TTTC - 02/22/2016 Quick Weekly Checkin Thread

GoldenKeys

Hello all - I'm posting a quick checkin thread this week -- my apologies, I have internet issues today.  How is everybody doing?

Winnie81_Old

Pretty good so far! I was supposed to ovulate yesterday but I don't think I did which sucks. Usually I get really bad cramps and get super emotional, but nothing yet. Also I normally temp but my thermometer broke Saturday and is giving temps below 94. Other than that I am purging junk and spring cleaning all week!

Starlight811

CD 16 here in TWW had IUI#2 on sat 2/20. We planned "2 inseminations" one BD fri and the other IUI on sat due to one follicle was mature and 5mm larger than the other on CD12 follicle check and possibly would ovulate before the second one. Luckily DH counts were great only after 12 hrs from abstaining. I take my beta sat 3/5...wishing everyone luck !! 

NordyMN89

4dpiui today...just hanging out in the TWW trying to keep busy. I hate wishing away time, but I really do wish the next 8 days would fly by so I can test. This waiting stuff is for the birds.

Megan3086

Ok for a Monday!  Kinda in the TWW... i dont really know exactly when i ovulated since i boycotted temping this month.

Drove2u

In TWW now so nothing too exciting going on. At 3dpiui now. 

wifeinraleigh28

I'm 9dpiui today.  5 day countdown to test day has begun.  I would love it if this IUI worked but I know it's a long shot  

erica0901

3dpiui and began endometrin today, nothing too exciting. Wish it was next Friday already!

starlitfae

I reappear from nowhere!

Can't sleep right now, mainly because I'm in a hotel and I have issues sleeping in new places. My orientation for ivf begins in 6 hours (ack!), here is hoping I don't fall asleep during it (or even more importantly, during the 4 hr drive back home after!)

See all you ladies in your 2ww fingers crossed!

linzylemonz365

I had a miscarriage. So were back to square one.

ShallowSeas

@linzylemonz365
sorry to hear that

I had my progesterone levels check on Saturday (CD20) and they came back at 20.6! I'm pretty happy with this number. I started testing today at 10 dpo.  I thought I saw something but the more I stared at it, the whiter my Wondfo looked, so definitely had a case of 'line eyes'.

Plainjanie

@linzylemonz365 I'm really sorry to hear about your loss. I don't know what you are going through, but I read in another post you took the day off with your Husband, so I'm glad you are able to support each other.

I am doing alright. CD18 today. Lots of BD'ing this month. More than usual (lately anyways). I'm not feeling hopeful about this cycle but I am feeling good about it. Like we are moving forward.

 I've been working hard lately, eating better and exercising on the regular...but I can't seem to get past the 14lb hump. I just float there. I will gain a pound or two and loose it again, but never more than 14.

I went for an initial consultation with a Chinese Medicine Doctor on Friday and borrowed the book 'Making Babies' from the public library. It was co-written by a Western and Eastern medical Doctors so I'm jumping head first into this adventure. The doctor seemed knowledgeable and appeared to be excited to help. She gave me some herbal tea and some really gross herbal balls to drink and eat over the next two weeks. Mostly to cleanse my body and prepare for her next step. I also received acupuncture and it was way more relaxing and stress reducing than the acupuncture I received from a Naturopath. So I'm feeling good about that.

We go and see the RE on Friday afternoon to talk about possible medicated cycles. So we shall see what the next month or so brings us! 

ZoeFer

Hello all, i had signed in here before but then my account was banned a couple of times for no reason so i was deleted from this board. I would like to join back
My dx and treatments are in my signature, shortly i have pcos and trying letrozole. There has been a problem with my insurance so i couldnot continue with IUIs after the first trial so we are trying TI with letrozole lately. The good part is i am ovulating every time with letrozole but cannot get any BFP. 
As of now, i am CD 16 today and couldnt detect any positive OPK yet( i had positive on CD16 last cycle) . But i started to feel a change in my boobs so i do not know if i ovulated pretty early this cycle and i totally missed it. I was not too hopeful about this cycle anyways but i still cannot escape the dissapointment feeling. Shortly i have no idea if i am in tww or waiting for ovulation. Sorry for the long post, i am loosing my patience lately. 
Good luck to every body !!!!

ahende04

Hello all!! 

It's been a while for me. I was so stressed/obsessed with having a baby. I tMy obgyn wanted to try a few things before referring to an RE. I felt discouraged, but got through it. I just didn't want to bring you all down with me.

Update for me: Saw an RE last Thursday and IUI will be our next step if this last round of clomid is not successful. All reports indicate that my diabetes is the culprit for my fertility issues so I am working hard to bring my levels down (last A1c was 7.5 RE wants it at 7) I am currently 8dpo according to my BBT. if no success this month then we wait to see an A1c of 7 before scheduling an IUI. Still feeling a little discouraged, but we are again getting through it. 

I felt it was a good time to come back and hopefully I can still be supportive and feel supported. Thanks!

AL_TwinCities

@linzylemonz365 I am so deeply sorry for your loss. Thinking of you.

@plainjanie I read Making Babies in September and started following many of their recommendations for my fertility type. I started seeing an acupuncturist in November and got pregnant that cycle, 15 months of trying after my first loss! Unfortunately I lost that pregnancy too, but the experience made me a complete believer in TCM. Now I'm reading The Infertility Cure, which goes into more depth about TCM. I'm finding it very interesting and it builds nicely in Making Babies. 

