Taking a stab at one of these...
Status (WTO/TWW/Benched/in process of testing or treatment):
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable):
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?):
Rants/Raves:
Questions for the group:
GTKY: Any furbabies in your household?
Re: TTCA35 Check-in Week of 10/7/18 (Belated)
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable): CD13
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?): Prenatals, CoQ10, fish oil, and hubby and I have an appointment with an RE scheduled for next week.
Rants/Raves: In addition to the TTC stuff, I had an appointment with my gyn this morning due to lumps in my breasts. Probably just cysts but she thinks it's best to be cautious while TTC, so I now have a lab order for an ultrasound and maybe mammogram (she said to let the imaging place decide on the mammogram). Need to get that set up. Wheeee.
Questions for the group:
GTKY: Any furbabies in your household?
We have a Boxer mix! She's 8 years old and increasingly lazy. Her favorite thing is to lie in the sunshine in front of our storm door (or out on the front patio) and watch what I call her "prarie dog TV"--there's a whole colony in an empty field across the street from our front door.
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable): I’m in FW so we need to be cautious
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?): prenatals
Rants/Raves:
Questions for the group:
GTKY: Any furbabies in your household? We have a Boston terrier and two cats.
a@amandahwrites hopefully it’s nothing. I had to have a biopsy last October and it was nothing.
As of this morning, FF now thinks I *might* have ovulated on Monday. I never had a positive OPK but I didn't start testing till late on Sunday since I didn't have much CM. So it's possible I missed my surge late on Saturday or Sunday morning. Then again, I also had scant amounts of EWCM Tues and yesterday, hence (more of) the confusion.
Monday OV would be OK with me b/c our timing would've been *excellent.* Since then, not as great. Guess we'll try to keep on with at least every other day BD till my temperature patterns are clearer.
CD, CD/DPO (if applicable): I have lost track. I'm 20 days post-5dt though
What are you doing this cycle? (Testing? Treatment? Vitamins/supplements?): prenatal, vitamin D, estrace, PIO injections, baby aspirin
Rants/Raves: the waiting is killing me but this is the farthest I've gotten, so hanging on to some hope there
Questions for the group: none right now
GTKY: Any furbabies in your household? nope, we travel a lot and I would feel kind of guilty leaving so much with a pet at home. So we just love on others' pets when we're with them!
@amandahwrites I had a cyst on my breast when I was 17 which they removed and biopsied and everything was fine but best to check it out. I hope all goes well!
@mack2342 did they give you an estimate of how long the healing process will be before you can start TTC again? Hope all goes smoothly.
@amandahwrites so annoying when OPKs and our bodies don’t cooperate!
@amandahwrites i have had a cyst in my breast for over a decade and they periodically do an ultrasound “just to make sure” things are still fine. (AKA - you’re getting old)
Not much news for us this month. We completely missed ovulation because I was super sick and my husband couldn’t help with any house/kid duties because he just had surgery on a foot injury. So I had zero interest in anything other than sleep. I have no idea how single parents do it!
I did get my AMH retested and it was 3.2, which my OB said was great and meant I could start on a lower dose of femara next month (I think 2.5mg). Looking forward to the extra TTC help, but also feeling like it will really put the pressure on again and a bit worried about that. I really liked the OB I saw, he was kind, but also made it clear that even with the meds our chances at my age weren’t stellar and to be thinking about what we want to do if it doesn’t work. He and his wife had fertility issues too, so I feel like he “gets” it better than other providers.
GTKY: we have one fur baby, a cat. She’s literally ‘a cat’ - just does cat things, occasionally wants attention, but usually stays to herself. We had another cat who had a huge and awesome personality, but he died suddenly earlier this year. As sad as that was I am kind of glad we just have the one cat now who doesn’t require a lot of attention.
TTC#1 since November 2015
9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN
10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN
1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN
March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018
May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
We are planning to try with femara and TI for the next year (or however long we are allowed to use it), then move to gonadotropin injections and IUI if that doesn’t work, but that’s as far as we will go. I used Clomid for one cycle before we did IVF and didn’t have bad side effects other than super painful ovulation (like doubled over and crying pain) for one day, but the side effects can change each cycle, so the OB really pushed for femara which I was fine with.
TTC#1 since November 2015
9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN
10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN
1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN
March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018
May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
@Momifbysea glad you're doing your best to stay relaxed. Let us know how the U/S goes on Thursday!
Temp dropped (last Wednesday, I think?) and FF removed the "tentative" ovulation day. I never did get a positive OPK this cycle; just a "less negative" one on Friday where the 2nd line was darker than it had been, but still not as dark as the control. Other fertile signs have all stopped as of Monday. BBTs are going wonky on me again, so no idea if I O'd or not, let alone when.
Oh well. More data to share with the RE on Thursday, I guess.
And my bilateral breast u/s and maybe-mammogram is set for Friday.