Another call from the clinic

Hi friends,

I received another call from the clinic today. Nurse B told me that Dr advised me to take another antibiotic for the infection. Oh my. Another addition. It was Zinnat 250mg tablet 2 times a day. I got so worried. I asked her if it was bad. She told me the antibiotics were to prevent infection. Pity my husband. He just got the Canestan Pessary and now he has to go search for another one. He will come over tomorrow. So I will start the medication from tomorrow onwards. I have massive pimples attack since my Ovidrel shot. Now I have so many pimple marks on my face. There are always a few new pimples daily. I hope it will stop soon.

Currently I am taking all the below. I hope my babies will be healthy with all of the below.

Morning

Fish Oil         -1 tablet
Folic Acid    - 1 tablet
Multivitamin - 1 tablet
Vitamin D     - 4 tablets

Utrogestan (Vaginal ) - 2 tablets

Afternoon

Cardiprin - 1 tablet

Utrogestan (Vaginal ) - 2 tablets

Night

Progynova

Utrogestan (Vaginal ) - 2 tablets
Candocort (Vaginal)


** Upcoming addition

Zinnat - 2 tablets (morning and evening)

Canestan Pessary (Vaginal once a week)

Another bump along the journey

Hi friends,
I received an unexpected call from the clinic just now. I was shocked since I did not expect any calls from the clinic. It was regarding my vaginal test last week. I did not know that the sample was send to the lab to be tested. The other day, Dr said no fungal infection. I thought my test was over and I was done. Looks like it was not over. Based on the result, I had some infection. Oh my. I was so shocked as I did not expect it at all. She told some scientific infection name which I did not write down. I will collect the result next week. The nurse asked me to get a medicine called Canesten Pessary 500mg. It is another medicine that should be inserted to the vagina once a week. I will try to find the medicine asap.


Dear babies,

Please hang in there. I know that you are going through a lot like me. I have no intention to make you sick at all. I know you have to take in a lot of medication because of me. I hope that all this medication will make you a healthy baby and not harm you. I really hope to hear your strong heart beat next week. I hope to hear from you soon. I love you my sunshines...

2ww and Beta done...

Hi friends,

How are you guys? After my embryo transfer the other day, my husband sent me to my parent’s house. He wanted me to rest completely. For my previous 3 failed IUIs, I was resting in my parent's house also. When my period came, I packed my bag and return to Raub. I hoped that this time I will not have to pack my bags as early as that. It takes around 1 and half hour to my parent’s house. I have to go through a lot of travelling for this IVF treatment. 

I am really like a princess here. My parents do not allow me to do any work at all. It kind of made me really guilty. I ate Brazil nuts, sunflower seeds, drank full cream milk daily and cow’s milk occasionally during my 2WW, which I read helps with embryo implantation. It was quite difficult to find Brazil nuts. After surveying a few places, my husband and I managed to find it in 1 Utama Cold Storage. It was just a 150g box which cost approximately a bit more than RM11. I had to gulp in milk as fast as I could. I hate to drink milk but I will do whatever to get that sunshine in my belly soon. I had no problem with the sunflower seed. I had a handful of it every day. 

I had no pregnancy symptoms which really worried me. My previous 2 pregnancies, I had sore breast. I used to have it as my indicator every month. Whenever I do not have pain, I kind of know that my period will be coming soon. Besides that, I had vaginal itchiness from 20/5/2013 which was so uncommon for me. That worried me. I did wake up in the middle of night because of the itchiness. It was worrying me a lot. I drank a lot of water but the itchiness did not stop.

