STARTING *** IVF *** TOMORROW - ANYONE WANT TO JOIN ME?
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Monica - November 5

Just thought I would drop in and let you know how my progress is going. But first I need to know how you went Nita?!? Please let us asap. And Justine, how are you going Mum? OK, here is the run down from my last post - I have had close to 6 blood tests, 2 ultrasounds and I have just got a call from the clinic to say hormones are perfect to stop taking my nasal spray and injections and to do the very last one called the trigger which gets done about 38hrs before you head into hospital. Yes, this is it!! On Monday, I am booked in to get my eggs taken out!! It has officially hit me that all the nasal spray/injections is nothing like what next week is going to hold. I am already looking like I am 3 months pregnant!! I am extremely swallon/bloated from fluid retention from the last few weeks. My jeans are very uncomfortable that I am now in elastic waist skirts. I'm still a cow to be around and hubby is still as patient as ever. I have tried to stay home as much as possible so I don't have a hissy fit in public and so that people don't look at my belly. As for keeping this secret to ourselves - my excitement has gotten the better of me and I've told a handful of people now but I need to calm down and stay focused as this could end up not the way we would love it to be. Will keep you all posted next week.

 

Jen - November 5

Hurray, Monica!!! I'm soo glad to hear that you're almost done with this whole process. I can only imagine how exciting it must be! My thoughts are with you and I wish you all the best on Monday! We are set to go in and meet with our RE to begin the whole ivf process in three weeks and I can't wait to get moving on this! Wishing you all the best and keep us posted!

 

Justine - November 5

Hi Monica - Hope the egg collection goes well. It's good to be reaching the end of the process. I'm enjoying being a mum but it's so tiring - I have to change/feed her every 3 hours, 24 hours a day. It completely changes your life but in a lovely way - she goes everywhere I go. I keep worrying about her getting ill though - I spent my whole pregnancy worrying too. I must stop it and just enjoy her but she's so precious I don't want anything to happen to her. Hope you have a baby (or two) in 8 and a half months time too.

 

Nita - November 7

Your almost there Monica. Many blessings!! I am still hanging in there. I have not got a period like the nurses told me i would have! my numbers are doubling, but they say they are still a bit low. I had to do an US on yesterday to make sure the sac was in the correct place (dr. thought i may be having a 3rd eptopic pregnancy) I dont have any tubes but they thought the embryos had tried to implant near the tip where the tubes are. anyway the sac is in the correct place. the dr. said it could still go either way because of low hcg reading however I am going to be positive.

 

Jen - November 8

Nita-I'll keep my fingers crossed for you..good luck!! Monica, just wondering how egg collection went. I've heard that that's the hardest part of the process...so just think you're almost to the finish line!! I can't wait to hear how it goes. Hang in there!

 

Monica - November 9

MONDAY - Egg Collection was fantastic. They managed to retrieve 17 eggs. The whole process went fairly quickly. I was sore and bloated but was advised this was normal. TUESDAY - The clinic rang me to say 13 of the 17 eggs are perfect and they told me this was above average result and are extremely happy for me! 3 of the eggs didn't develop and 1 developed the wrong way. They tell me to come in the next day to have the transfer. I found myself feeling alittle worse in the sore dept. I rang the DR on duty in the evenings and told her how I was feeling. She said If I don't get better they will cancel my transfer. Was also told to drink lots of water and keep taking panadine. All night I was upset with the thought they will cancel my transfer after everything I have been through so I drank close to 4ltrs of water and took panadine every 4hrs on the dot. WEDNESDAY - I still felt alittle sore when I went into the clinic but tried to stay positive. My fertility specialist said he has 1 egg that is in brilliant shape ready to implant. I told him before he started about what has been happening and he felt my bloated stomach and asked me to put my tongue out and said to me he will not be doing the transfer today due to me suffering from hyperstimulation. He said if he did the transfer I could end up in hospital on a drip with them draining me of fluid. He told me he wants to hold if off for another 2 months. He will freeze my eggs till then. Gave me medication to bring down my levels and pain and said to make an appointment in 4 weeks to see how I am. To tell you all I am devasted, is an understatement!! I feel like this is just never going to happen!! I have gone through weeks of feeling like crap all for a good cause and then this!! My dh said that everything happens for a reason, but what is the reason for this?!?!?! I have used every curse word under the sun. I don't want to see anyone at the moment. I want to be alone as I can't believe how well everything was coming along and then this happened!!! I just wish I never got excited in the first place!! Here I was thinking I was going to tell close family and friends at Christmas time I'm pregnant..what a joke that is now. I have cried so much I don't think I have any tears left in me. Thanks all for listening.

