FET - when is OTD?

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Just wondering - how long after transfer was your OTD? I'm due an FET in the next couple of weeks but not sure I've got enough cyclogest pessaries for the full 2 weeks wait.

Mine was 9dp5dt which is one of the earlier ones - some clinics have much later ones

Mine was the standard 14dp5dt - can you get a prescription for some more cyclogest from your clinic? It was actually included in my transfer day pack (lots of paperwork!) so I could go straight to the pharmacy in the event of a positive test.

@WhineyMineyMoo ooohh I've not heard of a transfer day pack! I'll ask them at my scan next week I think.

@ivfbeenbusy I was thinking about you the other day funnily enough and wondered how you were doing!

@ivfbeenbusy how come yours was so early, the timeline I’ve been given says 13-16 dp5dt. Is 9dp5dt accurate, is so was that a urine or blood test?

I had to test today at 10dp5dt. This seems to be early compared to a lot of clinics too. I have heard of people being given a test day of 9dp5dt as well though. I think the thinking behind this is that your technically 14 days past ‘ovulation’ (although in our case it’s days past egg collection and then we have the longest wait ever for transfer in between) at this point. So in a 28day cycle your period would be due and therefore a test would pickup a positive result at this point?

[quote Gardenlady543]@ivfbeenbusy how come yours was so early, the timeline I’ve been given says 13-16 dp5dt. Is 9dp5dt accurate, is so was that a urine or blood test?[/quote]

This is for a blood test I think it's 11dp5dt for a urine test

It's not too early when you think it's actually 14DPO which is the day most people would miss their period anyway

Studies have shown that highest likelihood of a viable pregnancy is to have a hcg of 100+ on 9dp5dt and that's been the case throughout my journey (those ending in miscarriage and ectopics were all lower than this on this day)

@SheepytheDuck @ivfbeenbusy that is good to know, I’m having FET at the moment after an unsuccessful fresh transfer, so will be reassured that I can test a bit earlier.

@Gardenlady543

I'm a compulsive tester 🙈

I usually started testing around 4dp5dt - I got a BFP with my twins on that day

How’s it going @ivfbeenbusy? You must be due soon?

@ivfbeenbusy oh that’s good to know and that was FET rather than fresh wasn’t it? I remember you from previous threads. In my fresh cycle I started testing from 5dp5dt, everything was always negative I got symptoms that I thought could be implantation on 7dp5dt then started spotting the next day and then a full blown period from 11dp5dt. The early bleed seemed to indicate that my progesterone dose wasn’t high enough so the early tests at least reassured me that I wasn’t pregnant.

I think the clinics give a later OTD as by then it should definitely be positive, so if they’re not they are quite confident it’s ok to stop progesterone. I hope things work for me this time, I got a good amount of good quality blasts, my partners sperm has good numbers, so all I can think of is that I have an implantation issue, I can’t understand statistically why it wouldn’t have happened otherwise. I guess only time will tell at this point.

Hey all hope yous are well. I had my transfer on Wednesday and I’ve started spotting is it too early for implantation bleeding?