Coping tips for first hospital appointment??

[HollyT7]

Any coping tips for the apprehension of going to my first hospital appointment to discuss everything?

These past few days my chest just feels all tight when I'm trying to breath it's dawned on me again that things might not be so easy for us and as the appointment gets closer I'm feeling in more of a panic about what they will say and trying to second guess how it will go!

How long will it be before they even start us doing anything? They said I'll likely have a baseline scan that day. Is it a case of just questions and come back again after the scan results?

I'm setting my hopes on iui as his analysis came back better than the first and wondering if they said yep would it be just waiting a start date.

Argh so many questions rolling around in my head

[taields]

Hiya - we have our first appointment on Thursday afternoon! Like you we haven't been told too much other than we will probably get told what treatment option & that I will have to go through a bit of a scan. If it helps though I am also getting through it with great big breaths and trying to focus on the fact that we have both worked hard to get here and been very patient. Treating it as the start of an exciting journey and I've told good friends and family and their excitement for us is cheering me up. Best of luck to you though!

[HollyT7 in reply to taields]

Thank you for the reply! If you can let me know how it goes that would be really appreciated! Your right about focusing on that. I'm going to write that out as a mantra for my desk lol currently sat at work listening to YouTube meditation to try and calm down!! It Doesn't help that we've had 3 cancellation letter too. And two were just duplicates (last one was last week!). I'm on edge there just going to cancel it.xx

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Hey. Good luck for your first appointment. Everyone’s is different- it really depends on what you have had before. There are some mindfulness apps that may help with your breathing- headspace or mindful ivf. There are so many unknowns at each step so my advice would be to try to go into it with an open mind, accept that you are on this journey and that it is unfair and hard and try not to second guess things too much. I started writing a little journal when I started my journey in December.

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I found it helpful to write my questions down before the appointment and take notes if applicable during the consultation.

Then it helped as I could tick off the questions and felt more in control.

It helped me anyway.

Best of Luck.

Xxx

[TRYING2016]

Hey hope your ok just read your post, try not to worry and dont set your hopes on anything thats what i did!! Just take each day as it comes.

I have pm’d you so if you get a chance have a read, you can ask questions regarding results as them to break down your oh resuls as I didnt ask anything and when i came away i felt i didn’t understand what the exact problem was so felt unable to help.

If his SA results come back fairly good then IUI is the first suggestion but bare in mind it does mot always work if I remember correctly its oike a 20% chance the first time then it is increased so do ask for the best treatment and goodluck xx