TTC for 12 months +

Good call sweetpea.

Sweetpea - that sounds like a good idea to give yourself some time for you. And I get wanting to have your body as your own for a bit before starting again - especially if you’ve been breastfeeding (and that’s after months of pregnancy and all the procedures and indignities you had to put yourself through before that!)

Star - how are things going with your monitored cycles?

AFM - I’m doing a long cycle so we can time everything for the PGS (has to be coordinated with when the lab has times available). My previous cycles were short ones so I haven’t had to do buserelin injections before. I started last night and immediately got a headache and have felt odd all day so I’m not looking forward to the next month!! Has anyone else had experience with buserelin? How’d you find the side effects?

Hey Roubaix, we are still monitoring, nothing really to report! Ugh dumb that the buserilin is knocking you around. I remember getting headaches from it, from memory I think they subsided after the first few days, hope it’s the same for you x

Welcome Mellany! Yeah 2ww is not nice when it’s month on month on month, the emotional roller coaster can really mess with you and put a strain on your relationship too. Have you seen a fertility specialist yet? And managed to get any insight on why things aren’t working for you?

Glad you're doing better, Roubaix! I can't recall how I felt on buserilin.

Star, wishing you good luck.

AFM, well we decided to move ahead with our next frozen transfer and although it's very early days I'm currently pregnant.

Congratulations ADN!! Hope things are going well.

Faith, I haven't seriously considered the one or two embryo decision but have thought about it (and then put it aside for later as I think I'm prepared to go through one more round of IVF if this one doesn't work). I think it's possibly worth talking to a counsellor about as they'll hopefully be able to help you work through all the issues involved.
But having said that, here's my 2 cents worth...
There are a few things I'd think about when making the decision (bearing in mind that only you know what is right for you). Firstly, do you want three kids (regardless of whether they're twins)? If you only transfer one and it works, what would you do with the remaining embryos? How much money would you potentially save if you transfer two? Is that amount of money worth the risk of twins for you? (That answer will probably depend on your financial situation and how much you're scared of being pregnant with, and then raising, twins). Also, would twins end up costing more to raise so does it balance out?
But then the answers to all those questions would need to be balanced by the heartache of failed transfers.

AFM - started stims last night so I'm preparing to get extra moody for the next wee while

Faith, it's a hard decision on number to transfer. How many did you transfer before you were successful?

Best of luck, Roubaix!

Unfortunately I miscarried so now just dealing with the fall out from that.

So sorry ADN for your news :(

Roubaix stay positive that's still a good number.

We transferred 3 before being successful, although I think the second would of stuck if it hadn't of been for a polyp that hadn't been removed fully so ended in a chemical pregnancy.
Think we will just do one at a time and hope we have success early on.
But I've made an appointment to go see my doctor at fertility associates to find out what I need to do etc before trying again.

We only ended up with one embryo that was good enough to biopsy so we haven't gone ahead with PGS. And another one was good enough to freeze but not biopsy, so there's 2 in the freezer. We couldn't do a fresh transfer as I was deemed to be at too high a risk of OHSS.

Star - those kind of months suck. And it does always seem like travel and sickness (or other complications) always seem to strike at the exact wrong time of the month when you're TTC.

Hi all!
It has been sooooo long since I have popped on here! I think I have taken quite a break from here and not been on since early last year after the last of our IVF's failed.
I wanted to pop back in again as we have now started our public funding round, for PGS and always remember how great it is to have this forum during these times, as no one else I know really gets what we are going through.

So just briefly, since early last year we have just been casually trying on our own, obviously to no avail. I had another AMH test done recently which shows a decline since my last test in 2016. So there's that! This round we are now with Repromed, after being with FA previously for more than 3 years, it is quite the change. So they could time things with the PGS I was put on the BCP for 2 weeks, and due to the AMH results they put me on Elonva, one shot with the nurse yesterday, and that's it till my blood test this Friday. No nightly puregon or anything which is soooo different to what I did the other times. I may have to have a couple of shots of puregon but will know after the bloods and scan I think.

So with the mountain of knowledge here, I wondered if anyone had any feedback on Repromed, and has anyone done a cycle similar with the Elonva?

Big hi to those I recognise, Star, Roubaix, Faith, AND and Sweetpea!!! I haven't yet had a chance to read back, but I hope you are all here trying for another after last success - and that you aren't here too long    

Thanks Roubaix! The nurses so far have def been great! Did you get put on BCP before your PGS cycle? It was a first for me and i’m finding that my AF that has come as a result of stopping that (all part of the plan) is just heavier and lasting longer than my usual
AF. Wonder if that’s normal?
Sorry to hear you only got the one embryo but fantastic if they’ll be able to squeeze in your transfer in Dec 😊