To those wonderful women with BFP's... Would you mind sharing your stats with us? You never know - we may see a pattern emerge??
Type of cycle - IUI, IVF(#?), FET(#?), ICSI etc
Drugs - Most interesting would be luteal support...?
Response - # eggs, # embryos
Embryo transfer - 1 or 2
Stage of embryo/s - 2/3 day, blast, other(?)
...and any other relevant info

This message was edited by JB on Thursday, 26 May 2005 @ 9:30 PM

Firniby, excellent idea. People could also add;

age
MF
PGD (biopsy of embryo's)

Thanks, and good thinking 3bubs. Wouldn't it be exciting to see common factors emerge! I hope people respond...
fi

My story is good for girls who have been told they have bad eggs.

I am only 5.5 weeks so very early on and plenty to go but a BFP is a good start. Beta was 132 and 6,000 at 5 weeks.

7 x IVF stim cycles
Large egg numbers (av. 18) but all poor quality embroyos
Good fertilistation - day 3 embroyos stop dividing & get fragmentation
Have had cyles with nothing good to transfer
Never had more than 2 so never had any frozen
Fairly high drug dosages - 300-450
Day 3 transfer

And on this cycle we got 3 good embroyos so transfered 2 and 1 in freezer

So what is different?

Lower drug dose of 200
Colorado protocal (usual stim IVF with extra drugs, including drugs for DH)

So I'm not sure why I am pregnant. We think it is a combination of lower level drugs and just plain good luck. Our numbers finally came up!

This message was edited by tan68 on Monday, 23 May 2005 @ 9:37 PM

Congrats Tan!...your story is very encouraging to me. I had 19 eggs but only one embryo last cycle and was told it was probably old eggs. New Dr will be lowering dose and doing things differently, so here's hoping. Hope you have a wonderful pgncy.

Thanks Firniby for starting this thread...I'm very interested to see what appears. I was wondering though if you might have more replies by posting it in the "pregnant after difficulty conceiving" area? Perhaps then the information collected could be transferred back into AC? I dunno, just a thought.

Me:42 DH:50,SDs aged 17,15 &13. 50/50 shared custody
Failed Vasectomy Reversal March 2004
ICSI #1 March 2005 BFN

Hi ladies,
I thought I would share my success story with you. After ttc for 11 yrs and having endo, ovarian cancer, only 1 ovary, 2 cysts removed from the other and to top it off MF, I am now 25w pg.
ivf/icsi#1 on 450 puregon - collected 1 egg which didn't last overnight - told to look at donor egg.
ivf/icsi#2 on 600 puregon, changed from lucrin to a drug called cetrotide and did a short cycle. - collected 4 eggs, 3 fertilised, transferred 2 (one 5 day blastocyst and one morulae). Allowed the third to hatch on day 6 to find no DNA (so wasn't holding much hope for the other 2). Now pregnant with a singleton!!!

The other thing we did was DH took a high does of Vitamin E (as advised by specialist) and ejaculated 48 hours prior to giving sample for icsi which increase his viable sperm count and motility.

The cetrotide drug was very expensive but so glad that we tried it. If this can help anyone I am more than happy to oblige and if anyone has any further questions please pm me as I am happy to discuss anything.
Cheers
Robyn
PS I am 38 and my DH is 41.

Firni, very good question! I'm keen to see stat's too from you fantastic ladies. LJV, that's also a great idea - Firniby, are you happy to start a discussion in that forum?

Robyn, whoa you had the whole gamete! Congrat's on your obviously going-strong pg. Continued good luck to you for the next half.



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Ella's story
7 more angel bubs, lost early
TTC since Jan. 2000
Our first ART: PGD, EPU sched. for 3/6!

Hi everyone

Im happy to share my story, albeit a little shorter than some.

After 2 years TTC, a heartbreaking m/c @ 12 weeks, 6 cycles of clomid, lapy, hyst & dye studies and 1 cycle of IUI we were sitting in the sometimes frustrating category of being "unexplained".

After finishing the IUI cycle we were so "over" the whole thing that we made an appt with our RE and expressed our desire to move on - we were sick of waiting and if we were going to continue undertaking treatment and riding this rollercoaster we decided it had to be a treatment with the greatest success rate - IVF (for us).

This is how it went:

IVF # 1
150 Gonal F
5 eggs collected (as I had already started to ovulate - doh, not happy Jan)
4 eggs successfully fertilised
2 x A grade, 3 day embies transferred
2 frosties
Luteal support = Crinone

2 weeks later we received the phone call to confirm a BFP. We feel blessed every single day to have received this gift and to achieve it on our first IVF cycle is nothing short of a miracle.

I hope this helps somebody, somehow. Best wishes to all you wonderful ladies.

Miki (33)DH (34)
TTC #1 Dec 02
M/C 6/03 (12weeks)
6 x Clomid, IUI x 1
IVF # 1 - BFP Yay!
EDD 15/08/05 (DH's birthday)

This message was edited by mikimbar on Tuesday, 24 May 2005 @ 1:47 PM

Hi girls.. what a good idea. i shall give you my stats.. I am 11w2d pg.

Me 29 DH 34
Boy trouble (using donor)
4xIUI BFN
IVF#1 Puregon 150 + syneral
13 eggs, 2 fert
2 T/F, 3 pesseries a day
BFP M/C at 10wks

IVF#2 Puregon 150 + lucrin
12 eggs, 9 fert
2 T/F BFN (7 frosties)

FET#1 BFN (embies defrosted ok but did not continue to divide)

FET#2 last 5 embies defrosted to take to blast
2xBlast T/F BFP!! EDD 11/12/05
4xpesseries a day until 10wks (now down to 1)

Wishing you all the very best and may the baby gods make your dreams come true very soon.

