March/April cycle buddies??

Discussion forum for those particularly interested in IVF and embryo transfer including frozen embryo transfer.
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wishfull27
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Post by wishfull27 »

ooo yes please sprout !!!

my name is carolyn and I am .... no only joking
I am waiting for Af - then start b/c pills - ET around early April - IVF / Icsi/ ED !!

Enjoy your couple of months of natural trying - sometimes it is just good not to be focusing on dates/cycles and ovulation as it makes things more mechanical .. enjoy my dear :wink: :wink:

Off to bed now

Catch you all tomorrow .. sending truck loads of PMA to all my lovely friends xx
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Yes Please as well that would be great sprout,

I start down regulating on 8th Feb and AF should come 7 to 10 days after that, hopefully start on oestradiol 22 feb as long as AF has been, the only time she has arrived late was on my last cycle can you believe that!! All scans and ET dates had to be put back by 2 weeks, regular as clockwork usually!!! Anyway at the moment FET scheduled for 10 or 11 March

Good luck to DH for his TESE appt tommorrow Michelle hope all goes well.

Hi to Kim, Riley, sisi hope all is good with you.....

Lee xx
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sprout- how nice of you to offer! I am currently on bcp's, and without any bumps in the road, I will start stims on Feb 20, ER/ET first week of march. What are you in school for? And what school do you go to?


Yes sprout- I am in school. I feel like I have gone forever. I graduated in 2007 with my elementary school teaching degree and certificate and I am currently close to finishing my masters and 2nd certificate which will allow me to teach middle school math. I really really wish i could take this semester off, but I need to get that second certificate, especially if I am planning on being pregnant and having a second child.

Well, we got dh's numbers back. High FSH and low testosterone. The numbers are similar to last year, so they expect similar result with TESE, we will see what the uroligist says tomorrow. I want them to try and diagnose it this time too. I think dh's low testosterone contributes to a low libido, and I know lots of women would not complain, but it bothers me a bunch.

I also put in the order for all of my meds yesterday. Even though it was only copays, it was still $214. I know it would be a lot more if I had no coverage, but even with coverage, there are a lot of out of pocket costs associated with this whole thing. I need to call capital one and check out their healthcare financing, b/c I think we want to freeze if we have enough this time.

ok ladies, I gotta run, I hope you are all doing well as we wait it out together.
Me- 28 DH- 33 Male Factor
1st IVF- 12/07- BFP! Ella Michele was born 8/26/8
2nd IVF- 04/09 - BFN
1st FET- 09/09 - Chemical
3rd IVF - 04/11 - Embies didn't make it to ET
4th IVF - Fall 2011??
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Hi ladies...

There are two awesome ladies here that I know. I just wanted to show my support for them and the rest of you!!!!

My DH and myself are using DS to have a family. So you ladies using DE I think you are amazing women!! I would totally do it if I needed it!!!!

Carolyn & Lee BIG HUGS LOVEYS!!!!!!!

Oh, Michele...i know you dont know me... :oops: But Ella is BEAUTIFUL!!! I voted for her too... :lol: and guess what?? Ella is in my top 3 names!!! HEE HEE!! I love that name.

Sending PMA & BABY DUST!!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!!!
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thanks Mir - you are such a sweetie xxx
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Hi CT - hope appointment with urologist goes ok tom - thinking of you Honey xx

still no AF ... arghhh :twisted:

where is everyone else ???

hope all ok and everyone just busy at work or more exciting things to do xxx
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Ohhh thank you Miracle, with your PMA on here with us we can't go wrong!! :)

I have directed another buddy over here, lilmd, we have been 'talking' over the last few weeks, so Hi lil when you get here!!! :)

Ok Carolyn lets put a jiggy dancer on here too for you to get AF flowing!!! This is for you too lil! :)

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Wow Michelle studying, baby and IVF all together amazing energy you must have I think I would look like this!! :lol:

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Hope everything goes well tommorrow........

Take Care everyone

Lee xxx
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Hi Ladies,

I feel like I've been MIA - I must admit it's just that I hate typing! I tend read more than I post. But don't fret - I am always thinking of you and sending good energy and thoughts your way all day!

Sprout - thanks for offering to organize us. I guess what you'd need to know about me is that start Synarel on Feb. 9th. Is that considered downregulating? Thanks again!

Sara - where did you get that picture of me? No, not the jiggy dancer - the stress monster! :lol:
I hope your AF behaves for you this month!

CTMichelle - Wow. Are you working while you go to school, too? I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how I'm going to stay sane just juggling work and IVF.

Wishfull - it's amazing how hard we have hoped for af to not show up for so many cycles and then when we need her, she stalls. I am starting to think that af is actualy a man, no woman would be so cruel. I think Tom (time of month) is more appropriate!

Riley and Lee I hope we hear from you soon!

AFM - I went to the RE this am for my hysteroscopy. I was stunned by how crabby I was just from the anxiety that I had about the procedure. I think I'm going to have to do yoga and acupuncture and anything else I can do before the IVF procedure. I can't imagine how much worse it will be when I'm pumped full of hormones and my ovaries feel like they are going to explode on top of it!
Anyway, the scope went well. There was one polyp that he just got rid of right there and other than that, my uterous just looked like the pink cave that he said it would look like.
So we bought all of the meds at the office and brought them home with us. I already had the needles, but now I've go the stuff to go in them. It feels more real now.
I shouldn't have any new updates for my self for a while, but I will be reading about your adventures and always sending you baby dust!

