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thayward lots of dust your way. I was told not to test until 14 days past iui so I think you are too early. Very few believe it or not get anything before 12 days. If you look at the early response rates on the actual package only about 1/2 of the people get a bfp 4 days early. Majority get it on day af is due

Thanks so much Isa! I needed that!
Smiles...
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thayward hey thats why we're here. When is af due and will you be able to hold out on testing? Do you do your bbt's?

I have been testing for the past 3 days... all BFN. I am due for a positive (I don't like saying it "the other way") on Thursday. I am 12 days post IUI today. I don't do BBTs... I tried but had a really hard time with it. I have daily LH bloodwork to find out when I am ovulating. When I was trying it I had quite low temps and freaked myself out. Trying to stay positive about getting a positive! Smiles...
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Thanks for the support Ladies... I will have to talk to the RE about more monitoring. I am just very sensitive about people who go to their doctor and spout off what they have learned on the internet like they know what's best. I work at a Vet clinic and we hear that ALL of the time! But, on the same note, the dogs, horses and cows (we haven't done a lot of repro work on cats yet) get more care and monitoring than I have had!!! And since I am familiar with the hormones and how they work, I should be comfortable talking about them... I am just too quiet! But that apparently has to change! thayward... good luck... hopefully tomorrow has a BFP in store for you! Isa, good luck with the genetic testing. I'll keep you Ladies posted, thanks for the support, I needed a nudge to get a backbone!!! ;o)

It never hurts to ask. I know what you mean though... I often think that way too. I think it's the way you ask that's important. Smiles...
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thayward, any news? Thanks again for the support! I think that my cysts have only gotten worse as I am having intermettent pain today. And a backache on the left side on and off. I am not supposed to call my RE's office until CD 40, but today is CD 31 and if I feel like this tomorrow I probably should call and see about getting in. Good luck and baby dust to all of us!!!

That's what we're here for! Smiles! I go for a blood test tomorrow - 14 days post IUI. I am nervous. I want so badly for it to be positive. So far, including today, my hpts have been bfn. Babydust...
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On Wednesday afternoon I started to develop lower back pain and intermittent pain in both ovaries, it got worse as the day wore on, then Thursday morning, not too bad, but awful back pain by the PM and the pains were slightly more painful and more frequent. ARGH!!! What a story I have!!! So the pain that I was having in my ovaries and in my back got worse... not unbearable, but it concerned me, so I called my RE's office on Friday AM... (I am on CD 33 of my first cycle using Femara 5mg days 3-7) guess what... he's on holidays this week! Go figure!!! Anyhow, the nurse scheduled an U/S for me for Monday afternoon, but to call back if it got worse (this was Friday AM). By Friday afternoon I was VERY light headed and dizzy and still in a fair bit of pain and was nauseous, so I called back. My RE's partner suggested going to the Emerg and they would have an order waiting there for me to go 'straight to Gyne' when I registered and they would U/S me right away! So I went, my Aunt picked me up as I was at work and didn't think I should be driving, and she took me to Emerg. Once there and registered (yes they did have my info there) the nurse said that it would be quite a long wait because there were no available doctors to see me. Oh joy... So we waited for about 2.5 hours, then I was called in to a room where I had to put on a gown and pee in a cup and wait for 20 minutes before a nurse and a 'senior' medical student came to talk to me... Hmmm... So they asked me all of the same questions that I was asked in Triage already (someone my initial file did not follow me to the little brightly lit room). Then the student did a quick BP, pulse and listened to my lungs and then he went to find the resident. He was only gone like 15 minutes and they came back... the resident asked me all of the same questions again, and then did a pelvic exam (I did warn her if she squeezed my ovaries, I might kick her... she didn't like my sarcasm I guess--- none of these guys had much of a bedside manner)... then she went away supposedly to see about an ultrasound because 'the pain seems to be in your ovaries'... No shit Sherlock... that's what I had been saying all along!!! Anyhow... they (the resident and the medical student went off- I should mention that the student seemed quite put out initially about me being there because there were lots of babies coming into the world last night) And then a nice nurse came in and took my blood and I saw noone else for almost 2.5 hours! Seriously... noone! And I couldn't get word to my Aunt about where I was or anything. Finally the resident came back, said they had most of my blood results back and my electrolytes were fine and so if it was OHS (ovarian hyperstimulation) it wasn't a severe case, and now she will go and try to get me an ultrasound (which is supposedly where she was all of that time). I then asked how much longer I'd be because I needed to get a message to my Aunt in the waiting area. She said she'd send in a nurse to get her name and bring her in. Well 1/2 hour later still no nurse so I found the call button and pressed it. A grumpy nurse came along and I sent her to find my Aunt... All this time my left ovary is really hurting from her palpating it-OUCH! Well finally the resident comes back and sent me home to come back today (Saturday for an ultrasound because all of the Technicians had gone home and that the residents could do it, but they weren't as skilled in the fine details of doing U/S... OK now I am supremely pissed... this is at 11:30PM! I had gotten there and was registered just after 4:30PM! Almost 7 hours to find out nothing!!! So I worked this AM... and then went to the hospital had my U/S done by yet another grumpy person, who then sent me to the ER to await results! Then while waiting in the ER was sent home to await a phone call! Nice... I am also very ticked because the whole reason that I went to the hospital the first time was to get an idea of what was going on with my ovaries... today they hurt significantly less (Well now after being probed by grumpy U/S Technician they have flared up again) but I am sure that the dumb@$$ doctor will see my reults on Monday and wonder what my problem was and think I am a wuss! Trust me Ladies, I am a Farm Kid and am tough! This all really makes me angry! But hopefully the slacker RE will have to monitor me more closely from now on! OK I AM REALLY sorry about the LOOOOOng post! I needed to Vent! Now I am off to wake up DH (He missed all this because he works nights) and update him on my frustration! Thanks...

