Best of luck with it. Yes, many women have success first go.
The pill is to down regulate you... get your hormones back to baseline before the artificially stimulated hormones start. Not every clinic does this type of cycle (I skipped it).
I was never weighed at all for my IVF's.
Hang in there, by doing IVF your odds of success have gone up dramatically .
Thanks Maruschke It makes a huge difference and help to get some answers and positive news on first time success so THANKS!
I might ask the nurse if we can skip the pill portion but I guess it will depend on how they do things right?? I would rather get on with it but I'm sure they're
used to inpatient women like me LOL
I have never taken the pill either. Different protocols, different clinics I guess.
I can't say you will definitely have success first go. As M said, lots do, but lots don't. Trick is not to get your hopes up. Yes, i know - impossible The FS will likely use your first go as a bit of an experiment to see how you respond to meds, etc.
I was weighed I think. I am also weighed at each pickup. I guess to determine anaesthetic amounts.
Mia, I had (yet another) BT and was then was on Synarel from CD21 of the previous cycle to the main stim cycle. Synarel 'regulates' your hormones in preparation for the stimulation part of the cycle in a different way to the pill - it actually supresses your brain's control over the reproductive hormones, which gives the FS complete control instead. But different clinics have a different range of protocols, and different couples with different sets of problem will use different drugs at different dosages... My theory is that they know what they're doing, and make decisions for what are usually really good reasons, and they're perfectly happy to explain those reasons if you ask (if they're not, find someone else to ask!) There are lots of elements of the IVF process that are not well-proven one way or another, and different clinics do differently because of the opinion of the FSs that work there. My clinic is pretty clear whether a decision is made based on solid research, less solid research, theory or purely as 'finding out what works best for you.'
So it'll be a good chance for you to ask all those questions, to get and sign the consent froms, to find out what the details of the next step of the process are, and to learn how to inject/sniff/insert, etc.
And I was never weighed, even for the anasthetic, but they did ask and record my height and weight. I look like I have a healthy BMI (which I do, just) so perhaps that's why they were happy enough to take my word for it.
It's a pretty exciting journey, but for me it's been tougher than I expected, especially the final 18 days while I wait to find out if it's all gone to plan or not (I find out tomorrow! )
I agree with n2l, it's advisable but impossible not to get your hopes up, but I think you probably already know that from you experience with Clomid and IUI. I think IVF just magnifies every aspect of the experience because of the extra financial, time, risk and emotional comittments when you take the IVF step. The emotional bit is the hardest for me - because I know there were genuine, fertilized, growing and developing embryos transferred, and I'm already emotionally attached to them in a way I wasn't with the imaginary and hoped for egg/sperm combos with other froms of ttc.
Anyway, I wish you all the best for a sticky bub at the end of your IVF cycle!
As you know I have no experience with IVF but I just wanted to wish you every success with the IVF. I hope everything goes smoothly for you and you get that little Mini Mia. Good Luck hun.
Just wanted to pop in and share some hope. I am one who fell first cycle- my DD is now 12 months and taking complete control of everything!! I took the pill at the beginning of the cycle and can't remember ever being weighed. Even in the hospital before the egg retrieval they just asked my weight for anaesthesia.
Like you I am starting IVF this month. Whilst I am not taking the pill as part of my cycle I have been taking zoladex for the past three months which works as a down regulator (much like why people are often given the pill). I think... well this is how I understand it anyway. So whilst I started my IVF protocol back in Oct/Nov, I only expect to start jabbing etc this month. Being patient is so very hard. I understand what you mea about really wanting it to work. I am so very hopeful that it will work but also petrified about the possibility it might not. Either way this journey is not an easy one. But everyone at BB is so helfpul. I've really been finding this journry a lot easier since having joined. Wish you all the best. Let us know how you get on.
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It makes a huge difference and help to get some answers and positive news on first time success so THANKS!
The FS will likely use your first go as a bit of an experiment to see how you respond to meds, etc.
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