DEB x

Tan, Robyn, Miki, Deb - Congratulations!! and thanks for sharing your stories. It's interesting to see the range of factors and experiences already. Hope more BFP'ers write in. Also hope those of you viewing this topic find it helpful. Kirril, LJV - I'll try to start this up in the other forum.

Firni

TTC #1 2002
IVF/ICSI #1 150 ui puregon with orgalutran (antagonist protocol) produced 17 eggs, 14 fertilised and 7 were suitable for transfer/freezing at day 5. Transfered one blast. Had HcG shots for luteal phase support. BFP and successful pregnancy.

TTC #2 - 2004
Changed clinic to follow doctor and took 6 embryos with us.

Natural FET #1 - 1 blast transferred - no LP support BFN
Natural FET #2 - 2 blasts transferred - no LP support BFN
Medicated FET #3 - 2 blasts transferred - pessaries for LP support - chem pregnancy

IVF/ICSI #2 - 150 ui puregon with cetrotide (antagonist protocol). Produced 19 eggs in 6.5 days. 13 fertilised and only 2 were suitable for transfer/freezing. Transferred 1 blastocyst. Crinone for LP support. BFN.

Medicated FET #4 - 2 blasts transferred - pessaries for LP support - BFN.

Changed back to the original clinic where I got pregnant with my DD.

IVF/ICSI #3 - 150 ui puregon and lucrin (long protocol). 17 eggs, 11 fertilised and 7 were suitable to transfer or freeze. Transferred 2. Crinone for LP support. BFN.

Natural FET #5 - 2 blasts transferred, lost one in the thaw though. pessaries for LP support. Did acupunture for the very first time this cycle. BFP.

Phew! I feel like I have a long history. I'm just hoping that this last one is a keeper.

Rachael

My stats..

Me: 34 now, but 32 during successful IVF
DH: 40

Diagnosis - MF

What we did: IVF with ICSI (& DH had TESA). Got 8 good eggs, 4 fertilised, 3 made it to day 5. Transferred 1 blast (froze the others) - now have an almost 14 mo DD.

Drugs were synarel & puregon (started on 150 I think, but my body got carried away, dropped to 100, then 75, then coasted for awhile). No HCG shots after EPU due to risk of OHSS, so just crinone for about 2 weeks.

Hope that helps someone.

We're about to get the frosties out & do a FET so I'm interested to read the FET stats - especially re the defrosting stats.

Here's mine to:-

Started IVF 2002 due to MF (at the time) very low sperm count. Had been trying other ways for 2 years.

Started IVF Sept 02
down reg included 225mls of purgon
At EPU collected 23 eggs - 10 fertilised via ICSI and we lost 1 during defrosting. I also had mild hypo-stim.

1st transfer PFP but lost preg at 8 weeks
2nd Transfer FET PFP but again No's didnt rise wait
to mc at 6 weeks.

DH & I are sent away to have blood test for M/C genetic problems etc - Nothing found. However as there seemed to be a problem with implantation it was recommended that I try baby asprin and my naturapath recommended vitex.

3rd Trans FET Start taking Vitex and Cardaprin (Baby
asprin). BFP and DS born 2/1/04

4th Tran FET BFN new nurse who doesnt believe me
that I only "o" within a period of 3
hours and Seraket doesnt work. No
asprin or Vitex.

5th Tran FET BFP again I took baby asprin but I
stopped taking it around 8 weeks as I
kept forgetting and at my 2nd U/S the
baby's H/B had stopped two days
before the U/S at 10 1/2 weeks. I dont
know if its related.

Currently stimming again with the same protocol but we are doing PGD for the m/c.

I feel in my heart that the Vitex and baby asprin helped me to achieve a PFP with DS transfer.

Never rule out FETs as you can see they do work

Felicity.

Firniby great idea starting this thread very interesting results already.
Im interested in the luteal phase support after epu it seems the more support we get the better the result. Keep the threads coming girls the more the better.
Melissa

Hi all

I've now posted this discussion in the other forum. Will copy any responses back here.

Kaboo (Andy) wrote:
Background: Fell pg naturally with ds#1 at age 27 after 2 yrs
ttc. Tried for 2 yrs and fell naturally but had a m/c at 9wks

Investigations: only usual 21 day blood tests and SA for dh -
diagnosis was unexplained secondary subfertility. I was 31
when we started AC.

IUI - 50iu puregon, 2 follies, no hcg trigger, no luteal
support - BFN

IVF - 100iu puregon (I respond well to it) and syneral,
10 eggs, 9 mature and fertilised, 1 x 4 cell embryo at 2 day
transfer and only 2 more made it to 4 cells to be frozen by
that evening, Crinone for luteal support - BFN

2 long cycles in between IVF and FET - plus the clinic closed
over Xmas delaying our FET date.

Natural cycle FET - Both remaining 4 cell embryos (2
day old) defrosted, one embryo had started to divide and was
at the 6 cell stage when transferred on cd 20 but the other
had not started to divide but we still transferred it, no luteal
support - BFP singleton pregnancy

HTH and good luck



Andy
DS#1 9.7.99
DS#2 28.10.04 - FET baby

I'm really diggin' this - well done you legends and keep the info coming

Ratty
TTC#1/ICSI #4
10 embies/5 transfers
Lap, dye, endometrial biopsy and D&C May 05
IUI and FET happening now!

My DH broke his neck and became a quadriplegic when I was 34 and we hadn't started TTCing (tho we both wanted kids). Over two years later we finally had our heads (mostly) around our new life and decided to go ahead and TTC. Turned out to be too tricky to get sperm samples reliably to try AI at home or IUI for a few cycles, so in April 2003 went straight to IVF with ICSI using sperm collected and frozen the previous month. It was my first ever attempt to get pg.

