeHaveHope, I also used IVF FLORIDA and loved them.
Keep the faith, they are a great clinic, I brought home a beautiful baby boy on 07/22/2009 on my 3rd attempt.
While my doctor, Dr. Keegan isn't there anymore, the clinic is wonderful.

helen