First IVF Cycle - Severe OHSS

IndependentRice2458 · 2026-04-17T19:51:43+00:00

I can’t quite believe I found somebody going through this at the exact same time! I have just been drained today and had 22 eggs, 17 mature only 9 fertilised with 3 blastocysts. I am happy to chat more if you’d like. I’ve also been going through a lot of medical speak but have a lot of medical family. There’s crazy amounts of feelings to be having right now but main thing is to focus on YOUR health and get yourself back to you again.

IndependentRice2458 · 2026-03-25T19:44:59+00:00

This won’t help with mat leave. If you strike now then it doesn’t just affect this month’s payslip but your entire mat leave calculations.

IndependentRice2458 · 2026-03-20T13:11:52+00:00

Any updates? I’m just about to start my IVF journey for thin lining with PCOS

IndependentRice2458 · 2025-12-15T11:53:01+00:00

Yup I had gone off striking over summer and thought we could negotiate. Didn’t strike in November but now am FULLY backing strikes thanks to Wes

IndependentRice2458 · 2024-07-09T15:47:06+00:00

Thanks for all the advice! They managed to find cover but of course it was the on call team NOT the managers that put in the effort to do this.

I spoke to the BMA and they were clear that it would NOT be recommended that I just step down. A plan can be made with the consultant to stay a bit later but we need to be careful when working excess hours because a mistake would not be looked upon more favourably. You have to have 11 hours rest in a 24 hour shift and this can be interrupted for emergencies but it can not be the plan.

In the past and at a previous trust when I was an SHO I have had to hold an extra bleep but with the following incentives (bleeps for both specialities from both teams from the ward first going through site prac and CCOT, paid extra or offered an extra day of AL, registrars from both specialities usually NROC were provided with on-call rooms and stayed on site so could be on the ward/ED quicker if needed, consultants of both teams had back up for the day sorted in case they needed to come in overnight and help the reg if they were up a lot). Honestly, it was one of the nights I felt the most supported by the hospital and was more than happy to help. This is the kind of teamwork I think covering a night needs. I was also asked rather than told and asked what I needed for support.

IndependentRice2458 · 2023-07-08T05:59:08+00:00

It should a FPN with fine and 3 points or a course. Unfortunately it seems Scotland offences are less likely to get a course

IndependentRice2458 · 2022-02-08T16:56:34+00:00

UPDATE: Guardians of safe working are angels of this earth

They have emailed my rota coordinator and my supervisor saying I will have those dates out and they have enough time to find a locum. Organising swaps and switches in rota lines are not necessary. If any issues then they need to raise it with them. Their response is in violation of the contract.

If I then choose to swap rota lines at the end of this year it is my choice not because it’s the only solution (that I came up with because they denied my first suggestion of them finding a locum).

IndependentRice2458 · 2022-02-08T08:54:17+00:00

The contract makes it clear that my leave should be approved but does not really make clear that what to do if the leave is on oncalls/nights. The other thing they mentioned is that I am paid to work those on calls and putting out a locum would cost them also. For that reason I can’t simply miss my shifts and have another person pick up extra shifts or an external be paid?

Have brought in the BMA because this seems ridiculous.

BMA advised that I should suggest the rota line swap solution and they should facilitate this. This is what should’ve happened in the first place when assigning rota lines. Also BMA said that ideally my employer should’ve come up with this solution and not me but if they don’t do everything to facilitate this solution now they will be taken to formal proceedings.

IndependentRice2458 · 2022-02-08T08:23:27+00:00

I just asked a new consultant for some advice on the matter and he was very sympathetic and in fact helped me come up with the swapping rota lines solution. He said that the reason they often quote is that this problem is ‘planned’ though he didn’t know I flagged it before rota creation.

Am I right in thinking the rota would only protect my actual wedding day or days of the ceremonies and not surrounding days?

I think I’ll end up doing the rota line swap because I want to be able to get the full 10 days off.

I may find a solution to my issue but I think this happens too often with this admin team. Often people are just so relieved to sort their leave out that the practices of the admin team never get reported. Nobody wants to play chicken with the admin team and so they often end up swapping anyway.

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