follitropin beta « lifeslurper

Lifeslurper resides in a big brown land called Auuustralia. Her early years remain a mystery cloaked in a veil of depression.

Age 42 Lifeslurper meets the vague but gorgeous Wobbles. “What took him so long to arrive?” She asks.

They make their way together in the world just fine, but are not fine to make a baby – not without some outside help. Enter ART and 2008 the year of 4 IVF cycles & one lousy big fat negative.

Lifeslurper is now 47 years old! Time for a baby is running out fast, so too is her sanity. Now it's 2011 - Lifeslurper & Wobbles have moved into top baby making gear. Donor Egg Cycles are the way to go, after a long pause to take stock after a glorious donor egg BFP & the subsequent loss. This year saw 2 cancelled FET cycles, & and menopause causing delays.

Where to from here? After 10 cycles Lifeslurper & Wobbles now await their WobblyBub who is due in May 2012 - actually make that...um....*sigh*...what's the point?

Cycleslurper I – International conversion of commonly used IVF medication names

Spurred on by Lifeslurper readers’ cards and letters, this blog hereby starts an ongoing campaign of translating international ART cycle and medication names in the hope that this helps someone somewhere along the road to finding that medication or that cycle protocol that works for them.

Send in any protocol or medication names that interest you. Lifeslurper is happy to sort through cycle details if can be bothered to send them in and are willing to share them. If you have any long held secret questions about medications and cycle protocols direct them here. Let us all learn something together!

Continue reading Cycleslurper I – International conversion of commonly used IVF medication names

The agony of the agonist…a cycle by any other name

Since moving into this crazy world of infertility treatments, I have caught a bad case of a related habit: the obsessive compulsive quest for information. It never ceases to amaze me just how many ways there are to make a baby (or not!)

Sure, if you are not fertility challenged there is one sure fire way to do this. For the rest of us poor deluded souls, there appears to be an infinite number of permutations on what seems to be a few standard ideas. Lifeslurper is slowly becoming convinced that endless array of ART protocol and medication names are put forward by fertility specialists, clinics and pharmaceutical companies the world over just to astound and confuse us the unfortunate recipients of these less than standardised treatment names and terms. Continue reading The agony of the agonist…a cycle by any other name

Requiem for a Cycle

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

lifeslurper

New to Lifeslurper?

6 weeks 1 day

Cycle 10 – Day 33: Day 10 Post 5 Day Transfer

10/01/11

The ART of Legislating Against Parenthood

Little IVF earthquakes

Mother’s Day

“Which way to BabyCo?”

Now…..where were we?

Aiming for the IVF stars

Because I did not wait to have children

The Loneliness of the Long Distance IVFer

Day One Mk IV

Message to My Baby

Profile