I have just been through a failed 2nd attempt at IVF, following a successful attempt in 2013 (we have a nearly two year old daughter.)
This time round I had my embryo transfer last Sunday but on Friday night my period started and I've been bleeding very heavily since. We have sadly accepted the fact that it hasn't worked :-( Clinic are still making me test next Sunday and told me to keep up the progesterone gel.
I have to say I was really surprised that my period came while still on the crinone gel, and particularly that it came so soon (6 days after ET) Will need to ask doctors why this might have been, anyone else had a heavy bleed so early in two week wait?
I just wondered if people who've been through this before could tell me how long they bled for and then when their period came the following month? Hard to know how soon things will get back to "normal".
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Bleeding and periods after unsuccessful IVF attempt
GlummyMummy · 20/03/2016 12:38
I did all that too!! Figured anything that said it would help lining was a good idea - although I tried all of them in my first cycle and the only thing that worked was HRT tablets 3 times a day. I had a bloody microwave wheat bag basically permanently strapped to my belly up until transfer day.
The very sad outcome to my cycle had nothing to do with the lining. After all the issues my consultant was quite concerned whether it would hold up or not because it had been very unpredictable. At the 7 week scan he was grinning like a loon because the endometrium looked superb. I had to keep taking the oestrogen tablets until 10 weeks. Ironically I also ended up stopping the progesterone fanjo bullets the same day, but we know why that was
glummy believe it or not that happened to a girl I know! She had 6 eggs and was told NONE had fertilised. Well apparently they left them and checked the next day and lo and behold two were dividing?! Both made it to day 5, both were put back and she is now pregnant (awaiting scan to see if one or both took!)
I've only had one IVF cycle preceding this one, and it was a bit of an odd one as we tried to go straight into a second cycle before I'd got my period (scan showed I had ovulated as normal though) - in an attempt to try long protocol to better control my lining. Long protocol just gives the Dr more control so he could add the oestrogen into the mix earlier without it affecting the follicle growth
Unfortunately I failed to down regulate - I bloody ovulated while injecting buserelin. So in the space of 7 weeks I ovulated twice but didn't have a bleed. 
(we aborted the attempt at long protocol and reverted to short once we'd quieted the ovaries with a couple of weeks on the pill)
However as I had ovulated as normal straight after the cycle I think if we hadn't started buggering around with trying to go straight into another cycle, things would have been totally normal
(it was the right decision to go again so quickly as my sleepy low AMH ovaries were still slightly stimulated from the prev cycle, so we reckoned we could give them a jump start by cycling again so soon. Didnt quite work out on the first attempt but second pass was a corker. 17 eggs vs 6 eggs!)
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