Summer IVF Thread: Summer Embies Bring Spring Babies!! - Page 4

[rcr]

Teresa -wow, that is a ton of meniour. I don't know whats up with that. I have always been on less meniour and a ton more follistim than most peole though. I hope you cycle is not canceled today, but if it is, you can just do an IUI to still have a chance. I had two (well, four, long story) cancled cycles, and on both of the two I did IUIs.

Blue - thinking of you. How are you feeling?

AFM- My mom has never had seizures before. the hospital didn't call last night, which I am taking as a good thing, because they would call if something bad happened. She was really zonked out when I was there yesterday, but as I was leaving she started opening her eyes and mouthing words. So hopefully she will be much better today. I am headed there as soon as DS wakes up and I can take him to my freiends house.

I did hear back from SRAM and they said that I could do the interlipids when I get to Vegas, which is a huge relief. They said they have a TV and snacks there, so I will be able to keep DS entertained with those. Plus he likes to watch movies on my kindle, so I will bring that and some toys too. My lupron dose changed to 5 today (from 10), and I stopped BCP yesterday. Hopefully AF arrives soon. It has to arrive by Monday.I am trying to not stress out too much about my mom.

[auraleigh]

rcr- glad to hear your mom's condition is improving.  hopefully she can walk away from this unscathed.  such stress!  i'm glad SIRM said you can do the intralipids there, it's one less thing to worry about.  how are you feeling on the lupron?  i've never been on it before.  it's gotta feel good to being SO close! you start estrogen soon, right?

teresa, WOW that is a lot of menopur.  i agree with the other ladies, i've always had more gonal f and only one menopur, two max.  and only once a day.  i don't know if i've ever seen a cycle with only menopur in quantities like that..  granted, we don't know what your RE measured with your blood levels and all that, but i have never seen a protocol like that.  i hope that it doesn't get canceled! your positive attitude counts for a lot, it keeps your body relaxed!  your dh is so cute, he will do the worrying for you!  keep us posted, i'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

[hope4light]

rcr - I'm so sorry about your mom, I hope she's feeling much better today!!  I'm glad that you can do the intralipids in Vegas.

Blue - I am so so very sorry.  I hope that you are taking good care of yourself right now, and allowing yourself to feel whatever it is that you need to.  Please make sure that you take the time to grieve.  Big Big hugs to you.

Kali - any news??

Teresa - I only did Follistim, so I don't know anything about the menopur, but I just wanted to let you know I'm still thinking about you, and hoping that they get something right to keep this cycle going.  HOWEVER - I had two cancelled cycles back in 2008, adn keep in mind that before you drop the biggest of the bucks sometimes it's better to cancel and learn the meds better to get a perfect cycle, versus doing it on a bum cycle.  I know that's easier said than done, I had a very tough time with it, but it could be a blessing in disguise!!

[rcr]

Aura - I stop the lupron tomorrow and start gannirelix on Thursday. Then I do gannirelix only for another week, plus estrogin next Wed. and Fri. It is the shot kind of estrogin (in the butt).

Kali - what is the news!

Teresa - yea, a canceled cycle really sucks. But at least you don't have to waste money on a cycle that is not going to work. Hopefully you get good news today.

[DaisyMae08]

Hi ladies,  I hope you don't mind if I join you.  On 1/11/11 I gave birth to the most perfect little boy after years of struggling with IF.  After 7 IUIs, 2 fresh IVF cycles, 2 FETs, and one final fresh IVF cycle with microarray cgh we finally had success.  Now we're going to be starting the process again and I am already overwhelmed!  We're in the middle of repeat testing (my husband dropped a sample off for SA today and we've done our blood work, had my uterus checked, etc.).  Our follow up to go over testing will be on 6/19 and after that we will start an IVF cycle and will be doing the microarray cgh again.  Hope you don't mind if I join in and try to catch up on all of your stories while we're waiting to start. I remember coming here frequently for support and comaraderie the first time around. 

[MOMTOALEXIS]

BLUE- Thinking of u always and wanted to send some love.

DAISY- Just a stalker here but wanted to say hi cause I haven't seen your name in years, so glad you had success after so much struggle.

RCR & AURA- So excited for you to get moving with Sher Institute, hope you have success there and love them as much as I did.

HELLO to everyone else!!!!!

[Silverbird]

Hi all sorry for my abcesnce I've been busy.  I did try to post yesturday and it didn't work:

Blue: I'm so very very sorry to hear your news.  I hope ending ART can bring you some peace and closure and that you still get you child through adoption, a miricle pregancy or however.

Terssa: Hope your cycle doesn't get cancelled.  I was on 450 meopur all through my cycle.  Thanks for the new thread

rcr:  sorry to hear about your mum.  I hope she gets better quickly.  glad the intralipids and stuff are sorted, your off to vegas soon!

Time for  group hug I think

gtree: good luck for your cycle.

Kali: whats the news?

Dasiy: welcome!

Depotivo: I'm with out on the waiting.  drives you nuts huh?

Belly: thanks for thinking of me.

Rena, belly, kewpie, tear: hope you and your family's are well.

