Cycle Status: AF decided to show last Thursday so my surgery had to be postponed to this Friday DH is a doctor and can never take off on short notice so I was really worried about how I would organize everything. One of my friends/neighbors is going to take me this Friday at the butt crack of dawn and stay with me. So surgery this Friday and fresh IVF cycle planned for August. That means I have July to lose some weight and try to be as healthy as I can be before my last IVF.
QOTW: I would move back to Chicago. DH had job offers in both places (where we live now and Chicago) but we chose upstate NY because of the cost of living. I love where we live now but I miss my family, city living, and diversity.
IVF #1, Stimmed for 12 days, ER 8/22/14, 9 retrieved, 7M, 7F!! Freeze all due to fluid in uterus.
FET end of October 2014 cancelled due to fluid in uterus due to possible c-scar defect
Surgery scheduled 12/12/14 to fix possible isthmocele
3/26/15 transferred one 8 cell grade 4 embryo and one 6 cell grade 3 embryo = slow rising betas for 2+ weeks = ectopic MTX shot 4/29/15
Repeat c-scar surgery June 2015
2nd and last IVF cycle August 2015, stimmed for 12 days, 2 egg retrieved, both mature and both fertilized. Transferred both 8-cell embryos on Day 3, beta 9/5/15 = BFFN
QOTW: Do I have to work? If no, some Caribbean island. If yes, I would prefer somewhere warmer all the time. I could convince him to go to CA, but it would have to be Silicon Valley, not SoCal like I would like.
Kid #1 - 09/03/12
Kid #2 - maybe???
Diagnosed with Severe Ashermans Hysteroscopy #10 - scar tissue grew back reblocking my right tube #11 or IVF with scarring still inside? 1 lone embryo from September 2016 retreival, dx with Trisomy 16, starting fresh
H and I were just talking about this, moving somewhere and ignoring modern society. Caribbean would be lovely. If we still had to work and stuff I would love somewhere not crowded, yet close to stuff. But warmer than here!
Status: I had my baseline today and had a ton of follicles. My lining is thick like they thought because I don't have periods, at 7mm and I had about 38 follicles in each ovary. This is good news that my AFC is high and hasn't changed in the 2 years since I had my testing done for #1. Actually, the doctor noticed my AFC is actually higher because last time I had 24 in each. We now just need the blood work to come back, which is the full fertility panel. Next step will be to induce a period, and get an SHG done. After that we will wait till August, take more provera and start BCP and get this show on the mother f-ing road! I need to get my protocol so I can try to use the OOP meds program to get some donated to me to help with any costs I can.
QOTW: If I didn't have to work I would also move to some fabulous location! Maybe Paris or some fabulous tropical island where it is sunny everyday and I can be a beach bum.
Cycle Status: AF came yesterday and I have my FET baseline on Wednesday. If everything looks good, I'll get my FET calendar and my first shot of estrogen. The PGS results are due Thursday or Friday, and I am so incredibly nervous/excited. It's hard to think about anything else.
QOTW: I love, love, love London. I would have a second home there for a balance of city life against our normal life. Living right outside Boston would be my second choice. I love New England, and there's where I grew up.
Sending hugs to @frenchteachermama for a successful surgery, good lining vibes to @fuzzbumble, and yay for a super good baseline to @1983Lindsey2 . Good things seem to be happening this week, and that's awesome to hear! We deserve it!
Me: 35 DOR - AMH 1.1 FSH 5.6
DH: 39
09/01/10 - First pregnancy - my sweet son was born
04/25/14 - Miscarriage at 9 weeks - Turner Syndrome
08/01/14 - Miscarriage at 8 weeks - Trisomy 9
October 2014 - Unsuccessful IUI
November 2014 - IUI month skipped due to cyst
December 2014 - Unsuccessful IUI
January/February 2015 - Failed IVF (standard long protocol) - 7 eggs, 6 mature, 4 fertilized (ICSI), 0 made it to blast, 0 for testing
March/April 2015 - Microflare IVF protocol with HGH - 6 eggs, 6 mature, 5 fertilized (ICSI), 2 blasts for biopsy!
May/June 2015 - Microflare IVF protocol with HGH - 9 eggs, 6 mature, 5 fertilized (ICSI), 3 blasts for biopsy!
06/18/15 - Two healthy embies based on PGS testing by Natera!
June/July 2015 - FET cycle with estradiol & PIO shots, a Neupogen treatment, and accupuncture
Status: Just waiting for my FET consultation on 7/8. Getting excited by actively looking on this board.
QOTW: I would also pick somewhere in the Caribbean! I wouldn't mind working there either; selling pina colada's on the beach! But, if I had to be more realistic, I would just pick somewhere more urban than where I live. It takes me half an hour to go to the grocery store grrrrr. I probably wouldn't live in IL either, taxes are insane. Maybe Colorado where I have other family.