Based on the below website, I decided I would do a pregnancy test at home first, 1 day before my beta.

http://www.nyufertilitycenter.org/ivf/embryo_transfer

I got so worried on Tuesday since I was supposed to do a test on Wednesday. I got so nervous that I had diarrhea 3 times. My stomach was trembling the whole day. I worried that might affect the baby as well. I could not sleep well that night. I woke up few times at night. I had diarrhea in the morning as well. My heart was pounding like never before. I grabbed 2 hpt and my hp to the toilet. One hpt was the one where you place several drops of urine in the test device and the other was the test strip (POAS). I used the first type at first. I set the timer to 3 minutes. It was nerve wrecking as I held in and stare at it. Time was passing by and I just saw 1 line. I stressed my eyes so hard to find the second line. 3 minutes was over and only 1 line. I got so disappointed. So many things were running on my mind. I quickly tore the POAS test strip and dip to the urine collection. Cleaned everything and got to my room. As disappointed I was, I on the lights. Slowly looked at the first test but no line still. But when I looked to the POAS test strip, there was a very faint line. Then I look again at the first test, there was also a very faint line. I just was looking for both of the test so long. It was such a faint line that I was thinking if I was imagining the lines. Then I quickly read the instruction of the tests. The first test instruction was to put 4 drops of urine and wait for result. No wonder it took so late for the result. The second test was to read result after 1 minute. Pheww....I was relieved but my diarrhea and vaginal itchiness was disturbing. I drank a lot of water to avoid infection but the itchiness never went away. . I asked my husband to get me a set of hpt for me to test. I retested evening again with the POAS again. Although I know it was a bad idea to test it the evening, I did it anyway. No second line found. I consoled myself that it might be to the diluted hormone. 

Beta day. I woke up so many times. I wanted to retest again before I go for Beta. I tested again and the result was slightly darker than the previous day. I felt more relieved. My husband and I left around 7 am. We reached the clinic around 8.30 am. We just sat at the lobby and went to the clinic just before 9am. I told Nurse B that I came for my blood test. She gave me a form and to get my test done at Level 3a. She told me that the result will be out 2 to 4 hours. If the result was positive, we will need to come back to the clinic else we can go back. I was quite hungry that time. We gave the blood and decided to have a Subway sandwich and decided to go 1 Utama. I wanted to get my Brazil nut stock. I took daily 3 nuts and it just finished a day before Beta. We reached there before 10am. I headed to MPH to take a look at pregnancy books. My husband was at his motor car magazine section with my hp. I was having stomach cramping now and then. I could hardly walk. As I was just about to sit on a stool there, my husband came and told me, "Let's go. The nurse called and the result is in. She asked us to come back to clinic". He was smiling smiling. I was in pain and we walked slowly. I decided to sit on a bench in front of Cold Storage since I was not able to walk so much. My husband got the nuts and we went to the clinic. We had some questions that I wanted to ask Dr Helena. We went in the clinic. Finance Officer and all the nurses congratulated us. We thanked them. They gave us our result. It read 289.3 IU/L. They straight away ask us to collect the medicine. I was so blur. I asked them if we can't see the Dr. They said that they will give an appointment in 2 weeks time to see the Dr. I told the Finance Officer that I am worried since I had 2 miscarriages before. She then said that I should be taking baby aspirin. We told her that we wanted to ask Dr on that because she did ask me to remind her during my previous IUI if pregnancy was positive. She made a call to the Dr and we went in. Dr Helena congratulated us. She told I made it at last with a lot struggle along the way. She said it was best for me to take baby aspirin since I had 2 miscarriages before. I told her about the itchiness. She looked concern. I got a bit worried. She said she wanted to check me. So a speculum was inserted in my vagina. She put in a swab and she mentioned that there was no fungal infection. Pheww. I was relieved. She prescribed me another medicine (cream) to reduce the itchiness. She asked me to stop it when my itchiness stops. We had to get the baby aspirin and the cream in the pharmacy at the lobby.

We paid for 4 boxes of Utrogestan and 1 box of Progynova and the vaginal test. Since the IVF cost was up to Beta blood test only, the medications and test will be charged. I was given an appointment on 7/6/2013 to check the baby's heart beat. I am so nervous as I had failed this stage 2 times already. I hope this time my baby or babies will make it. We got the prescribed medicine and left.