 

Justine - November 9

Monica - I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm sending you lots of hugs. Your eggs will be frozen though so it's not all for nothing but I understand its depressing news. When I did IVF-ICSI I had egg collection on Monday am which was fine. Was in agony on Monday pm, Tuesday and Wednesday and bleeding red heavily. I started bloating too though nothing major. I had 22 eggs of which 20 were good. I called my clinic and they told me it was normal though they didn't really seem to care - they were supposed to call me everyday because I was high risk for hyperstimulation (over 20 follicles - I had 35) but they never called once. They went ahead with a day 3 transfer of 2 embryos (out of 12 - they binned the rest - aargh) and 1 took. My local hospital said I had hyperstimulation because I ended up with multiple cysts on both ovaries due to IVF and that's why they tested me for cancer. I don't know if your clinic were right to cancel but I know you do need to be careful with hyperstimulation - if you get it badly its extremely serious. I hope your frozen embryos result in a baby or two for you. IVF is a horrible and very depressing process but one day it will give you a baby. If you have to wait two months the best thing I can suggest is to try and take a holiday somewhere relaxing. That's what I did and it helped me a lot though its still so hard. Sending you lots of baby dust.

 

Jen - November 10

Hi Monica-I am sooo sorry that you have had to go through all of this. You're right, it sucks! I just wanted to let you know that I'm thinking of you. Hang in there! As Justine said, I'm also sending you lots of baby dust.

 

lizelle - November 10

Hi there. I'm seeing my RE tomorrow after 6 months of Lupron,2 Laps and 1mayor surgery to remove endo. I'm so nervous,scared,anxious you name it!Last time (6months ago) I saw him he told me to make the choice of taking care of myself first(endo could potencialy be life threatning) OR having a baby. I didnt even care about myself all I want is a little baby(is that to much to ask?)After talking with him and my husband for a long time I realized that i have to get well first cause the IVF had very little chance of working without the surgeries. So tomorrow is the day. I have a bad feeling that I'm going to be dissapointed again. To wait anymore with this is going to drive me insane! I'm very emosional the last few days I even developed a flue cause my system is so "down".Please pray for me tonight that there will be a light at the end of this dark tunnel, or alteast a little bit of hope? I'll do the same for you guys.(I'm ttc for 3 1/2 years now)

 

Monica - November 10

Thanks guys for your support. I rang the clinic today just to ask a few more questions like the obvious..Could I have prevented it? How did it happen? Could it be done next month? etc etc. My body reacted to the treatment really well hence the reason I got hyperstimulation. I cried again after getting off the phone as I still can't believe it has happened.

The scientist rang me this afternoon to tell me they will be freezing 7 embryos. Made me feel much better that I have 7 more tries!

I have booked in to see him in a few weeks as he has plans for the transfer to be done in Jan.

Your right Justine, it is a completely emotionally rollercoaster ride! I have asked dh to take me away soon..I need a holiday!

I'm going to go back to the gym on Monday, get myself fit & healthy again (haven't gone in 4weeks since starting IVF) and gained 4.5kgs which most of that is fluid but I have been eating out of comfort too. And I'm going to look after me again because if I dwell on this anymore I might break down.

Lizelle, I really hope everything works out well for you, you will be in my prayers tonight.

Thanks again Justine & Jen...you really don't know how much having you both to vent too means to me! God Bless!

 

bump - November 13

bump

 

Justine - November 13

Monica - 7 frozen embryos is very good. I know you must want to be pregnant now but with 7 frozen you must stand an excellent chance of having at least 1 baby and hopefully your whole family! I hope you get to go on holiday soon - I'd book it yourself if dh doesn't - men normally need pushing into booking holidays in my experience! I went away for 2 weeks in Cuba before my IVF and it was great - I completely forgot about it for 2 weeks (though you need to be careful with places like Cuba that need vaccines as it can delay things while the vaccines get out of your system by we knew we'd have to wait 3 months). I know a girl who did IVF first-time and it failed, did 1 frozen embryo cycle which failed then it worked third time with frozen ones. Frozen cycles are much easier as there's no drugs and I think you may have a better pregnancy as the drugs mess up your system in my experience. Lizelle - Hope your RE appointment went well.

 

Justine - November 13

www.totsites.com/tot/sophie
This is Sophie's website - it doesn't contain much yet but has her picture on it.

 

Jen - November 15

Justine- Sophie is beautiful! What a gorgeous little girl! Congratulations and thank you for keeping us all encouraged with your words of wisdom. Dh and I are set to go see our RE next Tuesday to find out what tests I still need before beginning ivf. I can't wait to get moving in the right direction again. We've taken the last seven months off from the clinic after the last round of iuis caused more cysts. We decided we wanted our lives back for awhile and not always living our lives around my cycle. Can't say that it worked, but at least I'm in a better place stress-wise now then I was in March. Hang in there everyone!

 

Jen - November 15

Oops! Did I say next Tuesday..I mean two weeks from today...I guess I'm just a little too anxious to get going!

 

Justine - November 18

Jen - Thanks that's lovely. Good luck with your RE appointment. Sophie is doing fine. I've had to be put on anti-depressants and go to my parents because I keep cleaning obsessively to stop Sophie getting ill - its loopy and I hope it goes soon but the doctors think it will take months so sorry if I'm not on here so much but good luck everyone.

 

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