GKU Informal IF checkin.

[daisy818]

I'm cranky about my low temp today - CD1 may be tomorrow, so I'll be starting natural cycle 3 of 6 before going to medicated cycles (and maybe IUIs). I think if DH had a job right now I'd just say fuck this noise, give me some meds, but while we're getting by on just my income it's probably good that the RE wants us to take the no-cost method for a few more months. But I have absolutely no faith that I will get pregnant on my own and I'm very depressed about the whole thing. It's making me want another dog. I kind of want a black pug that I can name something ridiculous, like Mr. Pickles (DH will not let this happen). But how sweet would this little puppy be?



Weird fact about me: I can hyperextend my elbows/shoulders, so I can apply sunscreen on my entire back without assistance.

[easilyunamused]

Thanks for starting ******!

daisy818, I'm sorry, that is super frustrating. It really sucks that treatment is so expensive. That pug is super cute:)

I'm sitting here on the last day of clomid. I'm nervous for Saturday's ultrasound. If all goes well, my first IUI will be next Monday. I'm trying *really* hard to not get my hopes up. I'm already mentally preparing myself for the next cycle.

I haven't had coffee yet, and the only things that are coming to mind are fun things I've done. I've been moonlight rafting in class 5 Rapids on the Arkansas River in Colorado. It was so amazing and fun.

[peaseblossom55]

Today I had my first monitoring appointment after 2 days of stims, there were a total of about 10 follicles right now most were 9 1/2-10 1/2 about 3-4 were in the 5-6 range. I am upping my dose of follistim and I go back on Wednesday.

I can dance pretty well, act pretty well and can kind of sing. That allows me to do theatre and makes me- well me and it also has made me a bunch of other people who I've portrayed on stage :-)

[wannabmama]

So funny my fun fact is similar daisy818 I have double jointed elbows that pop forward if I straighten my arms and I can reach my entire back, too. (I also love that pug.)

I'm stimming away...day 6 of stims today. Follicles weren't exactly abundant at my check yesterday, but it's early so I'm trying to not be discouraged. Go back Wed. for my next check, hopefully there's a little more going on!

[daisy818]

easilyunamused, FX for your IUI!!
peaseblossom55, hope stimming keeps going well for you!
wannabmama, haha, glad I'm not alone in my freaky elbows (I didn't know it was weird until my mid-20s when another attorney saw me stretch and was horrified by my elbows). GL with stims - hope you have some good follies on Wednesday!

[peaseblossom55]

easilyunamused, good luck with the iui!
wannabmama, I hope you see more follicles on Wednesday. Did they increase your dosage or anything?
daisy818, I'm sorry about impending CD 1, it always sucks.

[wannabmama]

@peaseblossom I think I'm at or near the max for the follistim already and near highest menopur too. The nurse sounded like what they saw was fine and said to keep doing what I'm doing. I was still spotting from AF as of yesterday so it's not totally surprising things aren't fast growing. I would just have loved to hear there were more follicles of course. Quality over quantity is my mantra these days

[requiressnacks]

daisy818, I really hope the natural cycles work out for you and you don't have to head down the IUI path. But I totally understand having no faith.
easilyunamused, good luck with the IUI!
peaseblossom55 & wannabmama - good luck with your stimming!

AFM - I had my IUI on Sunday and I'm pretty sure today is O day. I probably should have had my IUI today (the day after my first positive OPK), but the logistics of me and MH doing an IUI on a Sunday vs. doing an IUI on a Monday was too good to pass up. So we may have totally blown this cycle because I chose to do it early. Whatever...


QOTW: I literally have no special talents. I wish I did.

Random fact - I like to karaoke and my favorite karaoke song is George Michael's Faith.

[daisy818]

requiressnacks, I hope the IUI timing still works out for you - FX!

[peaseblossom55]

Mar 14, 2016 11:36:36 GMT -5 wannabmama said:

@peaseblossom I think I'm at or near the max for the follistim already and near highest menopur too. The nurse sounded like what they saw was fine and said to keep doing what I'm doing. I was still spotting from AF as of yesterday so it's not totally surprising things aren't fast growing. I would just have loved to hear there were more follicles of course. Quality over quantity is my mantra these days

I hear you on the quality over quantity thing. What would I do with 20 embryos seriously?  I just want one normal one.  Well normal PGS wise... it's mine and H's so there will be little normal otherwise. ;-) 

[rooskie]

So we didn't pass the sperm science kit and have to redo it tomorrow. Hopefully the supplies will be in the mail today. When I called they said there wasn't enough sperm in the samples to even run the test.

