ahhh...the med's have started!

Things this morning went really smoothly...yippee for that.

As luck (??) would have it one of my friends also needed to go into the city this morning so we got to travel in together and at least make the journey a catch up as well as the "must do". We dropped E at school (on time and everything lol) and then off we went.

I must say, at this stage, how much i love the transit lanes on the Eastern...they really do make the journey quicker!

Anyway..in...park at my sneaky spot in the Macca's car park...across the road and into the chemist...yippeee...my drugs there and ready!

Off to wait for the nurse...they were great and I only had to wait 5 minutes. Th nurse was good (had crazy makeup though...wayyyyyy too much lol) and i have all the info I need. We did my first nasal spray together...and i hated it! I would prefer extra needles to be honest...but when compared to the naturopath tonics they are not too bad!

So....my program is....

nasal spray 2 times each day...12 hours apart from now till they say stop.
tomorrow i start on 150IU of puregon each day.

I do this until my 1st scan which is on Tuesday 11th August.

I'll get told what changes to make on that day...and will be given a better indication of when Egg Collection will be

After that it was upstairs to make my scan appointment. My doc will be away (eekkk) but i will be meeting the doc who will be doing my collection and transfer on Tuesday when she does my scan. I hope she is nice...they promise me she is....so fingers crossed.

The start is rocky...hopefully smooth sailing from here!

So, I waited till 2.30 for my call back from the nurse to go through my cycle and confirm my med pick up...no call...

left a 2nd message...waited till 4.45 ...no call....

called again...and spoke to the receptionist...she tried to put me through...call got bounced back....

she wanted to leave it till tomorrow...i said no...i have to start med's tomorrow, so i need to make sure my med's will be at ringwood in the morning....

on hold...she came back..again tried to fob me off....

i refused...said i was not getting off the phone until i spoke with a nurse...more hold...another attempted fob off...this time i asked for a manager (glad i had my calm head on lol)....

so finally through to the manager of the IVF nurses...it was all very confusing because they had only half done my record...so i was on phone with her for about 20 mins trying to get it all fixed up...she actually thanked me for being so persistent as it stopped a mess up on their behalf!

anyway...left that conversation with agreeing to go to ringwood at 2pm tomorrow to get my med's and learn how to use the nasal spray.

20 mins later she rings me back...because my med's were not ordered in time...they can not get them to ringwood in time...so i have to drive into the city (grrrr....this means a 2 hour round trip..instead of a 30 min one) and collect them at 9.30 am...

she did appologise...a lot....and said that she would investigate...

i am so glad i knew enough to push it....i would have been freaking out...and for good reason had i took the receptionists advice and just "worry about it tomorrow".

i hope all goes smoother from here!

It's CD1!!!! IVF has begun

So AF has arrived...and the calls have been made....IVF has begun.

Slight crisis with money...because our funds were in our mortgage offset account...and it take 2 days to get transfered...and we have to pay up front...or no cycle. So a lil bit of stress and some phone calls later...my wonderful sister paid the $5300 for us and we can pay her back on Thursday when our money comes in.

I must admit to being a bit stressed about money...so much going out and not enough coming back in. I almost feel paralyzed with what to do. I am sort of kicking myself for going to the Uk in September....I wish now, in hindisight...we had not done it. However, that said...assuming this works...it would have meant we would not be going for at least another 5 years....argghhh the balance.

So, at the moment...we are looking at ways to scrimp and save so we don't go broke lol. We are used to having a nice buffer in the bank...right now the buffer is gone. So...we'll be getting some stuff onto Ebay...and cutting back in all areas that we can. It's hard...because we don't live it large...we rarely eat out, going to the movies is something we do once every 3 or 4 months, we don't have cable TV, we don't have fancy clothes and i spend very little on new things for Elliott....so i don't even know where to cut back...but we will find somewhere!

Anyway...i am waiting to hear from the nurse so i can really get going. I should be picking up my meds tomorrow...and will have my full schedule this afternoon!

Bit of a shock

Today, at our pre IVF paperwork session we found out that our new RE had run a new test with the banked sperm. It turns out that Dh has antisperm antibodies...with 96% of his sperm...and i am struggling to comprehend it.

We have had 3 previous tests...and they never tested for it..just tested morph, motility and numbers...With each IUI...they never tested for it....and they should have.

So, we've wasted 3 rounds of IUI...and $2000 on naturopath tonics....not to mention the last 6 months hoping it would happen naturally with the naturopath

and...had I not insisted on freezing sperm pre IVF...it would never have been tested....meaning IVF day would have ended up a mess.

I am so confused....how could they not have tesetd this earlier? I think of all the heartbreak over the last 14 months since we started treatments that could have been avoided by a simple test.

I am glad they still have 4% to work with...but seriously this could have stuffed us as the plan was to do 3/4 eggs in trad IVF...and only 1/4 ICSI....now we are doing all ICSI...

I can't wait to start next week...but this has thrown me for a loop....i feel let down by the system. Antisperm antibodies is nothing to do with health...its about there being some sort of accident in Mark's past that meant sperm got into his blood stream and blood got into the sperm production ducts...some thing we have never been asked about.

Nothing we can do about it now...except move forward and get out baby the IVF way.

Change of plans.....

IVF starts next week....

I am expecting AF to arrive on Monday...meaning Nasal spray starts Tuesday and injections on Wednesday. My first scan will be Tuesday 11th August....after my weekend away on the Central Coast.

No more waiting...which is great...to be honest ...I can't wait!

The results are in...again

Well, the 2nd sperm bank run went just fine. Seriously, tell Elliott he can have brekky on the lounge with a movie and he does not move lol....at least i know I have some currency on him!

I was even back out to my play date...early! I must give absolute credit to the transit lanes on the Eastern...I swear using them takes at least 20 mins off my journey and it is rather nice gliding past all the cars with only 1 person inside that are banked up! The answer...more people should car pool!

So, I called at 5pm for the results and they are the same as last time. Great numbers, low motility. They got another 3 straws of sperm...so we have plenty to play with.

The sperm bank lady was quite chatty and actually told me that the morphology report on our first sample was back...and we have 90% abnormal sperm....this is not great...but keeping in mind that it is quite normal to have up to 85% abnormal it's not too bad. She did go on to say...that she thought our Fert DR would opt for ICSI only...and not 1/2 normal, 1/2 ICSI as planned.

I am very much at peace with moving on to IVF now, where i certainly wasn't 4 months ago. I actually wish i could start next cycle...just get this show on the road. But, I do agree that waiting till after England is the best idea. But really, it feels as if we have been waiting for this baby forever. This month actually marks the 2 years of TTC...and oh what a journey it has been.

Meanwhile, I have had a bit of day 16 spotting...dare I hope to be pregnant...of course i do lol. I am also exhausted...but that might be because of my busy busy dreams i keep having. Obviously, my mind trying to process all the travel I'll be doing in the next few months as I am having those lost passport/lost luggage/late for planes dreams....oh the fun!

I am a contradiction some days...but oh well, them's the TTC breaks!

The juggling act...

So, things are getting hectic and i managed to double book myself on Tuesday morning..

it is not possible for me to be at the sperm bank and Kinesiology at the same time..no matter how clever i am.

So a quick phone call later at we are off to the sperm bank on Friday...this clashes with a playdate...but that i can be a little bit late too lol

Right...back to the hourework