AGP, follies, fetuses and Mojitos - Life is good

[babyalive]

You ask, I deliver here's the new post:  

Dee - sorry the nasal spray makes you gag.  What is your next step?

Heather - We need to start a birthday chart!  Don't you think?

Helen - Happy, happy birthday!

Ladies, please post your birthdays so I can start a chart.  I don't want to miss any of yours!

I did ask about  2 IUI's versus one.  I got the same answer I always get.  "There are no studies that suggest 2 IUI's are better than one well timed IUI.  We will certainly do 2 if you want two, but we don't believe it is any more helpful than one well timed IUI."   Since I'm being monitored daily with u/s now and taking the meds to stop ovulation.  I'm pretty confident this IUI will be very well timed.  

[babyalive]

Started a new thread ladies. This one was getting clogged, or bogged down.   Baby dancers, get ready for round 6!  See ya on the new thread of Dancing with the Follies!

[babyalive]

Helen, my dear friend.  You are still twirling.  You make  me laugh and smile.  Your strength and resilence is inspiring.  I'm going to start twirling now too.  Although, perhaps my ego is a bit large, because I am just sure my twirling is superb to Tyra's.  I'll leave that to the expert judge though.  

Deepa, how is my twirling?  My arms are elegently at my sides.  My head is leading the twirl and my feet are in sync.  I feel I am doing a beautiful job.  What do you think?

Mary, I am waiting with baited breath!  OMG.  For some reason this is a really tough 2ww for me.  I am so anxious for you.  I think it's because I have a strong feeling it's  bfp for you.  Oh, time pass, time pass, time pass...twirling, twirling, twirling.  (sound effects boodaboo, boodaboo, boodaboo............................fading)

Maga, I can't believe all the OMG's with my little AGP sista's!  Heather's big, big, BIG news of triplets, Helen's da*med delay, Fiona's going forward, but we all hoped for a follie fest for her, my own follie fest disaster, and now your poor dh and you!   So glad to read all is well in the end.  Give Dh a nice back rub tonight.  That should relax and destress him a bit.  About the injection, I had read also that it is best to give them in the belly, I've got plenty of extra baggage there for the subcutaneous injections.  They were relatively painless in the beginning. Though in the end I ended up with a row of lovely bruises and my entire belly became quite sore.  However you seem to have no trouble producing follies.  Didn't you have like 30 at one point?  So, I would say you could inject wherever the hel l  you'd like and produced a good amount.  

Jackson, I am sorry about the beeatch of AF!  She can be a doosy that Aunt Flo.  Try increasing your Vit. B6, use warm/hot pads on your abs and back.  That helps me with the cramps.  Did you ever get an answer about your numbers?  I can't remember what ever became of the question you asked about them.  

Fiona,  I hope you dim the lights tonight, light some candles put on some soft music and enjoy a glass of wine with dh.  Just make this a night to celebrate yourself and relax.  Then tomorrow, you are going to have an incredible retrieval with the best quality eggs they've ever seen!  Cheers to beautiful eggs!!

Heather,  How are you holding up. You are the bravest, bravest woman!  I LOVE your attitute and commitment to remaining positive even though you feel like ****!  


2ww is moving along.  Though I'm doing what I always do during 2ww, put my head down there...in the sand!!  Pretend I'm not in 2ww, pretend these are just ordinary days, and forget all about the little IUI procedure as if it didn't exist.  Then if by some MIRACLE AF is late for her visit, I'll get a great big BFP surprise!!  That's how my 2ww dance goes, along with the twirling of course.  Always twirling!!!

[Helen72]

Magda,
glad that dh is OK.  Wow, what an ordeal!
Btw, I was scheduled to start Lupron shots in the belly.  They never even told me about alternatives like my hip or arms.  Belly shots supposed to be easier and less painful and I am not sure if they are better for absorption.

Jackson Angel,
thanks for your reassurances about my cyst.  Do you recall how long it took for your cyst to go away?
Meds can totally screw up your period.  After clomid my periods were soooo much heavier!  Never took prometrium though but it is a hormone, progesterone, so I bet it would mess up your system.

Mary and Lisa,
how are you holding up?  I am still twirling although not as elegantly as Tyra.

Heather,
I hope you are having a nice nausea-free weekend.

[Jackson_Angel]

~Hi! I haven't been here for long ~ BUT ~ what an ordeal you've ben through ~ did they ever tell you what caused DH's heartbeat..??.  Was it something he ate ~ drank ~ breathed..??..  Did stress actually do all that..??..  I would have totally freaked ~ glad it all turned out ok ~

Girls ~ hate to be so TMI, but I am bleeding like a pig and have never been this bad ~ MAJOR headaches ~ cramps subsiding ~ is this normal after the prometrium..??....when I go back Mon for bloodwork, will they have the proper FSH that you aretalking about (sorry for being so naive) ~ ..??..I just hope they are taking me seriously now that I pushed through like Babyalive told me to!!

Babyalive ~ how is everything..??....can't thank you enough for your advice!!

