Nov 4 let's party

[ilovecandy]

My birthday was yesterday and since I am visiting my family Saturday we had dinner with my brothers and their families then karokeed at one of their houses. Yesterday my parents and I did a movie (Downton) and dinner at a nice steakhouse. I am tired today.

I go home tomorrow. Then apparently my h has a weekend this next weekend planned for my birthday.

Anyways got the official calendar at the end of last week for my transfer akkkk

What is everyone else up to?
What did you do this weekend?
Surviving the time change?

[pinkpeony08]

I’m your birthday twin! Happy birthday!! Yesterday was my birthday too! We just had a really nice, low key day at home. My husband made a great dinner. Last week we went to Hamilton and to dinner, so that was part of birthday as well. My husband’s birthday is next week too.

I’m 9 dpo. Antsy about waiting so I tested this am even though it would be too early, I have a bunch of tests that will expire by mid December so I figured why not... bot surprisingly negative so far. If it’s positive, I have to go to get ivig on Friday. I’m just nervous about it being positive and all that comes with pregnancy after recurrent loss and also nervous it will be negative.

[ilovecandy]

Nov 4, 2019 9:35:24 GMT -5 pinkpeony08 said:

I’m your birthday twin! Happy birthday!! Yesterday was my birthday too! We just had a really nice, low key day at home. My husband made a great dinner. Last week we went to Hamilton and to dinner, so that was part of birthday as well. My husband’s birthday is next week too.

I’m 9 dpo. Antsy about waiting so I tested this am even though it would be too early, I have a bunch of tests that will expire by mid December so I figured why not... bot surprisingly negative so far. If it’s positive, I have to go to get ivig on Friday. I’m just nervous about it being positive and all that comes with pregnancy after recurrent loss and also nervous it will be negative.

Happy birthday and keeping my fingers crossed for you

[moonriver]

I have an IUI scheduled for today. Fingers crossed!

pinkpeony08 good luck!!

[achi]

Well jeez it’s November 3 birthdays all around because it was my birthday too!

Happy birthday to us all!

I have nothing TTC related going on. The high of my new job has worn off (but I still am super happy with the job and the company) and I’m starting to feel baby fever creep in again after feeling relatively done with this whole TTTC process. I don’t have much faith that my body will actually carry another pregnancy to term. We’re still not closing the door until after the New Year once we’ve had time for whatever potential DNA karyotyping results to sink in, but I just hate that we have to make this decision.

[megstoo]

Happy Belated (or early) Birthday!!!!

In TTC news for me I'm going back on Wednesday for another monitoring appt and I should find out then when I'm going to transfer. My estimate is sometime the week of Nov 11. They put me on another med - doxyclicine to try and dry up the fluid so fingers crossed it's working. I also started the additional meds last week so my injections now are neupogen and lovenox (the devil) along with what I feel is a ton of pills.

I spent a good hour cutting the front grass yesterday to get the leaves up. I then said to DH when I was done, now I know why we have a mowing service. Totally flameworthy and I know it but man cutting grass sucks. You can't even see the grass in the backyard with all the leaves. I'm tempted to hire out for that but it's $100/hour and usually our yard takes them 3 hours to do plus I'd have to have them come out more than once.

[joenali]

I started looking at embryo adoption agencies that my counselor recommended. There’s a local agency that I want to explore more. I talked to DH about it. He was very much not wanting to have a conversation about it when I brought it up. Not that he was being rude or anything, I think he just had other things on his mind.

I’m supposed to get my lupron shot this week. I’m really nervous about the side effects. I’ll be taking it with a small dose of progesterone to ease some side effects.

I have another counseling appointment in a few weeks.

[msmerymac]

Happy birthday and good luck to everyone!

I started Nanowrimo. I knew my book would have some element of infertility and also take place in the three cities in which I've lived, but it's turned out to be REALLY autobiographical. I also knew it would help with some mental processing, so I'm glad I'm going it. I didn't write yesterday due to a headache, but in the first 3 days I got 12,000 words on paper.

I had my ERA on Halloween, which was actually not as painful as I had been led to believe. Certainly nothing close to the most physical pain I've been in during this process. Due to my progesterone dropping, I promptly got my period 2 days later. Yay, 19 day cycle! Has anyone here done an ERA and had their cycle readjust? Go back to normal? Can I expect another period in 10 days, or is this my new normal cycle? If this is my November period it puts me close to the Jan 2 start date for a FET cycle, so we'll see.

[pinkpeony08]

Negative at 11dpo this am. Ugh

[ilovecandy]

Nov 6, 2019 8:43:42 GMT -5 pinkpeony08 said:

Negative at 11dpo this am. Ugh

I am sorry hugs

[ilovecandy]

In other news I am being super petty right now about having a huge sinkfull of dishes when I got home after a week away.

H says he is teaching other person in our house a lesson about cleaning them but I couldn't stand it and ended up doing some last night and the rest this morning

Instead I am being petty over it.

[achi]

Nov 6, 2019 8:43:42 GMT -5 pinkpeony08 said:

Negative at 11dpo this am. Ugh

I’m so sorry.

