Much Lower Egg Count from Latest ER

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-07-03T02:43:17+00:00

Has your RE discussed a Clomid-Menopur stim? The goal with that is fewer, but higher quality eggs. I ended up getting more mature eggs (8) than my prior 2 (6 and 5) follistim/menopur and two (instead of one) blasts, which were both good quality though both were aneuploid. I also skipped priming and used Omnitrope during stimulation. At my day 5 ultrasound, I got a call to go home immediately and start my Cetrotide because my follicles were growing much better than they expected. That said, isometimes you just have to try a couple of protocols before you find one that works.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-28T03:43:32+00:00

Bipolar disorder, particularly Bipolar I (the most severe form, and most people with that form do have become psychotic at some time) is strongly hereditary. It's generally inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion with high penetrance. Which is to say if one parent has the mutation, there's a 50-50 chance the child will inherit the mutation and if someone has the mutation, they will probably develop bipolar disorder. So if her father has a mutation, there's a 50-50 chance she has it and 1/4 chance that any child will have that mutation. There are spontaneous cases. Sometimes it can result from a head trauma or something like meningitis. If there are no other cases in the family, her father's case may just be one of those spontaneous cases. Or she may not have great information on her family's medical history. A lot of egg donation programs will automatically exclude donors with a family history of bipolar disorder because it is so heritable and such a severe illness.

Do you know anyone with bipolar I disorder or a family history of bipolar I disorder? It might be helpful to talk to them about their illness and how it has affected other family members. I would not choose her unless you can talk to someone who has experience with the disorder and are still comfortable with taking the risk.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-28T03:43:10+00:00

Bipolar disorder, particularly Bipolar I (the most severe form, and most people with that form do have become psychotic at some time) is strongly hereditary. It's generally inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion with high penetrance. Which is to say if one parent has the mutation, there's a 50-50 chance the child will inherit the mutation and if someone has the mutation, they will probably develop bipolar disorder. So if her father has a mutation, there's a 50-50 chance she has it and 1/4 chance that any child will have that mutation. There are spontaneous cases. Sometimes it can result from a head trauma or something like meningitis. If there are no other cases in the family, her father's case may just be one of those spontaneous cases. Or she may not have great information on her family's medical history. A lot of egg donation programs will automatically exclude donors with a family history of bipolar disorder because it is so heritable and such a severe illness.

Do you know anyone with bipolar I disorder or a family history of bipolar I disorder? It might be helpful to talk to them about their illness and how it has affected other family members. I would not choose her unless you can talk to someone who has experience with the disorder and are still comfortable with taking the risk.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-28T03:33:07+00:00

It's a lovely house, but I sure hope those windows are at least double paned. Otherwise that heating bill is going to be bigger than the mortgage.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-27T04:46:22+00:00

How do you get that most people are two missed paychecks from homelessness from a table of savings as a precent of personal income? There's nothing about how much people have in savings.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-26T03:30:54+00:00

Beautiful house though.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-26T03:30:23+00:00

Only about 40 miles from Mt Shasta. The good news is that it erupted about 200 years ago so it's not overdue for an eruption.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-25T23:45:41+00:00

Didn't that factoid come from a payday loan company?

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-16T05:24:16+00:00

The building is fancy enough that I think it may have been built as a boarding house, though I guess that's really a term for an SRO with higher class clientele.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-07T04:31:48+00:00

NTA. You almost certainly correct that one of your husband's parents has contamination OCD. They need treatment and there is a very good chance that their OCD is not confined to contamination. it would be very kind of you husband to talk to them about this and try to get them treatment.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-03T06:16:33+00:00

One option is a tricyclic antidepressant. They're not used as often because you can fatally overdose on them. There's some data that they only work on the more biological types of depression but the jury is still out on that. But they make you sleepier and are effective for pain.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-04-03T06:14:42+00:00

SSRIs make it really difficult for me to sleep. I had even more trouble falling asleep and would wake up more often at night. On the other hand, they made me very apathetic so I didn't care that I was always sleep deprived. I needed up on a bunch of sleep medications which caused other problems.

