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A second line on the ubiquitous pee on a stick (POAS) home pregnancy test soon takes on mythical proportions in the mind of the long term IVFer. Yet there we were late on a Saturday night looking at a sight that seemed as unlikely as seeing a dodo sitting on a pot of gold, situated at the rainbow’s end on the far side of Brigadoon. Continue reading Along the lines of IVF Before burying Cycle 4 deep in the mental IVF waste dump I am trying to create, I thought I should duly document this antagonist cycle which we hoped would be the answer for us: Day 1 – Nil medication but lots of hope Day 2 – Clomid (Clomiphene) 50mg Day 3 – Clomid (Clomiphene) 50mg & Puregon (Follitropin beta) 225 IU x 2 Continue reading Requiem for a Cycle This current IVF cycle has been very low key. Very quick. Almost painless. IVF life without Synarel seems much easier. Better still is the hope of a new fertility specialist offering a brand new protocol with lots of bells and whistles. How could an antagonist cycle with two daily doses of FSH plus 5 days of Clomid plus latter days of Orgalutran to ward off ovulation possibly go wrong? Now we stand before that horrible precipice, where a wrong move could see us make a sharp fall to cycle cancellation. Tomorrow is that critical ultrasound and blood test. I catch the train this afternoon to be there on time. Once before, this round of testing has brought us unstuck. On that occasion it lead to cycle cancellation. I had ‘under’ stimulated, yet one follicle had managed to ‘over’ stimulate and at over 35 mm it was considered a cyst. That in turn led to months of delays and a five month absence of menstruation. What fun! Continue reading The Pointy End |
 
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