So I think a big part of the interpretation is what are you using the info for? Are you using it to see if you should wait to try to conceive? Are you using it to see your odds for fertility treatment now versus waiting? AMH on its own gives you a very very vague idea of what’s going on.
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Also, let me know if I’m wrong, but I believe you’re in a relationship where you’d theoretically have the gametes to make a baby, right? Through this process, I’ve learned that these labs are helpful to tell you (general you) where to look if you have trouble making an at-home baby, but are less helpful for predicting whether a person will get pregnant easily or not. Very annoying!
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I will be doing some planning for a likely difficult pregnancy in the next year**. Would it be helpful for anyone for me to do some of that planning here or in one of the other pregnancy related threads? Otherwise will likely make some notes on my journal.
**Planning happening over the next year, pregnancy not to be attempted until 2023
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If it shows up anywhere and I find it I will definitely find it useful.
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Not that I can speak for everyone, but as an Infertile with fairly tender feeling sometimes, I absolutely would not mind you planning here if this is the space that feels right for it. Not to mention, I think some people might benefit from what you have gained from your experiences.
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Thank you. The point about whether this feels like the right space is a good one. This thread is mostly for trying to get pregnant which feels like a slightly different topic, so I think I will start a new thread when I’m ready and link it here. Trying to get pregnant and planning for what to do once actually pregnant feel different, and I’m not too concerned about the process of getting pregnant… But this also definitely doesn’t fit in “pregnancy is weird” thread. I definitely would like to help others go in with a bit more knowledge about what the options are, since medical providers aren’t always up to date on best practice, especially when it’s patient comfort and DIY kind of stuff.
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Speaking only for myself, I talked a lot about navigating donor stuff here, which also falls into the category of more preparing to try to get pregnant vs. trying to get pregnant. But of course, do what feels right!
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Normally I don’t even bother with pregnancy tests at this point because it just feels like a waste of time, but I figured I’d check given my two days in a row of naps. Negative at 13DPO. Unsurprising. Period should start tonight and I’ll be on track for the IUI while SirB is in town 
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I kept testing on 12dpo even, like, between IVF cycles. I admire your restraint! Sorry the naps didn’t turn out to have meaning but hoping you at least get a break on the IUI timing.
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Not restraint at all, it’s way more depressing for me to see the blank tests. Easier just to trudge along and never have that moment of hope.
Let’s see, between the two times trying I’m now at cycle 46 of TTC 
I knew it was high but yowza lol. (14 for this round).
ETA wait I miscounted I think? I might be on cycle 17 of this time, so then 49 total. Fuck if I know, fertility friend will only show my cycle list for the last year now 
that doesn’t help guys.
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I’m on 14 just for the last year and we’ve been back at it since last december, so 16 probably?
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Maybe unhelpful, but “Cycle List” will show you every cycle you’ve ever input.
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I’m not finding it where it used to be? Is there a different spot than here:
Cuz that’s where it’s only showing me statistics, and the list for the last year.
ETA maybe because I’m not paid anymore?
I didn’t hit CD1 yet today, but with negative pregnancy tests for the past three days and beginning to spot, it will probably be later tonight or tomorrow. I’ve also been HELLLLLAAAA pissy. (Like, growling at automated customer service robot voices level of pissy.)
Had an email exchange with the nurse today. She wants me to come in at 6:00 am (!!!) on Wednesday for more testing so I can start my med cycle. She said this will entail a baseline ultrasound for the cycle, plus some more bloodwork and going over consent stuff. She told me I should expect to come in twice more in the next two weeks before my retrieval.
She also needs Swan to get STD testing done. (I’ve asked her whether he can get that done at his regular doctor so that it’s covered under his insurance and hope to know tomorrow.) They already STD tested me, so you’d think they’d know if he also had STDs, since we’ve been having unprotected sex for almost five years, but I suppose they have their reasons for needing it.
I still didn’t get the Menopur, and it’s still just saying “processed through facility” in Israel, as it has been since the 10th. I am assuming that means that it left and is in international limbo and will probably show up suddenly on my doorstep any day now, since that’s what happened with the other box. When I went to sleep, it had reached Germany, and when I woke up, it was out for delivery in my neighborhood. So I hope that the same thing will happen here.
Shit is getting real, and I definitely am starting to feel strange about it.
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My IVF cycle is going to be cycle 19 for me, not counting the three months off that my body decided to give itself after my first loss. IT IS A FUCKING SLOG.
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Checked, and 15 for me that I’ve been closely tracking. Obviously not sperming for the bulk of them, so it’s 100% not the same, but realizing this is feeling like an endless science project because it’s been an endless science project.
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Yeah, I paused the other day and realized that, like, if my IVF works, in a way, it’s going to be SUPER WEIRD not to have to think about getting pregnant all the time because sometimes it feels like that’s all I’ve thought about since I started considering this stuff in, ahem, JULY 2019.
What will it be like to not have to take 7000 pills every day? To not stick a thermometer in my mouth first thing when I wake up? To not have 8 be such a recurringly significant number in my life (CD8, start sex; 8DPO, start progesterone)? To not plan my entire sex life around a series of green squares? I hope I get to find out because I definitely have forgotten.
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Yes! I remember saying to the Boy that it felt like I had just taken up a weird hobby and I had lost all sense that a baby could result.
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Yep. So accurate. Sometimes I felt like there was zero way I could end up with a kid, and instead it was all just like… an exercise in a weird masochistic pastime.
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