AFM: I'm doing good really.  been very busy lots of trips away, keeping me busy.  Doing a lot of treats that will be difficult or impossible with a bump of baby like spa, theater etc.  Trying to keep up all the vits and healhty eating.  We're having an exciting time over hear in Britian.  A proper heat wave with 5 days of sun and 27c! I've been to the beach four time and swiming three! We've also got the Queen Jublie and the olympic flame.  Did see either but my niece got to curtsy to the Queen! So not much for me to do but wait till July and cheer you all on.  I'm away a lot in June too so forgive me if I don't keep up to much.

[deborahbgkelly]

Hi all. On my mom's suggestion I called my RE's office to get advice on finding a grief and loss counselor. While I was on the phone we got to talking about my concerns since our retrieval went so poorly last time and it sounds like we can work something out for anesthesia should we need IVF again! That is such a relief.

[prayinghard]

Blue:  My friend, I am so sorry.  my heart is breaking for you.  I had such high hopes for this cycle.  I wanted this so much for you.  I wish there was something that I could do.  Vent and rant as much as you need to.  We are all here for you.  Hang in there. Give that lucky little (well, not so little) dog a big hug!

RCR:  I am sorry to hear about your mother.  How was she today when you saw her?  I pray that she is improving and will be back to her old self soon.  Glad that things look like they are going to work out with the intralipids.  Nice that they have things there that will help you entertain DS.  When do you fly?

Teresa: What did they decide about your cycle?  Just to give you some hope, I am currently pregnant from a cancelled IVF cycle that was converted to IUI.  Don't give up yet.

Kali:  We are dying here.  Hopefully you are staying away because you are so busy sharing your good news with your friends and family!

Welcome to all the newcomers!  The more the merrier!

Belly, Kewpie and Renavoo:  Gonna try to hit the graduates side next.  Always nice to see your names pop up.

Silver:  Glad to hear that you are doing well and enjoying yourself.

Aura:  Can't wait for you to get started.

I know that I am missing people, but I can't flip back and look or I will lose my post (learned that the hard way).  I will try and catch those I missed next time around.  God bless!

[Vegan Princess]

Deborah: That's great news! Also, I saw "the little couple" and she couldn't have anesthesia bc of breathing problems and she had her retreival done awake - didn't sound fun, but it's doable. And a friend just had hers and she was awake but on xanax and maybe a pain killer (not sure about that part). I hope you don't need IVF though!

Cindy

[teresaresa]

Silver: Isn't 450 Menopur like 6 vials? That's a ton!!! How many follies did you end up with? Jealous of all the fun things happening in your part of the world! Looking forward to cheering you on in July!!!

rcr: How's mom doing? Anxious to hear an update!!! I'm so happy to hear that everything has worked out with the intralipids. It must be such a relief to not have to worry about that piece of it now!

Daisy: Welcome!

gtree: How's it going with meds? Haven't heard from you in a while!

Everyone: Thanks so much for all of the encouragement. I do think that whatever is meant to be will be. For now, we're meant to continue onward! There was a good bit of growth - I actually couldn't keep up with what she was saying. The basic gist is that the 15 went up to 17 today and I think the 13 went to 15, so they were pleased. Estrogen is at 1349 and Progesterone is at 0.4. Same protocol tonight into tomorrow AM. Actually have to order more Menopur as I'll be out after tomorrow AM. Crazy. Hoping we don't go too much longer as I just realized I have a big meeting with Trustees of the College next Wed and then we have our big Alumni Reunion Weekend next weekend. Both of which are going to be difficult to miss if transfer falls in there. Keeping my fingers crossed that it all works out nicely, but baby trumps all. So, as I said before .... whatever is meant to be will be!!! I'm just glad I'm still in the game :)

[gtree]

Teresa - YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That is great news.  I also had a good appointment this morning.  20 or so follies all still under 10mm, but my estrogen has finally started to go up. I'm at 400, they expect to see much more growth on Friday.  They are anticipating my retrieval next week, so my timing is getting very close to yours! Would you be doing a day 3 or day 5 transfer?  We are doing day 6...

[Keria]

Blue I'm so sorry oh how I wish things would have turned out  different life is so unfair.

[Kewpie80]

deborah - my first cycle I did with no anesthesia during the retrieval.  It wasn't fun, but it's such a short time, it wasn't unbearable.  I hope they can find something for you, but if not, it can be done without it. I've been thinking about you a lot.  I'm glad to hear you will be finding a counselor and I hope they can help you find peace. 

[blueyezz4]

Teresa - I have always been on Gonal F or Follistim and Lupron so I'm no help w/ the Menopur, sorry!!  Glad to hear that you are going to be able to continue.  Love your attitude!!!  That will get you far so stay positive.

Aura - hope you get all your things done before you leave for the beach!  That sounds like a fun time. Do you know all 10 of the couples? 

rcr - how is your mom doing???  Glad to hear you are going to be able to have the intralipids done out in Vegas when you get there.

