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I can't access my computer right now and can't edit posts from my phone

Anyway, I just wanted to share that I triggered on Wednesday night (actually 2am Thursday) and had my retrieval today at 12:30! They got 10 eggs, tomorrow I'll find out how many fertilized
Last retrieval they got 16 eggs but this time I stimmed for 10 days as opposed to 14 so it sounds about right!
I LOVE dr B but everytime I have to go to AFS I dislike that place more and more Hopefully this transfer will be my last time there! On the way home we had a tire blowout atleast we were already back on LI. I've been home relaxing, I'm in significant pain again this time I wonder why some people don't have as much pain after this procedure?

I just wanted to share, thanks for letting me!

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good luck!!!!!!!!!

Sorry about the tire, that sucks!!!

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tons of

why do you hate AFS? i didnt love the idea of IVF there, but i had no issues, everything was great.

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yeah i didnt like afs at all either when i was doing ivf...just very cold and formal...yech...but if it gets ya a baby....then its gonna be warm and fuzzy lol


gllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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sending you lots of

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I wouldn't say I hate it there but besides it being really annoying to have to go into the city for the procedures I just haven't been 100% comfortable everytime I've been there. My first retrieval was the best experience that vie had there, dr vidali did the retrieval and I really liked him. He put me totally at ease before and after the procedure. When I woke up though and they took me into "recovery" they just left me and dh there forever, I also find the office the least calming atmosphere! I looked past that since when they finally came in to get me dr vidali sat with me in his office and again totally put my mind at ease. Fast forward a few days later to transfer, it was early on a Sunday, we get there and no one was there! So now I'm calling dr b on his cell on a Sunday morning lol. Apparently there was an embryologist in the back but no one else. It was fine though once dr vidali arrived. Then my last FET I get there and thy rushed me into the room so fast, had me ready for transfer and were like ok here's your tree embryos and left me there again forever that eventually my dh had to go find them to see if we could leave. Today was the worst experience though, I left there crying. They work in conjunction with dasha wellness next door so I called to make my accupuncture appts, was told it would be beneficial to have it dine both before and after both retrieval and transfer. So I call up and tell them that my retrieval is scheduled for 12:15 and what tine should my appts for accupuncture be? I'm told they don't open until 12 so I said to forget the accupuncture bc I had to be next door at AFS at 12:15, well they tell me to come at 11:45 that it will only be 20-30mins and the acupuncturist will come in a bit early to accommodate me, I thought that was so nice until I show up there and they are CLOSED. Since I have some time to kill before retrieval I waited at the door so that if they did open I could just tell them to forget it, they open and when I tell them they said we will come with you to the retrieval and do it right there for you, awesome I thought. We go into AFS and that's where the whirlwind starts, I sit in the waiting room and right away they come for me but they tell me they are going to do the retrieval first they the acupuncturist will cone in and do there thing, ok fine. Changed and on the table the anesthesiologist butchers my wrists do I look like I slit them even after I was begging him not to go into the wrists and showing him which veins are good. Finally we get that down and all nervous and anxiety bc this hasn't been the smoothest morning at this place when the embryologist comes in to check my ID bracelet which I never got at check in. So really these people have no idea who I am and there ready to push the anesthesia. It all mademe very uncomfortable. Then they are like who is your dh we will go find him for his sample, I'm thinking I hope they grab the right guy since no one is checking who the he'll anyone is! When the procedure was over they moved me to the "recovery" aka storage room, literally I was put in a chair surrounded by a mess of extra sono machines etc. It was like this last time in that room but I thought maybe they ran out of room that day and needed to put ne somewhere the dr came in briefly and told me we got 10 eggs and left. That was it. A nurse came and and asked if I wanted to leave and that's when I lost it and said yes. I couldn't help the tears, I felt like the whole experience was unorganized, rushed and the furthest thing from calming which they all says you should be for these type of things. Maybe I'm being too picky, maybe I'm spoiled by the calming, nurturing, helpful atmosphere at dr b's office but I can't help but feel this way hopefully this transfer will be my last and I won't have to go back. PS- the accupuncturist never came back so on my way out I stopped on and said I was done at AFS and leaving and they just said have a nice day, poorly run business IMO. I could have used some accupuncture to calm my nerves

Thanks for listening!

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you arent alone.. i was left in rooms....rushed...... told almost nothing. ..some of the nurses were umm not very smart.....one anethesilogist a guy....was very nice.....one was a female who asked what meds i am on..and when one of them was an antidepressant/antianxiety drug...she started saying nothing ever to be nervous about.....umm sorry lady you arent my shrink....just shut up and give me drugs......

i hated afs when iwas there....i hate the "waiting room" and i hate the storage looking rooms too....

nope you arent picky at all

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yikes that sounds horrible.
i agree with the look of the placing being unappealing. overall we weren't rushed or ignored but they def arent super professional or cozy like dr. Bs. and the room i had my ER in looked more like a weird creepy storage room than an surgical room. it was a little scary actually. lucky for the IV antianxiety med prior to the anestesia

anyway sorry your experience was soooo bad and that the acupuncturists let you down as well!! i wouldve been reallly mad about that!! hopefully none of it will matter when you get your BFP!

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I'm so glad I'm not alone!! It won't matter if I get a BFP but dr b always asks how my experience was there and I'm going into full detail this time! When I was waiting for AF to be able to start this cycle I was telling df b my concerns about the lab at afs closing and he made a comments that he has other places he could send me but that they are all closed for the holidays too, so I wonder if I have to cycle again, hopefully not, if there is somewhere else!? I want him to know all about the place since I know he would want his patients taken care of!

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Just wanted to send some

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Wow!

First, I want to send you tons of luck!! 10 sounds great!! Let us know about fertilization today! I'm thinking about you!!



Next, I don't even know what to say about AFS. I didn't have nearly as bad of an experience, but I can't say it was great. Definitely talk to Dr. B!

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good luck!