Hi everyone -
I am getting ready to start DE cycle number 2 and starting to get very nervous so thought I would see if there was anyone that would be cycling around that time as well.
I found these boards last year after doing first de cycle - probably would have done things differently had I found the boards first, but live and learn I guess, and fortunately DH is willing to give it another shot. I have learned so much in the last year that we feel comfortable in trying again.
Our story - me 42, DH 36, I have 3 kids from first marriage, DH has no bio chilldren, and we want kids together. We have been ttc for 5 years. Stayed with local clinic the entire time, 4 IUIs, no IVF with own eggs as they didn't feel we would have any success, urged to go DE route which we did last year. BFN for fresh and frozen cycle. Egg quality was to blame, according to RE. I love how they like to blame it on eggs when it doesn't work. We didn't buy that and looked for new clinic. We have settled on SDFC (we are in Atlanta). After our consult with the RE he felt the best course was to let us do as much testing as we wanted to try and rule out things before starting - we did a ton of bloodwork and beta3 testing. Beta3 interestingly came back as abnormal so we are going into this thinking we have a chance.
We will be staring 2 months of depot lupron in about 2 -3 weeks, with a projected retrieval / transfer of late July.
I am nervous for several reasons -
This is 2nd cycle
We are using a non-proven donor (we are doing success gurantee and SDFC has a liberal cancellation policy so if she doesn't stim well we can back out anytime prior to retrieval for very minimal expense)
We will be traveling to San Diego from Atlanta
2 months of depot lupron scares me to death
I will have to find a clinic to do oot monitoring - I wouldn't even contemplate using our last Atlanta clinic
If anyone is transferring in July and wants to pass the time I would love the company.
Anna
We should get confirmation of schedule tomorrow,