Any other DISers trying to concieve? Reread OP for the QOTD!

[LisaB]

But I want to test now. Getting the call last month was awful especially considered AF was late my cycle is usually 27-28 days and it went like 31/32 days. It will be like day 25 of my cycle but they said don't worry about that because with the hcg they are making my body ovulate instead of letting my body do it all by itself


On another note I am having a bbq cookout gtg on the monday of labor day weekend. This is usually a gtg for our( Kevin and I) friends from another board the smallprint.org
It is usually alot of fun and we have a small pool. Everyone is welcome just ask for directions

 

[Syrreal]

We drove up to Cincinatti today. It was 100 degrees!!!!!! All I kept thinking is that people complain it's hot in FL. It rarely gets anywhere near that high there! I miss the ocean....and pools.

 

[LisaB]

Good morning ladies 10dpo Hope all is well It is going to be another hot one in New England. Diana and I are going to the beach hopefully no jellyfish.

 

[2bemarried]

Morning all....

Carla how are you? What are your next steps?

I went in for my 5th or 6th monitoring session this morning. I have 5 good follicles on each side measuring between 13 and 16. I have to go back Thursday and the retrieval is tentatively set for Sunday. The problem is both ovaries are high and to the interior. My doctor wants them to come down lower otherwise she said they may to go in from the top to get the eggs. I have no idea what that means and I'm scared to ask

 

[7beasley]

Hi All:

Some background...I was diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Failure (POF) on June 23rd after a year of trying to get pregnant. POF is marked by a high FSH level (follicle stimulating hormone). The doctor told me virtually impossible I will get pregnant on my own but a small 8-10% chance exists. I have more bloodwork to check for auto immune problems causing the POF -- see the doctor on July 14th and told I am fine - no auto immune problems. I tell the doctor there *must* be *something* you can do to treat the POF - he tells me there isn't anything he can do...I beg him to please try *something* so he says he can give me estrogen and progesterine for 3 months repeating the FSH test every month to see if that causes my body to "resynch" himself. Says chance of resynching is microscopicily low but we say WTH it is worth a try.

Okay - but before he can do the estrogen/progesterine he needs more blood tests. Fine - get those on Friday. In the meantime, over the weekend we did heavy duty donor egg stuff and think we picked our donor and on Friday we had planned to call the agency and get the paperwork stuff going.

Doctor's office tells me to call Monday (yesterday) for results which I do and leave a message and no one calls me back (I left my work number). Get home last night they have left a message at home to call today. I call from the car on the way to work - I end up pulling over to the side of the road when the nurse gets on the phone.

Nurse says to me tests came back with "a low level positive pregnancy test" -- What??? I am in shock and I ask her if that is actually possible? She says it is possible but it could be lab error and I need to come in for another test. I went over there immediately and had the blood drawn and will have results around 4pm.

After getting blood drawn I go up to doctor's office and ask to speak to nurse. I am still stunned and I am trying not to get my hopes up. She did a pretty good job of squashing my hopes anyway though. She tells me that my LH was high (44+) which indicates recent ovulation. She says the HSC (is that beta?) was very low - 4.6 - which indicates either a fetus that is less than a week old (i.e. they did the test really really early) or could just be a mistake. She says the estrogen is low (21) and it would be low if pregnant but the **problem** is the progesterine was very very low - .8 - and that is way too low so even if preganant that is a big problem and would indicate probably miscarrying. The FSH was still high at 56.

Basically the nurse told me the results are all screwed up because it indicates a pregnancy but the other numbers are inconsistent with the HCG.

I just don't know what to think. After the phone call this morning I was so hopeful and was crying so much (out of hope and joy and just being scared) - I tried so hard not to let myself go to a place this morning where I could imagine this is true and I am preganant, even for a second -- but I could not do that...I was so cautiously optimistic.

And then I see the nurse and she is cold and tells me not to get my hopes up that they see lab errors "all the time" and the test could have been old and even if it is not a lab error the progesterine is a big problem and I would miscarry.

But I can't help still having a little part of me wonder if it could be true...could I really be pregant. I have seem posts on this board before that say you can get a false negative but you don't get a false positive. If this is in fact a positive -- maybe they can give me progestrerine to boost those numbers.

I know I am mostly likely not pregnant because a positive would mean that all the stars alligned at the exact right second of time but what does this HCG mean? I am so confused.

Nurse said that the HCG (is that the right abbrev?) would increase by leaps and bounds if it is postive. First test was Friday and it was 4.6 - she says she would expect to see if much much higher today if things are positive.

Of course, I was so stunned when the nurse talked to me this morning that I called my husband, my mom and my dad so now everyone is hopeful!! I called them all back after speaking to the nurse to tell them things look bad and it is probably a negative.

