TTC for 12 months +

Icecream - was meant to ask who are you with at OFS and have you tried any other treatments before ivf?

*lurker in*

Hi Nik - just wanted to jump in and say I had 2 IVF cycles cancelled due to low/no response (both Gonal F) despite Wgtn FA being concerned I'd overstimulate (due to a ridiculously high AHM). All that work for nothing is the pits so I know how frustrated you must be feeling right now. I then did IVM through Auckland FA which is meant to be better for non-responders and I made it to retrieval (22 eggs) but not transfer. I've recently had Ovarian Drilling which hopefully will make me either ovulate naturally or be more responsive to the meds. Pretty much at the end of our public funding though.

Nik I am with Barbara Richards at ofs. Epic hope your keeping well

AFM still feeling pants but had a restful day

Thanks epic - hope I can bring some good news to the group

Hi ladies! I've been reading as I can but haven't had a chance to post much. There isn't really anything remotely exciting going on with me unfortunately. I'm on CD26 and can you beleive I don't think I have at all ovulated!! I've been tracking with OPK's and they have a couple of times now started to look like they would be getting darker, only to get lighter, and my temp hasn't at all spiked! Just can't beleive it - don't think I've never not Ov'd I will give FA a call this week sometime to see if they will let me do unmonitored clomid.

But anyway, glad to see you are getting "back to normal" BC and NZveg. And Icecream sorry you have been feeling down. I too hope you can bring us some good news in here

Big hi and hugs to everyone else, think of you all often

Lol yep nzvegie we got down to business last night two wks to the day. Was all good. Still got some funny brown going on but very light and here and there. No idea if/when I'll ov but noticed a bit of ewcm today so maybe getting back to normal.
Storm I hear you on the long cycle unknown thing. I'm so used to being clockwork so it's a bit disconcerting not knowing. Trying to not let it worry me at this stage.
And as I type this I realised that until my hsg comes down it's not likely I'll ov. Doh!!! More bloods late next week to find that out.
Icecream glad bloods went well. Yay for starting 'proper' injections hehe.

Great news nzvegie. I would presume mine had almost gone given the drop it did in a week.
Here's to getting utd sooner rather than later.

Hmmm Epic maybe that's it. Can that be a common thing does anyone know? My temp spiked a bit today - 35.99 yesterday to 36.37 today... so if it was due to OV yesterday then I've totally missed the ball! Which prob doesn't matter anyway cause OV at CD26 can't be a good thing... oh well!

Funny about the drug bag - when I collected mine I wondered how many of the people sitting in reception knew exactly what my bag was for lol

Icecream that's great your bloods are going well and you can stick to the plan!

haha yeah when I have been for my u/s there always seems to be someone with the same green drug bag! I always wonder how they are getting on! Had my scan yesterday and I now have 6 follicles, 4 of them which are approx. 11mm. What surprised my the most was my bloods were over a 1000, this is the highest they have ever been (last cycle got to 280). Getting rescanned on Friday. I kind of have a sore stomach like period pain, not sure if this is a good thing or not? Icecream - glad to hear everything is going to plan for you, good luck with starting the gonal f. When will your first scan be? I did see a post earlier about the Dunedin support group, I'm the same as epic, not sure if its for me or not?
Epic - sorry to hear about your previous cycles of IVF. I see you are going for a private cycle in October. Do you know if they will increase your dosage or anything? I would be worried with spending all the money if they weren't going to try anything different.

Sweet conception - Thanks for your post, Was there a reason you went for IVM instead of IVF apart from low response? Would have been so upsetting getting 22 eggs but nothing to transfer! What's your next step/plan from here?

Hope everyone else is good.

Hey Lovely Ladies

I had to talk to someone as I've been keeping this to myself, af is almost a week late and for the first time in 5 years of ttc I'm allowing myself to be the most hopeful I've ever been going to test Friday so fingers crossed it's finally my turn for BFP after standing by and politely congratulating everyone else that have had their little bundles of joy these past 5 years.