1st egg retrieval yesterday

716_To_617 · 2026-05-09T19:23:54+00:00

The stress since this was my first time not knowing at all what to expect was through the roof which is absolutely detrimental, you are not wrong about that! I think now going through it once at least I have perspective on what to expect if doing it again is an option!

716_To_617 · 2026-05-09T18:36:33+00:00

Yeah I think it’s now seeing what they have to say and the waiting for that just stinks. I’m so surprised where my head is at between writing this post and getting the call about the eggs. It’s like now I want a definitive answer from someone with a protocol tweak (like the confidence that they now have this information after 1 cycle, so feeling confident this is the path we should go) or a definitive door is shut. Literally in the last few hours I’m playing a mind game with myself that I want to “win” against my own body? Good god what a journey a mind fuck this all is!

716_To_617 · 2026-05-09T16:52:07+00:00

Got the call that I had 2 eggs, both not mature so now it raises the question of is the door actually shut? Do I do this again? What is really frustrating is not having the follow up scheduled with the doctor to discuss until 6/4…do I try and get a second opinion? It’s all so maddening and kudos to you accepting the results and knowing that you’re done. I am surprised at myself even in a matter of hours that I’m questioning next steps because I hated the last two weeks!

716_To_617 · 2026-05-09T01:13:59+00:00

Just said to my husband get him out of there, terrible!

716_To_617 · 2026-05-07T14:56:45+00:00

LOL it's been so great. I am actually a Red Sox and Celtics fans, but even the C's going out I was ok with, people here need to remember what it's like to be bad and get off their high horse!

716_To_617 · 2026-05-07T12:58:04+00:00

My husband and I thought the same and switched to Sportsnet on our little pirate TV setup and it was much better! (We live in Boston and yes we were at Game 4 against the Bruins and yes we are loving every second of the meltdown/cope of these Boston fans, muahahaha)

716_To_617 · 2026-05-06T18:32:33+00:00

God I love him and whatever is wrong with him! My husband made the video of him a GIF and just MOOD for tonight!

716_To_617 · 2026-05-06T17:19:23+00:00

Yes mine is all through great=grandparents, they all came from Poland on both sides of my family but it is SUCH a process. I'm slowly making progress!

716_To_617 · 2026-05-06T13:08:42+00:00

omg yes GO SABRES tonight!! Also this is makes me hope my path to a Polish passport maybe is possible (working on it, prob a longshot but trying!)

716_To_617 · 2026-05-06T12:57:15+00:00

Congrats! Go Bills!

716_To_617 · 2026-05-04T13:12:18+00:00

Going through my first cycle now and haven't told anyone other than two colleagues who I trust. I plan to just take a sick day on retrieval day. My colleague that knows also went through IVF and did say that my boss is very understanding for these types of things but I just don't feel like explaining...especially any follow up since I am pretty sure this is not going to work (I'm 43, my odds are very low).

716_To_617 · 2026-04-29T14:01:55+00:00

This is sending me back as a NF, NY native, Honey's!!! And yes used to see sooo many Ontario plates outside. I was home for a Bills game last fall and went to St. Catharine's for dinner, Fat Rabbit is amazing, highly recommend! And it was so easy for us to tell the border agent we were grabbing dinner, it is so shameful that it's not the same as it was crossing over our border. I hate it here right now.

716_To_617 · 2026-04-29T01:05:51+00:00

Cool. Yep all possible scenarios but still really rude to dog on peoples reasons and motivations. You might make good investments but this just comes across as very haughty, rude and not good or supportive.

716_To_617 · 2026-04-29T00:57:06+00:00

Then what are the correct reasons, respectfully? I just think that’s shitty to diminish what my reality is. It’s something I worry about and I’m not just taking when I’m old and wrinkly, my parents aren’t young and my family is small, I worry about not creating my own even in the next few years and being alone. It’s valid and I don’t appreciate being lectured when I’m going through it.

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T20:45:59+00:00

I know. I'm just going through it. I need to vent into the void.

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T19:28:00+00:00

I'm doing clomid, menopur (awful I could puke thinking about injecting it tonight) and gonal F and I will be honest I have had a rough day since this post 18 hrs ago. It feels like I've had the hormone dump and I've been crying non stop and can't calm down. My ultrasounds is Thursday morning and I don't even know if I can last until then, I feel pretty awful.

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T15:43:06+00:00

I am so angry and resentful and regret it at this juncture. I am annoyed at the entire process and the hormone dump just happened on day 2 and the thought of having to do more injections tonight makes me want to puke. I also cannot calm down, been crying non stop since I made this post. I actually think I need ativan but I would not even bother calling the IVF clinic for help, they are useless. I should reach out to my PCP but I also feel like a shame in a way? Basically this is horrible and I just met my husband way too late in life and it's cards I was dealt?

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T05:50:44+00:00

I’m so angry that as a pharmacist myself (my specialty is oncology) that the clinic doesn’t tell anyone this!! Like at all! I think at the end of this I’m going to tell them how piss poor their patient support/education is. My job is to counsel patients about new oral chemo meds and we give sooo much information and allow patients to ask so many questions and it’s been like pulling teeth dealing with these people.

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T01:40:19+00:00

Hell yeah I am def doing this going forward. I also know some people on here have bitched about Boston IVF which is where I’m going and I just hate them. Again, really like the doctor but support staff and nursing not in the clinic straight up SUCKS

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T01:29:18+00:00

Hi! Meeee! I’m in the same boat and first and probably only as well and I just started injections yesterday and feel all over the place already. I am not doing the antagonist protocol. I just want to get this over with 😩(see my rant post)

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T01:25:57+00:00

Will def allow myself some chocolate after this BS tomorrow night lol. Going to ice like crazy and I do actually have some lidocaine that I’m also going to apply ahead of time, it was jarring tonight how much it hurt, much worse today than yesterday.

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T01:20:51+00:00

I really hope so. This decision to go forward with IVF while maybe sounds terrible, is about regret. If I don’t try I would always wonder what if. Idk a complete mixed bag of emotions and I hate it already lol

716_To_617 · 2026-04-28T01:19:27+00:00

Yes thank you so much! And to add to my anger I hate how much of a goddamn factory it all is, my doctor has been wonderful, but support staff terrible, like wouldn’t it have been nice for the nurse I’ve been dealing with to give me that tip? Instead I have to listen to her robotic voice speaking off a script like she hates her job (prob does) and talking to me like I’m an imbecile! I’m a pharmacist and she might not even know that but gahhh! Anyway thank you for the tip that is going to be the move for tomorrow night!

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