IVF and Covid Vaccine

[1940s]

I'm starting IVF this month and have been invited for my vaccine.

Should I take it? What if it gives me a temperature or cold / flu symptoms?

What if I am one of the (vanishingly small) women who has an altered menstrual cycle?

Hi @1940s we've discussed this a lot on here already, get the vaccine.

You do not want Covid in pregnancy.

I had my second jab a couple of weeks ago now.

So you'd have the vaccine in the same week as egg collection or embryo transfer?

I'm not talking about a 6 / 8 week gap I'm talking about IVF processes and Covid jab being days apart.

The only time to not get it is in the couple of days before you need to be in clinic, there's a slight risk it will give you a temperature and if your clinic does temperature checks then they may not proceed. I would happily have it at any other time in my treatment. I thought I was going to be in the middle of a FET when I booked the vaccines a few months ago.

I wouldn't put it off, aside from the risk to you and any pregnancy if you got Covid, you would be a risk to the HCW that you come into contact with and other vulnerable people in the hospital when you are attending pregnancy scans, you may have IVF treatment cancelled if you contract Covid during it and people seem to be unaware of how awful long Covid is. As a physician I'm seeing young healthy people who are horrendously unwell with long Covid, they cough so badly they can't finish a sentence, they are too short of breath to even make it up the stairs and are so fatigued they literally can't do any of their normal activities and their symptoms have been ongoing for months.

To clarify. I am pro vaccine. I have no bizarre theories as to why this vaccine is worse than any other vaccine I've happily taken. I'm just concerned about the specific days I have the option to take it and the clash of critical ivf processes.

Hi @1940s, I was told by my clinic that ideally I’d have had the vaccine at least 3 weeks before starting treatment so it wouldn’t run the risk of interfering with any meds although I understand there’s no evidence that it would do that, it was just an over abundance of caution. I’d had mine about 5 weeks prior to starting injections. However there was no indication that if it hadn’t been that long that they would have delayed me any further.

Thanks so much @Clt1983