Hello and welcome to the Fairfax Cryobank Family Forum!
The forum has a new look and the Fairfax Team is so excited to create the best experience for our users.
To Note:
Private Donor Groups and Private Sibling Connection Groups are now located under the category "Groups". Search the donor number in the search box and you should find exactly what you're looking for!
Questions about your forum access? Email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
Follow these steps to join a private donor group:
1) Press "Join" at the right of the group
2) Once prompted to confirm your request please list this information so we can verify your information:
Name (under which the vial was purchased)
Email
Clinic Name
Donor number
Child Date of Birth
*If you are looking to start a private group for a PRS donor please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com with the above information and that you are looking for a PRS group*
If you have any questions about the verification process please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
The forum has a new look and the Fairfax Team is so excited to create the best experience for our users.
To Note:
Private Donor Groups and Private Sibling Connection Groups are now located under the category "Groups". Search the donor number in the search box and you should find exactly what you're looking for!
Questions about your forum access? Email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
Follow these steps to join a private donor group:
1) Press "Join" at the right of the group
2) Once prompted to confirm your request please list this information so we can verify your information:
Name (under which the vial was purchased)
Clinic Name
Donor number
Child Date of Birth
*If you are looking to start a private group for a PRS donor please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com with the above information and that you are looking for a PRS group*
If you have any questions about the verification process please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
Comments
I totally agree with you. This is your life, hour journey and your money so you need to be the boss. You are doing a great job of taking charge and I am 100% behind you being a demanding pain in the ass if you have to as long as you get what you want. I'm a pharmacist and have a ton of respect for nurses but make sure they know what you want. I love my clinic, doctor and nurses and wish everyone has as good of an experience as I do!!
I decided to set up my pregnancy test party both to have support from my friends and make sure I don't test early!! Next Saturday will be day 14 post IUI
It sounds like fun and going to keep you accountable for not peeing the stick premature!
Kisses
@Brandy1550 Monday will put me at 12 dpiui so I might test then but I am feeling discouraged. My life is really stressful right now and I don't know if I can handle seeing another neg hpt. So I might wait until beta on wed... but I have said that before and tested...Last time I tested at 9 dpiui knowing it would be BFN but wanted to get it over with so I wouldn't be disappointed.
I can sympathize with a few of you on the RE. I love our RE, but we are really just another patient. I may push harder on some things this try as we are quickly running out of funds. Our only saving grace is that we are almost at our deductible for the year and our measly 2K of fertility coverage will finally kick in where we will only have to pay 10% plus the sperm. I hope we don't have to go that far though.
Sleep well ladies, and everyone keep your chins up. It will work out for all of us eventually. Tchau.
Tina
IPosh and POT03003, I am so sorry this was not the month. I'm new here, so I don't know how long you guys have been trying. But even one BFN is discouraging.
I head in this morning for my blood work, so we will see what happens.
Good luck all that are testing today.
Chantilly- I had a false positive blood. On my first blood test it came back over 1000, then the two following were in the 0.82 range so I was so upset. So this month I'm waiting to test and have a missed period even with a late period this month.
Pot- if you buy and ship the tanks and say only use one you can ship it back to the bank. I did it in june when I missed my ovulation. I normally get a two week tank and when I didn't use it I shipped it back before the two weeks. The bank just sends the office a fax with instructions on how to return. I don't even think I paid anything.
Btw. I'm making the call now to tell my office I want to do piggy back iui's this month! Wish me luck on their response. Well telling instead instead of asking is the better approach. I'm such an annoying patient!!
Chantilly, I'm in Canada too!
As for my results, I still haven't heard...
Kisses
@dani where? I'm in BC
Afm I had very mild cramps last night but I think maybe also a touch of food poisoning but THATs IT!! I'm starting to feel discouraged seems like people always get symptoms so early! Tomorrow puts me at 10dpiui so I might test Monday. Hubby officially laid off today so this will be our last ttc attempt until the fall. I need loads of baby dust
Oh, I saw everyone saying- we are located in Atlanta and are a same sex couple.
