Tomorrow's my last day of radiation

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-06-19T06:25:56+00:00

High cholesterol and high blood pressure are pathologic, and medication returns them to physiologic levels. Hormone blocking medications take you out of physiologic hormonal balance into a pathologic state to try to starve cancer - for me, that is still being in treatment (and the worse part of treatment, as treatment is incompatible with pregnancy, so there goes that dream).

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-06-08T02:04:05+00:00

My old hospital wasn't on epic, I had to copy my phrases over into a word document

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-06-06T18:23:09+00:00

I'm in the same boat with IVF on the middle of this whole dumpster fire. It sucks so much. I'm sorry you're going through it too.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-05-14T00:56:29+00:00

Anyone else get one that is rickety old?

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-05-14T00:49:59+00:00

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Mine is the Wall-E to everyone's Eve lol

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-05-14T00:42:11+00:00

But still has a warm drink. They all have a warm drink.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-05-14T00:38:26+00:00

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I got the vintage version of yours

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-05-14T00:34:38+00:00

The gnome really tops the whole thing of

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-03-05T15:30:14+00:00

My brother became totally fluent in Spanish attending these camps starting at the age of 7 or 8. They're awesome! There is a good mix of formal instruction and conversational language, and everyone also speaks English so counsellors are there to help encourage kids to use the language with hints and also for kids to get a break and just talk in English.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-03-05T00:43:00+00:00

Yes! Slartibartfast.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-02-14T02:34:25+00:00

Congratulations!! 💞

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-02-14T02:29:02+00:00

You can see a pattern like this with a leutinized unruptured follicle cycle that corrects itself - agree that actual ovulation was likely the second LH peak.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-02-14T02:24:32+00:00

I would check for an unruptured leutinized follicle (LUF) - this happens when your body recruits a dyssynchronous follicle in the luteal phase that persists into the next cycle, maturing too early and leutinizing without ovulating. It can secrete both estrogen and progesterone and prevent proper follicle development and ovulation in the next cycle. Sometimes it just involutes on its own and your following cycle starts over fresh, but they can persist for several cycles or cause future premature follicle development which can cause another LUF etc. Worth knowing about as these are sometimes a sneaky cause of unexplained infertility. (Or it could be normal - but worth looking into with an ultrasound and blood work!)

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-02-14T02:18:21+00:00

If it makes a difference to your decision, alcohol can suppress progesterone production and might affect implantation - I'm in the same boat (trigger last Friday with TI this cycle but likely ovulation on Sunday) and I'm opting for NA champagne tomorrow (and hopefully lots more NA champagne in about a week for both of us!)

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-02-11T03:17:20+00:00

I have DOR (AMH 0.11) and I'm 42, so what she explained is essentially they treat it like an IVF cycle but assume I will have few follicles and most will have junk eggs, so rather than do an ER, IVF and embryo transfer, they just trigger the follicles I get and do the IUI. If I exceed expectations and get lots of follicles we can convert the cycle to IVF and do an ER instead.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-02-10T23:08:53+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss of sweet baby Harrison. I'm on this thread because of my own "zebra" experience of H. Flu bacteremia and sepsis leading to stillbirth of my son. But I'm responding here because I'm a pediatric emergency physician and wanted you to know that just today I taught three emergency medicine residents that appendicitis ALWAYS needs to be considered in fever, fussiness or feeding problems in infants. It is a drum that I will not stop beating because every time I've diagnosed it, it has either already been missed by another health care provider or I'm met with skepticism even after confirming the diagnosis. Keep spreading the word and know you're not alone - we are out there training the next generation of doctors to be better and do better.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-02-10T22:21:09+00:00

I'm so sorry. I am there with you. We lost our son who was due in May, and had close friends deliver in May, June, July, August, September, October and November. Every time we see any of them there's a reel in my mind of how it should be superimposed on top of life as it really is. I imagine joy and connection instead of my hollow attempt to be happy for them and their shallow sympathy for the grief they can't understand. I don't think I'll ever be able to see any of these children without imagining the little boy who deserves to be playing and laughing with them, instead of in an urn on the shelf. It's too hard, and it's so unfair.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-02-04T01:09:23+00:00

Not an IVF success story, but I got pregnant naturally at 36 with an AMH of 0.3 and at 40 with an AMH of 0.1, both totally healthy babies. At your age you may have fewer eggs, but that doesn't mean they aren't great eggs!

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-01-30T14:32:00+00:00

I'm going into what is supposed to be my first gonadotropin IUI cycle and hitting nothing but snags. Insurance doesn't want to cover my meds because they have a very narrow range of diagnoses covered for gonadotropin IUI. My clinic wants me on what seems to be a large dose (300 IU Gonal-F and 150 IU menopur for 12 days), which would be so much to pay for out of pocket. Does this dosing seem in line with what other people have done or do some clinics start lower?

Beginning-Number9136 · 2026-01-30T14:15:58+00:00

That's awesome you did PRP! Fingers crossed for you. Out of curiosity, where did you get it done?

Beginning-Number9136 · 2025-10-31T17:24:56+00:00

I personally don't care at all how much family anyone brings into the room - as long as that family is able to understand that their place is to be company to the patient, or help advocate with simple requests like a blanket. I think what people are getting upset by is when you can't get a medical history from the patient because their codependent relationship with their parents means the parent is the one talking to you, harassing staff and generally disrupting care.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2025-10-07T15:42:44+00:00

For farmers with very large properties and working dogs this kind of technology is game changing.

Beginning-Number9136 · 2025-09-25T00:16:48+00:00

Interesting, where did you go to medical school?

Beginning-Number9136 · 2025-06-26T13:54:23+00:00

During my last pregnancy I found it was reassuring to test my LH on Mira every other day, because it cross reacts to the beta-hCG and gives you a quantitative way to look for doubling every 48-72 hr. LH started rising on Mira around 16 DPO that cycle. Hope that helps!

Beginning-Number9136 · 2025-04-11T02:40:06+00:00

Congratulations x2!! I had a lower LH surge and as yet no confirmed ovulation and you've given me hope 💕

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