IVF/ICSI #1
Age 37
Lucrin down-reg
Gonal-F 187.5U for 8d then 225U for 4d
8 eggs collected, ICSI done on 6, 5 fertilised
By day 5 all we had left were one ok(ish) blast and one early blast so transferred both.
Luteal support = 1500U HCG at 2dpo and 500U at 7dpo
Beta = 224 at 11dp5dt

First u/s confirmed a singleton pg, the rest of my pg and labour and birth were boringly normal and we now have a nearly 15m old happy and healthy DD.

I am currently doing IVF/ICSI #2 (age 39) so can't really compare stats until we know whether it's another BFP. Here's hoping!

Steph

This thread is a fantastic idea Firni. I agree with
Ratbag...keep the stories coming. It gives me hope!!



Me- 28
DH- 34
TTC #1- since May 2003
2004- Clomid 6 cycles, Lap
2005- IVF#1-BFN FET#1- June

This message was edited by alicia.s on Wednesday, 25 May 2005 @ 9:21 PM

Hi Ladies,
Our story is a lot more mundane than most, but I might as well add it too!

TTC 7 years, finally had a laparoscopy last year (when I realised time really *was* ticking away!) and found lots of adhesions and non-repairable tubes which were removed, meaning our only hope was IVF. I have a history of immune disease and have had chronic hypertension since I had a stroke at 18.
We discovered DH had very poor sperm count and motility, so started him on a range of vitamin supplements.

First IVF w/ICSI in March:
Me 33, DH 36
Standard down regulation - .10mg of Lucrin daily. I ended up taking this for over a month because I had a large ovarian cyst that just wouldn't go away.
Stims: 225mg Puregon, plus the .10mg of Lucrin for 14 days
Result: Retrieved 14 follicles, 12 eggs fertilised, 6 made it to transfer. The two best 4-cells were transferred, the other 4 frozen.
LPS: 8% Crinone twice daily for 13 days.
2WW: Sucks! But we got a BFP! My progesterone was 220 at my first blood test, 4 days later it was 250. We recently discovered it's twins - totally unexpected. I'm 9wks pregnant.

Hope this is either helpful or vaguely interesting, and best of luck to all of you!

Hi all,

My story is short and sweet (so to speak, plenty of times there was nothing sweet about it!)....

I have a female partner, so we used frozen donor sperm.

3 natural IUI's - all BFN

another 5 IUI's with pregnyl LH support - BFN

02/05 - lap, hysteroscopy and dye - all clear

03/05 - natural with new donor - LH support with Pregnyl BFN

04/05 - Clomid 50mg D5 - 9 then Gonal-F day 9 - ovulation @ 50. 1 follie. Trigger with Pregnyl and Pregnyl LH support. BFN

05/05 - Puregon - day 3 - ovulation @ 75, then 100, then 150 for the last two days. Two follies. Pregnyl LH support. BFP. Currently 5 weeks pg.

All of my luteal support was 3/6/10 days post ov with 1500iu.

Best of luck to all of you wonderful women who are still chasing the miracle you all sooo deserve.

Bec

Me: 27
DP: 29
TTC #1 11 months
8 natural cycles - double IUI
Feb 05 - lap and hysteroscopy and dye - all clear!
Mar 05 - 1st modified cycle - BFN
April/May 05 - Puregon and ICI! Go little thorpies!!
22/5/05 - Finally our unbeliveable BFP

This message was edited by becj245 on Sunday, 19 June 2005 @ 10:09 AM

* We've done 7 (6 stims & 1 Fet) cycles. 5 PGD cycles
* Have a 3yr old daughter from cycle 3 and I now have a son (10 weeks) edited Oct 21st from cycle 7.
* Diagnosis is unexplained - probably more age. I'm 41 and DH is 45.
* Prior to IVF i fell pregnant naturally a few times but miscarried 4 times (latest at 9 weeks) and once whilst cycling. However it was taking a long time to fall pregnant and we were told to go straight to PGD.
* I noticed as each cycle went by, i got less embies for biopsy, quality was declining and my body seemed to be coming more resistant to the drugs.

Cycle 1
150 Puregon
Cancelled just before EPU, not enough eggs for PGD.

Cycle 2
350 Puregon
18 eggs, 13 embies, 8 biopsed = 4 normal, 3 abnormal & 1 inconclusive.
Transferred 2 normal compacting females. Chemical preg. No frosties.
Changed Dr's within clinic.

Cycle 3
500 Puregon
Colorado Protocal, also proluton injections.
16 eggs, 11 embies, 6 biopsed = 2 normal, 2 abnormal, 1 inconclusive & 1 not totally tested.
1 normal compacting male & 1 compacting untested transferred (other normal died o/n in lab).
++++++ My daughter (the untested embie) was born.
Everything else in this cycle died. No frosties.
(my embies NEVER make it past day 5 in the lab).

Cycle 4
600 Puregon
8 eggs, 6 embryos, 4 biopsed - ALL Abnormal.
Nothing to tranfer, end of cycle.

Cycle 5
500 Puregon, didn't sniff whilst stimming
Split dose, 2 injections a day, 250 morning and 250 night.
Colorado Protocol, pessaries + crinone.
15 eggs, 9 embies, 3 biopsed = 1 normal, 1 abnormal and 1 inconclusive.
Transferred normal compacting male & compacting inclusive embie.
negative.
Froze 1 non PGD'd embie that was compacting.

cycle 6
500 Puregon, didn't sniff whilst stimming (started ovulating)
Split dose, 2 injections a day, 250 morning and 250 night.
Colorado Protocol + crinone + pessaries.
8 eggs, 7 embies
Didn't update my diary, but from memory only 2 or 3 were biopsed and only 1 normal.
Transferred 1 normal 10 cell and 1 7 cell untested embie
Froze 1 non PGD'd embie compacting.
negative.

cycle 7
1st Fet.
Colorado Protocol + crinone + pessaries.
Both embies thawed well & transferred 1 compacting & 1 7 cell embie.
I insisted on Assisted Hatching on both.
+++++++ Son born Aug 9th, 2005.
This is the end of our IVF journey.


