I had a check up today regading my OHSS and the decided to give me a cheeky wee scan.......Im having TWINS !!!! We cant believe it, we are absolutely ecstatic.
We couldnt see too much on the screen as it wasnt the proper monitor, it was an older one used to scan ovaries. But there were 2sacs and we could see little blobs and the odd little flicker which she said was the start of a little heartbeat, she was sure. We are dead on 6 weeks and have to go back in 2 weeks for another scan. We are so excited and so so pleased !!
TWINS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xx xx xx
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Monday, 5 July 2010
Does the worry go away ??
Im 5 + 6 weeks pregnant. I have 2 embies on board and my scan isnt until 8 weeks pregnant.
Everywhere i read im reading about miscarriage and no heartbeat by the time ladies get to their scans, it just seems to be everywhere. I joined the february birthboard on a baby website and almost every single post was bad news, my heart goes out to these poor ladies, but im really in no frame of mind to keep reading about it all and ended up removing myself from my birth club. My symptoms are still present, i have sore achy boobs, im tired and sleeping for hours in the afternoons, and the usual crampy pains that everyone talks about early pregnancy. I cant touch sweet stuff, its turning my stomach and i can smell things from miles away haha.
Im still swollen from OHSS and moving about is slow and i think its maybe getting me down a bit. Im desperate to just be full of excitement, and while im excited and grateful i remember that im still early and get filled with nerves.
Is this normal do you think ?? Given what we all have to go through im thinking it probably is, and having to wait 4 weeks from my positive test to have a scan its bound to heighten the nerves.
When does the worry stop ??
xx xx xx xx
Everywhere i read im reading about miscarriage and no heartbeat by the time ladies get to their scans, it just seems to be everywhere. I joined the february birthboard on a baby website and almost every single post was bad news, my heart goes out to these poor ladies, but im really in no frame of mind to keep reading about it all and ended up removing myself from my birth club. My symptoms are still present, i have sore achy boobs, im tired and sleeping for hours in the afternoons, and the usual crampy pains that everyone talks about early pregnancy. I cant touch sweet stuff, its turning my stomach and i can smell things from miles away haha.
Im still swollen from OHSS and moving about is slow and i think its maybe getting me down a bit. Im desperate to just be full of excitement, and while im excited and grateful i remember that im still early and get filled with nerves.
Is this normal do you think ?? Given what we all have to go through im thinking it probably is, and having to wait 4 weeks from my positive test to have a scan its bound to heighten the nerves.
When does the worry stop ??
xx xx xx xx
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
What an update this is going to be !!
After my last post, i woke up Friday 18th June i woke up feeling absolutely awful around 5am, and promptly collapsed on the bathroom floor, hubby got me there, after hearing my pathetic cries and wretching !!
I was taken to our local hospital to see an on call doctor who looked more scared than me !! He hadnt much knowledge of OHSS, but given i was chalk white, swollen, breathless and my heart rate was 137bpm, he gave me an injection and sent me back to the hospital where i have been given my IVF treatment. I was immediately admitted and given a whole host of anti sickness and painkilling tablets. I think their plan was to knock me out ;) .....it worked.
Turns out after much poking and prodding, and weighing and measuring my OHSS had returned with a bang and was now in the moderate to severe range. I was HUGE ....literally going to pop !! and i have never felt so weak in all my life.
Over the rest of that Friday and the weekend, my blood results got worse and my kidneys stopped wrking, my tummy got bigger and i was so so weak and vomiting. I got catheterised and put on IV fluids as i was completely and utterly dehydrated. I also collapsed in the bathroom toilet on the one occasion they allowed me out of bed !!! Talk about drama queen !!!
I was in a 6 bedded room and wasnt getting any better, there was a lot of coming and going and noise and midnight admissions etc, so i was moved to my own room as apparently i needed to sleep and i got my own tv, that made the time go past.
On the Monday 21st June, 2 days before my test date, my consultant decided to do a Beta HCG, thngs were getting worse and he wanted to know why. Beta HCG 2 days early result - 73 !!! It was positive.....i was pregnant !! I couldnt believe it. I was sobbing and crying - hurting myself in the process but i wasnt caring. Turns out the hormones from the embryos(s) were making things worse, so basically i was just going to have to sit it out !!.
