IF Testing & Treatment w/o Feb 12

britters314

**This is a place for those of us who have already started TTC, but have started infertility testing and/or treatments. You can express your thoughts, feelings, and frustrations on infertility. TTC can be a long journey naturally, then add in the difficulties associated with infertility, and it becomes a whole new ballgame. The road to infertility can be lonely, frustrating, and complicated, so let's make this a place where we can vent, ask questions, and support one another. Feel free to resurrect this thread at any point in the week if you have something to say. Treat this as an ongoing conversation.

Diagnosis (if you've been):

Status (TI/ICI/IUI/IVF/FET/benched):

What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment?):

How are things going?:

Any questions?:

GTKY: What are your Valentine’s Day plans?

britters314

Diagnosis (if you've been): Unexplained

Status (TI/ICI/IUI/IVF/FET/benched): Benched

What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment?): home study paperwork

How are things going?: Good. We are almost done with our paperwork. The last big thing we have is getting CPR certified. Then a couple other small things and we can schedule our home visit.

Any questions?: Nope

GTKY: What are your Valentine’s Day plans?
H and I are taking a trip to Central America. It’s actually for our 10 year anniversary, which is in the spring, but this is a better time to travel, so it’s kind of also for Valentine’s Day 

ATolentino89

@britters314 that sounds super fun!!!

Diagnosis (if you've been): unknown

Status (TI/ICI/IUI/IVF/FET/benched): TWW on a TI

What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment?): it was medicated TI... by O day I was OVER it because we started early. 

How are things going?: So So... I'm just trying to keep busy. I have an appointment with my infertility doctor tomorrow to go over my plan. I know she will recommend iui if this cycle doesn't work. I do wonder what she will say about my heart shaped uterus. 

Any questions?: doing bbt while taking synthroid is proving to be impossible since I wake when hubs gets up at 4:30 to take it because I need coffee to wake me up at 6:30

GTKY: What are your Valentine’s Day plans?
Umm...... nothing. 
Hubs had to go to Texas for a funeral and that's expensive so we're scant this year. 

capnjackharkness

Phew.  Been gone a few months, and this board seems very quiet...  Guess TBGs 'open-ness' and ban-hammer regs hasn't worked out so well for them, eh?

Diagnosis (if you've been): IF RPL

Status (TI/ICI/IUI/IVF/FET/benched): benched. 

What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment?): Waiting until CD 1, then Lupron Depo 90 day thing for endometriosis, followed by FET hopefully.

How are things going?: recovery from laparoscopy.  Trying to get back on the working out/eating better bandwagon to drop weight before FET> 

Any questions?:  Where is everyone?!?

GTKY: What are your Valentine’s Day plans?  No big plans.  Been married too long and just over all that.  LOL.

aisleofviewtwo

@britters314 That sounds amazing! Where will you be going? I mostly know people who went to Costa Rica, but without fail they’ve said it was just breathtaking. Have fun!!

@ATolentino89 Two thoughts on BBT. (1) As long as you’ve slept 3 consecutive hours, you can temp! I used to temp around 1-2am because I almost never sleep through the night, and I always saw the pot-O temp shift. So you might just be able to temp when you wake at 4:30 for Synthroid. (2) I did eventually invest in Tempdrop, which is an armband that continually monitors your temp through the night and accounts for middle of the night wake-ups or movement. A little pricey, but for me it was worth it for the peace of mind of not having to worry whether I’d sleep well enough to be able to temp.

@capnjackharkness It’s been really hit or miss recently! Some weeks we’ve got a lot of check-ins, others are super quiet 🤷‍♀️ I do worry that newbies to TTGP are scared off by how dead the WTO/TWW have been (exciting to see some action over there this week!), but not sure what to do about that when the reality of IF testing & treatment is that we spend a lot of time waiting.

aisleofviewtwo

Diagnosis (if you've been): Unexplained

Status (TI/ICI/IUI/IVF/FET/benched): IVF

What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment?): Egg retrieval

How are things going?: Today was retrieval day! Everything went smoothly, and while I’m still finding it very difficult to get my hopes up, it seems the results of the retrieval are as good as could be expected. Details in spoiler.

We got 13 eggs! Given that the clinic predicted we’d get 5-8; I had an antral follicle count of 13 at the start this cycle; and there were only 14 in the 10-20mm range at my Sunday check-in, we have to be pleased. Tomorrow we’ll learn how many were mature and fertilized, and then begin the long wait to see who makes it to blastocyst.

A small heads up for those going into IVF for the first time: I was taken aback to learn that after the trigger shot (high dose HCG) they actually have you take a home pregnancy test to confirm it’s in your system. Felt very weird and sad seeing a BFP for the first time ever, but knowing it wasn’t real.

Any questions?:

GTKY: What are your Valentine’s Day plans? Once we learned the retrieval would be this week, we agreed to no plans. We’ll exchange cards as we always do, and maybe I can convince him to curl up and watch a movie in the evening, or something similarly low key.

britters314

@aisleofviewtwo We are going to Belize! It’s H’s first time out of the country so he is especially excited.