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Oh Magda - I read your post and i have to say i couldnt take a breath cos i was so afraid about what was happening to you and your DH. I am so glad he's ok and poor you - it would be absolutely frightening. Do his bosses know that stress was the result - i mean i guess at the end of the day a pay rise is not going to take the stress away as he is doing the work of 5 people but surely for the fact that he was happy to chip in they should!  I really hope that his bosses see that they staff the school accordingly soon! Its great to have you back. With regards to the injections, my understanding was that the shots were better to be given on the stomach for better absorption. My clinic only gave me the stomach as an option. But from my readings,  subcutaneous shots may be given:
Upper Arm,Abdomen,Thigh and Lower back. Can you call your clinic and ask if you can change it to your stomach?

Ok heres an update - as usual ladies please let me know if there is anything you want me to add.


FiFi - retrieval 16th March
Magda - doing shots
Heather - winner of most number of babies and survivor AGP
Jackson Angel - bloods 17th March
Mary - testing 17th March
Dee - bloods 19th March
Helen - u/s 21st March
Lisa - TWW (3dpo)
Jen - IUI in 2 weeks
Sam- IUI in 2 weeks
Amy - might hold off TTC for a bit

Love ya all
Dee
8.20pm Sat

[magda_s]

So here's why we ha dto go to Beirut...

A couple of weeks ago I come home from work late one day.  It was 4pm (late for me as I work part time) and I found DH lying on the couch in his track pants and t-shirt reading a book.  Now, this may not sound all that frightening but when you consider that he doesn't finish work till 5 and he's NEVER home before 6pm, needless to say I froze, uncomprehending.  
The first thought in my head was "They've closed the school" because the government here is constantly trying to close the 2 international schools that exist out here.
I asked what was wrong and he said he didn't feel well so he came home.
He NEVER comes home because he "doesn't feel well"!!!
He said he's had the school nurse check his blood pressure and it was really high and he felt dizzy and he had an appointment to see a cardiologist later in the evening.
I immediately call my cousin who's a doctor and tell him the blood pressure reading and he says it must have been taken with one of those crappy plastic things they strap around your wrist and turned out that was right and he said they were useless and the reading I was giving him was totally meaningless.  So he asks me to take DH's pulse and ring him back.  As an after thought he tells me to pay attention to whether his pulse is regular.  
Well, no attention had to be paid at all.  I literally wasn't ABLE to count the heartbeats because his pulse was so totally irregular and so fast.  I was absolutely terrified and I was trying so hard not to show it because I didn't want to freak him out but his heart was racing like he'd run a marathon and it was all OVER the place.
I rang my cousin back who said not to panic (errr... too late!!!!!) and to get him to the cardiologist asap.
So we go to the cardiologist who turns out to be a wonderful man who made us both feel like he was in good hands.  Unfortunately he couldn't do the echograph he had to do because DH's heartbeat was so fast and so irregular.  So he gave him a load of medicines to take some of which would slow down and regularise the heartbeat and some of which would help prevent blood clots that can occur as a result of this condition (!!!!!) and said to come back in 4 days when things slowed down.  Then he added that if things were to normalise sooner to come back sooner and he further added, but in a tone that suggested he really didn't expect this, that even if it were to be normal by the next day, to come back then.  Well, as it turned out, by the time we went to bed, it was already close to normal and the next day he was fine!!!
we went back and the doctor was delighted and very surprised, saying it was a very good sign that he responded so quickly to the meds.
He did the cardiograph and pronounced DH well.  
Then DH's bosses get wind of all this and insist he HAS to come to Beirut where frankly, they have better doctors.  So they make him an appointment with the best Cardiologist in the country.  We went along because we figured it didn't hurt to get a second opinion.
That was yesterday and he pronounced DH in good health too!  PHEW!
He does want us to go back next week for DH to do a stress test just to be really absolutely certain but he already said, he's doing it as an extra, extra precaution and he fully expects it to go well.
Can I tell you how relieved I am???
I mean, we knew after the first doctor said he was fine that the second opinion was really just a confirmation and we went along to the appointment in perfectly good moods, feeling very upbeat but then after a bit of a chat, the doctor starts by having a listen to his heart and this gos on and on and on and on and I'm standing in the doorway feeling more and more nauseous by the second wondering why it's taking so long.
I was bouncing off the walls when we walked out of that place.  And all day we'd been asking each other what we'd do for dinner that night then when we walked out I said, "By the way, we're going to Sidney's tonight."  Sidney's is a gorgeous and very expensive restaurant that we love because it is perfect in every way... gorgeous view of the city and the sea, exquisite food, excellent service and a subdued, elegant, plush atmosphere... and all I could think is that I wanted to celebrate.
I'm STILL on a bit of a high from getting that confirmation of good health.
And do you know what both doctors said brought it on??  Stress!!!  I could KILL his bosses!  He's been so stressed out at work since the start of the year because they took his deputy director away so he had to do his job too and they refused to give the head of discipline a $50 raise (yes, $50!!!) so the guy left and DH had to do that job too and then he lost a grade 11 & 12 English teacher and when he finally found a suitable replacement (not easy at all here) they refused to pay a decent salary and so she turned down the offer and Dh had to teach those classes too.  All this while running a school of 1,500 students and about 200 staff.
And I'm sure his bosses know they've pushed him too far and insisting he come to Beirut was to ease their consciences!
Sorry... venting... and I know I sound like an ungrateful b*tch but can't help it under the circumstances.
At least he's okay! I should just be grateful for that.
Right, off to work with me.  Should really make an appearance!!!