Another Beta was done on the official test day (Wednesday 23rd June) and my result 149 !! it doubled in the alloted time and was a nice strong number for a first (official test day) beta !!
So basically, i lay there in hospital for 12 days with severe OHSS, the doctors wouldnt drain me because of my pregnancy outcome so i had to ride it out.
My fluid started to shift somewhat, and has given me terrible Vulva Oedema (TMI i know, but if anyone reads this and goes through the same, they know what to expect). Finally yesterday Tuesday 29th June i was allowed a trial run without my catheter and managed okay so last night, after being given many instructions many many do's and dont's and done everything but pinky promise my consultant i would lie down and not move from the couch - i was allowed home !
I still have to inject myself with clexane every day to keep my blood thin, and i have to keep my anti embolism stockings on but i dont care, after a total of 16 days i hospital im home, Im pregnant and although im nervous as hell, im excited !!
I came home last night and done a we internet cheapie test, i still hadnt seen a positive test with 2 lines remember......ahhhhh there they were, right away.....2 super pink lines.
Im 5+1 today, i have a scan aroud 8 weeks pregnant. I feel yucky on and off, my boobs hurt like hell and due to the OHSS i already look 6months pregnant, im not sure if i have one or two little bubbas growing in there. The OHSS can hang around until the end of the first trimester, i dont care as long as my bubba(s) hang around too !!
xx xx xx
I was taken to our local hospital to see an on call doctor who looked more scared than me !! He hadnt much knowledge of OHSS, but given i was chalk white, swollen, breathless and my heart rate was 137bpm, he gave me an injection and sent me back to the hospital where i have been given my IVF treatment. I was immediately admitted and given a whole host of anti sickness and painkilling tablets. I think their plan was to knock me out ;) .....it worked.
Turns out after much poking and prodding, and weighing and measuring my OHSS had returned with a bang and was now in the moderate to severe range. I was HUGE ....literally going to pop !! and i have never felt so weak in all my life.
Over the rest of that Friday and the weekend, my blood results got worse and my kidneys stopped wrking, my tummy got bigger and i was so so weak and vomiting. I got catheterised and put on IV fluids as i was completely and utterly dehydrated. I also collapsed in the bathroom toilet on the one occasion they allowed me out of bed !!! Talk about drama queen !!!
I was in a 6 bedded room and wasnt getting any better, there was a lot of coming and going and noise and midnight admissions etc, so i was moved to my own room as apparently i needed to sleep and i got my own tv, that made the time go past.
On the Monday 21st June, 2 days before my test date, my consultant decided to do a Beta HCG, thngs were getting worse and he wanted to know why. Beta HCG 2 days early result - 73 !!! It was positive.....i was pregnant !! I couldnt believe it. I was sobbing and crying - hurting myself in the process but i wasnt caring. Turns out the hormones from the embryos(s) were making things worse, so basically i was just going to have to sit it out !!.
Another Beta was done on the official test day (Wednesday 23rd June) and my result 149 !! it doubled in the alloted time and was a nice strong number for a first (official test day) beta !!
So basically, i lay there in hospital for 12 days with severe OHSS, the doctors wouldnt drain me because of my pregnancy outcome so i had to ride it out.
My fluid started to shift somewhat, and has given me terrible Vulva Oedema (TMI i know, but if anyone reads this and goes through the same, they know what to expect). Finally yesterday Tuesday 29th June i was allowed a trial run without my catheter and managed okay so last night, after being given many instructions many many do's and dont's and done everything but pinky promise my consultant i would lie down and not move from the couch - i was allowed home !
I still have to inject myself with clexane every day to keep my blood thin, and i have to keep my anti embolism stockings on but i dont care, after a total of 16 days i hospital im home, Im pregnant and although im nervous as hell, im excited !!
I came home last night and done a we internet cheapie test, i still hadnt seen a positive test with 2 lines remember......ahhhhh there they were, right away.....2 super pink lines.
Im 5+1 today, i have a scan aroud 8 weeks pregnant. I feel yucky on and off, my boobs hurt like hell and due to the OHSS i already look 6months pregnant, im not sure if i have one or two little bubbas growing in there. The OHSS can hang around until the end of the first trimester, i dont care as long as my bubba(s) hang around too !!
xx xx xx
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Half way through !!
Well the first week of my 2ww has flown in, considering most of it was spent in hospital !!
