I phoned first thing on Tuesday 3rd September to see how things were going.
I had originally been told to expect that quite a few of my 28 eggs would not be mature enough for fertilisation, so i was very shocked when i was advised that the scientists had liked all 28 of my eggs and tried to fertilise the lot of them!
20 of them had successfully fertilised! Wow!! I was told to phone again the next day to check how they were going again and that i would likely lose a few that wouldn't survive until the freezing process.
I phoned first thing on Wednesday 4th September again to see how things were going. All 20 of my fertilised embryo's had survived to day 2 and had been frozen!!
Wow, i have 20 chances to become a mother again.
Something is finally going my way again!!
Thursday 5 September 2013
Monday 2 September 2013
EPU procedure
Monday 2nd September rolled around, we were up bright and early as we had to be at the Hospital by 6am.
We were put into a room and went through all of my details and filled out some paperwork.
The time finally came around for my procedure - i was so so nervous. We were taken to a little waiting room to the side of the Theatre where i was measured & weighed and then had to sit and wait!!
When we were finally taken in, it all happened so quickly - i was asked to lay on the bed and had a needle popped into my hand and then given some oxygen and then i can't remember anything until i woke up.
My husband said i snored throughout the procedure lol - i guess it was because i still wasn't completely over my head cold yet!!
I woke up comfortable and happy - they advise me that they got 28 eggs. WHAT..... 28 eggs, how did that happen!! We were only expecting 22 at best and that was only if the really little ones from my scan had decided to do something special!
As i was so happy and comfortable i was wheeled back around to my room to recover. As i had gotten so many eggs, they were worried about OHSS so we would not be doing an embryo transfer over the coming days. I was a little heartbroken, although i knew it was for the best.
I came through the procedure easily with no medications at all (not even pain relief) and was so hungry they bought some breakfast around for me which i gobbled down quickly also. Within not much time i was up and out of bed and dressed and ready to go!! Apparently this is not normal for someone getting 28 eggs!!
I was told to phone the next morning to find out more about how my eggs were going..
We were put into a room and went through all of my details and filled out some paperwork.
The time finally came around for my procedure - i was so so nervous. We were taken to a little waiting room to the side of the Theatre where i was measured & weighed and then had to sit and wait!!
When we were finally taken in, it all happened so quickly - i was asked to lay on the bed and had a needle popped into my hand and then given some oxygen and then i can't remember anything until i woke up.
My husband said i snored throughout the procedure lol - i guess it was because i still wasn't completely over my head cold yet!!
I woke up comfortable and happy - they advise me that they got 28 eggs. WHAT..... 28 eggs, how did that happen!! We were only expecting 22 at best and that was only if the really little ones from my scan had decided to do something special!
As i was so happy and comfortable i was wheeled back around to my room to recover. As i had gotten so many eggs, they were worried about OHSS so we would not be doing an embryo transfer over the coming days. I was a little heartbroken, although i knew it was for the best.
I came through the procedure easily with no medications at all (not even pain relief) and was so hungry they bought some breakfast around for me which i gobbled down quickly also. Within not much time i was up and out of bed and dressed and ready to go!! Apparently this is not normal for someone getting 28 eggs!!
I was told to phone the next morning to find out more about how my eggs were going..
Nasal sprays and self injecting
In August 2013 i started my synarel nasal spray - one spray in the morning and one spray at night. I tried to make sure i didn't plan anything so that no one needed to see what i was doing and run the risk of having to answer questions!!
I was scheduled for a blood test on 19th August to see if the synarel was doing it's job. I got a call early the next morning to advise that all was great and that i need to start daily injections of Puregon at a dose of 150iu - a small dose as i generally didn't appear to have problems with my eggs and ovulating etc.
I was scheduled for a follow up scan on 29th August to see how things were going.
I hadn't had too many side effects from the medications, apart from some nasty headaches early on - i found that drinking lots of water helped with these and they soon eased though. Didn't help that i had been sick with a nasty head cold for the past 4 weeks also!!!
