Fertility Treatment with monitored cycles

Hi girls,

Seeing as there a few groups going on I thought it would be easier to make one group that we can all share our thoughts, experiences and Monitored cycles with FA?

Icecream I was hoping you would join in

How many cycles on clomid did you do?

I did 5 and now have moved onto taking metformin to help with pcos and letrozole from tomorrow cd3 to cd7. I wished I had have gotten a bit firmer with how I wanted to proceed. I really got annoyed last week when no one called me back etc about changing drugs I just want it to work like we all do. After numerous emails, and discussions finally I have gotten somewhere lol

What is OFS?
That is good to have a friend go through the same thing, will make asking questions etc easy and you will get a true answer

Thanks Monkeys! I have had 5 monitored cycles with them and the most recent cycle felt very un-monitored.
I went for a bloods test on a Tuesday, went for a scan on the Thursday they never said if I was "fertile" then had bloods done on the Friday never got called to say things were heating up. I did a opk and it was positive so made sure we BD'd that night etc. Then went in on the Saturday and they said ohhh the big follicle has gone you have ovulated. Felt like a waste of a 42 day cycle and money!!
That's why this time im firm in what I want with treatment etc.

That is good you got a bfp on unmonitored cycle but very sad how it ended :(

How are you now? where are you at?

hey Icecream! You have PCOS too don't you? Maybe its worth a go in asking about it too!
Ohh lol sorry blonde moment haha!
All of my rounds monitored were blood tests and scans and then they say when to BD!
Its $295 per cycle..

When do you start your IUI? That is exciting!

Hi ladies, hope you odn't mind me popping in here. Brownie, it's interesting what you say about your monitored cycles. I have just dont three rounds of Clomid and this last one I got my BFP, as you already know didn't end well, but it was the one cycle I thought to BD at a different time to what FA said cause I think they were missing it. I would have BT say on a Sun, scan on Mon or Tues and they would text me to say good time for BD is next 4 days.. which usually took me to Friday, but I think I didn't OV till Sun/Mon and just think this last time BD'ing closer to when "I thought" OV was, may have done the trick. I say trust your instincts aswell ladies. I have kinda felt like at $295 a cycle more should be done though. It feels like to me, they have given me three rounds, and just left me to it - see what happens kind of thing. No appointments with the specialist in between... only now that I've had my 4th early MC, and clomid hasn't worked.

I am very interested to know how my next appointment with them is going to go on Thursday? What will be next? Just hoping for the price we pay them, that it's all going to eventually be worth it!

Thanks Brownie, I will definately be pushing for something else to be done this time. They can't really plam it off too much now that this has happened 4 times!
Good on you for making yourself heard. What are you doing now to help your UT lining? Every scan I went to they said I had a nice thick lining which makes this more confusing!

I'm trying to do ok. Just really really down. Have major moments of sadness and am trying to be a bit more upbeat at work - and it's not easy. Had a great chat to my boss today (I've known her for a long time, and she's aware of our struggles) and she made a good point by saying, that I should start to "see my next baby" rather then the process of getting it. Visualise myself surrounded by my DD and a new bubba, little parts of having a baby again. Instead of always visualising and always thinking about the process and whether it will happen or not, put visuals in my head of what my baby will look like etc rather than thinking all the time that it's not going to happen - the mind is a powerful thing.

She has a friend that once a long time ago was diagnosed with cancer at 17 and she decided not to have treatment, and went overseas on a trip and kept "visualising" herself digging her cancer out of her body, visualising herself old and grown. Her cancer went away and has never come back - she's now in her late 40's! That story really inspired me to maybe start having a different mind set about this all.

So I'm going to try be a bit more positive.... try really hard LOL