Total cost at KLFGC - RM 510

Utrogestan Box            - RM 420

Progynova 2 mg - Box  - RM  35

High Vaginal Swab        - RM  55

Total cost at Kuala Lumpur Sports Medicine Centre - RM 21.70

Candocort Cream          - RM 14

Cardiprin Tab 100mg     - RM   7.70

Embryo transfer done....

Happy mother's day to all the mothers and also all to the soon to be mothers as well. Hopefully our wish to become a mother will be fulfilled very soon. I had my transfer scheduled yesterday at 11.30 am and I was supposed to be in the clinic at 11 am. As usual, my husband and I were in the clinic much earlier. One of the nurses informed the embryologist that I was in already. I started drinking water bit by bit to ensure my bladder was full before the procedure. I would have drank probably a little more than 3 glasses of water. During my IUI procedure before, I had to drink much more to fill up my bladder. The embryologist came in for me around 11.20 am. The embryologist brought us to the lab on the same level. She brought us to the changing room. I had to change to an operation gown. This time no panties but bra is acceptable. I had to use the cap as well. My husband was also asked to use the operation attire(not gown ya....it was a pants and shirt). Husbands need not take off their clothes. They only need to put the operation attire on top of  their clothes. After changing we have to change to a given slippers. We were brought to the teather. I was asked to lie down to get my bladder scanned. The embryologist scanned my stomach. It was TOO FULL...The embryologist said it was too much and she fear that I might not be able to hold it till the procedure ends. She asked me to release a bit. She told me to count from 1 to 10 and stop. I told I will try and I managed to since my flow was slow that time. After that, she rescanned my stomach and I was OK. After a while Dr Helena came in. She told us that earlier we collected 6 eggs. From the 6 eggs, 5 got fertilized. She told me they were good quality but not to say text book perfect quality but it is OK quality. I started feeling a bit worried. All these words made me quite nervous. She then asked us how many embryos that we would opt to put in back. We chose to put in 2 embies. The rest we were going to freeze. After that, she mentioned that the 2 embies that we were going to put in was an OKOK quality but the 3 that we are going to freeze is the best quality. I was shocked. I was so confused why not they put in the best quality instead of the OKOK one. I think Dr would have read my mind as I was just staring at her. She said that the best quality embryos work best frozen. They are not sure why was that themselves. She explained that if I were to put in 2 embies, the chances of me getting pregnant was 60% and chances of having twins was 20 %. She asked if we were ready if there were twins. We were ready for them. We continued with the procedure. My legs were strapped in. Dr explained that the procedure was going to be just like a pap smear. She put a speculum in the vagina and it is cleaned. I could hardly feel anything. I remember my IUI was much more painful when the speculum was inserted. After cleaning, Dr told the embryologist that she was ready. Then the embryologist called out my name just to ensure that those were my embies. She handed the catheter to Dr. Dr then went in to find my uterus. She was checking it through my uterus ultrasound. When she found the perfect spot, my babies were let go near my uterus. I hope my babies get implanted and grow to be a healthy baby soon. She then took the speculum out. She advised me to take it easy for the next 2 days. No spicy and sour food, eat a lot of fruits and vegetables not to lift up heavy things. Besides that, watch the funniest movies since when you are happy, there is a hormone released which helps implantation. Dr wished us good luck and left. 

We stayed in that room for 15 minutes. While waiting, the embryologist explained the charges for embryo freezing. 1 to 4 embryos were charged RM 1500. I am sorry I could not remember the cost of the other groups. There were 2 extra groups. This payment must be done on that day itself before leaving the clinic.  I was allowed to urine after 15 minutes. I was brought to a recovery room to rest for 45 minutes. After that, I went to the clinic. Nurse S gave me Progynova 2mg tablets to be taken on 16/5/13 onwards. She said that it was to prevent bleeding. We then paid for the embryo freezing. All the nurses wished us luck and we left the clinic. My next appoitment would be on 23/5/2013 to get my blood work done to check if I am pregnant or not. It's going to be a long wait. Hopefully my babies get implanted, grow and be a healthy baby soon.

