TTC for 12 months +

That's great advice ht! And great to know I'm not the only one that always calls to chase up lol

Hopefully there are a few early preg signs in there ht! Must be frustrating not being able to sort out what is "normal" or a result of a preg or a result of the meds. Will you wait for af or do you test early? I'm too impatient, but I also have a good connection for getting free hpts (a blessing and a curse! ).

Rats ht, that's disappointing. Might just be too early though? By escalate do you mean up the clomiphene dose?

I just called FA again and did get through to the lab this time but they didn't have authorisation to tell me! So my partner called back but he didn't ask as many questions as I would have, haha. Anyway the upshot is that his morphology is 5% normal - so the lower end of the 'normal' range but still fine, so that's good.

Yep, although I think he was hoping for more like 'extraordinary' haha!

What are you using for the trigger ht? My specialist has floated the idea of using Clomiphene + Pregnyl but he didn't overwhelm me with his optimism ;)

Keep thinking positive - it ain't over! Like Dory says, "just keep swimming..." x

Sorry to hear of a bfn HT. Just can't get a break huh. Although I hope perhaps it's just slow going. X

Dolly good news on the testing.

Hey to everyone else xx
Nadda to report here. Yay for the weekend lol and another three day week for me thanks to my FA appt.

Welcome Rosey. Ya, lots of people doing IVF in here in June/July. Not too sure how many are in Chch. I'm in Auckland.

Stink about the BFN HT It isn't over until the wicked witch shows up though!

Dolly, good that the morphology result was in the normal range...one more thing not to worry about! I think all guys hope their, um, "result" is off the charts. My brother in law supposedly had a super dooper, off-the-chart good result (so he says anyway!), and DH was slightly disappointed when his was only just "normal" in comparison. I'll take normal any day though!

Star, going back to the chasing up calls thing... you really gotta check things are correct on forms, etc too. We've already had FOUR stuff ups from our clinic. 1) the letter from our specialist had written that my genetic problem was with the wrong set of genes (makes a HUGE difference!) and it took three different occasions of me pointing it out before he accepted it 2) nurse ticked the wrong box for a blood test but i managed to convince the lab to do the right one anyway 3) same thing... nurse didn't tick the box for a certain blood test for DH and he had to do another draw to get it. 4) they never sent us a single bill after a whole year of seeing them privately. Even when I questioned it, they tried to tell me I was wrong... then I got a bill
albeit $750 less than what it should have been, but I've stopped arguing for them to take my money. Haha. So... ya, make sure you are informed yourself and double check and question everything. Gosh, typing that out right now makes me question the clinic a bit. But I guess everyone is human! And goodness knows today alone I missed a few small things at work today and need to go back over it.

Rach!!! Long time no see hun xxx great to hear from you. I've never had clomid so don't know but I'd push for the next step and honestly I'd ask them seriously about whether they think iui will actually work. You're better to use any funding for ivf in my opinion. Iui was supposedly meant to be the magic trick since sperm was our only issue but not a dot of anything worked there. And well ivf hasn't exactly been successful as yet. I now wish we'd just gone ivf and paid for iui while we waited. Anywho that's just my thoughts.

Thanks for the tip a.girl - I will be checking all paperwork very carefully from here on in. Sounds like you have been incredibly patient with your clinic! I mean seriously you don't pay the experts good money to stuff up the small stuff like ticking the wrong boxes - one small mistake is understandable but four times?! I would have been spitting tacks!

I think I am learning that one of the frustrations in this journey is that you have no choice but to rely on the clinics and they don't always get it right. Even going private you're paying for a service but you don't always get the level of service you should. I'm sure it's not the fault of the people working in the clinics - delays and mistakes are inevitable when resources are stretched - but it's bloody frustrating. And it's not like with a restaurant where you can just leave and go to the one next door if the service is rubbish!

Star - clomid cycles you take the 5 tablets from day 2-7, then wait. Generally there is a blood test day 10, and depending on what hormones levels show you either go in for another blood test a few days later, or a scan. For me, I didn't ovulate until around day 18, so had 3 bloods tests and a scan. After you have the scan they send a txt to say when to have sex - generally 'if possible have intercourse for 3 days starting on xxx' sort of thing. Then you have another blood test 3-7 days after they think you will ovulate to confirm it actually happened, and you get a txt saying that you did (or didn't), and that you should check back with them when you get AF, or if you get to 14 days post-ov to check for pregnancy.

Hi all