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Post by bonzo on Sept 8, 2017 13:29:08 GMT -6
Welcome to the IVF check-in for September 8 Check-ins will be every Monday (babyhopes) and Thursday (bonzo). If we've left you off the check-in, or if you'd like to be added or removed, please let us know! This is a check-in for those who are doing IVF or FET. Please don’t hesitate to use this check-in for IVF/FET info and support even if you’re not currently cycling. If you are interested in joining, please fill us in on your cycle. Everyone is welcome. Also, please update us along the way! Asterisks will appear by your name if you do not update us in a check-in. After four consecutive asterisks (2 weeks), you will be removed from the list. Don’t fret if you are removed from the list, check in again and we will add you back. Once you get a strong repeat beta, congrats! We eagerly await your 3TIF Grad Check-In posts! We encourage you to intro on PAIF, and while here in the meantime, please consistently use warning tags in posts and siggies, and be mindful of your status, especially on 3TIF outside this check-in. To hide content behind a spoiler tag use (without the spaces) [ spoiler = Spoiler ] Hidden content here! [ / spoiler ] Summer Monkey Image: i.imgur.com/mgKLzNp.jpg QOTW: Are you a pumpkin lover? What is your favorite falll food? BFP! Congratulations! BFN ((Hugs)) PUPO! Congratulations! Rooting for all of you! jense927 , Fingers crossed it's still too early! Cycle Complete (ER only/testing) Between ER and ET Stimming/FET Main Prep Waiting to Cycle ** fikafairy , Hope you're doing well. daisy818 , good luck starting Lupron Monday! bonzo , on Day 4 of Estrace bananas22 , yay! I'm so happy you're cleared for October! hoosiermama76 , That's exciting to have a date! FX for you! babyhopes , hope the biopsy went well! birch113 , I hope the Lupron headaches go away for you soon! * skidevil87 , Hope you're doing well! |
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Post by bonzo on Sept 8, 2017 13:35:14 GMT -6
I'm hanging out on Day 4 of Estrace. They say I should start a period over the weekend, at which point I'll get a more definitive start date for stimming. I'm less nervous this time; I guess it helps that I know I can handle all the shots and blood work, so the needles aren't such a big deal! More of my friends also know, and it's nice being able to talk about it as a fact of life rather than this big thing. Because it is a big thing, but always treating it that way isn't helpful. I hope that makes sense!
QOTW: I enjoy all the pumpkin and apple foods of fall! My sister and I will joke about getting our "basic white girl" fixes, since we'll mock the pumpkin spice everything while drinking/eating it!
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Post by daisy818 on Sept 8, 2017 13:47:28 GMT -6
bonzo, hope you get your period soon so you can get a start date for stims! So mild panic has subsided and I'm now just a mix of excited and nervous. RE wants me to do injections in the evening (which is good for me because DH and I are not morning people and our mornings are already earlier than I'd like and hectic) so we're going to his office on Monday evening for them to administer my first lupron injection and show us how it's done. He promised this one is easy peasy, which is generally what I've heard. I really can't believe it's finally time to start injections! He estimates that we'll do the retrieval around October 1 (give or take), with stims starting 9/21. I had been thinking that I'd learn to give myself the shots, but once I opened up my lupron kit and saw the needles I knew I couldn't do it. DH is gonna get stuck with that job. QOTW: I like pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, but I'm not all about pumpkin everything. I do like all those pumpkin spice smells though.
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Post by birch113 on Sept 8, 2017 18:46:06 GMT -6
bonzo I'm glad you're feeling less nervous this time around. I was a wreck my first cycle, but my second cycle felt easy peasy in comparison. I'm really glad you've got foot support, too. C'mon AF! daisy818 Lupron is super easy. I hope you find the needles to be NBD once you get started! AFM, my migraine yesterday broke, thank goodness. I have a dull headache and I'm irritable AF. Lupron is not my fav. Just waiting for AF to begin adding Estrace back again for FET prep #4. Ugh. QOTW: Team GimmeAllThePumpkin. I'm not sure I can pick just one favorite! Pumpkins coffee, Pumpking Beer, pumpkin baked treats.....also, there is a garlic festival Columbus Day weekend that we go to every year, so all the yummy treats there plus my own garlic mashed potatoes are fall favorites, too!
