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really would like some advice.....
hi,
me and my partner are starting the IVF icsi treatment soon, totally scared and excited, whats it like? what are the chances of it happening first time?
please help someone...
han
xx
me and my partner are starting the IVF icsi treatment soon, totally scared and excited, whats it like? what are the chances of it happening first time?
please help someone...
han
xx
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Im on the waiting list for IVF.. which can take years!!
XX
welcome! I think its normal to feel scared and excited! I am just in the egg stimulating phase of my 1st ICSI. I used injections to downregulate - they werent too bad to do and i got used to them after a while. They did make me quite tired and hormonal and a bit headachey.
Now I have to continue with the downreg injections, but also use another injection called gonal f, so thats two injections a day! Feel like a bit of a pincushion, but hopefully it's all worth it in the end. These injections have made me feel more normal again!
It really hasnt been too bad so far, The most annoying thing is having to go into your clinic regularly to be monitored, and also the 'ups and downs; of each part of the cycle, for example I had to down regulate for an extra week as my lining wasnt thin enough and it just felt like a other set back. But in some ways this 1st cycle has been exciting.
There is a site called fertility friends which I think is great as there are lots of women going though ivf with even threads for specific clinics. It also has a section of ivf/icsi diaries which are useful to read.
Mrs cupcake - icsi is basically the same as ivf, its just the way they fertilise the eggs thats different. They inject the sperm into the egss rather than mixing it with the eggs, so I would go for this, but I cant work out why you would have to wait for ivf but not icsi. Are you mixing it up with IUI?
Hope this helps and good luck xx
is that you from lttc?
we started down reg injections on boxing day and they are fine. Got our baseline scan on jan 17th(theycouldnt fit us in before)so cant really tell you any more at the mo.
Success rates depend on many things, inc clinic, age, reason for having ivf/icsi etc your clinic should help you further. what clinic you using? x
it is normal to feel scared but it s a really exciting time.
a really good book to read would be The Complete Guide to IVF: An Inside View of Fertility Clinics and Treatment by kate brian (2009)
it explains everything step by step. and its really cheap on amazon xx
it helped to answer some of my questions.
also my clinic is the same about IVF and ICSI, icsi has no waiting list but IVF has a 2 yr wait xx not sure why !!!
The thing with the IVF/ICSI at our clinic, whilst on the waiting list for IVF, you can self fund for ICSI, which costs a tenth of IVF, We really couldnt afford to self fund IVF, but ICSI is do-able.
Im just a little bit scared of how invasive it all is, and everything we have to go through, physically and emotionally. I know that its helping s towards our dream little bundle... but it frustrates me to think, that there are soo many couples out there that think its the "easiest" thing in the world to fall preg!!
XX
i know what you mean about everyone else falling preg at the drop of a hat, its so frustrating isnt it? still, this year WE ARE GOING TO GET PREGNANT!!!!
xx
Thats fabby news... bet ure thrilled eh?? XX
wishing you the best of luck - would love to know where you are doing ICSI at 10th of the price of IVF - were on round 2 of ICSI and its over ??1000 more expensive to do ICSI that IVF in Surrey! about ??4500 (before drugs)
xxx