Fell pregnant naturally at 43 and gave birth to a son aged 44 in November 2007.
JB

This message was edited by JB on Friday, 21 October 2005 @ 7:28 AM

I will share mine if you like
We had been TTC just over 2 years when we got our first BFP. I have PCOS and our specialist suspected there was some sort of 'bonding' issue. I don't ovulate naturally at all and was on Clomid for well over a year!

We did 2X IUI's late last year but both BFN's.

We were aiming to do half IVF/ half ICSI for our first IVF. However we only ended up with 6 eggs so they did all ICSI, 2 of them looked 'dodgy' and only 3 fertilised. At day 2 only 2 were still surviving and we put them both back for many reasons but the main one being I was scared that by freezing only 1 it wouldn't survive defrost. It was a Day 2 transfer.

I had pessaries twice a day for 2 weeks after E/T and HCG injections 3 times.

SO basically we are nearly 9 weeks pregnant with Twins that are the only surviving embryos from ICSI on a Day 2 Transfer.

Thought I'd add my short and simple story:

DH has a son from ICSI with his previous partner, so we knew we were dealing with MF issues before even starting TTC. We TTC naturally for 10 cycles anyway (going to naturopath to see if that would help at all, and it didn't). When we saw the fertility specialist we were fastracked to ICSI.

Type of cycle - ICSI#1 short/flare cycle (no down regulation time, no pill)
Drugs - Synarel 10 days, 150 gonal-f 9 days, ovidrel trigger, 2x1500 Pregnyl injections for LP support
Response - 7 eggs, 4 high quality embryos fertilised
Embryo transfer - 2 (and 2 to freeze)
Stage of embryo/s - 2 day
Result - HCG 537 on 16 days past EPU - singleton confirmed at 7 week ultrasound. I'm currently just past 9 weeks.
age - DH 37, me 34 (turned 35 two days after BFP)
Reasons for doing AC - MF (count less than 2 mil, motility, morphology issues as well).

Hi ladies, i'm only too happy to share my story...

I went off the pill at the end of January 2004. I spent the following 10 months tracking my completely irregular periods. I had cycles varying from 23 to 38 days. I was able to detect ovulation using opk's on only six out of the ten cycles.

In November 2004 i consulted a spec where i was diagnosed with PCOS. All other tests came back clear, although DF's morphology was 1.5% below normal standards.

In January 2005 we began IUI with injections. I took 50iu of Puregon from cycle day 5 through to 16. One follie matured, i was triggered at 4:30pm one afternoon and had the IUI at 9:30am the next morning.

On days 2, 5 and 8 past IUI, i had luteal phase support injections in the form of 1200iu of Pregnyl and we are now 20 weeks pregnant.

Good luck to everyone! Feel free to PM me in case all of the above sounded look goobledeegook!

Hi girls

I cant believe I got a BFP yesterday (16dpo #490) so I can now add to this thread...

#2 ICSI - Age 37, MF, endo (1x lap)

Down reg - pill/synarel/Gonal F 300/Pregnyl injections

Response - 4 eggs/3 embies

One transfered @ day 2, other 2 frozen

Now waiting for 7 week scan (fingers crossed!)

Hope this is helpful. Good luck to everybody

love Magpie

Me 36
DH 36
TTC#1 since Apr 03
ICSI #1 - m/c 7 weeks (Nov 04)
FET x 2 - bfn's Feb/Mar
ICSI #2 - OMG BFP!!

This message was edited by magpie on Thursday, 26 May 2005 @ 6:26 PM

Hi girls some great success stories here well done.

My story:

Me: 27 DH: 30 DS: 2.5

Endo found when i was 17 was told had extreamly bad scaring and it would take me a while to fall pg. Been with my DH since i was 17 and never used any protection and after 7 years we finally fell pg with DS naturally.

TTC #2 for over a year and because of history was sent to FS at MIVF had lap and Dye done Dec 04 discovered serverly blocked tubes and FS said that he was supprised that my DS had even got through. Next step IVF.

Down Reg full stim cycle
Started pill in January 05
Syneral Spray Feb 05
Gonal F 112.5iu (low dose becasue of age and natural pg)
Response 14 eggs collected
12 fertilized 2 trf @ day 2 10 in freazer
LPS 8% crinone once a day
Beta 17dpo 185
Currently 14weeks pg with singleton. EDD 22.11.05

HTH and good luck to everyone
LOL Tania

Edit to remove ticker sorry forgot that i had it in there.

This message was edited by matty'smum on May 30, 2005 @ 4:45 PM

Kaysie responded in other forum, saying....

Mine isnt all that interesting ( which is a good thing)....

TTC 1# 4 years.... Put on clomid while waiting for tests to be done. After Hysterosalpingogram was diagnosed with unicornuate uterus. THen I had Laporoscopy that showed that the one tube I had was kinked, so we were then told that our only hope was IVF...

SO my 1st cycle in June 2003 had to be cancelled because my hormone levels werent right.

my 2nd IVf cycle in July 2003 ended with my DD....

Sorry if that doesnt help much. Because my problem was not to do with hormones and just structure, the IVF is more successful.

Kaysie

Hi girls

Well my story is we have been trying 6yrs with unexplained infertility, and been to natural doctors, natrapaths and then finally to a fertiliy clinic in April 2004 (our last resort)
1st IUI - BFN - June 2004
2nd IUI - BFN - July 2004
Then we moved onto IVF
1st IVF - Puregon injections
- 9 eggs
- 7 fertilized
- 2 made it to 5 day transfer (blasts)
- put one embryo back in October 2004
it was a BFN!!!!!!!
We then decided to use our last frozed embryo (a natural cycle - no stims)
when it thawed it went from a B grade to A grade and finally in November 2004 we got our first ever BFP!!!!
and im going well and due in 9 weeks We are the happiest ever!!!!