Im not sure what im feeling in the way of symptoms or whats the settling from the ohss,
Either way, im crampy low down in my tummy and through to my back, to the point i could easily be convinced my period is coming today !! I am absolutely roasting, sweating and clammy at the slightest bit of exertion and i usually get that right before my period and throughout it. I am starving !!!!! I literally started making a pasta bake from scratch at 11am....and ate it as soon as it was ready at 12 !! All i had in my head whilst lying down after inserting my pessary at 10am was steak pie !!! im hungry. Probably due to the poor food in hospital !!
I dont want to be symptom spotting, but given the events of the last few days i dont feel so confident about a good outcome, i was so sore and swollen everything in there must have got squished !! Any wee symptoms give me hope that something could be happening in there. All down the sides of my boobs are sore !!!! I know thats the progesterone though !!
Ohhhhhh this time next week my blood test will have been done !!!!! xx xx
Im not sure what im feeling in the way of symptoms or whats the settling from the ohss,
Either way, im crampy low down in my tummy and through to my back, to the point i could easily be convinced my period is coming today !! I am absolutely roasting, sweating and clammy at the slightest bit of exertion and i usually get that right before my period and throughout it. I am starving !!!!! I literally started making a pasta bake from scratch at 11am....and ate it as soon as it was ready at 12 !! All i had in my head whilst lying down after inserting my pessary at 10am was steak pie !!! im hungry. Probably due to the poor food in hospital !!
I dont want to be symptom spotting, but given the events of the last few days i dont feel so confident about a good outcome, i was so sore and swollen everything in there must have got squished !! Any wee symptoms give me hope that something could be happening in there. All down the sides of my boobs are sore !!!! I know thats the progesterone though !!
Ohhhhhh this time next week my blood test will have been done !!!!! xx xx
Admitted to hospital for 4 days !
I got home from hospital today and still feel just lousy !!
I was diagnosed with OHSS and a bladder infection.
I know many people say OHSS is a good indicator of a bfp, but this is usually associated with late onset OHSS, usually when the embryos are implanting (please correct me if im wrong), mine was early onset and started probably before EC and got worse right after it and worse again after ET.
So today im 5dp2dt. Ive had some niggles/nippy feelings down below on and off and a it crampy as well as the OHSS discomfort. I am so nauseated im home with cyclizine tablets .... obviously im putting this all down to the OHSS and infection and not symptom spotting.
I was diagnosed with OHSS and a bladder infection.
I know many people say OHSS is a good indicator of a bfp, but this is usually associated with late onset OHSS, usually when the embryos are implanting (please correct me if im wrong), mine was early onset and started probably before EC and got worse right after it and worse again after ET.
So today im 5dp2dt. Ive had some niggles/nippy feelings down below on and off and a it crampy as well as the OHSS discomfort. I am so nauseated im home with cyclizine tablets .... obviously im putting this all down to the OHSS and infection and not symptom spotting.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Embryo Transfer :)
Hey Ladies well im just back home.....Im smiling from ear to ear as i have just had 2 Grade 1 Embryos transferred.
So now im in the state of PUPO !!! WooHooooooo !! (pregnant until proved otherwise)
I know i still have a long way to go and this 2ww is gonna be horrendous but if this doesnt work its purely bad luck since we have 2 beautiful embryos.
Send all the sticky dust in the world this way !!!!! xx xx
So now im in the state of PUPO !!! WooHooooooo !! (pregnant until proved otherwise)
I know i still have a long way to go and this 2ww is gonna be horrendous but if this doesnt work its purely bad luck since we have 2 beautiful embryos.
Send all the sticky dust in the world this way !!!!! xx xx
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Fertilisation Report !
We had 8 eggs collected yesterday,
of those 8 eggs, 6 were good enough to ICSI...
and 3 have fertilised this morning !
We have our 2 to put back tomorrow afternoon.
Doesnt look like we will get any frosties, but im relieved with that result and excited to have 2 wee embies on board !!
Fingers crossed and sticky dust for me and everyone else at this stage !! xx
of those 8 eggs, 6 were good enough to ICSI...
and 3 have fertilised this morning !
We have our 2 to put back tomorrow afternoon.
Doesnt look like we will get any frosties, but im relieved with that result and excited to have 2 wee embies on board !!
Fingers crossed and sticky dust for me and everyone else at this stage !! xx
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