Day 13 stimming - feeling awful and discouraged

[lmno]

Day 13 on Gonal f (dose 300). Yesterday’s scan showed follicles are developing really slowly and doc said EC prob won’t be until next week at this rate. Feeling so nauseous and tired and headachey and really low. Can Gonal F make you feel depressed (or is it just that this process sucks)? Off work today as I feel awful but am speaking at a conference tomorrow which I can’t pull out of and have no idea how I’m going to do it. Another scan first thing tomorrow so hoping for good news but quite honestly I’m ready to give up. Is this normal? I was expecting to feel better during stimming not worse but this has been way worse than down reg.

[genten]

Aww so sorry to hear you're not feeling good.

I've not had the same medication so I can't comment on that I'm afraid.

I hope you start to feel better soon and that all goes well with the scan tomorrow. xx

[Tugsgirl]

I’m sorry I don’t have any answers but I hope things get better for you soon xx

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi Imno. Hope today's scan showed some improvement for you. Try not to worry about slow growth, as long as they are growing, that's good. Thinking of you. Diane

[lmno in reply to DianeArnold]

Thanks Diane, today's scan showed things still progressing slowly but they said they hoped to do EC on Friday. But got a call this afternoon with my blood test results saying the hormone levels are still too low so it will be Monday now. I'm relieved to be able to plan for EC now in terms of rearranging work commitments and things but hard to think about another 3 days of stimming when I feel so awful. I'm new to all of this (first round of IVF) but it's all taking WAY longer than I expected and it's driving me a bit demented - it feels like a form of slow torture!

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK in reply to lmno]

Hi. Some cycles do drag on I'm afraid, but you're looking for progress, this you have, so fingers crossed for Monday. Diane

[Jenadrian79]

I can relate to this more than you know!

What down reg meds were you/ are you on? I’m starting gonal F this eve xx

[lmno in reply to Jenadrian79]

I'm on suprecur (buserelin) which made me feel pretty sleepy and nauseous. How are you finding it?

[Jenadrian79]

Ok, also on buserelin. Hasn’t made me nauseous but tired and very tearful (like I’m on day 1 of my period emotionally x 10 and I’m crying a lot). Yay the perks! 😬🙈

[lmno in reply to Jenadrian79]

Oh sorry to hear that. I've cried every day this week. I had heard other people say that the stims make you feel much better but that definitely wasn't the case for me - I hope it is for you though!

[Sega]

I found the initial prostap injection prior to stimms made me so restless and agitated all the time, my partner couldn't speak without me biting his head off and I had constant feeling of period being due, when it did come I was so relieved but my mood only perked up for like half a day. I continued to be a narky bi*ch until stimms started which I thought helped a little initially but my partner disagreed. With the stimms I felt awful all the time with constant sore heads and generally down with no energy to do anything.

Maybe about 5 days prior to extraction my mood picked up, but I still felt terrible because of the suprecure and breast pain started.

I had my embryo put back in yesterday and on day 6 of the pessaries. Generally my headaches etc subsided as soon as the basal spray stopped and in general felt a lot better. Now I've just been crampy and had lower back pain as well as continued breast pain, all side effects of the proestrogen.

There is a point where you feel like it isn't worth it and you wouldn't do it again but once you here how many eggs they've extracted and you see the embryo they are going to put back in its the most amazing feeling and 100% worth it.

Keep your chin up and imagine how happy you'll be when your wee yin takes 😊