We still have to redo a count test later this month but the mail test was a pretty big blow to both of us.

Fun Facts about me: I don't have cartilage in my left wrist thanks to HS marching band so I can pop it any time. I also have naturally curly/wavy hair but straighten it every day.

[requiressnacks]

Ugh rooskie, I'm so sorry to hear that.

You may have already mentioned this - but why do you have to do the mail test? Is this something that can't be done locally?

[rooskie]

Mar 14, 2016 12:06:52 GMT -5 requiressnacks said:

Ugh rooskie, I'm so sorry to hear that.

You may have already mentioned this - but why do you have to do the mail test? Is this something that can't be done locally?

It's to test for fragmentation in the sperm. We are doing it through our Urologist, who is two hours away. It's a standard test that he wants us to do and his office will cover the cost.

Basically they are making sure the few sperm we have will fertilize an egg before we get to IVF.

[jense927]

Good luck with the IUI easilyunamused!
requiressnacks, I hope the timing works out!

AFM, I went on my ski trip last weekend and on Monday I went in for US and had a 20mm follicle that was ready for trigger! So the timing couldn't have worked out better. I am so relieved about that. I didn't realize what a huge time sink it is being monitored. I had to go in late or leave early several times during those first two weeks. Crazy! So now I am 7 days post trigger, 6 DPO. Testing out the the ovidrel and it was still positive today. I am starting to feel a little crampy and I am just hoping its nothing!

[wannabmama]

rooskie so annoying you have to re-do I hope this time goes better!
requiressnacks I have everything crossed for your IUI!
jense927 so glad the ski trip didn't interfere! Aren't those monitoring appts a b*tch?! My place opens at 7:30am which can be a huge help but it's still so many appts! Good luck!

[peaseblossom55]

rooskie, I'm sorry the test needs to be redone.

jense927, I hope this cycle works out for you and didn't interfere with the ski trip.

requiressnacks, I'm sure the timing will be great. Good luck with this iui!

[babycowbell]

****** thanks for getting us started!
daisy818 Oh my gosh, I love that dog. I hope time goes quickly for you!
easilyunamused Good luck with IUI#1! It really is a tough one for balancing optimism and but preparing for possibly doing it again.
peaseblossom55 I'm jealous of all your fine arts skills! I'm an accountant, so my creativity is expressed in elaborate excel formulas.
wannabmama Quality over quantity is great mantra! Goo luck Wednesday.
requiressnacks FX for the IUI!
rooskie Oh no, how disappointing. I hope this next one provides more answers.
jense927 Good luck! I'm glad the timing worked out so well.

AFM, I had my egg retrieval today for IVF #1. They retrieved 14 eggs and we'll hear tomorrow about maturity and fertilization rates. We're doing a fresh transfer on Saturday with the prettiest embryo of the bunch then doing PGS testing on the rest. It feels like we've been at this forever, and now it's all so fast.

QOTW: I can never think of good answers to questions like these. Maybe I'm not that interesting

[peaseblossom55]

Good luck with the transfer babycowbell! With my job now I wish I had the better excel skills.

[wannabmama]

Fx for a good report babycowbell

[setsuna17]

daisy818, I'm sorry for the low temps. That black pug is adorable.
easilyunamused, good luck with your ultrasound. Sending good follicle thoughts to you.
peaseblossom55, I think it's so cool that you can dance and sing. I'm pretty uncoordinated. Good luck with your stims.
wannabmama, thinking good follie thoughts to you too!
requiressnacks, hope your IUI timing was good. You wanna have stuff waiting for the egg too!
rooskie, I'm sorry about not passing the sperm science test!
jense927, I'm glad your ski trip didn't interfere with you're timing. Fingers crossed!
babycowbell, Good luck with your transfer! Thinking good thoughts!

AFM, just sitting around TTA (lol). We decided to not try this month because I don't want to be due the week of my residency for grad school. I was hit really hard by the BFN for IUI #1. I know it was stupid to get my hopes up, but that damn progesterone really made me feel pregnant. I'll know better next cycle I guess.

