I don't really have anything super-juicy this week.
I'm feeling a little out of sorts because all of the major drinking holidays are upon us (Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day) - we've been invited to a couple of parties over the next couple of weekends and I can't drink! I know I'm just in the pre-stim prep so I could probably have a drink or two, but ever since I read about how alcohol affects egg quality I'm avoiding the stuff like the plague since this will be our one and only shot. It doesn't help that DH has no plans to cut alcohol out of his life - he still has an occassional glass of wine with dinner, beer or Jack & Coke while we're watching TV at night - jerk. I guess the good news is that it will be easier for me to get my buzz on once all of this is over...
I noticed a picture on my friends FB page of a girl that I don't get along with pregnant, so I stalked her page and saw that she recently had a girl. I went to the living room and asked my husband why did that nasty B**** get KU and I don't. He tells me to STOP worrying about other people, but then says you know nasty b****es are fertile and get KU all the time. Maury was turned on and he said look at the tv screen. haha.
TTC since May/June 2012
Sept 2013 testing:
SA #1 Low motility (17%)
SA #2 Lower sperm count, but much higher motility
CD 3 Bloodwork and ultrasound - Normal
HSG - Clear tubes
Oct/Nov 2013 Cycle 1 with RE
50 mg Clomid + Ovidrel + IUI
BFN
Nov/Dec 2013 Cycle 2 with RE
50 mg Clomid + Ovidrel + IUI
BFN
Jan/Feb 2014 Cycle 3 with RE
50 mg Clomid + Ovidrel + IUI
BFN
2/20/14 Follow up consult RE recommends IVF with ICSI
3/10/14 New patient consult with RMA NJ
3/11/14 AMH and other Bloodwork to prep for IVF with ICSI at RMA NJ
I poas'd this morning... I knew it would be a negative but I did it anyways (I am 4dp5dt), I did not tell DH that I did it and have no intention on telling him... So I took the test to work and thru it away in the trash infront of my building, but not before checking it again like 30 times (in traffic, at stop lights, in the parking lot).
I ate meat this morning for breakfast... I am Catholic and I knew it was Friday and I should not do it.. but alas I ate a Chick-Fil-A biscuit.
I also ate a bag of gummy starbursts after my meatless lunch and then got nauseous and threw them all up...
I confess the real reason for deactivating my Facebook..... It was a hormone induced IF day of I hate people so I started deleting them.... When I came to my senses I realized a deleted a really good friend and instead of admitting it I deactivated my entire page so she wouldn't find out. ^#(^
Eta::: nothing I just realized I had a spelling error
Me: 38 DX: Adenomyosis, Compounded MTHFR, PAI-1 4G variant DH: 34 MFI due to Testicular Cancer
Married March 2012 IVF w/ICSI #1 10 little polar bears FET #1 with 2 polar bears ~Nov 6, 2013 BFN FET # 2 with 2 more polar bears ~March 19, 2014 BFP!!! Beta 1= 276 Beta 2= 662 4/19/14 ~ baby A became an angel 5/02/14 ~ baby B became an angel 5/3/14 ~ D&C FET #3 with 1 male polar bear ~October 3, 2014 October 13, 2014 ~ BFN Fur Children: Memphis 3y, Dutch 3y, Marcel 2y, Meadow 1y
January 2015 Siggy Challenge TTCAL Animals Interacting with Snow
My confession is a thought, not an action. I'm debating going to a different clinic for our next round of IVF, because my doctors can't seem to get me through a stim cycle without an E2 crash. (sorry to those who have heard me say that 10X now) I was pretty confident there was a problem with the dosage decisions that led to my crash in the last two cycles
The horrible thought is that I could potentially stay at my clinic and disregard dosage instructions that seemed like a bad idea, and they would never know. Isn't a terrible sign when you start thinking you could make med decisions better than your docs!!!