Oh Tracy... that sucks! I hope you get some results that can put your mind at ease. I found out officially today that I am not pregnant. I still have no AF, so I had a bit of hope, but the prometrium I am on sometimes stops periods. So now, I have to take 2 cycles off of the meds, which will likely put me end of October, beginning of Nov. And I have to decide about switching to injectables. It sucks that you are having such a hard time. Do you have the option of switching doctors? You haven't had much monitoring have you? I hope it all works out for you. The things we do - it will all be worth it in the end. Hang-in there girl! Smiles...
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thayward sorry about not being pg and no af. I know how hard it is. Tracy I am so sorry for what you are going through but now you understand the importance of full monitoring while on meds. If you are hyperstimming I was there once too and it is so painful. I was told 1 baby asprin an day and drink tons of gatorade (sorry I dont remember how much a day they said to drink) and if I gained more than 3 lbs /day I had to contact the clinic and I had to measure my waist each day and if it gained so much over night I had to contact them. It is very serious. The other think i found out is most hospitals dont even know what it is or how to deal with it and we actually have a pager for our doc up to 8pm and after that we go to the hopsital he is on staff with and they page him. He is very thorough. I wish you lived more out this way and could see him. I think I am on my 2ww now. Cp is low and med to almost closed and cm starting to be lotiony. I didnt get temp taken this morn as the pen didnt work and I didnt notice. It was 97 something but the important # didnt get written down and I cant remember it -oh well.

isa... Good luck in your 2ww! I completely knew the importance of monitoring and that's why I was getting so irritated with my Dr. However I really didn't think that I would hyperstimulate. And who kwows what's wrong? Noone from the hospital has called me back. And being DC33 it would be surprising to hyperstimulate at that point, but the resident that I saw said that the Letrozole (Femara) could have set up a positive feedback loop. My ovaries don't hurt quite as much, but my back is killing me and I still feel nauseous! I lost my supper last night. I know TMI! I suspected hyperstimulation on Thursday and both ovaries started hurting (hasn't happened before like that) and so I have been monitoring my weight. I'm losing weight instead, but diarrhea, vomiting and simply not eating much might do that to you! I shall survive though! My Dr is going to hear from me on Monday AM for certain! Thayward... sorry that this cycle was a bust! I know how much we all hate those BFN's! I'm thinking of you! Take care everyone!

Tracy any answers yet? Hope all is better now with you. I'm just in 2ww, about 5dpo.

Hi Girls. I'm back, my hcg levels started to drop on Tuesday. They went from 314 to 297 in 4 days so I hope they start to drop a little faster now. I don't want to wait out an m/c for too long. I'm totally angry and sad about it all but will plug ahead. The RE wants us to wait 2 months before ttc again. So I assume that is after the 1st real period we can start again. But first I need to have this m/c which is an unberable wait, it's hard to heal emtionally without getting rid of the old pg.

Rachel, I am so sorry to hear your sad news. I must have been out of the loop for a bit - I didn't realize you were going through that. Hang-in there girl. I have to take a 2 cycle break too - so we can go through that together. Hope your sun is shining soon. Smiles... T

Hi Ladies... Still no answers for me, my doc is stumped... I go in to see him Sept.8th. I'll defiantely ask for more close monitoring this time around that's for sure. Rachel... I am soooo sorry! I can't imagine what you're going through, but I hope that it's over soon and you can start to heal emotionally. Just know that we are all thinking of you.