QOTW: I read ridiculously fast for no reason. Like I never tried to, it just happened that way. I used to get in trouble in school because I would look up from reading too fast in class and so I learned to pretend I was still reading even when I was done! It's a great skill, but also a sucky one because books don't last very long for me (a couple hours depending on length) and dammit they are expensive!

[achromia]

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{Click to see}I'm sorry for the low temp daisy818, and that you're not feeling so optimistic. I hope you don't get to the point of needing meds.
easilyunamused, thinking good thoughts for your monitoring on Saturday!
peaseblossom55, GL on Wednesday. Grow little follies, grow!
Also sending YOU good vibes for Wednesday, wannabmama. Hoping for more follies.
requiressnacks, here's hoping that the timing of your IUI isn't so far off that it negatively impacts anything. Sperm live a little longer than the egg, so there's definitely a chance...
rooskie, that sounds so frustrating about the mail-in sample. I hope it works out better the second time around.
Yaaay, jense927, so happy to hear that the timing worked out for your trigger. I hope the next week goes by quickly for you.
babycowbell, I'm no expert, but 14 sounds like a great number to start with. GL with transfer this weekend, and with the PGS testing!

AFM, nothing very good to report. I went in for monitoring on Friday and wasn't ready for IUI, so I was supposed to go back for more monitoring on Sunday. Until my nurse called to tell me that the bloodwork showed I had already ovulated! They said to do timed intercourse that night so the cycle wasn't a complete waste, but I was exhausted and angry when I got home from work, and it just didn't happen.

This makes two out of four medicated cycles where I appear to have ovulated before the follicles were mature and with thin lining, which has me concerned. We'll go to a follow-up appointment with my RE on Friday, and I hope to discuss this with her so that we can decide together whether to try a femara IUI again, change up my meds, or move on to IVF. I'm pretty frustrated by all this.

QOTW: Let's see... random tidbit. I am both left-handed and an only child. I'm also an INFJ on the Briggs Myers personality test, which is apparently pretty rare. So basically, I am a statistical anomaly.

[setsuna17]

That sucks about the timing achromia! I hope it wasn't a waste!

Plus, I'm an INFJ too!

[achromia]

Mar 14, 2016 14:02:58 GMT -5 setsuna17 said:

That sucks about the timing achromia! I hope it wasn't a waste!

Plus, I'm an INFJ too!

Thanks. It's nice to meet a fellow INFJ!

It was a waste, unfortunately, because we didn't have sex before O (well, we did a week before, but that doesn't help!) and skipped Friday night because I was in a bad mood. I'm sorry your first IUI was a bust too. Are you back to trying next cycle?

[peaseblossom55]

setsuna17, sorry iui#1 didn't work out. I read very fast too. Reading is an expensive hobby for me.

achromia, sorry the timing has not gone well. I hope on Friday you & your RE can come up with a plan.

[wannabmama]

achromia I'm sorry about the timing and busted cycle (I'm a lefty though too!)

Sorry setsuna17 about IUI #1

[setsuna17]

Mar 14, 2016 14:08:18 GMT -5 achromia said:

Mar 14, 2016 14:02:58 GMT -5 setsuna17 said:

That sucks about the timing achromia ! I hope it wasn't a waste!

Plus, I'm an INFJ too!

Thanks. It's nice to meet a fellow INFJ!

It was a waste, unfortunately, because we didn't have sex before O (well, we did a week before, but that doesn't help!) and skipped Friday night because I was in a bad mood. I'm sorry your first IUI was a bust too. Are you back to trying next cycle?

Ugh, I'm sorry. I feel like this happens to me too. I'll be in a bad mood or whatever and miss O. That stinks!

Yes, we will be trying next month, if all goes as planned. I'm not one to plan around dates or anything (anymore for sure) but it did seem silly to be due the week I know I have to be out of town somewhere.

[notagoddess]

achromia, setsuna17, I'm an INFJ also. I'm sorry about both of your cycles.

[achromia]

Mar 14, 2016 14:56:08 GMT -5 notagoddess said:

achromia, setsuna17, I'm an INFJ also. I'm sorry about both of your cycles.

My goodness, so many of us here! That is pretty cool!

[requiressnacks]

achromia, that is so frustrating! Do they have you using OPKs at all? I just don't understand how that happens - your follicles aren't ready but you've already ovulated? weird.

[requiressnacks]

jense927, glad the timing worked out!
babycowbell, can't wait to hear about your fert report! Good luck!!
setsuna17, hope this month goes fast for you!