Hi everyone, some of you might know me from my endless and annoying posts on the TTC threads. 18 months of trying with no success. Never been pregnant to the best of my knowledge (and in these 18 months I’ve been a prolific pee-er on a stick!), PCOS and endometriosis and I’m 39. What a catch!
We had a private fertility assessment as my BMI is too high for NHS. MrDragName’s sperm is fine and healthy. I have a very high AMH level for my age and lots and lots of follicles in my ovaries, exactly as expected. The doc’s recommended IVF, frozen transfers utilising my natural cycle, which is regular to within a day or two. He doesn’t think anything else is viable given my age and the fact that my eggs might not all be very good quality these days, even if they are seemingly abundant. We’re now thinking about whether we do this or not over the Christmas period.
There’s a couple of things I want to ask about, and that’s the egg retrieval and transfer processes. I had a very traumatic experience of having a mirena coil removed and another one inserted which was over 6 years ago now, but it’s really affected my willingness to have investigations where I get poked and prodded so, err, deeply. I’m fine with a smear test, no issues around sex and trans vaginal ultrasounds have been totally fine. It’s the idea of instruments of any sort going in through my cervix that leave me sweating. Even when I had my mirena removed to TTC I was absolutely freaking out and it made it a lot more challenging for the poor nurse. I see you’re sedated for egg retrieval (and also that it’s a needle through the vaginal wall rather than going through the cervix) but the transfer must involve going through the cervix to pop that little collection of cells in. Of course what I read online says stuff like ‘you might feel some discomfort’ which is exactly what they say about a Mirena change. It’s clear they lie to women! So I wanted some real life experiences if anyone is ok to share?