TTC for 12 months +

Welcome Faith! Sorry I too don't have any ChCh FA advice but someone on here is bound to! Look forward to being with you on this journey!

Sounds like a great plan BC! Early 2017 is a pretty good deadline I reckon. Hopefully we'll still be cycle buddies for our next rounds

I had Jeanie call me this arvo. She said she had a great chat with Neil Johnson and they've decided it's best I go see him and he does the lipidol flush as it's kinda his technique lol she also got my records from FA which showed I've never had chromosome testing!! Seriously I'm starting to really wonder what my doc has been thinking! She said she is very surprised considering it's the first thing doctors think of after just one miscarriage let alone 14!!! So Neil will have DH and I tested and if it shows anything she thinks we should then have our remaining embryos tested! Man I finally feel like someone is on my side! Apparently Neil too thinks I'm not a fertility issue but an implantation alone issue! She is so lovely though! Said I'm the most unusual case she's seen and hasn't come across my situation before so while I won't be seeing her again, she have me her number as she'd really like to know how I get on!

Man it's all just so exhausting!

Hope your appointment went well today Mushroom. How is everyone else doing?

Thanks ladies! I hope someone can help me with FA Christchurch info! They did say there is approx 12month wait but they don't like to commit to giving a exact start!

BC all the best for your not step!

Mushroom, yes I had a name change decided my other one was too obvious as to who I was and with starting treatment I don't want certain people to know all the details kinda thing!
Your appointment sounds really positive and in the right direction.

Storm wow good to see your finally getting some steps in the right direction! Hope you get some answers soon!

Hey Faith! We are currently on the public funding waiting list at chch FA, we have only been on it for about 5 months so will be interesting to hear how you get on. It also doesn't help as the funding manager is away until the 20th.

Storm, its good to hear you have an appointment and things are moving in a more positive direction, i hope it goes well!

That's good to know she's away til the 20th Katie! Maybe I will receive my letter once she's back then!

Thanks Sweetpea. We were told 12months but said it could be a couple of months either side of that.
Last time I called she said August and getting my letter June so I should just be patient but now it's getting close I feel sooo impatient!

Welcome back a.girl. We have missed you xx

Hi ya agirl. Good to hear from you.
Hope the menopur is becoming easier to use. Sounds like a bit of a mission.

How's everyone's weekend been?

Nothing much going on here. Lazy Sunday as usual thanks to the weather and a night out with the girls last night. Was nice just to live like a normal person. Got AF yesterday so trying to decide if I want to do IVF next cycle or the one after or the one after lol. Decisions, decisions.

Sweatpea hope AF doesn't frig around much longer for you! Typical when you want it to arrive on time it doesn't for no good reason.

Hi everyone, wow I haven't been on a for a while, it's taken me some time to catch up with everyone.

Storm - sometimes having a different doc can make the world of difference, I was really disappointed with FA docs in Chch since our specialist left 2 years go, I actually hadn't been seen by anyone for a consult the whole time even through IVF, now I have a new specialist through FA in Dunedin and she is a breath of fresh air, we just met her again for the second time last week and she even gave both of us a big hug before we left, she is amazing.

Oh I have just read the MIL comments too, we are lucky enough for our MIL not to know anything, only because my DH really struggles to talk to her about anything that really matters, but it's better this way, she has very strong opinions and we do tend to butt heads, so better she doesn't know. I have SIL who kept constantly asking me where we were at, and that "at least you've got one child, and you should just be grateful for that". that one irks me, of course I know how lucky I am, doesn't mean to say that we should just give up our dream of completing our family. You really do tend to see a pattern in who gives advice - it's always people that have their family already. They live in their own bubble!

We are just waiting waiting now for public funding to kick in, I feel like our new specialist has taken all the stress away, and haven't felt this relaxed about it all in ages.

Mushroom - hope you get your treatment soon so the pain goes away.
Star - hope everything is ticking along nicely for you.

Take care everyone -

Thanks HT, storm and BC :-) Gosh, BC, your next round of IVF has come up quickly. Shame we can't cycle together.

Sweetpea, do you track ovulation? Have you done any treatments lately. I find that ovulation (and AF) has been as much as 10 days later since starting all the ivf treatments. So frustrating!!! I didn't ov until day 24 in the cycle we tried to do a natural FET - it stuffed everything up.

Menopur is going better now. We're down to 15 minutes instead of 30! And we haven't broken another vial yet. Scan on Friday to see how I'm responding. Funny how even after 2 failed rounds, I'm still optimistic that this one will be different!

A.girl that optimism really hangs around huh! I have that every cycle... even though 14 times it hasn't worked! Guess it's better to have some hope throughout it all huh? Good luck Friday! Let us know how you get on glad the injections are going better for you.

Sweetpea any sign of AF today?

How is everyone else doing?