***Losses mentioned.*** TTC #1 since May 2012. Me: 37, OH: 41. Ectopic August 2012 => tubal damage. Stage 1 endo removed June 2013. IVF #1 Oct/Nov 2013: Long Lupron with Gonal-F. 7R, 7M, 7F. 2 txfer@3d. Nothing frozen. => M/C @ 8 wks. Selected RPL panel all normal. Very hyper and brittle response to stims. IVF #2 (antagonist protocol) Feb 2014 => Converted to IUI (Perfect conditions). BFN. IVF #2.1 w/ new RE June 2014: Antagonist protocol. 33R, 31M, 30F, 19 blasts to test!!! I made it through without crashing!! Hats off to Dr. Fancypants!! ET of one 5AB blast. BFN. 13 10 CCS'ed snowflakes! FET #1 PUPO as of 7/29 Betas: 8/7@24, 8/9@97, 8/11@334 (etc.) Two sacs on 8/15, one seen on 8/18 after a bleed. U/s 8/25 (6+3) "perfect": 5.9 mm + HB@120bpm! U/s 9/4 (7+6): 15.9 mm + HB@172 bpm! Please, PLEASE stick this time!!!!
I had a glass of wine the other night. While stimming! But it was sanctioned by my IVF nurse. But no more- hopefully for nine more months. Fingers crossed.
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*I am no longer regularly posting on TB because of the fucked up debacle of Jan 2015 when administrators banned long-term members and mods with no notice and completely dismantled a community full of women who cared about each other. If you see me posting it's only to give support to a poster who needs it or to post something important enough that I need to say. I am no longer responding to anything other than issues that affect people who I care about*
37 years old, MH is 42
TTC since 2010; Dx Unexplained Infertility; possible male factor
August 2012 through June 2013: 6 IUIs with clomid and trigger shot, all BFNs
7/2013, Pregnant! Unmedicated--we were on a treatment break
8/20/13 no heart beat; 8/23/13 d&c
3/15/14 IVF #1: Lupron/Follistim/Menopur; ER 3/10 resulting in four transfer grade blastocysts, transferred one pretty blast and froze the remaining three. BFN.
Natural FET in May cancelled because the universe hates me my hormones were not cooperating.
6/24/14 FET #1: transferred two pretty embryos; BFN
8/28/14 FET #2: BFP, ended in Chemical pregnancy
Done with medical intervention and getting used to the idea of CFNBC.
My confession is that while sending out e-mails to sales reps today one of them triggered an automatic out of office reply. Her reason for being out of office? Maternity leave. I don't why it hit me so hard, but I immediately rage deleted it (aka clicked the mouse really hard over the delete button...) and finished sending the e-mails in a pissy mood.
Her out of office should just say out of the office for an extended period rather than maternity leave. That's her personal business and not so profesional!
I was feeling so down after monitoring today, I stopped and got two donuts, and they gave me an extra one for free... And I ate them all. I haven't eaten a donut in over a decade, I don't even like them, but it somehow made me feel better.... And like I don't need sugar for another month,
IVF #1 Oct 2013- cancelled IVF #2 Mar 2014- success.... baby girl born 11/28/14 FET #1 Mar 2016- baby boy due 12/16/16
I didn't feel like doing nothing this week. I mean I was the laziest wife in town. I sooooo used the IF card to get out of everything. I feel so bad... Well not really. Lol DH has been catering to everything I say.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Waited a long time, tried a lot of stuff, science made me a mom.
Loss and IF veteran. Current mom of DS 5.5, DD 2, and sometimes DH 40. Due June 2021 with TWINS
I feel like I've been snacking non freaking stop lately. Not sure if it's the meds or what, but I'm craving junk food 24/7. Pringles, ice cream, French fries... it's so bad!!
In the middle of planning our next cycle I got fired. No clue what were gonna do now. However, I don't really care that I lost my job because I really started to hate that place but now have no clue how to move forward and I am very much sorry to my fiancé for this happening right when we hoped to start a family. ]:
I didn't feel like doing nothing this week. I mean I was the laziest wife in town. I sooooo used the IF card to get out of everything. I feel so bad... Well not really. Lol DH has been catering to everything I say.
I've been playing the same card!
