Anyone close by?

[KJLee]

Hi Ladies,

I’m just wondering if anyone is having their IVF journey in Exeter Fertility? 🙃

Happy Easter! 🐣 xx

[emu2016]

I could not be further away if I tried in Yorkshire! But good luck and Happy Easter!

[KJLee in reply to emu2016]

Ahhh poop. Good luck to you too 😊 xx

[Lilli79]

I'm in North Somerset, but wasn't in Exeter Fertility for mine. Had my first ICSI in BCRM (Bristol) then 2nd round in Bath Fertility. Hope it goes well for you, Ive heard Exeter are really good. Used to work with someone who had 2 rounds in Exeter and both were successful xx

[KJLee in reply to Lilli79]

Thank you Lilli79 , what stage are you at now with your second round? Hope all is going well for you! Xx

[Lilli79 in reply to KJLee]

Hi KJLee currently 14 weeks with twins 😊 when is your EC? xx

[KJLee in reply to Lilli79]

Eek! Oh how fabulous!! Congratulations! 🤗

Not sure yet. Had my down reg scan last week. Final scan booked in for 9th April so hopefully during that week! Fingers crossed.

Wishing you a happy healthy pregnancy xx

[Lilli79 in reply to KJLee]

Great news, hope it all goes well for you 😊 Everyone on here is really helpful, feel free to ask if you have any questions xx

[Rachwithers in reply to Lilli79]

Congratulations! I’m currently waiting to start down regging with our first cycle of ivf at bath fertility! How did you find the clinic and the process? Xx

[Lilli79 in reply to Rachwithers]

Hi Rach, we found Bath Fertility very good. Are you nhs or private there? Everything was very straightforward, and its a nice clinic. The staff are all lovely & helpful. Feel free to ask any questions. Good luck with your cycle xx

[Rachwithers in reply to Lilli79]

Our first cycle is nhs funded. We are impressed so far too! Thank you, did you have a nurse show you how to inject? The consultant showed us briefly but I was under the impression that someone would show us exactly what to do? Xx

[Lilli79 in reply to Rachwithers]

Yes the nurse did show how to inject. Are you due to go in for more scans soon? I'd ask them to demonstrate then, the consultant appointments tend to be a bit more rushed than the nurses appointments. There are plenty of YouTube videos with instructions though. Are you planning to do injections yourself or get your partner to do them? I did them myself as I preferred that, but I know some ladies prefer their partner to do them.

[Rachwithers in reply to Lilli79]

Ah okay. Not until day 1 for my baseline for stimms so I’ll have had 2 weeks of injecting by then! My hubby isn’t good with injections so going to try and do them myself....did you do them or your partner? X

[Lilli79 in reply to Rachwithers]

Yeah my husband is the same, so I did them myself. I was happy to, I could do it in my own time and all that. Plus I was injecting in the morning and my husband is crap in the morning so figured he'd probably poke me in the eye or something!! To be honest I prefer injections, I was on buserilin sniffers the first time and felt rubbish on them and then switched to injecting buserilin which was much easier. You'll be fine, you have a few fluffs at the beginning and then get better with time. Just make sure you get rid of all the air in the syringe before injecting - it kinda hurts when you don't. I always think though if you could do any real damage to yourself by injecting then they wouldn't let you do it yourself xx

[Lilli79 in reply to Lilli79]

P.s. If you want more info how to inject just let me know and I'll pm you xx

[Rachwithers in reply to Lilli79]

Thanks, would you mind pm-ing me some of the basics, angle you go in, drawing up the meds etc. Would you mind? That’d be so helpful! Xx

[Lilli79 in reply to Rachwithers]

Sure, will do x

[Unicorn888 in reply to KJLee]

Hello, how are you getting on with Exeter? Looking to start treatment again either in Exeter or Bath xx

[Unicorn888 in reply to Lilli79]

Hi Lilli, how have you found Bath? Xx

[Lamorna80]

Had 2 rounds there last year but have changed clinics for round 3

[KJLee in reply to Lamorna80]

Ahh what clinic are you with now Lamorna80 ?

[Lamorna80 in reply to KJLee]

Manchester(!) Just arrived for a scan tomorrow morning. The clinic is near the airport so it’s easy to fly from Newquay and then we’re having a bit of a break in the Peak District during egg collection/transfer. It was just getting frustrating as we had to liaise with Cornwall & Exeter and now understanding the process and everything that’s involved, we felt we just wanted to deal with one clinic.

[Rebecca16-10-17]

I’m close to you ish I live in Yeovil, Somerset, but I’m having my treatment in Bath fertility clinic.

[Rachwithers in reply to Rebecca16-10-17]

We live in Weston s mare and we are also under Bath! Where are you in your journey? Xx

[Rebecca16-10-17 in reply to Rachwithers]

Hi Rachwithers unfortunately I got a bfn yesterday from my FET first round. Where are you in your journey.

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We had our first two rounds in Exeter but the last two in Spain & about to have our FET in Spain also. We’re about 30 mins drive away. Have you had your first scan after starting stimms yet? Xxx

[Kenny75]

I haven’t started any ivf yet until I have surgery first to remove a tube.

Exeter would be my closest though. Are you NHS funded or private?

Also heard Bath Fertility is a lovely clinic

How many appointments / how much time does it all take at the start of ivf? How do you get time away from work?

Good luck to you all xx

[Blondyboo]

I’m in burnham on sea had one cycle at bcrm Bristol then put onto waiTing list for DE been waiting 3 years now! So we went private to Cyprus and currently pregnant after 3rd go there. Still on waiting list (god forbid if something goes wrong with this pregnancy we are still entitled to 2nd nhs go) but as bcrm is closing to nhs we are now with Exeter on their waiting list! X

[AS100 in reply to Blondyboo]

BCRM now accepts NHS patients again!!! Congratulations Blondyboo!

[Rachwithers in reply to AS100]

We live in Weston, and we are with bath fertility centre cx

[Blondyboo in reply to AS100]

Really? We have had letters telling us to choose another clinic?! Although we are Donor eggs so might be different I heard Dr Lambert in charge of DE has left?

[AS100 in reply to Blondyboo]

Ah yes it might be different, I don’t know about DE & I think that Dr has left. I just read on BCRM’s new website about nhs patients. X

[Blondyboo in reply to AS100]

Ooo will have a nose 😬

[Unicorn888 in reply to Blondyboo]

How come you have been able to have 2 nhs goes?

[Blondyboo in reply to Unicorn888]

3 years ago our postcode gave 2 goes on nhs it changed to 1 last year but as we already had funding agreed they honour it.

[Unicorn888]

Exeter’s success rates are not so good. Had one cycle with them but have now moved.

[Blondyboo in reply to Unicorn888]

As long as this pregnancy carry’s on going well we hopefully won’t need them. It’s just me being cautious covering everything in case something goes wrong. We didn’t like the bcrm particularly either much prefer Cyprus clinic