TFAS 9/25

[westiemom]

How are things?

mnj05
scrang
baymare
grover
moto
DrHooch
crazycatlady6
tiresiastheblond
twohopes

[westiemom]

Cd 18 here. I had a positive opk Saturday at 11pm. No temp spike yet but hopefully tomorrow. Loads of ewcm and timing is good so 🤞🏻. We had one good follicle at my last monitoring appt and my lining looked awesome so Femara did its thing!

[twohopes]

westiemom, Fingers crossed! Yay!

I am waiting to see when AF finally freaking shows up after my MVA procedure. I am pretty certain I ovulated about a week and some days ago (based on EWCM and positive OPK) although I did not write down the exact days and don't really remember them but I think it was Saturday/Sunday, and we actually had very good timing. So now I am either waiting for a pregnancy or for AF and both would make me happy. It's kind of cruel that I have a ton of nausea and cramps today and had intense cramps on Saturday, but I am trying not to read into it all other than the fact that is is most likely a post-failed pregnancy hormonal disaster. Or a stomach bug or something (hopefully not that!). I have been doing really well with my exercise and diet too, so I am really proud of that.

[westiemom]

Sept 25, 2017 11:08:45 GMT -6 twohopes said:

westiemom, Fingers crossed! Yay!

I am waiting to see when AF finally freaking shows up after my MVA procedure. I am pretty certain I ovulated about a week and some days ago (based on EWCM and positive OPK) although I did not write down the exact days and don't really remember them but I think it was Saturday/Sunday, and we actually had very good timing. So now I am either waiting for a pregnancy or for AF and both would make me happy. It's kind of cruel that I have a ton of nausea and cramps today and had intense cramps on Saturday, but I am trying not to read into it all other than the fact that is is most likely a post-failed pregnancy hormonal disaster. Or a stomach bug or something (hopefully not that!). I have been doing really well with my exercise and diet too, so I am really proud of that.

Keeping all things crossed for you!

[DrHooch]

Yay westiemom!

twohopes sorry to hear you're feeling cruddy. Go you on keeping up with the exercise and diet, though! Mine has totally gone to crap over the last 2 weeks.


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AFM, I have my final u/s tomorrow morning, which I am dreading. DH has to work so I have to go alone and in all likelihood find out that I am carrying a dead embryo. I am currently alternating between depressed and pissed off. Teaching tomorrow should be fun.

[westiemom]

DrHooch I'm so so sorry. Huge hugs. We are here for you.

[twohopes]

DrHooch, my heart breaks just thinking about the possibility of you getting news like that. I am hoping that there is still a chance for a miracle. Huge hugs.

[mnj05]

Big hugs DrHooch.

[mnj05]

CD1 was yesterday. Technically I should be calling the RE, but we'll hold off until this house stuff is over and we can save money again. Part of me almost wants to call this quits and be done with our two, then I get annoyed at myself and start wanting that third baby again.

[DrHooch]

No growth. No heartbeat.

[twohopes]

DrHooch, I am so terribly sorry, what awful news and a terrible development. Do you have the rest of the day off? Did they advise you on your options going forward?

[DrHooch]

twohopes thanks. Unfortunately I do not have the day off. Classes must go on. The next steps will depend on whether my body takes care of things on its own or not. Then we will hopefully be able to see if it's a chromosomal abnormality or, if not, then more blood work for me to see what is causing the consecutive losses.

[twohopes]

DrHooch , It is unfortunate you have to teach today. For all the flexibility in academia, sometimes it can be a job that is really hard to do. I had my first miscarriage while still in my PhD program and even handling the coursework as a student was hard enough, let alone the teaching I had to do. I wish you all the strength. I hope your hormones drop quickly and the miscarriage completes soon. Your progesterone must be very high still if you have that much nausea, but hopefully it will come down. I still find the fact that progesterone is made by the body in response to a sac and not a growing embryo to be one of the most cruel parts of a failed pregnancy but hopefully the extreme nausea will go away as your body figures it all out.

[westiemom]

I'm so sorry DrHooch. 💗

[moto]

DrHooch I'm so sorry

[moto]

I take my last bcp tomorrow and then have my baseline monitoring appointment on Friday. If that goes well, I'll start estrogen injections on Friday night. They are intramuscular, which sucks. After my billions of IUIs I think the stomach shots are no big deal, but the butt shots HURT.

I'm still super nervous about this cycle. I'll be basically holding my breath until it's time to take a pregnancy test. Ug.

[scrang]

moto, That's why I didn't want to the PIO! So on the other hand, Crinone for 7 days costs over $400.

westiemom, All the things crossed!

mnj05, Taking a break can be a good thing. GL with the house stuff.

twohopes, Good job on the dirt and exercise...so hard to focus on that while doing all this stuff!

[scrang]

DrHooch, I'm so very sorry you're going through this. Sending you healing thoughts and hugs

[scrang]

AFM, I had my lining u/s yesterday and I'm at 10.5. Just waiting on the progesterone test to confirm no ovulation, then start taking Crinone. Hallelujah, I think last night was my last Lupron injection! 👍🏻
DH and I had to sign the thaw consent form yesterday and this is all suddenly so real! We're on the clinic schedule for transfer on Tuesday, woohoo.🎉

[mnj05]

I'm so sorry DrHooch. You're in my thoughts.

[moto]

scrang so soon! so exciting!

[twohopes]

moto and scrang, Best of luck to both of you!

Gosh, I think I might be pregnant again but I am too nervous to test. I just have horrific nausea and all my symptoms. I suppose it could also be one super mega awful period on its way. I had the MVA on Aug 26, I definitely ovulated about 10 days ago because I had all my symptoms and also a positive OPK and a couple of days ago I started will all the exact symptoms as the failed pregnancy, only the nausea is actually stronger at this point. Who knows. I hope to have some clarity in a week.

[westiemom]

Sept 28, 2017 10:06:13 GMT -6 twohopes said:

moto and scrang, Best of luck to both of you!

Gosh, I think I might be pregnant again but I am too nervous to test. I just have horrific nausea and all my symptoms. I suppose it could also be one super mega awful period on its way. I had the MVA on Aug 26, I definitely ovulated about 10 days ago because I had all my symptoms and also a positive OPK and a couple of days ago I started will all the exact symptoms as the failed pregnancy, only the nausea is actually stronger at this point. Who knows. I hope to have some clarity in a week.

I'm a chronic early tester so I always say test 😉

[twohopes]

westiemom, I am too but I honestly feel like I am not sure how I would react either way, so I am just going to be an ostrich.

[crazycatlady6]

DrHooch - i'm so sorry.

[twohopes]

DrHooch, how are you?

[DrHooch]

twohopes thanks for asking. But not good. I am super sad and angry. And after a tiny bit of bleeding on Friday, nothing, which probably means I'll need to go on misoprostol.

[twohopes]

DrHooch, I get it, friend, oh how do I get it. I had never in my life imagined that out of 4 pregnancies I would have one living child, one chemical pregnancy, and two miscarriages. Nothing like that to make you sad & angry and ridiculously pessimistic. If you'd like, and when you feel like it, you can drop me a message and I can share some of the things that help me.

[supermorena]

westiemom can you add me?

Here I am eating lunch and filling with anxiety before I head in to the RE's office for the first time since I graduated. Yikes! So nervous to start this whole process again. We were "ready" to start trying again in January... And I finally made an appt so I guess that's something. Lol. Wish me luck!

[tiresiastheblond]

DrHooch, I am so sorry.