DaisyMae - Welcome!!  I hope your stay here is short and sweet!!!!  Just have to tell you that our puppy dog Abby's BFF is named Daisy Mae and she is actually coming over to spend the weekend w/ us while her parents go to a wedding this weekend.  So our girls (dogs) our going to have a sleep over weekend together.

Silver -wow, it sounds like you really have been busy!!!  Keeping my fingers crossed for you for July.

gtree - Sounds like things are coming along w/ your cycle.  Fingers crossed for you! 6 day - wow, haven't heard that one much!!!!

Deborah - I saw a counselor after our boys loss and hated going, but I felt so much better every time I left her office.  Glad to hear about the other options. I'm sure if they need to they could totally put you under general instead of the the twilight sleep like before.  Hopefully you won't even need it and can get your free baby!!  Fingers crossed for you!!

Hi to everyone else!!

AFM - Thanks all for your kind words and support!!!  I'm hanging in there.  We don't know what we are going to do at this point time, either just not have kids altogether (except our little Abby girl) or possibly go the adoption route.   It is just hard to swallow all of it at this point in time when we have spent the last 6 yrs dishing out our life savings and not getting our miracle baby out of it.  If adoption wasn't so expensive it would be so much easier for us to consider sooner, but we will have to weigh all of our options and go from there, whenever that may be.  I'll be around off and on cheering you all on.

[deborahbgkelly]

Thanks everyone. I will keep the suggestions in mind! I imagine some of the labor drugs would work well too. My Peri suggested possibly Fentanyl would work.

[deportivo4]

Blue- My heart breaks for you. I had kind of a dumpy day today. Then I read your post, so so sorry. I can't imagine how overwhelming that must be. Will be thinking of you. It just is not fare.

Deborah- How are you. Hope you get that free baby.I am looking into counseling right now. With IVF I want to see a counselor anyways. I would also like to see a recurrent loss counselor or go to a support group some time in the near future.

teresa- Hope this cycle still turns out well for you.

Vegan- Hey how are things with you?

Silver- Yup, I am going crazy waiting here.I have been trying to stay active by doing my research and yadada. But I need to be doing something. Like it just sucks that I can't do IUI because of DH's sperm. These months are freaking me out. i just want to get on with it.Our sex life sucks big time. Even more I am not really in the mood because of thinking about is extremely low count. I feel like a terrible person for feeling that way.

I can't wait to hear about things progressing for you in July. I hopefully will have more to share in Aug.

Daisy- Hi, glad things worked out for you before. Hopefully you can have another one soon.

Kali-I really hope you have good news. Waiting for you. Have my fingers crossed.

rcr & Hope- Hope things are going well for you this summer.

 sorry to everyone I missed. I think of all of you on a daily basis. And wish you all the best, even those of you on the graduate side. I sometimes stalk there too. Just to see how things may turn out for me too! hugs and best wishes.

rcr- sorry to hear about your mother.

AFM- had a not so great day. Have been fighting with DH. i wish I had the money to just start doing IVF, unfortunately we need a few months to save, and the more time goes by the more my hope and enthusiasm is kind of withering with it.I found another specialist that I think will suite us better. I have been really annoyed lately with how little info I was given by the other RE and I went to the clinic to get all my results printed out for myself to read. On the one hand I am thankful that I should be able to carry a healthy baby based on my results. On the other, I am so frustrated that there is something so severely wrong with DH's sperm. It just makes me feel so helpless. Part of me wishes that he would be willing to use donor sperm. But I know he would never consider that as an option. But if IVF doesn't work for us, if I am able to have children myself I really want him to accept that idea.

[deborahbgkelly]

Deportivo- I've been very emotional and right now I'm freaking out a little because I'm having super intense pain. It feels like contractions (I am expecting AF so it is technically contractions), but they feel like really strong labor contractions. I've been dealing with them for hours now and have taken 3 tramadol (2 about 4 hours ago and 1 just now) and am drinking water now hoping that it's something as simple as dehydration. If it's not better at 8, I'm going to call my OB's office. I know there's someone there now, but I am not sure it really warrants on-call. I talked to my friend who is a doula and she said it could be my new normal. I sure as hell hope not. This is ridiculous. I need to sleep and managed to for about an hour, but then woke up with shallow breathing and intense abdominal pain. I'm going to go over to HH&C thread and see if any of them experienced this. 

[deborahbgkelly]

Deportivo- I've been very emotional and right now I'm freaking out a little because I'm having super intense pain. It feels like contractions (I am expecting AF so it is technically contractions), but they feel like really strong labor contractions. I've been dealing with them for hours now and have taken 3 tramadol (2 about 4 hours ago and 1 just now) and am drinking water now hoping that it's something as simple as dehydration. If it's not better at 8, I'm going to call my OB's office. I know there's someone there now, but I am not sure it really warrants on-call. I talked to my friend who is a doula and she said it could be my new normal. I sure as hell hope not. This is ridiculous. I need to sleep and managed to for about an hour, but then woke up with shallow breathing and intense abdominal pain. I'm going to go over to HH&C thread and see if any of them experienced this. 

[deborahbgkelly]

P.S. This is my 2nd AF since the loss.