Status: Just waiting for my FET consultation on 7/8. Getting excited by actively looking on this board.
QOTW: I would also pick somewhere in the Caribbean! I wouldn't mind working there either; selling pina colada's on the beach! But, if I had to be more realistic, I would just pick somewhere more urban than where I live. It takes me half an hour to go to the grocery store grrrrr. I probably wouldn't live in IL either, taxes are insane. Maybe Colorado where I have other family.
Cycle Status: Thought we were on a treatment break until August/September but I got AF and when I called the RE they said I can actually cycle in July! So baseline blood work and u/s on July 1st and anticipated retrieval around July 16th-ish. We'll do a FET in August or September after we get PGS results back!
QOTW: The Caribbean for sure. I love the beach and "island time".
I just got a message from my clinic, and I have to redo baseline testing as my labs and u/s said I am in the follicular phase. So I have to go back next Thursday for a blood draw to see if we can start provera to get the actual baseline numbers. I would be more annoyed if I didn't have so much time to kill before I start bcp's in August.
@ellebelle2384 July 16th is a good day (my birthday). Good luck & yay! for the earlier than expected cycle.
Kid #1 - 09/03/12
Kid #2 - maybe???
Diagnosed with Severe Ashermans Hysteroscopy #10 - scar tissue grew back reblocking my right tube #11 or IVF with scarring still inside? 1 lone embryo from September 2016 retreival, dx with Trisomy 16, starting fresh
I love living in NY.I t is expensive so I would like to have more money to live here but it is still my favorite place. I lived in CA for five years during high school/early college and I am definitely an east coast girl and was happy to move back here.
"From the moment I first saw you, the second that you were born, I knew that you
were the love of my life"
Me: 35, DH: 40
TTC # 2 since 8/13, Dx: unexplained secondary infertility
Clomid cycles 7/14 & 8/14= BFN
IUI # 1 (clomid) 8/27/14= BFN
IUI # 2 (clomid and follistim) 9/25/14= BFN
IUI # 3 (femara and follistim) 10/23/14= BFN
IUI # 4 (femara and follistim) 11/20/14= BFN
12/12/14- saline sono shows two polyps
2/15- two uterine polyps and "schmutz" (RE's words) removed
I had my baseline u/s and started Femera on Tuesday. I go back on Monday for a monitoring ultrasound. I will probably trigger early next week. We are doing TI again.
~SAIF/PAIF/Everyone Welcome~
Me= 37 and DH = 41
Dx: DOR, Endo, APA+ (really high beta 2 glycoprotein antibody and high everything else tested), heterozygous MTHFR mutation, positive for lupus anticoagulant, high FSH, low AMH and both tubes blocked (per HSG on 3/8/11)
IVF #1 - long lupron (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 4 retrieved, 3 fertilized; ET 2 blasts and 1 frozen = BFN
IVF #2 - a version of antagonist with EPP (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, 2 blasts and 1 frozen blast transferred on day 5 = BFN.
IVF #3 April was postponed to May, May was canceled. June/July was canceled. Had a cyst aspiration and then began IVF #3 in August. ER on 8/22; ET on 8/24 with AH. +HPT on 9/5. Beta #1 (11dpo) = 3; Beta #2 (15dpo) = 29; Beta #3 (17dpo) = 60; Beta #4 (19 dpo) = 118. Heartbeat at 6 weeks 6 days =132. Lil is here!
Re: --- 2IF Weekly Check-in (June 15) ---
TTC #3 since June 2013
BFP #1 7/21/2013--EDD 3/30/14--D&C 9/24/13
BFP #2 1/28/14--MC 2/7/14
IUI #1 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
IUI #2 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
IUI #3 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
QOTW: Do I have to work? If no, some Caribbean island. If yes, I would prefer somewhere warmer all the time. I could convince him to go to CA, but it would have to be Silicon Valley, not SoCal like I would like.
Kid #1 - 09/03/12
Hysteroscopy #10 - scar tissue grew back reblocking my right tube
#11 or IVF with scarring still inside?
1 lone embryo from September 2016 retreival, dx with Trisomy 16, starting fresh
H and I were just talking about this, moving somewhere and ignoring modern society. Caribbean would be lovely. If we still had to work and stuff I would love somewhere not crowded, yet close to stuff. But warmer than here!
Me: 35 DOR - AMH 1.1 FSH 5.6
DH: 39
09/01/10 - First pregnancy - my sweet son was born
04/25/14 - Miscarriage at 9 weeks - Turner Syndrome
08/01/14 - Miscarriage at 8 weeks - Trisomy 9
October 2014 - Unsuccessful IUI
November 2014 - IUI month skipped due to cyst
December 2014 - Unsuccessful IUI
January/February 2015 - Failed IVF (standard long protocol) - 7 eggs, 6 mature, 4 fertilized (ICSI), 0 made it to blast, 0 for testing
March/April 2015 - Microflare IVF protocol with HGH - 6 eggs, 6 mature, 5 fertilized (ICSI), 2 blasts for biopsy!