Hope my sharing helps

Im 32
Df 33

All these success stories especially 'older' mums gives me more hope than I had this morning - good advice too

1st ivf/icsi split cycle...
had 20 eggs, ended up with 11 embryos
2 tranfered and none any good to freeze...suffered ovarian hyperstimulation very painful before egg retrieval, and painful tummy after transfer..can walk around now so that is good!
now on crinone and 2 week waiting, longest two weeks of my life.
i couldnt wait so did a HPT it was neg result....
i have sore chest and bloated bellie,
can anyone tell me if crinone can give a false neg HPT result?

Hi There

Here is my stats

1st ATTEMPT

Type of cycle - Ovulation tracking
Drugs - Gonal F at 37mg
Response - 2 eggs at 13mm + 1 at 11mm plus smaller ones
Support post O - 2 x progesterone per day
This cycle resulted in BFN

2nd ATTEMPT

Type of cycle - Ovulation tracking.
Drugs - Gonal F at 75mg.
Response - 2 eggs at 19mm + 1 at 16mm plus smaller ones. (I was not aware of the 16mm follie untill after it was confirmed we were pg with triplets)
Support post O - 2x progesterone pessaries per day untill 12 wk of pg.
This cycle resulted in BFP & triplets are due 11/10/2005

My diagnosis was - 1) I was not producing mature follicles/eggs at O & my cycles were too long averaging 42-48 days. & 2) low progesterone after O (usually around 30-35)....

We had also tried 4 cycles of O tracking W/O drugs thru our clinic prior to starting on the Gonal F.

Me - 28
DH - 28
TTC since - Dec 2003
Lap - Oct 2004
BFN - Gonal F 11/2004
HSG - Dec 2004
BFP - Gonal F 2/2005 (triplets due 11/10/2005)

This message was edited by lilymurray on Thursday, 16 June 2005 @ 5:42 PM

Hi all!
I have severe endometriosis (so far have had it lasered off pouch of douglas, left ovary, bowel, liver, bladder). I am currently 29 weeks pregnant.

This was my time line.

March 2003 - start TTC
May 2003 - Laparoscopy due to severe pain ie spending AF in hopsital with the pain (after being off pill for a year).
May 2003 - diagnosed with severe endometriosis
Sept 2003 - conceived naturally
October 2003 - M/c'd
January 2004 - conceived naturally
February 2004 - M/c'd
Sept 2004 - IUI with no drugs - BFN
Oct 2004 - IUI with peurogen self injections (3 eggs) - BFN
Nov 2004 - 2nd Laparoscopy with hystercoscopy and dye testing (tubes clear, endo on bowel, liver, bladder, left ovary, pouch of douglas)
December 2004 conceived naturally
Present - 29 weeks pregnant
EDD 1 September 2005!!!!!!!

I am very lucky that the laparoscopies worked for me.
Good luck all!!!!

Kylie


Me (33)
DH (37)
TTC #1 since 03/03
Lots of Endo,
2 x Lap,hyst,dyes 05/03 & 11/04
2 x M/C 10/03 9 wks, & 02/04 8 wks
2 x IUI 09/04 & 10/04 - BFN
BFP!!!! 24/12/04 EDD 1/9/05

This message was edited by Fraseky on Friday, 17 June 2005 @ 12:01 PM

I would just like to encourage everyone to continue posting your BFP Success Stats as they keep us feeling positive and hopeful.
So as you graduate with a BFP post your secrets of success they could help the rest of us still trying hard to achieve.

Melissa

Hi ladies,

I'd love to share my story with you'all. I don't really talk about it except with trusted friends however I know the birth of my daughter was a great inspiration to keep going on IVF for my 2 girlfriends going through it.

In '94 after 14 months of trying we discovered we were medically infertile and our only hope was IVF. After 17 attempts and 1 M/C (that was heartbreaking!!)
we concieved our daughter in March '02.

BFP Cycle Stats:
ICSI, FET, Down-reg Colarado C*cktail, 2 2 day embryos transferred. I eight cell -lost 1 cell at thaw, other 7 cell no cell loss.

This was my 2nd cycle with a natropath (specializing in fertility treatments) and my first with Colarado.

I had implantation bleeding prior to B/T for both pregs, that's what the reakon it was? Who knows! With our DD preg I also had spotting at wk5 and wk6.

We had another FET in April'04 basically same drug stuff, no natropath 2 damn dear! Bono Fide Nothing!

One of my girlfiends, mentioned in the first paragraph said to me she was rapt to hear I was preg b/c she felt it gave her extra hope and that's why I'm sharing. After nine years of crap it pulled thru for us and sometimes it was only sheer will and determination that keep me going. My advise for what it's worth is exhaust every avenue, ask a million questions, even really stupid ones if it makes you feel better and more informed.

Take it easy
Jules

This message was edited by jewlz on Saturday, 9 July 2005 @ 8:42 PM

Our story goes as follows:

Me at time of BFP - 28
DH at time of BFP - 34
dx - endo & mf (low morph)
7 clomid assisted cycles - all BFN!
5 IUI cycles with clomid - all BFN!
Two laps - Oct 2002 & Feb 2004
1st ivf cycle - started Nov 2003
Drugs - pergonal, clomid, progynova & cetrotide
Eggs retrieved - 5
Number fertilised - 3 but one stopped dividing
Number trfed - 2 on cd2 (ZIFT trf due to slow cleavers)
Prog pessaries to beta day - ended in BFN!!
2nd IVF Cyle - started April 2004
Drugs - menagon, fertomid 50 & progynova
Also increased amount of protein in my diet as well as drinking wheatgrass (ahhh the things we try!!)
Eggs retrieved - 9
Number fertilised - 7 but one stopped dividing
Number trfed - 2 blasts on cd5 (embrologist was soooo impressed by the quality of my embies she only wanted me to trf one. Our clinic does not have good FET rates &, as such, does not freeze the remaining embies. They do however monitor their progress further - of the 4 embies left, 3 made it to blasts of which 2 went on to hatch!)
Prog pessaries to beta day - ended in BFP!!Beta was 363 & then 2403 four days later!
Scan at seven weeks showed singleton! Now proud mummy to almost 6mth old little boy! (Pregancy very normal, baby born by emergency c-section because of fetal distress).

