How’s everyone doing?!

[wanderingback]

How’s everyone feeling these days?

5 months later we’re back to ttc after the ectopic pregnancy. So we’ll see how things go!

Crossing fingers for everyone.

[thedutchgirl]

Good luck, wanderingback!

[ilovecandy]

Good luck wandering


I am in a fet cycle with transfer set for the 8th of March right now assuming it lal goes well. My thryoid numbers have been spiking so I have had to adjust my synthroid dose a couple times. My insurance approved ivig which my ri has recommended. So I am in the middle of getting that set up since they want me to do an infusion before my transfer. So far my other numbers have been controlled between all the meds I am on for the ri.

I told my husband last night I feel like I am t the point of having to take so much that I feel like I am always forgetting something everyday. Even though I am not. But I think today I may make an excel chart of the meds to check off each day to be sure. Between th suggested supplements and actual meds I have so many pills.

[pinkpeony08]

Feb 22, 2022 7:56:23 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

Good luck wandering


I am in a fet cycle with transfer set for the 8th of March right now assuming it lal goes well. My thryoid numbers have been spiking so I have had to adjust my synthroid dose a couple times. My insurance approved ivig which my ri has recommended. So I am in the middle of getting that set up since they want me to do an infusion before my transfer. So far my other numbers have been controlled between all the meds I am on for the ri.

I told my husband last night I feel like I am t the point of having to take so much that I feel like I am always forgetting something everyday. Even though I am not. But I think today I may make an excel chart of the meds to check off each day to be sure. Between th suggested supplements and actual meds I have so many pills.

Insurance coverage of ivig is huge!! I got two pill boxes - one for am and one for dinner to keep my pills organized. Then when I had an additional steroid dose at noon, I brought a zip lock with it in my work lunch bag. I took my calcium right before bed. It worked ok for me - it’s so many pills.

[dove]

Barely hanging on to my sanity. Our house went on the market and we had a contract in under 24 hours. I am moving, but the housing market in next city is next to impossible. Might have to air B&B an overpass.
Meanwhile, we are trying TI until we get settled in new city. New RE wants to proceed with IVF but need a place to call home first.
All I hear is tick tock ⏰ - house hunting. Fertility escaping, finding a job. All the things

[ilovecandy]

Feb 22, 2022 9:25:09 GMT -5 pinkpeony08 said:

Feb 22, 2022 7:56:23 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

Good luck wandering


I am in a fet cycle with transfer set for the 8th of March right now assuming it lal goes well. My thryoid numbers have been spiking so I have had to adjust my synthroid dose a couple times. My insurance approved ivig which my ri has recommended. So I am in the middle of getting that set up since they want me to do an infusion before my transfer. So far my other numbers have been controlled between all the meds I am on for the ri.

I told my husband last night I feel like I am t the point of having to take so much that I feel like I am always forgetting something everyday. Even though I am not. But I think today I may make an excel chart of the meds to check off each day to be sure. Between th suggested supplements and actual meds I have so many pills.

Insurance coverage of ivig is huge!! I got two pill boxes - one for am and one for dinner to keep my pills organized. Then when I had an additional steroid dose at noon, I brought a zip lock with it in my work lunch bag. I took my calcium right before bed. It worked ok for me - it’s so many pills.

Yes I am still waiting on the pharmacy group to confirm their part but I have confirmed on my end, my Dr office confirmed on theirs. So the pharmacy peeps just have to run it through and it should be covered.

I am incredibly fortunate.

I have a pill box that I use I just can't help like feeling I am always missing a med. I am not but I did go through and double check it all today for the way I have it set up to confirm I was getting everything and I am

[stellelinds25]

Honestly, I'm scared...we have 1 embryo left and originally I thought we'd do a FET this month. Now I decided to wait until after a trip we're taking in a few weeks, so we're probably looking at Aprilish. But a part of me is terrified that it won't work or it'll end in another m/c and then that's it. No more embryos and we don't have plans to proceed with further retrievals.
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I am so very thankful to have my sweet little 2 year old, but I always wanted more than 1 child. And I'm having a harder time than I thought I would processing that there is a very real chance that is our reality.
Sorry for the brain dump...but really, you guys are the only ones who get it. My IRL friends/family haven't had fertility issues.

