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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)
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When to inseminate (IUI)?
Yellowknife
Member Member
I am starting to chart and and use opks to try an IUI insemination in May 2016. That's the plan anyway!
SO i was wondering if anyone had any experience with this:
used opk and got a positive with no major bbt change. continues opk and had 7 of them in a row (7 days in a row!), with a temp rise on that last day! That last day was CD 22, which is bizarre cos im pretty regular (28-32 day cycles).
This is the first time i measure and chart anything...
How in the world can i tell when i Ovulate when im testing positive for 7 days!?
most people inseminate 12-36 hours after they get a positive...but if this is how it looks, i'd totally miss it and be way too early!
I'm hoping that my April cycle won't be like this...maybe it's stress?
Ggggggrrrrr!!
SO i was wondering if anyone had any experience with this:
used opk and got a positive with no major bbt change. continues opk and had 7 of them in a row (7 days in a row!), with a temp rise on that last day! That last day was CD 22, which is bizarre cos im pretty regular (28-32 day cycles).
This is the first time i measure and chart anything...
How in the world can i tell when i Ovulate when im testing positive for 7 days!?
most people inseminate 12-36 hours after they get a positive...but if this is how it looks, i'd totally miss it and be way too early!
I'm hoping that my April cycle won't be like this...maybe it's stress?
Ggggggrrrrr!!
Comments
Good luck on your TWW..I know how insane it is
I wonder if my doctor will prescribe that to me...?
I'm also hoping he puts me on Clomid too...
i have an app with him on april 18. That's how long things take here
but im not holding my breath: they don't provide fertility services here, so im pretty much on my own.
We went through the IVF thing too (azoospermia, managed to get some sperm via m-TESE. retrieved 22 eggs. only 3 fertilized. none stuck) we are trying this route now.
Gonna try it three times with the donor and then we are throwing in the towel and maybe adopt. It's been a crazy ride!
Hopefully my April cycle will be more "normal" than March and that i'll be able to predict when to inseminate. Im thinking ome at the 24 hour mark of my first positive surge, and another 12 or 24 hours after the 1st insemination...
OMG three follicles! that is so amazing:) i feel really good about your chances!!!! are you gonna POAS?
I'll keep my fingers crossed that your April cycle will be more normal too... and they don't provide fertility services there? Where are you located? I am new at this forum thing... I've glanced at different posts and made a few of my own, but still getting used to it.
I also think that doing two inseminations is a great idea!! GOOD LUCK!!
I have been extremely patient with not testing yet at home! I am proud of myself, lol. I think it helps that I took Ovidrel though, because apparently it contains the pregnancy hormone that shows up on the at-home tests... so I need to make sure it's completely out of my system before doing so. I've read a lot of different things on different sites but the majority says that it takes 10 days to get out of your system. I took the shot on March 19th at 8pm, so I believe that it should be out (today is 12-ish days since the shot and 10 days AFTER the insemination). I took a test out of the box this morning but didn't unwrap it... I just shook my head at myself (lol) and put it back in the cupboard. I'm supposed to go for bloodwork April 6th, but I plan to take an at-home test on Monday, the 4th! I'm not telling my husband though... I am hoping to surprise him (if it's positive).
Just for my FSH blood work done. I also just called the bank and they only have 4 washed vials left of the donor we are looking at
Keep us posted on your status
So, they have 4 washed vials left...don't give up! Are they expecting to get more? How many kids do you guys want (ideally)? Are you going to try and purchase all 4? (you said they may be harder to get? Why is that? They won't sell them to Canada??). I think I received an email saying that there is a deal of 10% or 20% off going on right now, but you may have to inquire. Oh, and did you know that if you buy three vials within a period of 12 months and have no successful pregnancy, then you get a vial for free? I am pretty sure it's three vials you have to buy...but it could be 4.
I was devastated when I thought there were more vials of our donor left and we checked back and they only had IVF! I think I was more shocked because the donor was also used in my husband's past marriage, resulting in his 13-year old daughter... so I just figured he had been in the system for so long (and a restricted donor!!) that nobody would buy them. After the whole IVF cancellation we were EXTREMELY lucky to have somebody randomly sell theirs back to Fairfax. So... I guess what I am saying is to try and purchase all 4?! If you have Fairfax hold them you could always sell them back to them (I'm not sure of the details but you receive a percentage of what you paid)...but you may already know all of this.
AHHH! Good luck!!!
Becuase im in canada, the vials have to "Canada accepted" or something like that. Which, if i understand, just prolongs the process. We have to get our vials through canadian sperm bank distribution companies and not, let's say, Fairfax itself. SO if there are 4 vials left at the 1st company, They just call Fairfax and they send them some more (if they have any). There is also a ch ance the other companies have some vials. The only thing with that, is that I wouldn't get the pricing...Every company has different pricing and terms (different from Fairfax). So for the company i'm using, u get a discount if you buy 6 or more vials in one shot, and you get 1 year free storage. That's pretty much it (which is still great). Shipping costs a gazillion dollars cos i'm so far away...so its gonna be a pretty pricey ordeal alltogether, but will totally be worth it:)
Yes I was on COQ-10 when i didIVF. I should probably get myself some more (i didn't think about it!). Thanks!!! hehehehe
I took a test on Saturday and got a negative. I was confused and devastated because with 3 mature eggs, and the sperm count being so good (it was 32 million and my doctor wanted to see at least 10 million) and the motility was 3+ to 4 and they said 4 is the best, it just seemed promising.. It was 12 dpo, so my husband told me that maybe it's still too soon and to not freak out yet. I wanted to believe he was right, so I held out hope but then got my period yesterday morning and just lost it
I called the doctor yesterday and they brought me in for a blood pregnancy test this morning (protocol since they'll be putting me back on Femara starting tomorrow...basically a "CYA" for them). Sigh. I go for an ultrasound on April 12th to see how everything looks. Ironically, April 12th I believe was the exact day (3 years ago) I went in for my IUI and conceived my son (first try!!).. so maybe that'll bring me some luck (haha... that would be funny if they end up with the same birthdays lol). Sigh. We'll see. I'm super bummed but I know things happened for a reason.
I really doubt anything is wrong with you, but I understand and know how our minds work; we try to find an explanation to things that don't work out and sometimes...well sometimes there is just no explanation.
A lot of people don't understand that what we've all went through is grieving and they don't get how utterly heartbroken we get when things like that happen. But just like grieving, time heals. We move on, and in this case, maybe try again...:)
Yes, people definitely don't understand! A few years back, my sister-in-law was telling us about how her friend had been telling her that she was having a hard time conceiving, but the entire time she was actually pregnant and just said that to hide it from everybody until she was in her 2nd trimester. I seriously got super mad at that... because she was laughing about it.. not cool. She could've thought of a different excuse. Hopefully secondary infertility doesn't hit her.. .I mean granite, I am sure nothing was meant by it, but people are just so uneducated and insensitive.
Anyway, keep me posted on your progress, I really hope you have luck and very quickly!!
We are trying again this cycle, so it's all a waiting game and the more times we try, the less optimistic I become