How fast do follicles grow?

[Oceanblueeyes21]

Hello,

I am on my first IVF cycle and today I went for my first scan. I am on day 8 of injections. The ultrosound only showed 2 measurable folicies and lots of small ones. The small ones looked to count at 7 on each side.

I am back on Friday for my next scan. I am wondering how quickly they can grow and if they can increase dramatically in a matter of days?

I have also had my dosage increased since yesterday from 150 to 225 menapur. Will this increase make that much of a difference?

I'm not am expert at all so hopefully someone with IVF experience will reply, but I just had a scan and they saw some little follicles. They've asked me back on Friday expecting them to have grown a lot by then so I think they do grow a lot in a matter of days.

They should grow around 2mm per day

I had egg collection on Saturday and only had 2 follicles collected and the rest too small but actually they are much better quality so far than anything I had collected in the previous 2 cycles where had 10+ collected

I think on day 7 my measurable two follicles were circa 11/12mm

I'm paying for IVF though and knew that we were focusing on quality not quantity so was happy to go ahead with just collecting the two although we were offered the option of cancelling the cycle.

Most NHS clinics will cancel if less than 3 follicles

Very quickly! Most people go through this worry at the first scan it's very common

@Oceanblueeyes21 Hello, I just had similar results from my day 8 scan yesterday so try not to worry. The Dr reassured me it’s early days and I have another scan tomorrow so fingers crossed! My dosage of Menopur increased from 225 to 300 and weirdly fewer side effects!
Feel free to ask any questions and good luck! X

Hi @June36

Thank you for your response and to all others as well, I really appreciate your input.

June36 - I have my next scan tomorrow (day 11). I am a bit worried as I was having a bit of EWCM and tender breasts which indicated that estrogen is rising but today the EWCM is less. I am trying to not worry but it is not easy.

Are you having any EWCM or tender breasts?

Are you cycle day 11 now or stims day 11? What size are your follicles up to? X

It really varies. When l had IVF then one day they were concerned about the growth, they brought forward my appointment to 22 hours later and things has improved significantly. They ended up having to bring forward my egg retrieval date as they accelerated ahead of where they thought they would be. I would be having a fair amount of fluids and protein to help everything along.

HI all I just had my next scan and I am on day 11 of stims today.

I have 3 follicles, 19, 15 and a 14. I am pretty distraught.

Trying to stay positive but I had to run into the hospital bathroom after my apt as I completely broke down. Today has been a hard day.

I will try and have more protein over the weekend and I have already been drinking lots of water.

Thanks so much for your responses. Your prayers for me would be appreciated.

Anything over 14mm on the day of trigger is capable of containing a mature egg - have they said when you will trigger? If it's tomorrow (they won't want the 19mm to get too big) then you've still got potentially 3 days of growth left (which could be as much as 6mm)

Hi @Oceanblueeyes21,

I think we are in similar points in our cycles, what’s EWCM? (newbie here) and no haven’t had much breast tenderness. I know it’s easy for me to say but try not to worry about it as additional worry isn’t great for you. I barely understand my results tbh and just try and distract myself.
Could you distract yourself with some self care?
Remember you are doing great