My confession- even though I know I have blood sugar issues, I went totally nutso in the Easter aisle at target and bought 4 bags of easter goodies. I ate almost an entire bag of red starburst jellybeans by myself! Now I'm feeling guilty, like I'm sabotaging myself or something...
Hubby asked me if I wanted to watch the latest Hunger Games movie tonight. I kind of had my heart set on doing some reading tonight, but agreed because I never want to watch anything he does and felt bad for ignoring him with my nose in my Kindle all night.
Now I'm sitting here with my nose in my laptop, Googling stuff and hanging out on the bump and trying to pretend like I'm paying attention to what's going on in the movie instead.
But, honestly, it's hard because I have no idea what's going on. I don't even remember the first movie.
N14 Nov. Siggy: CELEBRATION!
TTC since 2011
Aug. - Sept. 2013 - dIUIs = BFNs
January 2014 - IVF = 3 freezer babies
March 2014 - FET of AA and AB blast = BFP! Twins!
Nov. 7, 2014 - Wilhelmina "Willa" Suzanne (4lb 14oz) and Ari Jose (6lb 4oz) were born via CS
The baby announcement of a friend of DH's arrived in the mail this week. I don't like this friend, and he and his girlfriend have been together for even less than DH and I have been trying. I thought about throwing it directly in the recycling bin but felt like that would be really horrible. I settled for hiding it under the other letter that came that day. The saddest thing is that I know DH has seen it, too, and is just avoiding opening it. If it is still sitting there unopened on Sunday, I am going to throw it out. The only thing that makes me feel slightly better is that they gave their kid a really stupid name.
Tea+ What a shock. So sorry to hear about your job loss. I hope it doesn't stop your baby making plans too much.
Thanks, were OOP so it will be out on hold for a while. Right now into bigger and better things! (Hopefully just a little regroup before back to cycling
I was having a horrendous day earlier this week so of course the invitation to my cousin's baby shower had to show up in the mail when I got home from work. I got so irrationally angry that I ended up crumpling the invite and throwing it in our wood stove! I ended up having to call my mom a couple days later to get the information from her... thankfully we were both able to laugh about it!
ETA: typo
***Warning: loss and BFP*** Ticker warning
Diagnosis: PCOS TTC since 1/12 Clomid w/ gyn 12/12- 2/12- BFN IUI #1- June 2013- BFN IUI #2- July 2013-BFN IUI #3- August 2013-BFN
IVF #1- OCT/ NOV 2013-BFN 3 Blasts frozen
FET #1- February 12 2014- BFP!! M/c at 5 weeks 4 days FET #2- July 2014- BFN
Re: Confessions!!
I don't really have anything super-juicy this week.
I'm feeling a little out of sorts because all of the major drinking holidays are upon us (Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day) - we've been invited to a couple of parties over the next couple of weekends and I can't drink! I know I'm just in the pre-stim prep so I could probably have a drink or two, but ever since I read about how alcohol affects egg quality I'm avoiding the stuff like the plague since this will be our one and only shot. It doesn't help that DH has no plans to cut alcohol out of his life - he still has an occassional glass of wine with dinner, beer or Jack & Coke while we're watching TV at night - jerk. I guess the good news is that it will be easier for me to get my buzz on once all of this is over...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Siggy Warning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I poas'd this morning... I knew it would be a negative but I did it anyways (I am 4dp5dt), I did not tell DH that I did it and have no intention on telling him... So I took the test to work and thru it away in the trash infront of my building, but not before checking it again like 30 times (in traffic, at stop lights, in the parking lot).
I ate meat this morning for breakfast... I am Catholic and I knew it was Friday and I should not do it.. but alas I ate a Chick-Fil-A biscuit.
I also ate a bag of gummy starbursts after my meatless lunch and then got nauseous and threw them all up...
ok I'm done!
PS I needed this thread soo bad today!