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Post by bonzo on Sept 9, 2017 0:02:49 GMT -6
daisy818, my H got stuck with giving the shots too! Our clinic does a big IVF class with lots of the couples who are about to start (our class was maybe 7 couples) and they teach you how to do the shots. I got lightheaded just looking at the needles and syringes that first time! I'm getting more desensitized to it now, and it definitely gets easier with practice. birch113, I'm so glad your migraine broke! Hopefully AF will come soon so you can start estrace!
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Post by fikafairy on Sept 9, 2017 12:02:17 GMT -6
Sadly I don't have any advice for any of the meds stuff daisy818bonzo, I'm glad you're less nervous this time! The thought of the needles actually doesn't bother me much since I used to get allergy shots forever ago, but I am nervous about likely having to do them myself! DH would probably be okay doing them, but would hesitate and get really nervous I think, which likely means I will be better off doing them myself... birch113, glad your migraine broke! I've been on the borderline of a migraine all week, but mine is totally stress-induced and not medication-induced. AFM, I'm drowning in work right now, which makes me thankful we won't be cycling until at least December. QOTW: also joining Team Pumpkin Everything  my sister and I joke back and forth that the second the weather cools off, we start pumpkin-spicing-everything and wearing boots. The other day she mocked herself by texting me to say she had the trifecta - flannel, leggings, and a pumpkin spice latte. I have no shame in loving everything pumpkin spice, even though my DH thinks it's not great. MORE FOR ME! |
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Post by jense927 on Sept 10, 2017 5:40:50 GMT -6
Not sure how to spoiler but trigger warning ahead: possible bfp
***so I tested again on Friday night with frer and it was negative. Tested with a wondfo on Saturday and it was a very faint line maybe slightly less faint than Friday's but not much. Then frer this morning and there is a line there. Still super faint tho. But definitely a line. I had to convince DH he didn't even see it at first. I am so so nervous though, it's 14dpo and I thought it would be darker. Betas are tomorrow so I guess I'll find out one way or the other but I hope it's ok I hang out here until we find out if it is viable. ***
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Post by daisy818 on Sept 10, 2017 6:11:35 GMT -6
jense927 I am sending you all my positive vibes for your betas tomorrow!!
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Post by bonzo on Sept 10, 2017 7:11:42 GMT -6
jense927, everything crossed for you tomorrow!
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Post by bonzo on Sept 10, 2017 10:34:17 GMT -6
AF arrived, so Day 2 blood work and ultrasound tomorrow! If all looks good, I should be starting stims on Tuesday!
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Post by birch113 on Sept 10, 2017 13:40:54 GMT -6
I've got everything crossed for you, jense927! |
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Post by bananas22 on Sept 10, 2017 18:23:21 GMT -6
bonzo, Hope everything looks good and you will be starting stims soon! daisy818, Good luck with the shots. At first the idea of giving myself shots freaked me out but I got used to it real quick. It was easiest if I isn't overthink it and just did the shot. birch113, Glad your migraine is gone. Are those common side effects for Lupron? My FET protocol has me using it as well. fikafairy, Hope work isn't too crazy but at least it keeps you busy. jense927, FX for good news tomorrow!! With my clear uterus (finally, it's had way too much reconstruction), I'm finally able to move forward with a FET. Based on what the nurse left in a voicemail, I think it will be the third week of October but I'll confirm that on Monday. QOTW: I like pumpkin but I'm not obsessed. Pumpkin pie is fantastic, though. For fall, I like getting back into stews and chilis and other cold weather foods.
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Post by hoosiermama76 on Sept 10, 2017 23:11:50 GMT -6
jense927 good luck tomorrow! Sending vibes.