Embryo Freezing (1-4 embryos) - RM 1500

OPU done !!!

Good morning friends. As you guys know I was not at my ultimate feeling on the last post. I had my Ovidrel 250 mg on Monday (6/5/2013) 8.30pm.  I woke up Tuesday with a new feeling and new hope. I really hope I do get 6 follicles during my procedure. If not, I should take it in a positive way. I got my battery charged and I was getting excited for my procedure. Oh I must say I had around 5 to 6 pimples on my face all of a sudden and very hot flushes. Maybe it was the reaction to all the medications. My husband and I decided we should put up in a hotel a day earlier just to avoid any traffic jam on Wednesday. Dr did advise me to eat well the night before transfer since I had to fast from food and drink from midnight. She asked me to drink a lot of water since I had a small body so that I will not have any complication after the procedure. So, we decided to go for Johnny's. We had the steamboat with chicken soup and NOT the tom yam. First time trying the chicken soup and it was good also. I had to avoid spicy food. I drank a lot of soup and had a lot of water. Patients were not allowed to use any makeup, fragrance, contact lens, nail polish and jewellery during the procedure. I took out all my accessories the night before.

I woke up fresh as ever and excited for the procedure. We left earlier. Luckily we did, as we got stuck in the jam a while. We reached the hospital at 7.15am. I had to be there by 7.30am and my procedure was at 8.30am. We went to Level 2 and handed over the admission form. I had my height and weight taken. I do not know how I grew 2 cm though...hehe....We were brought in to a super cool room. It was so huge and first class. It had a huge washroom. I guess that's were some of our 15K or 17K was going. The nurse asked me to change into my operation gown (not allowed to wear inner garments). Nurse came and checked my pressure. She asked me if I was nervous. I told her I was not. She told me that my pressure was high. I was shocked since I felt fine. A while later, anesthesiologist came in. She was friendly as well. She asked if I went through any operation. I told her I had 1 D & C and also 1 laparoscopy for ovarian cyst removal. She told me ok u had 2 general anesthesias and this time will be a mild one. I might wake up in the middle and it is normal and to worry. She put a needle on my left hand for later use. She also asked me to urine whatever left in my stomach just before the procedure. A while later, I was visited by Dr Helena. She was as cheerful as always. She was really concern on how I was feeling. I told her I was fine. As we were talking, Dr Prashant came in as well. I greeted him. He told me that he was happy to see me smiling (our previous meeting, I was not smiling definitely). I told him, 'It is a new day and new hope'. He said, ‘YES, new day'. He left and Dr Helena was talking to us a while more and wished us good luck and left. As I was not aware what time I will be going in, I was visiting the washroom 5 minutes apart. Hehe...I was surprised that I could urine that many times without drinking. Nurses were constantly checking my pressure and I was fine after a while. I was asked to order some food to be taken after the procedure. Nurse told me to have something light to prevent from vomiting. I ordered a toast with butter and jam and a cup of hot Milo.