TX- I hope your doing okay. I'm thinking about you.)
So I went out to an early dinner date tonight with a new guy. He's 36, no kids, cute, nice and good job. Here's the kicker. He asked me to postpone my next iui.
Of course I was kinda taken aback. He wants see how things progress.
Then he said use he would rather be my donor.
I think it's impulsive. But flattering.
He said if we work out he wants to of course father the baby. But if we don't he really will walk away like a donor. My concern is can he really walk away like a donor, knowing he has a child out there?
I know I sound beyond crazy. Things just got complicated.
Kisses
Live in Atlanta and shits complicated!
But, again- the awesome date part is super exciting! Woo hoo!
Tx , Pot & Chantilly - I am sending you hugs.
I have come straight to my senses. I am not one delaying my iui. And two letting this stranger be my donor. After throwing out to him what if this happened, etc.. I just realized there are too many if's. Part of the beauty of having a donor is that there is not drama. If he's truly the one, which I'm not betting on it then he will respect my life choices and deal. Plus, deep inside me there's this feeling that I can't express in words how weird it was for him to offer his sperm and not really know me. Ya know kinda impulsive, irresponsible idk..
Now on to the brighter side of my evening. It's 10:00 and I'm about to go to bed in fact I was eating a pop tart in my bed. When I getting a text from my ex. The one who wanted to celebrate my positive pregnancy with sex. That one. I'll back up. We dated a few years back. He was emotionally unavailable. In fact a girl just broke his heart four months ago and he says he vowed to change his ways. He says he finally fell in love. But she had moved on by the time he realized.
We are now pretty good friends we have great talks about life and he's soo funny and cute, though we have a hard time not hooking up when we see eachother.
So we have very early dinners and excursions when the sun is up. Movies that start before 7. Back to our respectable homes alone. It keeps us from the danger zone. And it's been working.
It's been a stressful and emotional week to say the least. And this was a unexpected but well needed night for me.
Have a great day Ladies talk to you soon.
Kisses
Still sending sticky baby dust to you Denise.
Here is my story....
About 3 yrs ago I went in for a routine pap smear. When I was there I told her that my period was lasting longer, where it was only 3 to 4 days it was now lasting about 5 to 6 days and was a lot heavier. When she was doing the internal exam I had some pain and she said that it could be a cyst or fibroid and that both of those could cause me to have longer and painful periods. So she sent me to a fertility doctor. She said "You don't want me to do the surgery if it's a cyst/fibroid, because I only do hysterectomies." (She knew I wanted to have children) So she sent me to the fertility clinic I'm using now. I did in fact have both a fibroid and a cyst. Both on the left side. So I had surgery then and she told me that the cyst would probably come back because it was so attached to my uterine wall that she couldn't get it all. She also talked me into doing a ovary test to see how my ovaries were. At that time the numbers came back really bad!! She told me that I probably wouldn't have children or it would be very difficult. Fast forward 3 years, I'm now 39, will be 40 in December and I decided I was tired of waiting to find the one. So I went back to the fertility clinic and went to the same dr. She told me they started using a different lab for the ovary test and stated she would like to do the test over to see if my numbers changed at all. So I took the test. The numbers came back great, instead of a fair prognosis it was a good prognosis. She seemed very pleased with the tests this time. She then did an ultrasound to make sure she didn't see anything funky.....well guess what, that darn cyst came back. So she said before we try to do an IUI I would have to have it removed. At that point I decided to do the fallopian tube test at the same time as the surgery, because I'm a sissy and I heard that test was painful. So I told them to do it while I was under.....haha plus I had pain meds for after. So they did the surgery, removed the cyst and found that my left fallopian tube is 99.9% blocked. She said she tried to unblock it but there was not much she could do. So she said that she would not inseminate if I am ovulating from the left side. So here I am ttc this was my second IUI. Not sure I will be able to do it this next period because it should be my left ovulation period. So maybe the end of August beginning of September.
I'm so glad that I stopped lurking on the boards and started posting.
And you guys can all call me Tina