[ilovecandy]

Feb 23, 2022 10:52:57 GMT -5 stellelinds25 said:

Honestly, I'm scared...we have 1 embryo left and originally I thought we'd do a FET this month. Now I decided to wait until after a trip we're taking in a few weeks, so we're probably looking at Aprilish. But a part of me is terrified that it won't work or it'll end in another m/c and then that's it. No more embryos and we don't have plans to proceed with further retrievals.
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I am so very thankful to have my sweet little 2 year old, but I always wanted more than 1 child. And I'm having a harder time than I thought I would processing that there is a very real chance that is our reality.
Sorry for the brain dump...but really, you guys are the only ones who get it. My IRL friends/family haven't had fertility issues.

We are so ialr yet different. We have three embryos left. Our plans are to finish transferring them this year. And move on childfree if none take.

But it is definitely a grief process realizing you ar coming to an end and that is it. That it may (likely) not work the way you though it would (ending in success). Such a grieving process. It took awhile for me to wrap my brain around itm. It took longer for my husband to accept. And I am sure when it becomes reality it will be another round of grief to process.

I am in another infertility group and in that group in the last year or two several members have moved on to childfree after treatment and from what they say the grief does lessen but occasionally there are moments.

[pinkpeony08]

Feb 23, 2022 10:52:57 GMT -5 stellelinds25 said:

Honestly, I'm scared...we have 1 embryo left and originally I thought we'd do a FET this month. Now I decided to wait until after a trip we're taking in a few weeks, so we're probably looking at Aprilish. But a part of me is terrified that it won't work or it'll end in another m/c and then that's it. No more embryos and we don't have plans to proceed with further retrievals.
@@@
I am so very thankful to have my sweet little 2 year old, but I always wanted more than 1 child. And I'm having a harder time than I thought I would processing that there is a very real chance that is our reality.
Sorry for the brain dump...but really, you guys are the only ones who get it. My IRL friends/family haven't had fertility issues.

Processing the potential that your family may not look as you dreamed it would is really hard.  I spent a lot of time grieving that very real potential loss over the last few years.  I'm incredibly lucky I ended up with the sibling I had longed for, but it was 5 years in the making and was not an easy road.  One step at a time, but it's totally ok to let yourself experience the anticipatory grief.

[stellelinds25]

ilovecandy pinkpeony08 thank you <3 IF is so hard...even when you have success, you still have grief and fears and it's such a mind-fvck. I recently start talking to a counselor and the hope is that she will help me with processing all these feelings, it'll just take awhile.

[pooh8402]

Feb 22, 2022 7:56:23 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

Good luck wandering


I am in a fet cycle with transfer set for the 8th of March right now assuming it lal goes well. My thryoid numbers have been spiking so I have had to adjust my synthroid dose a couple times. My insurance approved ivig which my ri has recommended. So I am in the middle of getting that set up since they want me to do an infusion before my transfer. So far my other numbers have been controlled between all the meds I am on for the ri.

I told my husband last night I feel like I am t the point of having to take so much that I feel like I am always forgetting something everyday. Even though I am not. But I think today I may make an excel chart of the meds to check off each day to be sure. Between th suggested supplements and actual meds I have so many pills.

I literally printed off a calendar and wrote my meds on it with times, and crossed them out after I took them. Try that?

Our patient calendars actually are excel files and many of them just tape the calendars to the bathroom mirror and write on them to document when a med was taken. I wish I could share a template or even a photo but they are property of my institution.

[ilovecandy]

Feb 24, 2022 16:17:40 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

Feb 22, 2022 7:56:23 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

Good luck wandering


I am in a fet cycle with transfer set for the 8th of March right now assuming it lal goes well. My thryoid numbers have been spiking so I have had to adjust my synthroid dose a couple times. My insurance approved ivig which my ri has recommended. So I am in the middle of getting that set up since they want me to do an infusion before my transfer. So far my other numbers have been controlled between all the meds I am on for the ri.