When my FS did the scan he was extremely happy - looked like i had 12 follicles that were getting close to required size, plus another 10 very small ones (not likely to come to much).
I was scheduled for my EPU procedure for Monday 2nd September!
I took the last of my puregon on Friday night and nasal spray on Saturday morning and then had to have a shot of Ovidrel on Saturday night.
By Sunday night i was feeling very bloated and uncomfortable & extremely nervous for my procedure the next day..
I was scheduled for a blood test on 19th August to see if the synarel was doing it's job. I got a call early the next morning to advise that all was great and that i need to start daily injections of Puregon at a dose of 150iu - a small dose as i generally didn't appear to have problems with my eggs and ovulating etc.
I was scheduled for a follow up scan on 29th August to see how things were going.
I hadn't had too many side effects from the medications, apart from some nasty headaches early on - i found that drinking lots of water helped with these and they soon eased though. Didn't help that i had been sick with a nasty head cold for the past 4 weeks also!!!
When my FS did the scan he was extremely happy - looked like i had 12 follicles that were getting close to required size, plus another 10 very small ones (not likely to come to much).
I was scheduled for my EPU procedure for Monday 2nd September!
I took the last of my puregon on Friday night and nasal spray on Saturday morning and then had to have a shot of Ovidrel on Saturday night.
By Sunday night i was feeling very bloated and uncomfortable & extremely nervous for my procedure the next day..
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Talking IVF
We were scheduled to visit the FS in March 2013 to discuss IVF, although i postponed until May as i had managed to secure full time work for the majority of March & April (as compared to my regular 2 days per week work) and figured that we really needed the work to be able to save up for IVF.
So i worked my butt off and paid off the credit card and really got us into a position to be able to slightly afford it.
We had taken private hospital cover out in January, so had a 12 month waiting period on fertility treatment - not that the private cover saves you much in Australia anyhow.
So all was going to plan and we had our appointment with the FS and also one of the nurses at the end of May. We decided that we were going to be going ahead with treatment and that the nurses would contact me in early July (my FS was going to be on holiday in Paris in June - lucky man!!) and arrange for my medications to be sent to me. During the second week of July when i hadn't heard from them, i decided to phone. I knew that i was supposed to start my medication when my period started and it was only a few days away.
They were a little confused when i rang and said they would talk to my FS and phone me back.
Well, apparently the nurse that i had seen had completely mucked up the process that they were going to use on me!! I thought it was going to be a Flare Cycle although now i was being told it was going to be a Down Regulation Cycle.
Before that phone call I had my hopes up that things were finally going to be happening and we were much closer to having another baby, although this change made me feel like things were being taken out of our reach again!! I was told that my FS preferred this process and that he had far better results from it, so i took that as some comfort.
Then the process began...
So i worked my butt off and paid off the credit card and really got us into a position to be able to slightly afford it.
We had taken private hospital cover out in January, so had a 12 month waiting period on fertility treatment - not that the private cover saves you much in Australia anyhow.
So all was going to plan and we had our appointment with the FS and also one of the nurses at the end of May. We decided that we were going to be going ahead with treatment and that the nurses would contact me in early July (my FS was going to be on holiday in Paris in June - lucky man!!) and arrange for my medications to be sent to me. During the second week of July when i hadn't heard from them, i decided to phone. I knew that i was supposed to start my medication when my period started and it was only a few days away.
They were a little confused when i rang and said they would talk to my FS and phone me back.
Well, apparently the nurse that i had seen had completely mucked up the process that they were going to use on me!! I thought it was going to be a Flare Cycle although now i was being told it was going to be a Down Regulation Cycle.
Before that phone call I had my hopes up that things were finally going to be happening and we were much closer to having another baby, although this change made me feel like things were being taken out of our reach again!! I was told that my FS preferred this process and that he had far better results from it, so i took that as some comfort.
Then the process began...
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