ET 9/10 - transferred 1 perfect 5AA blast
7dp5dt BFP ~~ Beta on 9/19 - 77.4 Beta #2 on 9/21 - 357
Low heartbeat on 10/7 86, lower heartbeat on 10/11 76, no heartbeat 10/14/13. D&C 10/15/13
Tests revealed MTHFR c677t mutation, put on Folgard.
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FET #1 1/6/14 - 4BB blast - BFN
Eta::: nothing I just realized I had a spelling error
DX: Adenomyosis, Compounded MTHFR, PAI-1 4G variant
DH: 34
MFI due to Testicular Cancer
Married March 2012
IVF w/ICSI #1
10 little polar bears
FET #1 with 2 polar bears ~Nov 6, 2013 BFN
FET # 2 with 2 more polar bears ~March 19, 2014 BFP!!!
Beta 1= 276
Beta 2= 662
4/19/14 ~ baby A became an angel
5/02/14 ~ baby B became an angel
5/3/14 ~ D&C
FET #3 with 1 male polar bear ~October 3, 2014
October 13, 2014 ~ BFN
Fur Children: Memphis 3y, Dutch 3y, Marcel 2y, Meadow 1y
January 2015 Siggy Challenge TTCAL
Animals Interacting with Snow
My confession is a thought, not an action. I'm debating going to a different clinic for our next round of IVF, because my doctors can't seem to get me through a stim cycle without an E2 crash. (sorry to those who have heard me say that 10X now) I was pretty confident there was a problem with the dosage decisions that led to my crash in the last two cycles
The horrible thought is that I could potentially stay at my clinic and disregard dosage instructions that seemed like a bad idea, and they would never know. Isn't a terrible sign when you start thinking you could make med decisions better than your docs!!!
***Losses mentioned.*** TTC #1 since May 2012. Me: 37, OH: 41. Ectopic August 2012 => tubal damage. Stage 1 endo removed June 2013. IVF #1 Oct/Nov 2013: Long Lupron with Gonal-F. 7R, 7M, 7F. 2 txfer@3d. Nothing frozen. => M/C @ 8 wks. Selected RPL panel all normal. Very hyper and brittle response to stims. IVF #2 (antagonist protocol) Feb 2014 => Converted to IUI (Perfect conditions). BFN. IVF #2.1 w/ new RE June 2014: Antagonist protocol. 33R, 31M, 30F, 19 blasts to test!!! I made it through without crashing!! Hats off to Dr. Fancypants!! ET of one 5AB blast. BFN. 13 10 CCS'ed snowflakes! FET #1 PUPO as of 7/29 Betas: 8/7@24, 8/9@97, 8/11@334 (etc.) Two sacs on 8/15, one seen on 8/18 after a bleed. U/s 8/25 (6+3) "perfect": 5.9 mm + HB@120bpm! U/s 9/4 (7+6): 15.9 mm + HB@172 bpm! Please, PLEASE stick this time!!!!
IVF #1 Oct 2013- cancelled
IVF #2 Mar 2014- success.... baby girl born 11/28/14
FET #1 Mar 2016- baby boy due 12/16/16
Waited a long time, tried a lot of stuff, science made me a mom.
It's twin girls!! Born on 11-2-14!
My confession- even though I know I have blood sugar issues, I went totally nutso in the Easter aisle at target and bought 4 bags of easter goodies. I ate almost an entire bag of red starburst jellybeans by myself! Now I'm feeling guilty, like I'm sabotaging myself or something...
N14 Nov. Siggy: CELEBRATION!
ETA: typo
Ticker warning
Diagnosis: PCOS
TTC since 1/12
Clomid w/ gyn 12/12- 2/12- BFN
IUI #1- June 2013- BFN
IUI #2- July 2013-BFN
IUI #3- August 2013-BFN
IVF #1- OCT/ NOV 2013-BFN
3 Blasts frozen
FET #1- February 12 2014- BFP!!
M/c at 5 weeks 4 days
FET #2- July 2014- BFN
IVF #2- Retrieval 11/4/14- 12R 12M 10F 1 blast frozen
11/9/14 Transferred 1 BB expanding blast- BFP EDD 7/28/15