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Post by jense927 on Sept 11, 2017 11:07:13 GMT -6
Betas were negative. I am crushed. I had a bad feeling since the positives I was getting were so light and not getting any darker but for nothing to show up in the bloodwork is just so devastating, I feel like this is never going to happen or work. I have a follow up appointment on Friday to talk about where to go from here. I am ready to get on another cycle but not sure what else we can do or change to try to make this happen :/
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Post by bonzo on Sept 11, 2017 12:33:46 GMT -6
Sending you so many hugs, jense927. I'm so sorry. |
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Post by birch113 on Sept 11, 2017 13:57:30 GMT -6
I'm so sorry, jense927. (((Hugs))) it's so unfair. |
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Post by daisy818 on Sept 11, 2017 14:38:17 GMT -6
jense927, FUCK. I am so so sorry. So many hugs to you.
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Post by jense927 on Sept 11, 2017 17:10:43 GMT -6
Ugh you guys. So I mentioned to the nurse that i was getting light positives and she thought it was weird and told me to test again tomorrow. I just did and it is positive! Still light but darker than before by a little. What a mind fuck
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Post by birch113 on Sept 11, 2017 20:00:26 GMT -6
Ugh you guys. So I mentioned to the nurse that i was getting light positives and she thought it was weird and told me to test again tomorrow. I just did and it is positive! Still light but darker than before by a little. What a mind fuck I'm sorry you're in limbo. Can you go back for betas again tomorrow? Was that a test from the same batch as the others? |
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Post by charliefox on Sept 11, 2017 20:40:20 GMT -6
Hugs jense927, so sorry you're in limbo. |
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Post by hoosiermama76 on Sept 11, 2017 22:07:14 GMT -6
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Post by jense927 on Sept 12, 2017 5:17:50 GMT -6
Ugh you guys. So I mentioned to the nurse that i was getting light positives and she thought it was weird and told me to test again tomorrow. I just did and it is positive! Still light but darker than before by a little. What a mind fuck I'm sorry you're in limbo. Can you go back for betas again tomorrow? Was that a test from the same batch as the others? Yeah I am going to call them first thing this morning when they open and see if I can go back for betas. I am thinking that maybe I went for a qualitative beta test. I went to one of the locations that isn't a fertility site but they do hCG. Maybe a more basic one than the other sites? I don't know I am trying to think of anything as to why I am getting positives at home. The one I took yesterday was a new batch of FRERs that I just got yesterday. The positive FRER on Sunday was from a different batch. |
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Post by jense927 on Sept 12, 2017 5:41:42 GMT -6
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Post by bonzo on Sept 12, 2017 7:07:21 GMT -6
jense927, the photo has an error. Maybe try posting via Imgur, that works well for me.
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Post by jense927 on Sept 12, 2017 7:41:32 GMT -6
jense927 , the photo has an error. Maybe try posting via Imgur, that works well for me. |
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Post by birch113 on Sept 12, 2017 10:34:37 GMT -6
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Post by daisy818 on Sept 12, 2017 11:29:00 GMT -6
jense927 I see it too - fx for you, and sorry you're in this limbo
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Post by bonzo on Sept 12, 2017 14:58:27 GMT -6
jense927, it's light, but it's definitely there! FX you get some answers to get out of limbo!
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Post by jense927 on Sept 12, 2017 15:44:30 GMT -6
Well blood test and urine both came back negative today :/
I will stop the progesterone and wait to get my period. She said if it doesn't come in two days to call back and we may need to send my blood work to a different lab? I don't know. She also said on the voicemail to take a digital. She thinks the the test I took were the cheapies but they weren't they were FRERs. Ugh anyways my follow up with the RE is Friday so hopefully we have more clarity by then.
Debating doing PGS for this next round whenever that happens. I think that increases the chances of success by quite a bit so thinking of going that route. Part of me really wants to try a fresh cycle though. I've never been able to do that.
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Post by birch113 on Sept 12, 2017 18:55:16 GMT -6
jense927 I'm so sorry. I was so hoping you would get some good news. I do hope you get some answers Friday. (((Hugs)))
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my sister and I joke back and forth that the second the weather cools off, we start pumpkin-spicing-everything and wearing boots. The other day she mocked herself by texting me to say she had the trifecta - flannel, leggings, and a pumpkin spice latte. I have no shame in loving everything pumpkin spice, even though my DH thinks it's not great. MORE FOR ME!
