I had the same thing happen a couple of years ago when we first started to ttc, had the bloodtest and my immunity was low so I just had another jab no questions asked. I remember having my original shot when I was in grade 6, but that is 20 years ago now so I figure it must have worn off. It's well worth being immune, my Mum and Aunty both caught rubella/german measles when they where pg at the same time many years ago and had terrible complications, suffice to say, the reason I didn't ask any questions and just had it done. 3 months does fly by.
Hi everyone,
I realise this is an old thread so hope people will see my new post.
I have just been told I have low immunity to Rubella. I am going through a fertility clinic for IVF... had all my blood tests done on the 10th of Jan. There was a stuff up with the clinic not actually getting the results until mid Feb but once they got them I rang and checked everything was okay (actually I rang about 5 times about my results due to the mix up). Anyway I was told all my results were all okay.
I then went through the month of being on the pill, couple of weeks of being on synarel and had my scan yesterday to check everything was going right ready to start on injections. Suddenly they tell me "Your Rubella immunisation is low so we would normally recommend not trying to get pregnant until atleast 28 days after you are re-immunised." I was so ****ed off. Why in all my phone calls to the clinic over the past 6 weeks did they not tell me this? I could have been immunised and had that 28 days count down whilst I was on the contraceptive pill! I was told that rather than start all over again with another month of the contraceptive pill I can stay on Synarel for another month to hold my cycle where it is and then have another scan but I'm not sure what that will do to my crazy body being on it for another 4 weeks longer than the original 4 weeks. My natural cycles are crazy enough and if the IVF doesn't work I will possibly go back to trying donor insemination (and clomid didn't help when I was doing it before) so I don't want to screw with my cycles any more than I have to.
The clinic have told me that I am a 9 and 10 + is considered immune. They have had these results for 6 weeks but apparently somehow thought I knew the results (that someone would have told me) so everytime I rang to check everything was okay no body said anything about it!!!!
I have decided to proceed as they have told me that there is very little german measles around and I do have some immunity (just not as much as I would have liked) but I'm not prepared to start all over again and don't want to extend my time on synarel.
Of course if I do get pregnant I will probably be paranoid of getting sick for the first 20 weeks (after that you are apparently okay) but I figure the chances are I won't get pregnant anyway (but will hopefully get some good embryos and might get pregnant next cycle). So I'm now thinking if i don't get pregnant I will see about being immunised and then wait 28 days before the next embryo transfer.
I am still angry with the clinic for not telling me earlier because then I could have had this done before I even went on the contraceptive pill.
I was suprised to read that the vaccination normally lasts 16 years. We normally get it in year 7 (I was 12, some students are 13) so in this case many women wouldn't be covered by the time they are pregnant (I mean alot of women have their first child after they are 28 or 29 and even those who have them younger would often have other children after this age). I think this should be made more common knowledge - I mean they tell women to start taking folate once they start trying to get pregnant - why not advertise (as a message from the health department) theat women over 28 trying to get pregnant should be reimmunised for Rubella.
Lori
1st IVF cycle after a year of donor insemination (with clinic assistance) - what if I had got pregnant then and hadn't been any the wiser that I might not be covered against rubella.
Very ****ed off with my clinic.
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