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Well, today I went in for the third day in a row for b/w and u/s. I hope that they let me use the Ovidrell soon, my poor little arms look like I am a Heroin addict. One follicle is 16 and they didnt tell me the measurement of the other two, but it sounds promising that they will have me take the ovidrell today, then come in tomorrow to make sure that DH little men are getting where they need to go.... God I hope this works.... I feel so poked and prodded
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Good morning everyone! Well, my surgery went well - they removed the mass and the endo and **luckily** the cyst I had from the clomid, was already gone. But let me tell you, I was all loopy yesterday from all the meds, etc....slept terribly and today, feel like I was hit by a truck! I am only semi-comfortable STANDING up! In my next life, I am coming back as a man or a dog! :)
Shen - I would tell your boss that you are having "personal medical issues" that you need to attend too and they will require multiple doctors appts. Stay positive, you can't control this!! I personally find talking about it with other women, helps so much and more people than you know, are going through the same thing! CCB - I am sure you have had enough, i'll keep all my fingers crossed and think baby thoughts for you! Tryng - good luck on your exams today & tomorrow.
Volleyball & softball, you girls are good! I am in a bowling league on Wed nights :) Purchased a ball & shoes too, even I laugh at myself....
Hope everyone has a good day!
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hi - yup tring4pg - i got the goods ONLY that night so far -- my daughter has been sick since - woke up shortly after the "session" -- she has been throwing up, fever and clingy. so we haven't had too much time to get busy -- and today - of all things - i am starting to feel sick - i took some cold and flu stuff 1st thing this morning then again just a few minutes ago - and my dh called and i told him that - and he was all freaked out - what about the baby? i mentioned since we had not quite had a +opk or a peak on the fertility monitor i thought we were pretty safe. especially since we only took 1 shot at it 2 days ago. oh wlel maybe it's just not meant to be my month --???? i am exhausted! --- ccb wow - sounds pretty good. you are so funny about dh's little men - just imagine all the poking and prodding will pay off!! what do you do next? makiernan - glad your surgery went well - glad everyone is doing well -- good luck on your exams trying4!!
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Hi,
Welcome Shen , have you tried gonadatrophins or IuI ?
trying4pg my dr. is against clomid for me b/c I am older. It isn't as good for us older women -thinning lining and potentially raise FSH or screw w/our cycle. He wants me to do gonadatrophins. I had to take the clomid challenge for insurance reasons. That means I have to meet criteria to stay insured.
Unreal-huh!
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hi- i am sicker than sick, threw up - fever and a fever blister the size of georgia now on my lip (DD too - we are a sad pair!) but on top of all that - today i got a +opk and an "egg" on my cbfm -- but i started on meds for the illness yesterday and do'nt know if it will screw up trying if i can muster up the strength to just lay there tonight? your thoughts?? where are you guys --?? i need ya ----
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Hey Julie - sorry I was busy there for a while...hopefully you will get this before you have to "lay there" tonight...lol...sometimes TTC is not so romantic...hey! I don't know Julie - and please don't take offense...maybe your bod is telling you to take the month off??? I don't know...and forgive me if that's too forward. It also depends on what type of medication you are on as well. Justme - that sucks... I am glad you are not cut off though...but that sounds crappy. Mak - I am really happy your surgery went well. I hope you are feeling better by now and only feel like you've been hit by a car and not a truck. If you are feeling really better....still milk it for a while...remember most DH's could not handle the invasive things we have to put up with. By the way, I truly respect a woman who owns her own bowling ball (that is a great sport for working out your a$$ surprisingly). CCB - I am really hoping to hear good things from you this month. I don't quite understand if you are IVF'ing or IUI'ing...either way it can't be fun looking like a heroin addict??? When do you find out if you "o"? Shen - I hope you are doing well...maybe you should talk to your doc about the chinese herbs and the IVF. I know that chinese herbs can be powerful and I was just hoping they won't interfer with the fertility medications that are also super powerful? But really, I don't know much about either. Anyways, wishing you guys the best fertile thoughts. I have 2 more exams next week...blehhhhh. Today's exam exhausted me...I am going to treadmill and watch a movie now. Later future fat ones!