We had our infertility consult last week, and the nurse we met with was intrigued by the fact that we got pregnant the cycle we started acupuncture. She recommended I keep up the TCM treatments for a few cycles before starting testing, so we are going to keep doing this for now and see how it goes. She said we could do a Clomid cycle or two (monitored) but would rather wait to see if the acupuncture will help us conceive naturally again. So we'll keep doing what we're doing for now!

salt+light

linzylemonz365, I'm so sorry.  I just said a little prayer for you, and I hope that's ok.

So much has happened since my last check-in; I had overstimulated on my IVF meds (even on the lowest dosage) so when I had my egg retrieval last week, they retrieved 23 eggs.    17 of those eggs were mature, and 15 fertilized.  I just got the call yesterday (day 5) that 8 of those eggs had made it to blastocyst.  The grades of those embryos were 6BA, 6BB, 6BC, 6BC, 5??, 5??, 4??, 4?? (I couldn't write quickly enough while hearing over the phone).  Those eggs were all frozen, since I overstimulated and they converted me to a FET.  The plan is to prepare for a transfer of two of those frozen embryos in mid-March.

DH and I happen to be pro-life, so we said from the beginning that we were worried about having too many embryos frozen, as we feel an obligation to see them through; and of course, now we have eight!  I'd be lying if I didn't say there was some fear mixed in with the joy when we heard this news, yesterday.  Of course, we know not all of them will implant; and we opted out of PGS testing for personal reasons, so a huge unknown is whether those 8 embryos are chromosomally normal.  Only time will tell, I guess; but we have faith that God has a plan for our family that we can't yet see.

(By the way, should I be on a separate board for IVF, somewhere?  I see almost everyone here is doing IUI, so I wasn't sure!)

linzylemonz365

Thank you for all of the thoughts ava prayers

22mango22

Got good news this week, i was supposed to schedule my HSG after af, but i was late (no surprise there, my cycles are all jacked up ) so i tested Saturday and got a pos. Then got my coworker to scan me and i was measuring 3.5 wks! Went for blood work yesterday, my progesterone is low so i started endomitrin last night and i go in tomorrow for an official scan and more labs. Im hoping our big set of labs from last week are back by tomorrow so we can make sure this one sticks. Keeping our fingers crossed.

wifeinraleigh28

@salt+light - There are a lot of IVF threads over on the infertility forum if you want to connect with others doing IVF on similar cycles!  Congrats on getting so many embryos!  And good luck with your FET and with whatever you decide to do with them all if you are successful!  What about embryo donation?

Samanthaarielxo

Doing fantastic. 
Got my new medications to try to get me to ovulate. First progesterone to force a period because I don't get them on my own and then I start clomid on day 3 of my cycle. I just started spotting tonight after almost 8 months of no period and over a year of no period without taking sometype of medication. And holy cramps I forgot how bad my TOM can get. 
I'm still frustrated because I have been trying to get ahold of my doctor for over a week and haven't had any luck. And my doctor briefly mentioned a 24 day blood test I needed to come in for but idk if that means 24 days after I started the progesterone or the clomid or what it is for. 

GoldenKeys

linzylemonz365  I am so sorry for your loss. Huge hugs... 

GoldenKeys

ZoeFer said:

Hello all, i had signed in here before but then my account was banned a couple of times for no reason so i was deleted from this board. I would like to join back
My dx and treatments are in my signature, shortly i have pcos and trying letrozole. There has been a problem with my insurance so i couldnot continue with IUIs after the first trial so we are trying TI with letrozole lately. The good part is i am ovulating every time with letrozole but cannot get any BFP. 
As of now, i am CD 16 today and couldnt detect any positive OPK yet( i had positive on CD16 last cycle) . But i started to feel a change in my boobs so i do not know if i ovulated pretty early this cycle and i totally missed it. I was not too hopeful about this cycle anyways but i still cannot escape the dissapointment feeling. Shortly i have no idea if i am in tww or waiting for ovulation. Sorry for the long post, i am loosing my patience lately. 
Good luck to every body !!!!

Hi ZoeFer yes I saw that you were being banned and sent messages to the administrators about it a while back.  Apparently your IP address is very close to someone else's who got banned, and the database kept sweeping you up in the ban.  I'll keep a vigilant eye out for you in the future, I'm so sorry that happened.

If this happens to anyone else please send an email to membersupport@thebump.com to get it fixed.

ZoeFer

Thank you very much @GoldenKeys, I am happy to have an explanation  

ShallowSeas

**TW - bfp and siggy**

@GoldenKeys
can you add me to the bfp hall of fame? I got my bfp on Wednesday!

nuttymask

Got a headache and AF is supposed to come today, so I think she's on her way We had a BDthon though- In follicular monitoring the follicle was 18 something, so our doc advised BD from Thursday and then a scan on Sunday was not possible, so we continued to BD. Monday, it ruptured and there was another which was 18 something, so again BDed till Tuesday. Whew. Do feel my ET was thinner this time on Day 9, despite taking medicine, when I compared it to previous follicular monitoring reports.

csearentfro44

Hi. I am new here, been TTC over 5 years. Have PCOS. Had SA, HSG, and baseline u/s done last month. Supposed to start clomid when AF comes. I started spotting last night but it's early. Worrying if it could possibly be implantation bleeding. Wouldn't want to ruin it with clomid if it's for real!