Good luck everybody!!

Love
Jenni

Hi Robyn
Congratulations! Its such wonderful news... I have similar problems to you, although I don't have ovarian cancer... but I do have endo and one ovarian working properly. Can you give me any suggestions as to how you looked after your body, say did you do something specific with your diet, or had a strict exercise regime.. Obviously you can see I'm trying to get some idea of our to prime my body for the best possible chance of conception.

And there seems to be so much waiting with endo. I had my first stimmulation cycle (unsuccessful) about 6 weeks ago and now have to wait for 2 periods to let my body get back to 'normal' before I can have a 2nd stimmulation.

Did you go through something similar?

Hope you can help.
Pepsi

33 years old
DH 37 years old
one unsuccessful stimulation cycle

I am currently pg (9wks 3d) after multiple attempts at assisted conception. Here is a summary and I'm happy for people to pm me with any questions:

May 04
IUI Clomid/No LP support
3 follicles/Spotting 10DPO - BFN

June 04
ICSI #1 Syneral/150 Puregon/1x Pregnyl Injection
2 days after transfer 3 eggs/3 embryos
2 transferred at day 3 / 1x frozen
Spotting 10DPO - BFN

July04
FET #1 Embryo didn’t survive thaw

August 04
ICSI #2 Syneral/350 Gonal-F/1 x Crinone gel daily from transfer
15 eggs/8 fertilised/3 embryos remaining at transfer (2 x 8 cell and 1x 4cell transferred at day 3 with embryo glue)
2 x frozen (6& 7 cell)
Spotting 10 DPO - BFN

September 04
FET #2 1x pessary daily from transfer
1 embryo transferred at 3 days - assisted hatching and embryo glue used
Spotting 12 DPO - BFN

November 04
ICSI #3 Syneral/300 Gonal -F/Cardipan, Prednisone and Crinone gel daily from ovulation/1x Pregnyl injection post transfer
10 eggs/3 fertilised/2 remain on day 3 and transferred - assisted hatching and embryo glue used.
Spotting 12 DP0 - BFN

Feb 05 ICSI #4 New Protocol
From CD 3 - 400 Gonal-F/Orgalutran injections/
Ovidrel for trigger/1 x Cardipan, Prednisone and Crinone Gel daily from EPU
10 eggs/9 suitable for injecting/7 fertilised.

Proceed to blastocyst stage.

On day 5 there were 3 blastocysts and 3 morulas. 2 x blast transferred (and hatched) /1 frozen (morulas not frozen)
Spotting 9-10 DPO - BFN

May 05 - Lap, D&C and Endometrial Biopsy. Lap and D&C clear but biopsy showed that while we had always been diagnosised as male factor only I appeared to have a delayed response in the receptivity of my endometrium, meaning that when embryos were being transferred, conditions may not be at there ideal for implantation.

May/June 05 IUI #2/FET #3
From ‘o’ 4 x pessaries daily/4 x provera daily/
1 x Cardiprin and Prednisone daily/3 x Pregnyl injections (2 before and 1 after transfer)

IUI preformed at ovulation and FET 1 x blastocyst performed at 10 DPO 6/6/05 (instead of the 'usual' 5 DPO).

My doc had never done this before and a 2nd opinion from another clinic confirmed that this was very unusual - but we did it anyway!)

16/6 HcG = 41
20/6 HcG = 256

Continuing - pessaries, provera, cardiprin and prednisone till 12 wks.

This is my AC journey and believe me I'm not out of the woods yet by any stretch but felt it was time to post this.

Good luck to each and every one of you in achieving your dream.

Ratty x

Hi Ratty

My name is Laney, I'm very new here. Was just wondering did they do your endo biopsy at any special time of the month??

I wish you much luck for your pregnancy..

Laney
Matt - March 02
~Paige & Amy~ - July 03
www.preciousbabyangels.com
Feb & Mar 05 � Cancelled cycles (poor response)
Apr 05 � Trans 2 Blasts � spotting 12 days post EPU - BFN
Jul 05 � Trans 2 x 5 cell/day 3 � AF � 18 days post EPU � BFN

Hi I just discovered this thread and although my story is nothing like the trials here I thought I'd share -
TTC 6 months before seeing Doc who refferred us to Specalist after seeing my DH test results which were hopeless Thankfully they got it wrong as our Doc reordered them. DH low motility, high count. Basically they needed a good stiff kick in the bum to do anything. Me - Cycle ranged from 21 to 38 days with erratic ovulation. Lap performed where it was discovered my left ovary was adhered to my abdominal wall so it was set free to do what it was meant to do. Small problems but still had no luck. I was put on clomid can't remember what dose and after 12 cycles we tried Artifical Insemination with only stim injection prior to ovulation.
BFP first go DS#1 Oct 2000
Decided to try again went straight to AI again same drugs same stim injection
BFP first go DS#2 Mar 2003
Apparently it dosen't happed very often to have positives first go both times we were chuffed
Miracle was concieved naturally and out of the blue
BFP DS#3 Oct 2004.
Our story is not nearly as heartbreaking as some but I just wanted you to know that even though we go through all of this to have these wonderful beings in our lives sometimes they deciede to come on their own.