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TTC3 - i love ya!!! i managed to pull it together to participate vs. lay there -- ha ha. . . . but i wonderd if the old bod was saying something to me about not trying this month too?? so - we are done for the month - i told dh my thoughts -and he said if it was meant to be it will be - and if not - we try next month. it will be interesting draggin all the infertility stuff on the airplane for our week away!! i hope they don't go thru my stuff too much - fertility monitor, opk's, sealed vials of preseed and maybe even a BBT if i get it together - some lingere! woo hoo ~ that will be interesting!! but if it is meant to be then it will be. thank you for your concern - i know it's just cuz you care - and i'd never be mad at that!! i have taken advil and echinaeca (the one i was worried about) and a lot of green tea --- i put a dab of abreva on the old fever blister - but don't think that would be bad since i had not bd'd yet. i appreciate your thoughts - so please let me know what you think of those - did i screw up? should i try to bd one last time tomorrow???????? am i reaching with that one>? normally i am a very reasonable, sane & normal person - it's this whole fertility mess that's got me all messed up. btw - where in canada are you from karen? i am in cali. going to FL for vacation next month. well - dd is finally starting to get tired after a dinnertime nap -- so it's time to tend to her and get myself to sleep. i hope your exams went well - and only 2 left - yeay! thanks again for your caring!!
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Good luck to yo u Julie....trying4pg...and everyone else....Im out of the 2ww...ugly AF showed Thurs....and i got a BFN!!! I went back to RE...and I have residual cysts again...so Im on BCP again this month and hopfully...sometime in May we can start TTC again...we will do one more try with Follistim and IUI...and then its on to IVF for us. This whole process is so damn frustrating...especially when everyone around me (girls at work and my friends) are just popping up pregnant and werent even trying. Im happy for them...but its killing me. My daughter asked me a couple week ago if I was dying...cause I was giving myself shots and going to the Dr all the time....i told her no...ten she fiqured out I was trying to have a baby..and told me to hurry up all ready and give her a sister. She is 7 almost 8. I really want her to have a sibling Oh well...enough whing for me...everyone have a great weekend and I will keep checking in to see everyones progress and send lots if BABYDUST.....then hopefully I will be back in the game soon.
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TRYING4PG: sorry i started the post with TTC3 - i am ill and it was late - but i was writing to you ---- i hope you knew that.
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hoping4pg - sorry about AF - i know it is disappointing. keep positive your daughter will have a sibling.
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Trying - Thanks for your nice thoughts... I am not really doing IUI... I am taking injectables with intercourse. My RE will only let me try two months, and this is my first try of the injectables. They stopped me using the follistem two days ago, because they thought that I had an LH surge, but after two more days and my progesterone level still being very low they are having me suppliment my LH surge with another injecable medication called Ovidrell, I take that today and then "homework" has been assigned for the next two nights with DH. I am very happy that they are using the Ovidrell, I have been very cramppy, and slightly sick... I will be happy to enter the tww. and I am sure that I will be happy when the tww is over as well... although I feel pregnant already... I cant be... because my follicles, which I have three that are 18 and two that are a bit bigger, are still there... sigh How has every one else been? Trying - what exams do you have? Here is hoping for babies for us all
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Hi guys! I am having a devastating weekend. You know how you always have that 1 person that you're ok as long as so and so doesn't get preggers. Well I just found out that so and so is preggers and for some reason I can't handle it. I just can't do this anymore...it is soooo frustrating...so I did the mature thing and ran away from home...nice huh??? I am furious at hubby who knew and decided to tell me last night. He is shocked at what a horrible person that I am ...that I am not happy for so and so. So...here I am sitting alone in hotel looking at my books and trying to force myself to study. I don't know...this just seems too hard now. Hoping...I am so sorry that AF came...and I can totally relate to your sadness. Julie - the meds are absolutely no big deal...I though you were going hard on Contact C or something - I don't think anything you have taken would make any difference at all and I wish you the best of luck this month. CCB I have two exams left...english (which I love) and philosophy (which I hate). I have a theory that all the best philosophers in the world are men...cause their the only ones who have enough time to sit around and wonder whether computers really have brains or not...the rest of us are just too busy!!! Anyways, I will talk to you guys later.
