~Precious Penguins~ Jan 19th Check-in

SweetieShellieH · January 2015

*In light of recent events, I may not have everyone in the correct category (Since some people may be checking in on PB rather then TB, or may be doing so here less often) I did what I could with the posts from the last check-in!*

Welcome to the January 2015 Precious Penguins Check-In!!! Check-ins will be every Monday & Thursday. Your check-in leaders are @SweetieShellieH (Monday) and @emmuffy (Thursday).

This is a check-in for those who are doing IVF/IVM or FET with an ER/ET scheduled for January. If you are interested in joining, please fill us in on your cycle below. Please include what cycle number this is for you, where you are in the process, when you expect to start stims, when you're planning on retrieval and transfer, and when your beta day is! Also, please update us along the way!

For those that don't have it yet, here is the link to our badge https://i57.tinypic.com/8ybc3m.jpg

Below is our list so far. Everyone is welcome, so please let us know if you would like to be added

BFP!!! Congrats!!! @tweetyknicks IVF#1 FET#1 BFN (((HUGS))) PUPO!!!!@.Mrs.Matt. IVF #1@browncoatjr IVF#1@doves654 IVF#1 FET#1@jro1602 IVF#1@Kcheese IVF#1@ShortStuff IVF#1 @sewfie IVF#1@tifga IVF#1 FET#2@vballbaby IVF#1 Between ER & ET@apitts2 IVF#2@K1111K IVF#2@Kbrooke06 IVF#1 @maddychan IVF#1@SmootiePie IVF#1 Cycle Complete@RG1979 IVF#3 Stimming@BlueJell0 IVF#1@Bostongirl617 IVF#1@cokiebear IVF#3@Dyork IVF#1@emmuffy IVF#2@GoBucksOH IVF#1@khump IVF#1@kristin1k IVF#1@kford81 IVF#1 @MamaKakes611 IVF#3@Marshaleigh IVF#1@Mysh IVF#2@NariaDreaming IVF #1.2 (we stand by you girl!)@Spring78 IVF#2@swyatt2014 IVF#1 @tumbleweed123 IVF#3 Prep (BCP/Lupron/EP) @afsalinas IVF#1 FET#1@Buttmonkey34 IVF#2 FET#1@Jetta83306 IVF#3 1st w/ DE (Donor is Stimming)@LilyHarper IVF#1 FET#1@shadiddynyc IVF#1 FET#1@SweetieShellieH IVF#1 FET#1 @Twinkie0612 IVF#4 FET#1 w/ OE@wcasar IVF #1 FET#1 Cycle Delayed / Cancelled You can still hang out with us! @bkam IVF#1 - Moved to February@BootsOrHearts IVF#1 FET#1 Moved to February@crazycatlady4 IVF#1 FET#1 - Moved to February@Daashuriaa IVF#2 FET#1 - Moved to February@Discouraged31 IVF #1 FET#1 - Moved to February@fizzashaudhary IVF#3 FET#1 - RI Protocol for 2 months @Fluffydamn IVF#1 - Moved to February@lemonliz IVF#1 - Converted to IUI@lilycakes78 IVF#1 FET#1 - Moved to February@saysjess IVF#1 - Moved to February@SundayBrunch IVF#1 - Moved to February@tbj1 IVF#1 FET#1 - Moved to February M.I.A. It’s been a while, let us know how you’re doing@kels1977 IVF#1@kfb829 IVF#1@zeynsom IVF#2 FET#1

maddychan · January 2015

For now I'm posting to both sites...

I had my ER this morning and I think they told me they retrieved 15 eggs! (They told me when I was just waking up from anesthesia so that's why I say I think ????) so tomorrow we will find out how many fertilized and when ET will be! I am feeling kind of crampy and I'm walking hunched over like an old lady. They said I will be on my prenatals, baby aspirin and I started Erythromycin and Medrol 4x/day. Tomorrow I start the gross Prometrium at night and Endometrin 2x/day.

zeynsom · January 2015

Hi ladies,

Sorry for being absent for the past few weeks. It has been crazy busy times at work. Anyhow, I am still on track and my FET transfer is scheduled for next Tuesday (Jan 27). Today I had my lining check and its somewhere between 7 and 7.6mm. We are adding vaginal estrace to the mix and will do a neupogen wash later this week to further thicken that lining. Hopefully it will cooperate. Per my immunologist orders I am also getting two (yes, two!) IVIG infusions on Wednesday and Thursday this week. I really hope that my cytokine levels come down after these.