Make sure you smile today,
Natalie

DS#1 Ryan 23/10/2000
DS#2 Liam 22/3/2003
DS#3 Conor 28/10/2004

Here is my info:

me: 33
DH: 50
High FSH
MF
4 x IUI 04 - Clomid/Gonal-f - BFN
Lap 08/04
1 x ICSI 11/04 - 400 Gonal-f, 2 eggs, 1 embie - BFP (200 hcg 14dpt)
M/C 01/05 - 10 wks D&C, Trisomy 9
2 x ICSI 04/05 - Cancelled
3 x ICSI 05/05 - Nat Cycle - 3 eggs, 1 embie BFN
4 x ICSI 06/05 - Flare - 450 Gonal-f, 7 eggs, 2 embies BFN
5 x ICSI 07/05 - Flare - 450 Gonal-f, 4 eggs, 1 embie BFP!!!!! (hcg 619 14dpt)

APRIL 1, 2006 - BEAUTIFUL BABY BOY BORN BY C-SECTION - 7lbs15oz!

This message was edited by 6749 on Monday, 8 August 2005 @ 2:40 PM

I felt like it was time for me to post here.

Me: 27
DH: 33

TTC #1 - 18 months. DD was conceived on Clomid cycle #6.

TTC#2
Tried 6 months naturally.
5 cycle of Clomid
HSG showed both tubes blocked.
LAP 07/04 showed tubes blocked but where able to be flushed clear.
5 more cycles of Clomid
2005 - 3 Gonal F IUI's - BFN
6/05 - IVF #1 - Long Down Reg - Synarel - 250iu Puregon - 25 eggs retrieved - 20 fertilised - 16 good quality. 2 x 3 day embies transferred (1x 8 cell & 1xcompacting). 14 x 8 cell embryos frozen.

BFP 16dp3td - BETA 269
23dp3dt - BETA 3130
30dp3dt - BETA 13150

Ultrasound at 7 weeks found 1 baby measuring 7w2d. Heartrate was 145.

Finally brave enough to post here as we have a heartbeat (8 weeks today)

IVF/ICSI #1

Syneral / 187.5 Gonal F
11 eggs retrieved
9 fertilised
2 grew to blast. Transferred one. Chemical pg.

FET #1: BFN

Transferred doctors within SIVF

IVF/ICSI #2
Lucrin / 187.5 Gonal F
10 eggs retrieved
4 fertilised
2 grew to very early blast. Transferred both. BFN

IVF/ICSI #3
Did D&C/ endometrial biopsy while downregulating with Lucrin.
Did immunology/karyotyping testing. Found blood clotting disorder.
Lucrin / 175 Puregon
17 eggs retrieved (2 with cracked zona)
15 ICSI'd
9 fertilised
Assisted hatching at 3 days
5 grew to blast- transferred two.

BFP!!

Beta at 16DPO: 615
18DPO: 1220
22DPO: 5900
26DPO: 18600
31DPO: 32850
39DPO:109000

Currently pregnant with singleton (note HcG levels are not necessarily indicative of multiples). Injecting anticoagulant Clexane daily and will continue Crinone 2x daily until the 10th week.

This message was edited by diva on Monday, 22 August 2005 @ 4:43 PM

1st IVF Cycle 08/04: Had Egg collection no transfer due to severe case of OHSS. Had 26 eggs collected 17 fertilised

2nd IVF - FET 11/04: On HRT support, Progynova and Progesterone pessaries as well as 5 Primogyn injections
1 Blastocyst transferred.BFN

3rd FEF 02/05 : HRT FET. Progynove and Progesterone pessaries as 5 Primogyn injections

1 Blastocyst transferred. BFN

Took a four month break and went on a cleansing diet and got very healthy,.

4th FET 07/05: HRT- Same as above.
1 Blastocyst Transferred. BFP

Currently 4 1/2 wks pregnant

HCG 2240 16dp5dt

Hope this helps someone:

(1) TTC "naturally" for 12 months - BFNs all the way

(2) lap/hyst/D&C - PCOS diagnosed + male factor

(3) ovulation induction with 50mg Clomid - BFN

(4) IVF/ICSI #1, May/June 2005, SIVF. "Down Reg" protocol. Synarel and 125iu Puregon. At ER had 43 follies, 39 eggs (35 fertilised). Freeze-all cycle due to OHSS. 10 Grade 1 blasts frozen.

(5) "Rest" cycle

(6) Medicated FET #1 (estrogen tablets and progesterone pessaries). Blast lost no cells in the thaw. One blast transferred. Tested + on HPTs two days before my Beta. Beta at 16DPO was 506.

Like Diva - I'm still hanging out for that heartbeat!

This message was edited by Flick72 on 16 August 2005 @ 4:51 PM

I felt it might help to post here - I'm still eargerly awaiting the heartbeat scan but reading everybody's positive outcomes certainly helps pass the time.
Started TTC in 2001 - 2 clomid cycles, 2 AIH, 1 lap discovered 1 blocked tube - told that only chance was IVF.
Changed doctors in 2002, 3 AIH with 3rd resulting in pregnancy - no problems apart from a little spotting in early days. Result: Very cute DS born in June 03.
Started trying again in April 03 (never really not tried ifykwim!).
1 AIH BFN
2 AIH BFP - M/C at 7wks
3 AIH BFP - M/C at 6wks
Conceived naturally straight after - M/C at 7 wks
4 AIH BFN
5 AIH BFN
Consulted another FS in Brisbane (we're from country QLD)
1st IVF/ICSI
225 Puregon
Cardiprim, Elevit etc.
14 Follies collected, 8 fertilised, 2 transferred (day 3)
5 frozen.
Mild OHSS - still bloated now.
LP support: a combination of crinone & pessaries + provera and pregnyl (although stopped this due to OHSS)
16dpt Beta of 470
20dpt Beta of 2600
Still not out of woods but am doing all that I can - still on pessaries (4/day) and 8 provera

Hope this helps!

