Is it okay to travel just before stims?

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I'm just wondering if anyone has travelled in the weeks leading up to the stims cycle before?

I have an egg collection under general anaesthetic booked in for 26th May, I've been told I will be stimming and having scans 2 weeks leading up to this date (roughly from 12th May) and will be on the pill at the end of April to control when I have my period.

I have a holiday booked to Mexico from 4th - 10th May. We get back 2 days before I'm meant to start my stim injections. Do you think this is too risky?

I was on the short protocal in January (no pill, just waited for my period) and produced 12 eggs, however the sedation during egg collection did not work for me and they had to stop the egg collection after only collecting 4/12 eggs. For the IVF I'm doing, I need at least 10 eggs. It is unsafe for me to have sedation again which is why I have been booked in for general anaesthetic, and why I need to go on the pill because the egg collection has already been set in stone.

Just wondering if anyone else has gone on holiday within the same month as egg collection?

Hi you shouldn't travel anywhere with zika risk up to 3 months before any fertility treatment. If being treated privately they actually make you sign a form to say you won't travel. Unfortunately Mexico is one of those countries. Very few long haul places classed as zika free now! But of course some people do still travel and concieve while travelling, or travel when pregnant to these countries.

The risk to the foetus is terrible if you do contract it so for me it wasn't worth the risk and I had to re arrange my long haul holidays when ttc.

The other option is to go anyway and take a zika blood test privately when you come back (nhs won't offer them) from memory that would have cost me about £500 and I was told they were not 100% accurate anyway.

@Journey2022 I had no idea about this! Thank you for letting me know, obviously the holiday was prebooked as we had been waiting over a year to start IVF and still hadn't recieved an approval for our application when we booked it. That's really good to know though, we will look into getting a refund for the holiday as that is obviously a big risk we don't want to take.

Oh that's so annoying we actually also had Mexico booked then due to starting stims privately had to sign something saying we wouldn't travel to a country with zika! Such a pain.

We actually changed our Mexico holiday to mauritius - it's one of the few long haul places you can go.

Seychelles, Sri lanka and Dubai are also options, and I think possibly some smaller Caribbean islands but it seemed like too much of a grey area and a risk for us.

I have known people travel to zika countries (Maldives on 2 occasions) and they were pregnant or concieved there and they were fine. Maldives is actually down as potential zika though!

I travelled while my stims were about to start. I had to take injection with me and wait for period. I just timed it to make sure I'd be back for cycle day 7 scan. I avoided the Zika countries though and choose Israel. Travelling is completely fine, if it is the 'safe' country.

We went to Mexico on vacay and our consultant wouldn't let us start IVF until after 3 months had passed because of the risk of Zika. If you do go, enjoy it, but factor in a 3 month wait to start IVF.