[msmerymac]

Nov 6, 2019 8:43:42 GMT -5 pinkpeony08 said:

Negative at 11dpo this am. Ugh

I'm so sorry. 

[pinkpeony08]

Not surprisingly, still negative this am. Anticipating a cocktail will be on my agenda this weekend. Cancelled my appointments tomorrow. Waiting to hear back next steps from the clinic. Thanks for the support.

[moonriver]

I’m really sorry.

[pinkpeony08]

Hope this cycle is better for others!

[joenali]

I got my lupron shot today. A giant needle to my butt. The nurse asked if I knew why I was getting this shot. It was weird. Maybe look at my chart??? I don’t know, maybe it’s protocol? And the dr said, wow your ferritin is really low (not my regular dr) yep, that’s why I need this! I’m crossing my fingers that side effects will be minimal.

[achi]

Nov 8, 2019 0:18:25 GMT -5 joenali said:

I got my lupron shot today. A giant needle to my butt. The nurse asked if I knew why I was getting this shot. It was weird. Maybe look at my chart??? I don’t know, maybe it’s protocol? And the dr said, wow your ferritin is really low (not my regular dr) yep, that’s why I need this! I’m crossing my fingers that side effects will be minimal.

Good luck with the side effects. That is seriously irritating that the nurse was asking that.

[pinkpeony08]

Nov 8, 2019 0:18:25 GMT -5 joenali said:

I got my lupron shot today. A giant needle to my butt. The nurse asked if I knew why I was getting this shot. It was weird. Maybe look at my chart??? I don’t know, maybe it’s protocol? And the dr said, wow your ferritin is really low (not my regular dr) yep, that’s why I need this! I’m crossing my fingers that side effects will be minimal.

That’s a weird question for her to ask. Maybe she was trying to just fill the silence when it feels a bit awkward that you have to poke someone with a big needle? I hope it helps with minimal side effects.

[megstoo]

99% sure FET2 has been cancelled for the 6th time. The first 5 times was because of lining to thick or fluid.... this time it was because my monitoring place screwed up. My clinic is out of state and I've always monitored at my old RE's office where I did my IUI's. Last monitoring they forgot to do all the bloodwork requested, marked a follicle as a cyst and measured my lining wrong. My clinic wanted everything redone. My lining went from 9.9 down to 4 and my lead follicles are gone. We had added letrozole to this FET and my injections were neupogen and lovenox. I was supposed to start PIO and a trigger tonight for transfer Wednesday but I'm 99% sure this won't be happening now. I'm so mad about the time wasted but also the cost of "wasting" 2 vials of neupogen (at over $300/each). Unless by come chance we can pull this around looks like I'm on the bench probablly until Jan now.

[moonriver]

megstoo omg I’m so sorry. Is the office that screwed up willing to do anything to help? Obviously they can’t do anything that will help with this cycle (if it’s in fact cancelled) but financially or anything?

[pinkpeony08]

megstoo ugh and after everything the last few months, how infuriating. I'm so sorry. I agree with asking for some assistance if it was there error. Can they give credit for next cycle or something?

[megstoo]

Nov 8, 2019 11:20:09 GMT -5 pinkpeony08 said:

megstoo ugh and after everything the last few months, how infuriating. I'm so sorry. I agree with asking for some assistance if it was there error. Can they give credit for next cycle or something?

It's not my clinic that screwed up, it's where I monitor at so my clinic can't do anything because it wasn't their fault.  I could request they don't bill my insurance but my insurance covers my monitoring in full at 100% so I don't get a bill.  I just know not to monitor there going forward.  

[megstoo]

Nov 8, 2019 11:20:09 GMT -5 pinkpeony08 said:

megstoo ugh and after everything the last few months, how infuriating. I'm so sorry. I agree with asking for some assistance if it was there error. Can they give credit for next cycle or something?

It wasn't my clinic that screwed me over, it's where I monitor at.  My insurance gets billed as "ovarian dysfunction" so it's paid at 100%, no co pay and I never get a bill.  I guess I learned my lesson not to monitor where I used to do treatment.  (I left them for a cheaper clinic)

[pinkpeony08]

Nov 8, 2019 11:40:16 GMT -5 megstoo said:

Nov 8, 2019 11:20:09 GMT -5 pinkpeony08 said:

megstoo ugh and after everything the last few months, how infuriating. I'm so sorry. I agree with asking for some assistance if it was there error. Can they give credit for next cycle or something?

It wasn't my clinic that screwed me over, it's where I monitor at.  My insurance gets billed as "ovarian dysfunction" so it's paid at 100%, no co pay and I never get a bill.  I guess I learned my lesson not to monitor where I used to do treatment.  (I left them for a cheaper clinic)

Still so frustrating. Glad it’s at least covered by your insurance.

[moonriver]

Anyone know how long the uncomfortable fullness feeling after a gonal-f cycle should last? I was on gonal f from Oct 25-nov 1, triggered on nov. 2, and had IUI on nov. 4. I’m still pretty uncomfortable (though definitely better than on Tuesday), especially with a full bladder.