Good luck to all and hugs to all who need it

Kcheese · January 2015

I am 1dp5dt. Not a lot else going on. Let the waiting begin!

SweetieShellieH · January 2015

Transfer is tomorrow

I hope the two embies they thawed today survive the night and grow! Prior to thaw they were 1BB and 2BB (I still am not 100% sure what that means).

GoBucksOH · January 2015

Hey ladies! Today was my last day of stims. My E2 is currently at 4136 (yikes) but the nurse was not concerned. I have responded well to meds and have about 14 follies with the lead at 20. ER scheduled for Wednesday at 7am and I am super nervous but also super excited at the same time. It feels like we have been doing this forever and finally making it to ER just makes it feel SO real!

Jetta83306 · January 2015

Hello! Today was ER day for my donor. We got 23 eggs!!! I am so psyched. The embryologist said that 22 of them are excellent quality and he expects us to have "oodles" of embryos. This was better than I could have hoped for. With my past two IVF cycles I had poor response and poor quality eggs/embryos. I started PIO last night and add doxy (ugh) and medrol tomorrow. As of right now I am scheduled for a 5dt on Saturday afternoon. Now I'm getting anxious to hear back tomorrow about how many fertilized. Good luck, ladies

emmuffy · January 2015

Jetta83306 , good luck!

SweetieShellieH · January 2015

PUPO!!! Transfered 2 embyos today

Twinkie0612 · January 2015

That is an amazing update @Jetta83306! FX for lots of amazing embryos!

Twinkie0612 · January 2015

I had my second lining check yesterday and my lining is up to 9.2mm. My RE wants to see if we can get it closer to 10mm, so I am continuing viagra and vaginal estrace. I go back on Thursday for one last lining check and as long as everything looks good, I will start progesterone Thursday for Transfer on Tuesday!

We hit a bump with my immune treatments. I found out Friday that my insurance changed as of 1/1 and that I now need pre-authorization from my insurance for IVIG, which probably means I no longer have coverage. It also means that as of right now I have no way of infusing at home, so I couldn't do a second infusion on Friday. We had to scrample for a back up plan, but I am happy with what we came up with. I upped my prednisone to 20mg and had an intralipid infusion through my RE yesterday (RI doesn't prescribe intralipids since she doesn't feel they have been proven effective). I will have blood work done tomorrow to check immune levels and should have the results back on Friday. We will go from there on whether I should head back to the RI's office in Chicago for a second IVIG infusion (I have two doses of meds left from my first order), or wait until after a positive pregnancy test.

This has turned into another hectic week filled with doctor's appointments and blood draws.

Jetta83306 · January 2015

I have a quick update. The embryologist called today and said we have 16 embryos!!! I am still in shock how great this news has been, it almost seems to good to be true. He will be calling back Thursday for an update and giving me a time for ET on Saturday.

ShortStuff · January 2015

I'm 3dp5dt and having some cramping. I'm hoping it's implantation! I get my stitches out from my surgery tomrrow! Whoo hoo! @sweetieshellieH - Thanks for keeping this up!

Congrats your transfer!

It sounds like there's a lot of progression on the board! The PUPO section is going to be growing very fast!! Congrats to all!

It's kind of sad how quiet our check in is. I made an account on the new site, but I've been on TB for over 10 years and I'm already part of another wonderful january group on another site. I just don't know that I want to add a third.

I do hope some of you will stay.

wcasar · January 2015

Plugging away with estradriol still. I have my ultrasound on Thursday which will tell me exactly when the transfer is. Nothing too exciting except my date is finally approaching.

tifga · January 2015

I plan to stick around I just have nothing interesting to say. Beta is tomorrow but now that is test time my certainty it worked if overcrowded by my terror that it didn't.

@shortstuff I had some cramping around then FX it is a good sign for both of us. When is your beta?

tweetyknicks · January 2015

*** warning, BFP and adult child mentioned (not mine) ***

As I posted at the other place, please excuse my inattention here. DH and I had some drama over the weekend. The short version is that his younger son OD'd on heroin and was within a hair's breadth of death Sunday night. Luckily there is a drug that neutralizes heroin within a few hours, so he's fine now.