But - oh god - what if....I just don't know what to think. I have finally gotten myself to a good place re: egg donation and now this. And if I am preganant there is such a high miscarriage chance due to the progesterine. They repeated that test as well.

Ok -- sorry for so much rambling. I am just in awe. My dad keeps telling me to just enjoy the moment of being told that I got a positive on a preg. test since we never thought that would ever happen - and he is right. For the split second in time when I registered what she was saying - I was elated and filled with such hope.

The test results were expected back between 11 and noon - it is now 12:30 so someone out there knows right now whether I am pregnant. Problem is the nurse (who was a little nasty - I did not like her!) said she was very busy and would not be calling me until this afternoon.

The waiting is the worst part. When I woke up today, I expected to call the nurse, get my results, pick up an estrogen prescription and then go along with my plans of meeting with the egg donor agency on Friday to get the paperwork started...this has thrown a huge monkey wrench into things - especially given the fact that I did not even know they were doing a pregnancy test.

If this HCG is the beta test that you guys all talk about - the nurse said it was *extremely low* and a number above 3 = pregnant and mine was 4.6 which would indicate a fetus less than a week old - that just blows my mind!

I will of course post tonight when I get the news. While my brain tells me the news will be negative - my heart can't help but hope.

Thanks for reading - I know this was long!

Good thoughts to everyone!

~Nicole

 

[FlyingBelle]

7beasley - you're on a rollercoaster - that's for sure. Wish you the best!

If you really are pregnant, there are things they can do with the progesterone. Mine is really low, so I take a suppository of crinone, which is 8% progesterone gel. I have to take it for about 11-12 more weeks until the placenta can take over with progesterone production. My SIL had the same problem, used the same medication, and she just delivered a healthy baby boy.

From my understanding, the beta should double every 2.2 days. That's a qualitative pregnancy test (the 1st one is quantitative, I was tested 2 additional times to ensure it kept going up).

Keep talking to your doctor... sounds like even if it doesn't "take" this month, there's hope for you! Good luck!

 

[AllyandJack]

Nicole, forget about the stupid nurse. A women on Fertility Friend is having a healthy pregnancy that started with an HCG of 7, so anything is possible. I hope you get a nice surprise today. Keep us updated.

Kristy, if they can't reach your ovaries, they'll have to go in laproscopically. They'll make 2 or more cuts in your stomach and insert the probe there or go through your belly button. It'll increase your recovery time, but it won't hurt the eggs or your chance of getting pregnant. My left ovary is usually hard to reach, so they don't bother with it. They just go for the right and get all of the eggs out of there.

I'm staying out of the heat and waiting for the storms. I've stopped my birth control pills. I think I'm done. I'm getting pulled in all directions and this is really turning out to be more trouble than it's worth. That's how I got the ornament fragments in my eyes. I was destroying all of them. We have been collecting them since we met in anticipation of happy family holidays and it just seems foolish to keep them around. I haven't put up a tree in 2 years.....and I probably never will again.

I'm sorry to be such a downer.

My stupid spacebar is broken.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

oh yes I forgot--hubby let me know that we are under a heat and bad air advisory.

I can't wait to go back to Florida!!!!!

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Nicole - There's very few other things in life that give you a +HCG test. I think one of the others is prostate cancer (it's some cancer only men get, I think prostate, but I don't remember for sure and certain) and I'm pretty sure you don't have that........ Ignore the crabby nurse - she's a grump, and probably has no idea how it feels to go through all of this. And low progesterone levels can be compensated for, especially if you find out and start treating them early. BTW - lab errors are not hugely common. They're required to have a certain accuracy rate, and with some tests are actually required to run them twice to verify them. I don't know if HCG is one or not.

Carla - I don't honestly know what to tell you - you've been through so much, and it must be so hard emotionally and physically. Whatever decisions you make, make them when you're calm, cool, and collected, and with your DH.

LisaB - good luck with testing, whenever you decide to do it.

Everyone be careful with all of this heat. We're predicted to get wicked thunderstorms, hail, and high winds here in NH tonight. I'll be hiding under the bed. I've always been terrified of lightning. During the last storms, a tree in our yard got hit and blew the top to bits. Luckily, no one got hurt. A TV doesn't work anymore, and my new puppy is now terrified of rain. Every time he hears a rumble of thunder, he's curled up under the bed in a flash. At least he'll be with me

Jen

 

[Maleficent13]

Carla, I just wanted to offer a I've been rooting for you (and all of you!) every day, even when I don't post on the thread.