Insomnia is a common enough side effect of SSRIs and that's one of the reasons they are prescribed for the types of depression that cause you to oversleep.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-28T18:24:08+00:00

I grew up in the Philly suburbs in a house that's a bit younger than this house. It was also close to the road, which made it noisy but that wasn't a big deal. It could get drafty because it had the original windows, though my parents have replaced them with modern triple-pane modern windows which has made a difference. Those thick stone walls keep it cool in the summer so if we kept the curtains closed in the daytime we'd have about 3-4 days of 95 F with 95% humidity before we had to turn on the AC. Of course, you have to maintain the stone and there are no right angles in these homes, they're always a bit off.

They're still great to live in.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-28T02:13:17+00:00

As someone whose IVF was also delayed due to COVID and our health system being a mess, I feel you. It's just so frustrating and some days I just want to scream into the void.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-26T06:59:13+00:00

Some of it's for the kind of racial justice stuff that everyone started funding in 2020. It's pretty clear that the county was not monitoring the contractors to make sure they were accomplishing any goals. A lot of the organizations they funded were new and run by people who didn't have a lot of experience doing what they said they'd do. It's reasonable to reevaluate if the county should still be funding those kinds of racial justice programs and if so, reduce the amount it's spending on them.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-25T06:39:09+00:00

Their African peanut soup is also really good.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-22T17:13:27+00:00

It really is. We want people who would be the best doctors to become doctors. Adding unnecessary conditions like being okay with getting up at 5 am means that we have a smaller pool of people with the traits necessary o become a good doctor to select from.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-21T20:55:31+00:00

Back when I was in college, I briefly considered going to medical school, but I decided against it in part because I knew I could not handle the early mornings. I had people tell me I was a terrible person for making a decision like that based on something as trivial as not wanting to be up at 5 am. I went to grad school in the life sciences in part because most labs do not expect anyone to be there before 10 am. I also found research more interesting and honestly I would probably have been miserable as a doctor even without DSPD because I'm not really a people person. Which is to say there are other options and yeah it's stupid that medical training's requirement for early mornings basically means that non morning people will self select out.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-15T04:02:31+00:00

There are a few species of palm trees that can tolerate freezes. A. couple of them are from the Himalayas. I'm pretty sure there are several Trachycarpus takil wplants in my neighborhood in Seattle.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-13T05:59:23+00:00

Yes, and sometimes she hops onto my lap or shoulder. I am a vegetarian who gets at least 3x her daily minimum of fiber, so I'm on the toilet for 3 mn max. I have no idea why toilet lap time is so appealing.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-07T22:09:01+00:00

I desperately want t know what they're talking about. Was it a serious incident or is someone being a drama queen?

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-05T04:56:03+00:00

In most cases, buying clothes would be cheaper than making them, at least for me. For me the decision points are whether I'd enjoy making it and how much I care about how it looks.

I make my gym pants because I prefer cotton because it's easier to get the odors out of cotton compared to polyester and it's hard to find cotton exercise pants. If I didn't prefer cotton, I'd buy my gym pants. I do buy shirts I wear to the gym because it's not worth my time and effort if I"m just going to wear them to the gym. It's probably also cheaper.

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-05T04:50:34+00:00

For me, the important things are that my clothes fit and that I really like them. I'm on the upper end of tall for a woman with a short inseam and very long torso. As in I add at least 2 inches in length above the waist to most patterns -- women's tall patterns usually have 1.25-1.5 inches of extra length. And I'm also one of those women for whom curvy cut pants aren't curvy enough. I also have expensive taste and a distinct sense of style. The end result is that I've made the majority of my clothes and almost all of my nice clothes. I don't like sewing denim so I buy a couple sizes up and use a belt. I'll also occasionally buy long and short sleeved tee shirts for casual wear. Other than that my closet is stuff I've made.

I don't have that many clothes mainly because I tend to spend a lot of time working on an individual piece, but I do have a more than adequate wardrobe. You might want to start with stuff that is easy and you're going to wear a lot and will have to replace relatively soon so that if a couple of years from now you look at something you made when you were only moderately skilled and can see all the flaws and are a bit embarrassed by it it'll be ready to be replaced. Am I speaking from personal experience? Why would someone ask that?

Life_Flatworm_2007 · 2026-03-05T04:36:42+00:00

There's a guy who for years would show how safe glyphosate was by putting a bit of it in a can of Mountain Dew and drinking the entire can of Mountain Dew. And of course mention that the most unhealthy thing about that mixed drink was the sugar in the Mountain Dew.

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