Altai I am very very sorry about the result. Take your time to heal and plan your next steps.
Tracy I haven't met any swiss doctors at the clinics - prof. vW in Bern is German, Prof. DG in Basel is Belgian and the rest of the team are German, Austrian, Italian...
What I was shocked about is the attitude in Basel - my last stimulation there was dome with TSH levels over 3,5. In the clinic in Austria they told us we can't start doing anything before the levels fall below 2... I was sooooo disappointed. We could have just thrown all the money away with the same outcome... As you mentioned - the treatment is darn expensive... Anyways, good luck to you
Sumpy, don't worry about the discharge - your body takes what it needs and the rest just goes out. The same with Utrogestan and I guess all pessaries in general.
Karhog good luck and happy 2ww! Go get the sibling/s to your son! With so many fertilised, there seems to be a very good chance you can freeze quite a few embies!
Teapot, hun, will keep my fingers crossed for the EC tomorrow! I was given cetrotide 3 days in a raw before EC.
for a successful EC tomorrow!
Angelica How are you feeling post EC? Wish you loads of good embies!
ziggy don't compare your results with those of the others - this is so very individual! It might do no good and just dishearten you
Kitechick words just can't say how happy I am for you! This is amazing news and something you can tell your child in 20 years or so
I wish you a pleasant and trouble free pregnancy and a healthy and happy baby!
Grey, any clear plans yet?
What I found on the peripheral blood mononucleated cell (PBMC or the so called embryo glue) is that it is used prior to tranfer, as Karhog already mentioned, mainly to fight the NK cells in order to reduce the effect of autoimmune rejection of the embryo by the patient's autoimmune system and increase the probability and success of pregnancy and wherein prior to embryo implantation. In simple words, they try to convince your immune system not to attack the embryo by masking it...
Many more threads indicate more or less the same use. What puzzles me a bit, is why they have decided to use that on me as I don't have any immune issues... The embies with my previuos attempts would always implant themselves, but then at some point would stop their further development. The beta HCG levels showed implantation took place, but then something went wrong... I will just trust their decision and go with it.
afm - still waiting for the call from the clinic. The DH's flight home didn't go smoothly either - the first flight was cancelled and we had to rebook. It gave us a few more hours together though. Then the connecting flight from Vienna to Zürich was cancelled and he had to spend the night in Vienna... He finally arrived home this morning at 10 and then went straight to work... What a day!
Good day to you all!
xx Mrs.F