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

picklekin

Scratch was... OK I guess, its over now, I did screw my eyes up and watered a lot. Its just really hard when your in pain, and its preventable. I'm not violent but I had to ball my hands to stop flailing at the poor nurses. I had wrongly assumed a scratch was just, you know, a single scratch... up and out. Not like a tiger was trying to dig out my middle!!

No effects from the DR yet, I'm guessing it takes a while before it kicks in anyway. I did feel a bit sick after last night I hate that tricking down throat feeling. Beats pin cushion though!

Exciting news (see, I resisted the pun!) PTP! I will keep my fingers and eyes crossed for a good haul.

picklekin

Oh, and as if I didn't have enough stress ATM, we decided to buy a house yesterday...!

pinkteapot

Glad the scratch is over with.

Did the clinic get back to you re the number of sniffs?

My advice for sniffing - don't sniff too hard - you only need to breathe in while squirting. Suck a mint or sweet as soon as you've done it. I didn't get the icky flavour a few minutes later by doing that and I think it'd stop the back of the throat feeling too.

We did a stressful house move in Feb, I had a boob lump checked out in March, IVF now and DH had just been referred to have a growth checked! Want this year to be over but love love love our new house and the stress is totally worth it.

Hello to new newbies I haven't welcomed yet. Loads to do before EC (IVF egg collection procedure) tomorrow so I will catch up with everyone properly at the weekend or early next week when laying on the sofa

picklekin

Yes, they did eventually, its one up each nose. I found this mornings better, I had a glass of water handy, might try the mint idea though, sounds good. I really had to fight the urge to sneeze this morning though!

Having EC on a Friday seems great, you can have the day off but then have the whole weekend to recuperate and be spoiled.

pinkteapot

I was going to say that mine was once per nostril (two sniffs) morning and evening (four per day). I found the whole thing a good excuse to eat Fox's Glacier Mints (nom!).

My bottles held 60 sprays each. I kept a note of how many were left in each one and stopped using them after 60, even if they felt like they had a little left, just in case it was less effective.

picklekin

I think I got a bit panicked yesterday and did 3 sniffs, I worried it wasn't squirting properly. Hopefully I wont die of a sniffy overdose!

I have a little chart that I ticke when I've sniffed so I can easily count up, its good to know they hold 60.

BTW my counsellor yesterday thought that using this forum was an excellent idea

tea_lover

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/28/pandering-to-the-crowd-panda-accused-of-faking-pregnancy-in-bun-case

I felt so sorry for the panda I cried .

pinkteapot

picklekin wrote: »

I have a little chart that I ticke when I've sniffed so I can easily count up, its good to know they hold 60.

Don't quote me on the 60 - there's probably different makes and different sized bottles. Mine said "60 sprays" on the bottle...

codemonkey

tea_lover wrote: »

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/28/pandering-to-the-crowd-panda-accused-of-faking-pregnancy-in-bun-case

I felt so sorry for the panda I cried .

Thought it was just me who did things like that. Feel sorry and cry, not pretend to be pregnant for extra buns.

pinkteapot

codemonkey wrote: »

Thought it was just me who did things like that. Feel sorry and cry, not pretend to be pregnant for extra buns.

I wouldn't rule it out.