Hi - just wondering if anyone else is starting a fresh cycle this week. Any cycle buddies?
This might be my last attempt collecting my own eggs.
Good luck to all xx
Hi - just wondering if anyone else is starting a fresh cycle this week. Any cycle buddies?
This might be my last attempt collecting my own eggs.
Good luck to all xx
Hi 👋 I am on day 2 of my cycle and we’re starting our first IVF this cycle. So nervous xx
Good luck 🤞 The first cycle is daunting, but it'll be fine. Hoping you have positive news in a few weeks x
Hi. I’m on my first IVF cycle too (at the grand old age of 44). I’ve got my egg collection tomorrow morning. I was freaking out at the beginning, but it’s actually been fine. The injections become second nature after a little while and I’ve had very few side effects from the stims. And all the oestrogen has made my skin glow! 🤣. Wishing you the very best of luck xx
Good luck for tomorrow 🙏I find the egg collection fine too. If you're being sedated it'll be just like having a G and T and then a nice nap x
Ha! Thanks so much. I’ve been eating so healthily for the last couple of months (which is v strange for me), I’ve decided that I’m definitely treating myself to something naughty tomorrow! Wishing you all the luck in the world with your cycle ❤️
Hey, I hope your egg collection went smoothly and you had good fertilisation today? The wait to day 5 is tough x
🤞🤞 Hope everything went ok. I am on cycle day 6 and no idea what to expect lol x
Hey I'm on my 5th day of stims and having my scan on Monday. Do you have your development scan booked in yet? Any questions, just ask 🙂To be honest I find all the waiting and anxiety over outcomes the hardest bit. The egg collection and transfer are fine.
Hoping you get first time lucky x
Thanks so much, it’s so good to have someone to talk to 😊 I’m waiting for a phone call to arrange appts and delivery of injections. Hope your scan goes well 🤞🤞 xx
Hi 👏 How are you doing? Hope everything is going well? How are you feeling with your stims? Do they affect your mood? Nerves kicking in lol 😆 xx
Hi, I started stims on Monday 22 May and my first growth scan is tomorrow on bank holiday Monday. I've had 3 transfers from February/March 2022 - present:
*Early blastocyst - bfn
*3AB & early blastocyst double transfer - bfn
*2pn x 3 in freezer due to ohss risk & overstimulation
*Day 3 double transfer - bfn
Hey, it looks like you're due some good luck🤞 I hope your growth scan goes well tomorrow 🙏. Mine's not until a week on Monday. I've had lots of double early blastocyst transfers too. Tried to do some banking, and have two in the freezer. X
Yes I do. Thank you. Sometimes I wonder whether my 3AB would have implanted last year, the month before I started stims I had covid but recovered within a week. I've tried both day 5 and day 3 transfers. With my most recent day 3 transfer a couple months ago I started bleeding around day 8 post transfer, a week before otd. My whole protocol has changed including stims, extra progesterone (lubion) and immune support.The 3 I have in the freezer had to frozen immediately as I only had 3 and it ended being freeze-all. I'm not convinced that those embryos will be good quality as I was overstimulated and many of my follicles were empty which I have never experienced x
There's always 'what ifs' but COVID probably wouldn't have made that much difference, who knows. My first transfer was a 3AB and that failed too. I had coffee in the tww and regret that now. Probably would have made no difference what so ever, but it's hard not to overthink.
Let's hope the new protocol is the winner for you x
Yes totally understand re. "what ifs" etc. I really need a child for healing, comfort and my overall mental health and life. I have carried to full-term in 2020 however my little boy was born sleeping 💔
Heartbreaking. You've been through so much. Hoping this cycle works for you x
Not cycle buddies this time I'm afraid 😢 . I Do have my nurse planning appointment on Thursday so 🤞 for that. Good luck, I'm keeping everything crossed for you x
GOODLUCK!! X
Hi Orangeflowers,
I have started my 5th stimulation today 💉it might be my last one also 🫣
Good luck 🍀
Orangeflowers Lily_82 Hi both. Baseline scan for me this morning, 5th and probably last cycle of my own eggs too. Wishing you so much luck guys 🍀🤞🏼💜 xx
I’m rooting for you guys. Not currently cycling but am a similar age.
Thank you 🙏 Did you have your FET yet? Hoping you have some luck soon. It feels so much harder being a bit older x
Hi Orangeflowers,
I did. It’s been quite a difficult time with bleeding. It’s early days, tbh just taking it one day at a time x
Oh so you're bleeding in-between cycles or you have a early pregnancy? In my successful cycle I bled to about 13 weeks x
Early pregnancy. I’m too scared to even say it. Had scans I have a SCH and baby ok so far. But still early days x
Excellent news! I know the feeling, an IVF pregnancy is so different. I hope things continue to be positive. Success at this age gives me hope. Keep us updated x