Kim
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Kimbob- I am working very very part time right now. I am an after school tutor for the school I use to teach for last year. I brought the baby to visit the school, and when they offered me $45/hr, I just couldn't pass that up. Right now it is only on Mondays and Tuesdays from 3-4:30 with about a half an hour commute each way, with 2 hrs of training on Wednesdays for a couple of hours. It doesn't seem like much, but it is definitely draining me with everything else, like schoolwork, ivf and the baby. But I will make it through, I've done it before, but I am definitely already looking forward to May, when tutoring and semester ends. Hopefully I will be a couple of months pregnant then and just enjoy the rest of my time with Ella until her little brother or sister gets here!

Sara- haha, I do look like that on many days, just maybe a little less green :lol: We will welcome your friend to our thread as soon as she comes!

Miracle- Thanks so much. You are such a sweetie, and I am glad you like the name. It was very hard as a teacher, to find a name that I didn;t have an existing attachment to that I really liked, and that went well with my name as the middle name...Ella Michele just sounded so right from the second I said it!

Wishful- doin the af dance for you...hope she rears her ugly head soon!

I will let you all know how TESE consult goes. I wasn;t planning on going, but I think DH wants me to, so we can try to get to the bottom of the causes. He has low testosterone, which causes a low libido. I know most ladies wouldn';t be bothered by it, but it does bother me at times. I understand the reason, but sometimes I just feel inadequate or unwanted, and if there is something that can be done to help the situation, I think we want to know about it. It will just be difficult for me to go with the baby and the expected snow tomorrow, but I am going to try.

I also got some good news about financing today. Capital one has a healthcare financing option for fertility that my RE office told me about. So we applied tonight and DH was approved at a 1.99 % rate. Even though insurance covers our ivf, there are a lot of out of pockets fees not covered, like freezing embryos if we have good ones left, a $800 TESE fee not covered, $500 to unfreeze sperm day of ER and a couple others. We did not keep our 2 embryos last time b/c we just could not afford to pay that money on that day, but now I don;t have to worry about it. I am glad that stressor is gone, with this being my last covered ivf, I am so worried if it doesn't work, we won;t be able to afford to go again, but now I have hope.

Ok, I gotta try and get some sleep, I will update you all tomorrow.
Me- 28 DH- 33 Male Factor
1st IVF- 12/07- BFP! Ella Michele was born 8/26/8
2nd IVF- 04/09 - BFN
1st FET- 09/09 - Chemical
3rd IVF - 04/11 - Embies didn't make it to ET
4th IVF - Fall 2011??
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hey Kimbob - you just post whenever you feel like it - you know where we all are if you need us xx

CT - hope hospital went ok - saw your other post about DH low drive - am sure there must be some meds that can help him - can understand you not feeling wanted etc - but suppose more pressure you put on him worse it is for him .. hugs honey - sounds like you have a real strong realtionship so am sure you will work it out ((()))) xx

Still no AF :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: - if had not taken them blasted tablets she would have been here by now - heyho !! - sooo please keep dancing - and yes Kimbob - she is def a he !!!!

Off out for a curry with some girlfiends tonight so will catch you all tom xxx
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Good morning everyone! How is everyone doing today? I am still catching up at work like a mad-woman, but I will start compiling our list later today and post it.
me-35: FSH 6.3; AMH 0.3
DH-42 lowish count
#0 IVF 03/08, cancelled, no response
#1 IVF w/ICSI 09/08, BFN, no frosties
#2 IVF w/ICSI 12/08, BFN, no frosties
#3 IVF - w/ICSI 07/09, BFP!!!!! (no frosties)
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thanks for the jigs ladies - the witch AF arrived today :lol: :lol: At least can start BC pills now - just seems sooo odd.. off for some tea - wioll be back later xxx
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I think I must be spending too much time reading up on this thead beacuse I was so taken with the jiggy dancer my AF came :lol: 10 days after my cancelled cycle!

Well I am not too upset about that :D nothing like af shoving up early to make my happy, now I am only one cycle away and should be starting my IVF cycle aprox March 02/09 if all is back to normal now.

Gosh, I wish I could fast forward a month...... :P
41, unexplained (plain old) fsh 4.7
DH 55 lots of good swimmers
3xclomid BFN
3xIUI BFN
First and last IVF:
A) canceled due to low response on day 3
B) Negative beta April 06/09
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glad to be of assistance Sisi - one more month to wait now for that BFP xxx

CT - any news on appointment today ??

Where is everyone else??
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Hi Kim and Michelle you liked my little green monster then!!!

Kim yes when I start taking synarel is when our consultant says we are don regulating. There are so many different terms in this whole process it can get quite confusing at times!! I think TOM is a brilliant term to call it!! Considering that tom can be a pain, inconsiderate, and make you feel mad at times!! :lol: So now you have all your meds at home the time is coming nearer for you start Kim, when you feel pumped full of hormones and feel ready to explode come talk to us and we will help calm you down thats what we are here for. Also a real good excuse to use all the relaxation things you can!!!

Sisi glad the jig worked for you too! :)

Hope your appt went well Michelle.

So Carolyn tmt has really started properly now you are on your way!!!

No news from me still just rolling along.....

Take Care
Speak soon

Lee xx
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