I told my husband last night I feel like I am t the point of having to take so much that I feel like I am always forgetting something everyday. Even though I am not. But I think today I may make an excel chart of the meds to check off each day to be sure. Between th suggested supplements and actual meds I have so many pills.

I literally printed off a calendar and wrote my meds on it with times, and crossed them out after I took them. Try that?

Our patient calendars actually are excel files and many of them just tape the calendars to the bathroom mirror and write on them to document when a med was taken. I wish I could share a template or even a photo but they are property of my institution.

I went into excel and made a table for them. I don't check them off. But it helps me if I think I haven't gotten something to go look at it and go nope I am okay. It also helps to see it all down in one place since my meds are prescribed between my ri and re.

[thedutchgirl]

I used a blank calendar in Excel, and I had my nurse review and approve it too, after I entered what she'd told me in a not-super-useful one-page document.

Happy to share if it is helpful. I just grabbed a blank template for a calendar off the internet and then added the dates for each month and entries.

[choppinbroccoli]

Feb 22, 2022 7:56:23 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

Good luck wandering


I am in a fet cycle with transfer set for the 8th of March right now assuming it lal goes well. My thryoid numbers have been spiking so I have had to adjust my synthroid dose a couple times. My insurance approved ivig which my ri has recommended. So I am in the middle of getting that set up since they want me to do an infusion before my transfer. So far my other numbers have been controlled between all the meds I am on for the ri.

I told my husband last night I feel like I am t the point of having to take so much that I feel like I am always forgetting something everyday. Even though I am not. But I think today I may make an excel chart of the meds to check off each day to be sure. Between th suggested supplements and actual meds I have so many pills.

I hope you celebrated getting IVIg coverage because that is so rare!

I made an Excel spreadsheet for all of the meds, and I have two weekly pill boxes that I use. It's too hard to keep up with without. RI is no joke!

[choppinbroccoli]

Hiiii. I'm supposed to have an FET next Thursday, 3/10, but it will be up in the air until Monday when I receive updated immune lab results from my RI. It is really frustrating that it comes down to the wire like this, but I'm just kind of accepting that it will get cancelled. I don't think I was on my med changes long enough to make a difference, but we'll see.

I started Lovenox for the first time ever this week. I knew about the bruising, but it is so weird to see on your body. Doing it on the love handles definitely helps, I think!

[msmerymac]

Our surro is scheduled for transfer on Tuesday (3/8)! It's very surreal.

[choppinbroccoli]

Mar 3, 2022 7:55:27 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Our surro is scheduled for transfer on Tuesday (3/8)! It's very surreal.

Best wishes for tomorrow!!

[choppinbroccoli]

I got the green light for my transfer on Thursday! For those in the RI know, in 9 days' time, upping Prednisone from 10mg to 30mg and adding 2mg of Tacro took my cytokines way down! TNF went from 41.8 to 24 and IFN went from 26.8 to 13.5!!

My NKs even came down a little bit.

I'm in shock, but I will take it!!

[wanderingback]

Mar 3, 2022 7:55:27 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Our surro is scheduled for transfer on Tuesday (3/8)! It's very surreal.

Crossing fingers that all goes well.

[wanderingback]

choppinbroccoli, yay glad you got the green light!

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 3, 2022 7:55:27 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Our surro is scheduled for transfer on Tuesday (3/8)! It's very surreal.

I’m so invested in this, so many fingers and toes crossed for you!

[ilovecandy]

Mar 2, 2022 14:58:23 GMT -5 choppinbroccoli said:

Hiiii. I'm supposed to have an FET next Thursday, 3/10, but it will be up in the air until Monday when I receive updated immune lab results from my RI. It is really frustrating that it comes down to the wire like this, but I'm just kind of accepting that it will get cancelled. I don't think I was on my med changes long enough to make a difference, but we'll see.

I started Lovenox for the first time ever this week. I knew about the bruising, but it is so weird to see on your body. Doing it on the love handles definitely helps, I think!

Yay for the meds working how they should!

[msmerymac]

The embryologist said it was a "really good-looking embryo"!

[pinkpeony08]

Mar 8, 2022 17:38:37 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

The embryologist said it was a "really good-looking embryo"!

So great! Sending good wishes!!