May/June 2015 - Microflare IVF protocol with HGH - 9 eggs, 6 mature, 5 fertilized (ICSI), 3 blasts for biopsy!
06/18/15 - Two healthy embies based on PGS testing by Natera!
June/July 2015 - FET cycle with estradiol & PIO shots, a Neupogen treatment, and accupuncture
07/08/2015 - Transferred one lovely embie
07/17/2015 - Beta #1 136
07/20/2015 - Beta #2 529 -- BFP!!!
Cycle Status: I am on bcp now, only 11 days total, and I start Lupron shorts 10iu daily on Wednesday, and stop bcp on Sunday, yay!
Then I wait for AF to start estrogen patches.
FET set for 7/15/15 so far, but that depends on when AF arrives after BCP
QOTW: I am pretty happy where I live actually, in the Northern Rockies
Where in IL do you live? DH is from a small small town there!!
ME: 35 DH: 39
Married July 2011
DD Born 8/12
TTC #2 since 11/13
ME: Submucosal Fibroid Surgery Date APRIL 14th 2015 -Left Tube is blocked by Fibroid~Surgeon removed 26 Fibroids from my Ute and Unblocked my Tube
DH:Azoospermia...Thank God we have 12 vials of frozen swimmers
July 15-Check to see if Ute is all healed
IUI #1 8/3/15...BFN
IUI #2 9/5/15...BFP on 9/17/15
Beta #1-344
Beta #2-809
Beta #3 8,390
1st u/s 8/8/15 1 bean HB 135 @ 6w5d
CD: 33. Waiting impatiently for AF. I'm scared this is the other shoe dropping after having a successful surgery 2 months ago.
QOTW: Nashville. But only if I could pick up this house and put it there. Oh and bring all my friends too.
ME: 35 DH: 39
Married July 2011
DD Born 8/12
TTC #2 since 11/13
ME: Submucosal Fibroid Surgery Date APRIL 14th 2015 -Left Tube is blocked by Fibroid~Surgeon removed 26 Fibroids from my Ute and Unblocked my Tube
DH:Azoospermia...Thank God we have 12 vials of frozen swimmers
July 15-Check to see if Ute is all healed
IUI #1 8/3/15...BFN
IUI #2 9/5/15...BFP on 9/17/15
Beta #1-344
Beta #2-809
Beta #3 8,390
1st u/s 8/8/15 1 bean HB 135 @ 6w5d
QOTW: The Caribbean for sure. I love the beach and "island time".
Dx: Me: Recurrent Pregnancy Loss; DH: Low Morphology (2%)
BFP#1: MC 3/1/11 at 6w1d - EDD 10/21/11
BFP#3: MC 2/8/14 at 4w5d - EDD 10/13/14
BFP#6: CP 11/6/14 at 4w2d - EDD 7/14/15
IVF #1 with ICSI & PGS: May/June 2015, ER 6/3/15, 17R/17M/15F
IVF #2 with ICSI & PGS: July 2015, ER 7/16/15, 16R/11M/9F
PGS results = 6 normal embryos (4 boys, 2 girls)
FET 9/23/15 = BFFN
Kid #1 - 09/03/12
Hysteroscopy #10 - scar tissue grew back reblocking my right tube
#11 or IVF with scarring still inside?
1 lone embryo from September 2016 retreival, dx with Trisomy 16, starting fresh
~SAIF/PAIF/Everyone Welcome~
Me= 37 and DH = 41
Dx: DOR, Endo, APA+ (really high beta 2 glycoprotein antibody and high everything else tested), heterozygous MTHFR mutation, positive for lupus anticoagulant, high FSH, low AMH and both tubes blocked (per HSG on 3/8/11)
IVF #1 - long lupron (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 4 retrieved, 3 fertilized; ET 2 blasts and 1 frozen = BFN
IVF #2 - a version of antagonist with EPP (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, 2 blasts and 1 frozen blast transferred on day 5 = BFN.
IVF #3 April was postponed to May, May was canceled. June/July was canceled. Had a cyst aspiration and then began IVF #3 in August. ER on 8/22; ET on 8/24 with AH. +HPT on 9/5. Beta #1 (11dpo) = 3; Beta #2 (15dpo) = 29; Beta #3 (17dpo) = 60; Beta #4 (19 dpo) = 118. Heartbeat at 6 weeks 6 days =132. Lil is here!
TTC#2: Trigger + TI = BFN; Clomid + Trigger + IUI = BFN.
IVF #4: BCP + MDLF + Lovenox = 7R, 1F = Transferred 1 6-cell embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #5: MDLF + Lovenox = 4R, 1F = Transferred 1 10-cell compacting embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #6: (New RE): Long Antagonist November 2014 (transferred two 8 cell grade 1 embryos and froze one blast) = BFN
FET#1: BFN