 

[FlyingBelle]

Everyone be careful with all of this heat. We're predicted to get wicked thunderstorms, hail, and high winds here in NH tonight. I'll be hiding under the bed. I've always been terrified of lightning. During the last storms, a tree in our yard got hit and blew the top to bits. Luckily, no one got hurt. A TV doesn't work anymore, and my new puppy is now terrified of rain. Every time he hears a rumble of thunder, he's curled up under the bed in a flash. At least he'll be with me

Jen

That huge electrical storm came through Chicago last night - what a show! We get a lot of storms, but the lightning from this one was incredible. Once the storm actually hit, it lasted about an hour. From what I could see on my way to work this morning - the damage doesn't seem too bad (at least our garbage bags were still on the curb). Stay hydrated!

 

[7beasley]

Just heard back from the doctor's office...they say it was a "false positive" due to high LH level. The retest HCG level came back at 4.0 (it was 4.6 on Friday). Nurse says she talked to Doctor who indicated that there is a correlation between a high LH and an elevated HCG. She said the HCG numbers were not true pregancy numbers because they were altered by the LH.

Moreover, the HCG went down...Nurse said that because my hormones are all over the place and so abnormal that is why she thought this test would not really mean a pregnancy.

The progesterone went from .8 to .9 - no real change. The doctor is starting me on estrogen provera and will repeat the blood work after each "period" - they are doing this more to try to regulate my cycles since I am all over the place (today is day 46 and counting) and that there is a miniscule chance I could resynch and ovulate on my own but the Nurse kept telling me that probably won't happen so don't take the estrogen provera with the hope of getting pregnant - take it to be regular while you go through Egg Donation.

I know she is right but it is still hard to hear.

So - that is my news. For a few minutes today I thought I won the fertility lottery but it just wasn't meant to be for me right now...

In other news, we found a possible egg donor that we like and I am trying to finalize that stuff this week so I can hopefully go through IVF with donor egg in November or so.

Good luck to everyone else!

~Nicole

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Nicole, I'm sorry. But that's great about the egg donor.

Jen

 

[2bemarried]

Nicole


I don't have good news here either. The head of the fertility clinic called me a few minutes ago. My E2 was at 7000 today. He's really concerned that the follicles were hard to find and the numbers are way too high. I went from 470 last Wednesday to 1521 on Friday to 3000 on Sunday to 7000 today. I have a training class tomorrow that I have to break away from to go see him.

 

[AllyandJack]

Nicole, I'm so sorry. I've been on Provera. No side effects or anything....brought AF on peacefully. It's good news about the donor and nothing is preventing you from playing the lottery from now until November.

Kristy....that level is really high. You might need to do what I do....start at 200iu for one day and drop from there and go in every day for blood. I go longer (10-12 days), but it makes my follicles grow without my E2 going crazy. If you cancel the cycle, does it count against your insurance? Unforunately, the 1st round of injectables is usually trial and error. I know it's heartbreaking and seems like a waste, but it's better to be healthy and able try again than take a big risk with your health.

 

[2bemarried]

Nicole, I'm so sorry. I've been on Provera. No side effects or anything....brought AF on peacefully. It's good news about the donor and nothing is preventing you from playing the lottery from now until November.

Kristy....that level is really high. You might need to do what I do....start at 200iu for one day and drop from there and go in every day for blood. I go longer (10-12 days), but it makes my follicles grow without my E2 going crazy. If you cancel the cycle, does it count against your insurance? Unforunately, the 1st round of injectables is usually trial and error. I know it's heartbreaking and seems like a waste, but it's better to be healthy and able try again than take a big risk with your health.

Right now I'm on day 11 of stims. The doctor is concerned about me getting sick. So he's going to take a look at everything tomorrow and we'll go from there. I think the only thing insurance will be charged for is the medications. It's better for us to cancel this round and start over and get a healthy pregnancy versus going in now and this not working.

 

[Desnik]

Nicole, I'm so sorry.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Nicole--I'm so sorry!

Kristy--hope everything works out.

 

[LisaB]

Nichole -- I was reading the post saying *** and so happy for you and screw the grumpy nurse. I glad you found an egg donor does she have blond hair or is she a brunette???

Kristy good luck with everything

I am still not sure when i want to test or should I just wait until Monday for my beta.

The beach was awesome but I got really burnt so I am heading for a bath

 

[DMickey28]

Hi Guys I am so behind, I need to catch up. DH and I are moved into our new place in Florida and in another month ready to start our future. We still have the TTC on hold for now, not sure when we will start that up again. We need to sit down and really think about it once things calm down around here in August. He is gone for the next three weeks and I am alone in a new city. So lonely...

For the good news... My best friend had a baby girl last night. 8lbs 4oz only 18 inches long. She said that she is chubby!!! Sadly they are in RI and I am in FL so I won't see her for another two weeks. Alexa Marie... I can't wait to meet her. I am sure once I hold her I will want to start TTC again right away!!