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trying4pg - OH NO!! i am sorry you are having such a sucky day. i hope today has been better. i have to say that running away although should not be encouraged, is understandable at this stage in the game. you are hormonal right now anyhow so anything can set you off. sorry to hear about the friend getting preggers -- did she maybe have her own fertility issues and it finally happened?? (trying to find a happy spot here) -- try not to let it take away from your studies --- your time is coming - i just know it!! thanks for the words on the meds i took - i did however hear that green tea sucks the folic acid out of your body - which at my age i desperately need! so i am conerned about that ~ although i just don't think we managed to get it at the right time this weekend - what with the sick child and the sick me - and stuff. i was reading on some other threads - that women are all up in arms that they may be pregnant at this point and could end up spending christmas in the hospital - - - - um i just want a baby - i will spend any day in the hospital that makes that possible. (see there is some of my frustrations - so don't worry trying4 -- you are not a horrible person - you are just a frustrated good person who's time is coming!) and most of all you are not alone with it! ~~~~~~~ although i have to say i am a little disappointed in the lack of activity in this thread -- come on girls - keep it going. ccb - i hope your "homework " went well - what cd are you on? i guess i am cd 19 - or 2dpo. wow - i am in the 2ww --- i think that is the first time i have thought of it that way - anyone else??? hoping4 how are you?
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Hi Julie - thanks for the encouragement...I needed it this week. Exam went ok today, but I wasn't really on my game. I am madly studying for wed. dreaded exam. I had no idea about the green tea thing so I am very grateful that you told me - cause I sip it all the time. Yeah I know what you are saying about Chrismas babies and stuff - I will take anything I can get. I am even willing to have one of those obscene-in-the-middle of a public place deliveries...that would be cool. My surgery just got bumped up to this Thursday...so I guess that's good. They want me to take a couple of days off cause I have to have general anesthetic I guess. After that I am ready to go strong next Monday as my spring courses start. Not much of break, but oh well. I am trying to do everything very intensely so I can take it easy when I begin IVF. I think we need to start recruiting more ladies to our thread. Yes ladies....I MEAN YOU!!! If you are only reading threads and not jumping in, please feel free to do so. That is exactly what this thread is about. TTC is too difficult to do alone!!! Hoping...how are you? I know you are taking a little bit of down time and that is good. CCB -please keep us updated. Mak - how are you feeling??? Shen don"t be a stranger we are thinking about you Later gals!
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Hi sweeties... Julie- you and I are on the same day... 2dpo. I was being monitored on Follistim and they saw an LH surge, but it was very small... so they told me not to take the ovidrell to make me ovulate.. thinking that my body would do it.. well... it didn't... so two days ago I( under dr's orders) took the ovidrell to make me ovulate... and i spent two days with the most tender ovaries I have ever had... even a low grade fever.. today I am feeling soooo much better... so... *enter 2ww stage left*... I am trying very hard not to be anxious about this... *sigh*I dont know how I will take it if this doenst work... and I dont know what I will do if it does... Im sure you guys know what I am talking about... if it depends on cramping from drugs I am almost guaranteed that something will happen, If nothing does I dont know if I will try another cycle of the injectables without knowing that it will lead directly to IVF.. The cramps suck.. Baby dust to all
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Just checking in with everyone....Im jsut laying low this month...hoping that the BCP will take away these darn cysts so I can get back in the TTC game.....this is all so nerve racking and stressfull....I know how you feel trying4....this is the most stressful difficult thing we will ever endure ....I just found out 2 days ago 2 of my friends are preggers and were not even trying....then they were sitting there talking about how its going to stink be pregnant in the summer and I was like..I dont care what day month year or week I am pregnant..I just want it to happen...then they felt bad cause they know all I am going through....I am truly happy for them...but I just want this to happen already.....anyways... I hope that everyone has a great day....and good luck to all in the 2ww...keep busy and hopefully the time will go by....I just want this month over so I can start again. Take care everyone and BABY DUST all around!!!!!
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