TTC since March 03

1st Cycle
First pick up: 17 collected / 10 Fertilised (Hyper stimulated)
Transfered 6 embies over 4 FET's.
We tried a 3 day transfer with AH on prognova,a three day transfer on a natural cycle,2 day transfer on clomid and a 2 day transfer on a natural cycle. All with pesseries.
All BFN

2nd Cycle
Second pick up: 12 collected / 8 fertilised (Hyper stimulated again)
Transfer 1: natural cycle with pesseries. Transfered one fresh
Transfer 2: thawd reamining 7 to get as many to blasts as possible. 2 made it!! Took Clomid to get a regular cycle (32 days, usually 52!) transfered 2 blasts. - BFP!!!

Levels at 9 days post transfer were 145

Now 4 1/2 weeks

Hi

Me 39 - PCOS, Mod Endo, blocked tubes due to endo scars
DH 54 - failed vasectomy reversal.

2 x daily metformin for a month, then increased to 3 x daily when started IVF

Put on BCP. 2 weeks later - Lap, Hyst, D&C and op on mis-shapen uterus

Approx 5 weeks later started Lucrin and then 200U of puregon.

8 eggs,
5 fertalised
2 reached 5 day blasts.

both transfered (although SIVF dount like putting two back, they recommended it due to my (our!) age.

No frostiies.

Crinone support for 2 weeks.

BFP (OMG!) Beta was 305 from memory.

Really hope this helps, especially for the older chickies starting out.

7 weeks pg. Currently EDD is 19/4/06, but having first scan next week

Thanks you so much to all the wonderful words of wisdom for the wonderful ladies here.

L

Cant really believe i am posting here already...but here goes.

ICSI #1
PCOS and Dh irreversable vasectomy
Age 29 & 47
Metformin, then BCP, syranel, Puregon and Crinone.

Baseline scan showed over 80 follicles.
Started on 125iu puregon, because of ohss risk.
Scans showed no leading follicles at 14d. All were size 8mm or less.

Supervising nurse cancelled my cycle altogether.
Had appointment with FS three days later- to be told that there had been a massive mistake, and that i should not have been cancelled.

Bumped immediately onto 225iu because i was still down regulated.

Many scans later showed 70+ follicles, with 40+ over 10mm.
Obviously was in a lot of pain; very bloated etc. But drank LOTS of water (3-4lt per day) and stayed on the couch.

EPU 29eggs. 18 fertilised.

1 x 6day blast transfered.

4 x 6day blasts frozen, 3 x 7day blasts frozen.

BFP- beta 200.

Good luck to those still trying.

xxxxxx

Hi,

Thought I would finally post my success story.

We originally tried clomid for 2 months however, it didn't seem to be working and DH sperm count was low with significant numbers of abnormalities so the RE recommended ICSI.

Used pill to regulate cycle on all below attempts.

Our first attempt Sept 04, 200 Puregon + Synarel. Poor response even though we contined for 5 days longer. In the end we used half the pregnyl dose and tried naturally with no luck.

Second attempt Nov 04. 375 Puregon + Synarel.(short flare cycle due to synarel shortage) Initial ultrasound too few follicles. After another 4 days. EPU - 7 eggs, 5 fertlised. 1 fresh, 2 FET (Feb 05). BFN

Third Attempt April 05. 400 Puregon +Synarel. (contined with short flare as it worked the previous time). EPU - 7eggs, 4 fertilised. 2 fresh embryos transfered - BFP (single baby). Prior to this attempt I had joined the gym where I lost 6 kg. Also we got the transfer at a different centre due to the public holiday and they used ultrasound guided transfer. I had some difficulties at the start of the pregnancy (of course on a weekend) - if you get bleeding even if the emergency doctor tells you its a miscarriage continue with your pessaries etc until you have this confirmed by the clinic or ob. I had extremely heavy bleeding at 6 weeks and was told 100 percent miscarriage so stopped the pessaries, luckily I saw my gp who told me this was not right and to continue the pessaries until the miscarriage was confirmed by ultrasound and repeat HCG. I had the fantastic news that I was still pregnant with a live baby and since approx 16 weeks have not had any bleeding and all is well with baby at every one of the numerous ultrasounds. My ob tells me that bleeding is more common in IVF pregnancies, despite this many deliver healthy babies so never give up. I am okay with this now but was very traumatised at the time so felt you may benefit from the info. Good luck.





Naomi
ICSI#3 April 2005 BFP

Well, this is my story:

Fell pg young, at 19, to my bf at the time and we eloped. Went on to have 6 pregnancies from ages 19 to 25: 3 children, 2 terminations and a miscarriage (my second pg) at 9 weeks.

At 26, at my XH's insistence, had a tubal ligation. When we divorced in 2000 when I was 30, I immediately started looking for a surgeon to reverse the ligation. By the time I found one (in Singapore) I'd met and moved in with my now DH. The ligation was deemed very successful and we then tried naturally for 2 years.

When I finally got the courage up to see an FS after 2 years of trying without success, a HSG found my tubes completely scarred over. I had zero chance of falling pg naturally.

On to IVF:

1st cycle 100iu Puregon, got 6 eggs, 5 fertilised, 1 embryo trf at day 2 BFN

2nd cycle FET, 2 embryos trf at day 2 BFN, 1 frozen embryo left, all others succumbed.

3rd cycle 100iu Puregon, got 7 eggs. 6 fertilised, 2 embryos trf at day 2, BFN

4th cycle FET 2 embryos trf day 2 BFN, no embryos left, all remaining had succumbed.

5th cycle 100iu Puregon, cancelled due to poor response, only 3 immature follies after 10 days of stimming.

6th cycle 200iu Puregon, got 10 eggs, 5 fertilised, 2 embryos trf at day 2, BFN

7th cycle FET 2 embryos trf at day 3, with assisted hatching, BFN, no embryos left, all remaining had succumbed.

8th cycle, 200iu Puregon, got 10 eggs, 6 fertilised, 3 made it to blast, 2 trf at day 5, and I'm now almost 13 weeks pg to a singleton!

love
sushee