Pinot - welcome back , I really missed you
Lucky number 7 has a really good ring to it lovely lady
I admire your courage and perseverance
Variety - Good luck with Stimms
nice that DH is sticking around for it
I thought my DP might be tempted to run off too but he's still here lol
Lozza - you are not stupid at all this is such an emotional time, I spent most of my DR Stimms in tears
good luck for EC , I am praying for lots of eggies for you
Elf - hope you got on ok this morning
Rhubarb -
Welcome to this thread , I have found much hope support and encouragement here, hope you do too.
Michimoo - How was your follow up yesterday ...turns out I did know Marie-Eve she did my egg collection and was scanning at my egg transfer ...just didn't know her name
How is everyone else ? Massive huggles to you all
AFM - Had our follow up appointment, took my extensive list of questions with me , asked them all ... got the same reply as everybody else :
immunes - research does not support that they make any difference
assisted hatching - research does not support that it makes any difference
short protocol for me as slow responder instead of long protocol - research does not support that it makes any difference
various supplements available on the market - research does not support that they make any difference.
...and that was the good part of my F/U
the not so good follows:
On top of the useful replies above, I found out that after my first follies scan the Dr reviewed my notes and instructed that I increase my Menopur daily injection from 300iu to 375iu but when the admin people phoned me on the day to advise they got it wrong!!! and told me to stay on the same dosage !!! A lapse in communication Marie-Eve said reassuring me that from the size of the Follies on 1st scan it would not have made any difference - if that is the case why would they have increased then
I am quite shocked as OFU are supposedly meant to be one of the best Clinics in the UK ... I daren't think how they get on in the worst ones...
In sum - I am what OFU now class as a poor responder , instead of the 30 or so % average chance of success I am in the less than 20 % likely to succeed bracket
...still on a more positive note Marie-Eve advised it was above the odds to have both eggies fertilize successfully and both embies were of good quality , just bad luck they did not implant apparently
bad luck
bad luck
bad luck
it's like a echo in the void that expression
She reccomends we try again but says that it is very unlikely the response to Tx will be any greater than this time around , they would start me on a higher dosage of Menopur and pray for better luck with egg numbers
DP has already decided he definitely would like us to try another Tx, I was taking my time deciding as I found the whole experience so hard throughout, not to mention the craziness within when I got my BFN but just found out we wouldn't be able to cycle again until June anyway as it is a condition of our funding to wait 6 months between cycles
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I have felt very grateful and consider myself truly fortunate to have been granted funding as I know many don't get it, but I honestly must confess that I was filled with sadness plus resentment all the way home
I just kept thinking I have been TTC for past 4 years , my egg reserve is extremely low for my age but on NHS terms it is still ok to wait
Anyway ...rant over...I found the Tx so hard I probably need that time to recover anyway, until then I will keep praying for knowledge of God's will for me
Lots of love and prayers for you all