IVF October 2024

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Hi 👋
I'm due to commence IVF next month (injections to start 2nd October).
Thought I'd start a group for anyone going through the same thing at the same time to support each other ☺️
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Welcome. It took 11 fertilised for me to find a euploid. I'm just on gonal, the same as last time. I hope you get a better result this time too.

I'm on 450 Menopur and today, due to a miscommunication with my husband who injects me, we injected around 500. How much of an issue would it be?
I'm day 10 of stims

I was very productive on stims, the high estrogen was fantastic for my ADHD. The crash after however, that was awful.

@naomimn are you on Fyremadel or similar yet? How large are the follicles and are there any lead ones? I'd call the clinic first thing just incase, it might be totally fine but best to check.

@AllTheSupplements I'm doing a frozen transfer and am on provera 10mg.
The nursing team is super unhelpful, have given me wrong advice on a number of occasions and my doc is impossible to get hold of but will try both (called the nurse emergency line already and no answer)

@AllTheSupplements and I'm not really sure how large the follicles are?? I wasn't given a report, just told yesterday to wait for another scan on Monday and told we will likely trigger on Monday

Hi all! Hope you don’t mind me joining. I am 43 and we had our first round of IVF in August. 4 embryos went for PGT testing and we got one high quality embryo. Started another retrieval round to try to “bank” some more embryos before going to transfer stage. currently on fematab. Injections to start on Thursday of this week. Feeling very very nervous.

Without being a doctor or nurse then I don’t know. However, I’d imagine you should just carry on as normal so as not to break the cycle and call your clinic when they open tomorrow. I hope it’s ok for you. I imagine so as that’s a very small excess.

Never been so glad to see AF today!

Means my stims start tomorrow evening feeling anxious. I’m doing 150iu of Meriofert any experiences? For those already had an EC on what day did it fall? How many days of Stims did you have?

@Purpleflowers17 great news! I've always stimmed for about 12 days - but I'm a low responder. Egg collections have normally been around day 14/15 for me I think.... good luck!

I'm on day 4 of gonal f and switch to pergoveris tomorrow. First time using pergoveris - anyone else have it before? Works in exactly the same way as gonal f so will be nice and easy to administer.

@naomimn I'm sure it'll be absolutely fine but best to contact your clinic tomorrow to let them know, just in case they ask you to reduce the dose tomorrow evening x

@Lozzy000 Yes, I’m using Pergoveris during this cycle. It’s great, the pen is very easy to use and I’ve had no side effects so far. I’m doing 250 iu per day, how about you?

@Purpleflowers17 It’s 11 days of stims for me, egg collection is scheduled for day 13.

Thanks @BelleCrescent @Lozzy000 i have 12 days of stims but think all depends how you progress on them.

Hi @Willowwalks ! We’re doing a duo stim too, this is our 1st cycle and PGT-A testing will commence after the 2nd one on embryos from both cycles. I think having 1 high quality embryo is already a good outcome, I hear stories where they ended up with none 😣Hope your 2nd cycle will be successful too!

Thanks so much @BelleCrescent - I have everything crossed for you too. Yes when we heard that only one embryo passed the testing we were gutted but when the consultant went through the stats for a woman my age we felt very grateful - but also scared we will struggle to get another. Anyway, PMA I guess!

@Willowwalks I hope you get at least one more, fingers crossed! If not then at least it's reassuring to know that the one you have is high quality, and that's better than transferring lots of untested embryos. How long did it take to get the PGT-A results? I'm so nervous about waiting for the results, I won't know at least until the end of November! Are you hoping to transfer before Christmas?

@BelleCrescent it took about 3 weeks to get the results but I am in Ireland so maybe it is quicker in the UK (if that’s where you’re based). I would absolutely love to do a transfer before Christmas but it is such a slow process in general that I feel it could be the new year. The IVF journey is so protracted and such an emotional rollercoaster..I really feel for us all!!

@Purpleflowers17 that sounds about normal to me 😊 my new clinic have given me meds for 10 days but I expect I will stim for longer.

@BelleCrescent great! I've never felt any symptoms from the other stims I've taken - so hoping this will be the same. I was on 225IU gonal f for 4 days and now moving to 200IU pergoveris from today and for the next 6 days. I have a tracking scan tomorrow so they may change the dose and increase it. I've always been on max 450IU for my previous cycles, so interested to see if things are progressing on a lower dose alongside steroids (which are supposed to help the ovaries respond better) x

@Willowwalks I live in England but they said it'd take 2-3 weeks for us too! Seems like a long time, I think I'll go mad!! We're thinking about doing the transfer in January (if there's anything to transfer), just so that we don't have to worry about waiting for the result of a pregnancy test over the Christmas period. I feel like I need a bit of time off at the end of the year, it's been so stressful. I agree with you, it's a really hard thing to go through for all of us, nice to have a forum like this because otherwise there's not many people who understand.

@BelleCrescent @Lozzy000 I'm starting injections on the 15th of October

@BelleCrescent the wait is hard. At least when you’re injecting etc you feel like you’re actively doing something to make it all come together. But I am sending all the positive vibes your direction and to everyone else on the thread.

anyone else around my age (43) who is also at the retrieval stage?

@Hopingforno2in2024 how did your scan go last week?

Good luck @Scorbunny2 - not too long to wait! X

It went well thanks @Ru19, lining was 15mm :) transfer tomorrow!

How are you doing?

Eek transfer at 13:00 today!