Finally 8.25am, a boy dressed in his operation attire came to check if I needed to go to the toilet and they wheeled my bed to the operation room. I was given operation cap to cover my hair. Dr Prashant saw me. He told me, 'Let's go'. He was energetic. I walked to the operation theater. It was not as scary as the D&C and laparoscopy. Hehe. I got on the operating bed. Dr Helena and the anesthesiologist were joking where I want to go in my dreams. As I was about to think and tell, the anesthesiologist was like, ‘Raub have a lot of beautiful waterfall right?’ She told me she went to one but can't remember what was the name. I told her that I myself had not have been to one. She told me, 'Never mind, next time bring your baby and go'. Hehe ...I hope so. She told, 'Now u start to dream of the waterfall' while she put an oxygen mask for me. Tap Tup Top....I did not know what happen after that. I vaguely remember Dr Helena was telling me we got 6 eggs taken. I was asking her if it was real. She assures the number. I vaguely remember the anesthesiologist asking me which waterfall I went. I woke up when they wheeled me to the recovery room. I was thinking whether I really had this conversation or I was dreaming. I asked one of the nurses if she knew how many eggs were collected and she was not sure. I was just thinking was it my dream or that conversation really happens because I don't remember opening my eyes while talking to Dr Helena. My husband came and joined me a while later. He had produced his sperms after I was brought in into the theather and went for breakfast. I felt really fine after the procedure. Few nurses were asking me if I really went through procedure as I was energetic as ever. She said usually patient was not like this. My husband also commented that I should behave like a patient. Hehe. As we were talking, a patient who went through OPU was wheeled to the bed next to me. Oh....I could see why the nurse told me that. The patient looks so sickly. I was a rare type I guess. Dr Helena came in again and told me again that I had 6 eggs. Pheww.... I was relived. She was proud that her estimation was correct. She then left. I got my breakfast a while later. I just had 2 slices of bread and Milo. Nurse said after breakfast I could change and I must try to urine then I can go to see Dr. I changed in the toilet and tried to urine after a while I managed to release it. Then only I realized that I was bleeding. I had 3 liners on since I did not bring my pad. Never thought that I would bleed.

I asked the nurse if it was normal. She told me shouldn't bleed very heavy as it might be internal bleeding. As I was not bleeding that heavy, I told her I want to go up. She called the nurse in Level 6 to check if I can go and see the Dr. The nurse asked me to go up in 15 minutes. We were given 1 hour parking hour. We went to Level 6 and Nurse M asked my condition. I told her that I was bleeding. She told me it happens to some patients. It should be gone in 2 days. She also introduced Utrogestan tablets to be inserted into the vagina. I had to start the tablet that night itself. I had to take 2 tablets every morning, evening and night. She did mention if the tablet falls on the ground just throw it and take a new one. We do not want to be infected. She told me not to take spicy or sour food. It might upset the stomach. She advised me to take it easy for the next 2 days. My transfer was scheduled on Saturday 11.30 am. I have to be there at 11 am. I was required to drink 3 glasses of water 1 hour before the procedure. I was advised not to have any cosmetics, perfumes, deodorant, scented body lotion with strong smell on transfer day. She says that embryo doesn’t like strong smell...They like natural smell only. This scent affects the embryo quality. As for the husband, no after shave or deodorant. I should not be driving for the 2 days also. We were done and after a while Dr called us in. Dr said I responded much quicker than other patients. Hehe..I had my stomach scanned as we were travelling to Raub. My stomach was fine. Dr wished us luck and she hope that we have some embryos to be frozen. We left the clinic. We bought some pads as I was bleeding, went to the hotel, rested there for 2 hours and left to Raub. I felt the pain when I was walking. I could not laugh as my stomach hurts whenever I laughed. We had our lunch and reached home around 4pm. I could hardly walk straight. I had a bad lower abdominal pain. I just lied down. I inserted the Utrogestan tablet at night while I was lying down. I had a pillow just to elevate my back. I rested for 30 minutes. I had some white white particles whenever I went to the washroom. It is quite messy, so please wear ur liners or pad yaa. Below is how the tablets look like.

Today, I feel much better. I feel a very slight abdominal pain. I am thinking if I should be calling the clinic to get an update on my embryos. I am anxious and nervous at the same time to know the result. Hehe....Sorry for the long post. I just want to let u guys know so that you will know what to expect during the journey. Just for more information on IVF, please refer to the link below.

http://www.klfertility.com/fertility-treatment/ivf-in-vitro-fertilization/
http://www.klfertility.com/ivf-laboratory/

Dear embies,
I am waiting for u to bloom and grow as a healthy baby soon.