Aside from the problems with MH's younger son, things are swimming along well here. Beta#2 came back at 1310 at 12dp5dt (was 408 three days earlier), so a doubling time of 42.78 hours. E2 was up to 379 (from 118 only three days ago) and P was up to 38 (from 20 three days ago). Doc says those are looking good. My next appointment is sometime 2/4-2/6 for an ultrasound. I guess that's when we find out how many stuck and maybe see the heartbeat(s). I think it's time for me to intro on PAIF, but I will continue to post here until the Penguins disband and lurk on IF/3TC. Thank you all so much for your support through these trying months! It's meant the world to me.

swyatt2014 · January 2015

yay @GoBucksOH good luck tomorrow! @Jetta83306 lucky 23! outstanding! @tweetyknicks im soooo sorry you are going thru the family health crisis. I'm so very glad that your son in law is ok though. and Im super excited for you about the beta! My update is that today is day 8 of stims, and my E2 is 1425. Lining is 10.17mm, and it looks like i have 14-18 follociles. avg size is like 16 right now. Hopefully they will do ER on Saturday. We shall see. My

maddychan · January 2015

@Jetta83306‌ that's awesome! We will be transferring the same day

So yesterday when I was groggy and they told me they retrieved 15 eggs, I heard wrong and it was actually 16! Just got call from my dr. Out of the 16, 15 were mature and 14 were fertilized! We did ICSI. So we are looking at a 5 day transfer on Saturday. At that time we will find out how many quality embryos there are and how many we'll transfer. Started Endometrin this morning and will do Prometrium tonight (yuck).

Jetta83306 · January 2015

@maddychan Yay! 14 is a great number! Good luck!!!

tifga · January 2015

Congrats @maddychan, those are great numbers so far.

kristin1k · January 2015

Hi everyone! Its great to see how many of you are going in for ERs and coming back with such awesome numbers!! Congratulations @tweetyknicks‌!!! It must be hard to have such a difficult issue going on during what should be a happy time ((hugs))
Tomorrow I go in for another u/s and more b/w in the hopes that they'll tell me I'm ready to trigger on Thursday. My numbers arent as high as a lot of others but they're getting there. It seems like some of you had more eggs retrieved than follicles counted, is that normal?

ShortStuff · January 2015

@tifga - GL w/ your beta tomorrow!! FX for you!

Yes, I pray it's a good sign for us! I'm still having the cramping now. It's about 24hrs so far. It's not constant or unbearable, but uncomfortable.

Ugh, my beta is not until 12dp5dt!!!! NO WAY can I wait that long. I plan to POAS on Saturday, 7dp5dt. If it's a BFN, I will try again at 10dp5dt... though by then, if it's really a BFN, AF should be poking around.

Congrats @maddychan! Great numbers!!

tifga · January 2015

@shortstuff My beta is 12dp5dt too but the thought of testing early made me feel like all hope was lost so I'll just wait til husband tells me tomorrow.

maddychan · January 2015

Thanks y'all!

Dr office called again. My estrogen test today has lowered due to retrieval to the 600's. I guess they like it over 1000 still so I will be starting on an estrogen patch tonight as well. So many prescriptions!

browncoatjr · January 2015

Congrats to @tweetyknicks! And glad to hear go much good news about everyone's egg retrievals.

Not much news here. Still in the two week wait. Blood work appointment is Monday 8 am. Thinking that since the eggs were fertilized two weeks ago on Friday that maybe I can try a HPT in the next few days??

victoriak0212 · January 2015

Hi. I'm new here. I'm actually new to forums all together as well as new to IVF. We have been ttc for 4 years and finally went through the whirlwind that is IVF. I am currently 1dp5dt and finally feel like I can breathe a little. I've devoted the next 9 days to relaxation happy thoughts and creating a beautiful relaxing nurturing environment for our embabies. Our blood test is scheduled for the 28th. Praying! Haven't felt much besides a little cramping and lower back pain but for now I'm enjoying the PUPO phase.

vballbaby · January 2015

@shortstuff I also had cramping yesterday and throughout the night, woke up with a headache and the last two nights I've been having to pee like 2-3x per night which is unusual. I had a 2 day tsf on 14th so I believe we are at the same stage. It's impossible for me not to try to feel what's going on.

@tifga good luck today!

khump · January 2015

Just got our fert report..We knew they retrieved 8 eggs, but since i had 8 follicles growing we knew that was our max. 4 eggs were mature and 2 fertilized.. i really didn't know it was possible to be happy and devastated at the same time.. We were obviously hoping for more but now hopefully we will have two chances..

MamaKakes611 · January 2015

@khump - I know it is tough when you get your fert report sometimes. Since I have a low egg reserve, I'm considered lucky if I get 4-6 follies and from there if I get any that fertilized. It only takes 1

That's what my doc keeps telling us. Fx for you!

Looking good to those of us still around!

Hugs and hoping for some good news coming up (for all you) no news for me this time really... Day 2 of stimming and wahoo to the lupron migraine from hell.

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