[Jodsan]

Hi ladies, I hope you dont mind me crashing your thread, as I'm not doing IVF (it has been suggested but we dont have the money right now). But you girls are all so knowledgeable and it sounds like you are having similar problems to me. I have been TTC for 18 months and have just been diagnosed with Hashimotos and mild lupus. I have just started thyroid hormones, prednisone and have just started taking progesterone for this TWW (apparenty that will also help settle down the immune response). I am now on so many drugs, I feel nauseous and yucky, I really hope they do the trick. Though I cant complain, it sounds a lot worse for you girls undergoing IVF.

My FS said that I also had a few NK cells there (biopsy taken during my lap) and thinks that my immune system is probably attacking the blastocytes (I kind of had the inkling that I was conceiving and not implanting). I dont really understand the results though, it is written as follows: The following cell counts are obtained per high power field (hpf) in the most cellular (non lymphoid aggregate) areas: CD56-40/hpf, D57-9/hpf, CD4 - 45/hpf, CD8-50/hpf. Does anyone know what this means?

Because we cant afford IVF right now (I am studying full time and we are barely making ends meet as it is), I am really hoping we can work all this strange stuff out. Any advice from you very knowledgable ladies would be much appreciated.

Btw - Hi Where there's hope, I lost touch with you when I left the TTC after mc thread. How are you?