IVF clinic discharge & meds withdrawal

[xMrsxHx87x]

Hi everyone. I wondered if people would be able to share their experiences of ending their care package with an IVF clinic following a positive pregnancy outcome. I'm currently 8 weeks pregnant, and since the egg collection, the only medication I've been on are twice-daily Cyclogest pessaries. At my viability scan last Thursday, all was measuring well and the baby was exactly where we would expect it to be, development-wise.

The nurse told me to keep taking the pessaries for another week, and then to stop completely. I'm feeling a little anxious about cutting out the progesterone supplements completely, as I've read other cases of people being slowly "weaned" off their medication. But of course everyone's body is different! Has anyone else been advised to stop cold turkey, and had a healthy pregnancy from that point onwards? TIA.

Hi, given that you did a fresh IVF transfer you will have a corpus luteum producing your own progesterone from the start anyway so don’t panic! Just to flag a lot of posts you read might be related to medicated FET, which is where you don’t ovulate due to the prep meds so you don’t create a corpus luteum so don’t have your own progesterone until the placenta takes over around 12 weeks. I’ve just done this and my support was weaned off from 10 weeks onwards but I literally was 100% reliant on the meds in those early weeks unlike your fresh transfer.

That makes sense! Thanks for your reply, this is very clear :-)