FET - Natural or Medicated???

[*Nikki*]

Thanks Mrs P.... WOW Congratulations on your BFP how very exciting.... i hope you have a wonderful pregnancy
All your meds you used i have never used any of them... i have regular periods (well mostly regular sometimes it goes abit AWOL.... in my ivf cycles my lining has been fine.... no one mentioned anything bad abt it so im just assuming it was good lol)

I wont be doing my FET cycle for alittle bit..... i need to have an op to get my ENDO out but just being prepared

Thanks

[juniper76]

I did a natural FET straight after my first IVF. There were no meds prior to transfer - I just went in for monitoring and we waited for me to O. After the transfer I was on 2x200mg progesterone pessaries daily. My FS said they were probably unnecessary, but he'd give them to me anyway. I think it's probably good he did because my LP is usually shorter after an IVF cycle.

I think if you do a medicated FET you don't ovulate? I liked having another chance for our cycle to work with the natural FET.

[Janie71]

Hi there - I had a HRT FET like Mrs P. I had Progynova tablets also in the lead up to transfer to thicken my lining. It took quite a while and they had to keep upping the dose as my lining was not responding, but eventually it got there. Just prior to transfer I started taking the progesterone pessaries (2 a day - 1 in morning and one at night).

This HRT FET has resulted in my beautiful 8 month old daughter. As Mrs P mentioned, you have to continue on the Progynova and pessaries until your placenta takes over the nourishment of your baby - I took them up until I was 10 weeks pregnant.

I had to have a medicated FET as I have PCOS and a very irregular cycle. I think the FS decides which way to go depending on how regular your cycle is.

Best of luck!

Janie xxx