3rdtimesthecharm - Sorry you're having such a hard time with your clinic and getting your schedule - thats no good at all. Sometimes I wonder - they HAVE to know how hard this entire thing is - they HAVE to know that we need to know everything along the way - how excited we get to start, etc and yet they seem to not care!? Soo frustrating, to say the least.
Last cycle I was terrified to hear I only had 10 follicles - I was hoping for way more. And then it turned out only 8 were mature.. then only 6 fertilized - BUT - of the 6 that fertilized, all 6 made it to day 5 - and thats VERY much unheard of, so I hear. The embryologist and our RE were very impressed. We transfered 2, and 3 made it to day 6 and were frozen. So all in all, considering I didnt have many to start with, transfering 2 and freezing 3 - is GREAT!!! So, aside from our BFN, last cycle was perfect
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jp1981 - Stimming longer, sucks butt!! I was so worried last time, since I stimmed for 13 days <-- I was googlinglike a crazy woman, and most women didnt stim as long, so I thought there had to be something wrong with me!? I asked my RE and he said, on average, women stim for anywhere from 10 - 15 days - I guess I fall right in the middle of that.
I was on 300 Puregon (by the end) and 75 Repronex, both nightly. Nothing was worse than only having 200 left in the Puregon pen and having to put another vial in - making it so I had to have 4 needles, one right after the other, within minutes of eachother - 3 was enough thanks!
jandm - Good luck with your ultrasound and bloodwork - Are you talking about the 14th n 21st of July? <-- If so, I'm so jealous - I'm not sure the exact date I'll be starting stimming, but I iamgine my ER wont be until the very end of July!? Wishing you nothing but a huge
this time around.
cagirl2003 - OMG - the BCP's are killer! I asked to not do them this time - and am alloweed to not do them - YAY! BUT, last cycle, every symptom a girl could get - I got. Bloated, headaches, couldnt eat from about 3PM on, so tired I was head bobbing at work, irritable, nasueous.. you name it, I had it. I was pretty excited to not have to do them again!