The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Conceive when its just not happening (12m+)

ginvzt

So, one more scan for me today. I have 14mm follicle on the right and then some less than 10mm, and on the left there are 19mm, two of 18mm, 14mm, two of 11mm and a number of the smaller ones.

So, I am going to have one more injection of Menopur tonight (4 powders) trying to encourage the smaller ones to grow, then tomorrow evening it is the final injection and egg collection is set for Thursday at the moment. I am waiting for the call from the clinic to tell me the exact times for the injection and procedure.

Things are happening!!!! Ok, the numbers are not very impressive (the number of follicles is not much, but hopefully some of them will still catch-up). Fingers crossed all goes well.

liloandstitch

Have everything crossed for you gin XXX

lilo

chickpea

ginvzt wrote: »

So, one more scan for me today. I have 14mm follicle on the right and then some less than 10mm, and on the left there are 19mm, two of 18mm, 14mm, two of 11mm and a number of the smaller ones.

So, I am going to have one more injection of Menopur tonight (4 powders) trying to encourage the smaller ones to grow, then tomorrow evening it is the final injection and egg collection is set for Thursday at the moment. I am waiting for the call from the clinic to tell me the exact times for the injection and procedure.

Things are happening!!!! Ok, the numbers are not very impressive (the number of follicles is not much, but hopefully some of them will still catch-up). Fingers crossed all goes well.

Sounds like enough to have a good chance, fingers crossed for Thursday.

chickpea

Oh no - I wish today was yesterday..

I piac this am (6am) and this pm (430pm)

I had a +ve OPK this morning, two very solid, very dark lines.

Then I went to work.

I just got home and did the other OPK - and the second line is barely there.

Does that mean I've OV'd already - while I was sitting at my desk, staring out the window..) - or does it mean that I will OV tonight or tomorrow?

I feel like I've missed the moment somehow. We aim to DTD tonight, even though OH will be late home from a work trip, and tomorrow, and we DTD Sat pm - but not yesterday (trying to protect DH from burnout).

Is my egg perishing even as I type this, while my DH sits uselessly on a train home from London?

QQuaver

ginvzt wrote: »

Things are happening!!!! Ok, the numbers are not very impressive (the number of follicles is not much, but hopefully some of them will still catch-up). Fingers crossed all goes well.

Yay for the follicles!:j

chickpea wrote: »

Does that mean I've OV'd already - while I was sitting at my desk, staring out the window..) - or does it mean that I will OV tonight or tomorrow?

Since you had +opk at 6am, you should be oving somewhere between 6pm today - 6pm tomorrow. You should be fine:j

ginvzt

Thanks all! I have my last injections today - and in the fear to get stuck on the way home, I brought it all with me to work. I need to take Buserelin at 6pm and Gonasi at 10pm. Day without needles tomorrow - it will feel strange, I have been living with the needles for the last month. And actually, I don't mind them - it is sort of routine every evening: wash my face, get changed, get injections done while OH is making cup of tea, fill hot water bottle and collapse on the sofa with the hot water bottle on my tummy, cup of tea and pint of milk on the tray besides me and a cat curled up on my lap. I can't really complain - can I?

Also - our heating engineer starts work tomorrow to change our boiler!!!! Can't wait for this - we are getting brand new combi boiler, and we hope that we will be able to have our shower without the noisy shower pump and the house will be warmer. Now, just need to wait for the 'door-ma' to call me telling us that our doors are ready and when can they install them! I really hope we can have this done next week...

chickpea

Good afternoon! And what a snowy one it is too!

I very bravely spent the morning with two v. pregnant women, watching them wolf down fry-ups and rant on about how very pregnant they are. I was a very model of indulgent sympathy. Think how much different I'll be next week, once all this oestrogen has worn off..

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It's very snowy out so I came home and indulged myself in a little - low-cal - fry-up of my own!! 440 cals for = 1 egg, two tomatoes, 2 muffins with Marmite, some mushrooms and four rashers of turkey bacon (in honour of Bernard Matthews. Great turkey Bernard, but the racist jokes were a bit much.

Entrepreneurial genius - or the perpetrator of ornithological genocide? Shame he never did achieve his dream of the 10p turkey..

(Been watching too much Alan Partridge.)
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So the OPK was darker again this morning - but I guess you count from the first time it goes +ve? Which means as QQ said the earliest OV would have been 12 hours after it first went +ve.

BUT what if it went +ve during the night Sun-Mon? In that case, I reckon the earliest OV could have been as early as about 6am yesterday, and the latest 6pm today.

Maybe we timed it right, only time will tell. We DTD last night anyway, and will do it again tonight, and also tomorrow, then every other night until c. CD23/24 when I reckon it's safe to sit things out.

Have a good day and good luck everyone.

chickpea

I'm wondering what's wrong with me, and why I can't get pregnant.

Since the doctors have ruled out most medical things for both of us, I reckon it's either:

-Phenomenal bad luck;
-A 'hostile' womb;
-Blood sugar issues/insulin probs interfering with normal hormones (but I doubt it);
-An immunological/auto-immune issue (feels more likely);
-A mystery cause.

I hope it's just bad luck that's due to change..!

Maddie

ginvzt - yay for the last injections! I wonder if they should tell people to give themselves some sort of placebo injection during the 2 ww after IVF as I imagine it would help if you could feel you were doing something to help rather than just waiting (although obviously wouldn't work if they said it was a placebo lol!)

chickpea - try not to worry too much about the OV test results etc, it can only ever be a guide as none of its an exact science. If you stress out about exactly when to TTC its just going to make the whole thing harder and you could miss the real best time (i know you are TTCing throughout the month so this doesn't quite apply). As for why you can't get pregnant - spending time with pregnant people does that doesn't it - just makes it seem so easy, then you think why doesn't my body work!? I watched a program about pregnancy and conception once and it made it seem like a miracle that anyone could get pregnant...but clearly its pretty easy for some people. No idea why you can't and no idea why I can't (generally fit and healthy, normal weight, don't smoke, hardly drink alcohol or caffeine, so issues with OHs sperm, yet 18 months and not even a TLP). Having said that I really should think of all these things as positives going for me and just try to be patient...

chickpea

Hi Maddie - I do try not to be stressed out. And I'm genuinely not all fraught this month - I just would like to know.

I suppose it's possible that, even though I have a big enough egg reserve, they might all be scrambled, or pickled in alcohol..or just extremely fussy.

We'll get there, I have faith...!!