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  1. #1
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    Sep 2009
    central QLD
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    Oh yay! Well done with the frosties.
    Crinone can cause cramping, as can implantation
    It's not always nasty aunt flo!
    xo

  2. #2
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    Apr 2011
    120

    Fingers crossed for you Lu!!

    Lu hoping so much the cramping is implantation for you!!!!!

    Suxh great news you have two in the freezer too!!!

    xx

  3. #3
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    May 2011
    131

    Afm
    Hoping hoping !!!! Damn this crinone! So many symptoms with it that are similar to pg symptoms
    Hope everyone is well
    5 more sleeps unless af shows b4 .....
    Just a question when can I poas ?? And will it be affected by the crinone??
    Very tempted yet scared its a bfn ...

  4. #4
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    Oct 2007
    Caroline Springs
    2,341

    Hi Luisella,

    The crinone won't effect a home pregnancy test, but your trigger shot does (contains synthetic hcg), and so do some of the IVF meds (but not all so just check your meds).

    With the trigger shot, the number of days it will effect a pregnancy test depends on the dose you had to take. I personally took hpt's from a couple of days after embryo transfer so I could watch the positive line on the tests get lighter and lighter, then kept testing and watched the pregnancy line get darker again as I had conceived.

    Here's a picture of my tests. It's hard to tell, but the first two have very faint lines, then it goes away, then the line gets progressively darker again.

    To work out how long it should take to be gone based on your dose you can do a little maths. This is how you do it:

    1. Work out how many units of hcg was in your trigger shot (10,000 is pretty common...)
    2. The hcg has a half life of around 24-36 hours, so every at least 36 hours the hcg level has halved.
    3. Starting from the hour you gave yourself the shot, add 36 hours (just to be on the safe side) and halve the hcg level.
    4. Check how sensitive the hpt's are that you are using and when you calculations of the synthetic hcg level are lower than the sensitivity level of the hpt, then it should come up negative if you are not pregnant. If it comes up positive then it should mean you are pregnant

    For example:
    If you say you took the trigger shot at 0 hours and you had 10,000 units of hcg, then you calculations would look like this...
    0 hours - 10,000 units hcg
    36 hours - 5,000 units hcg
    72 hours - 2,500 units hcg
    108 hours - 1250 units hcg
    144 hours - 625 units hcg
    180 hours - 313 units hcg
    216 hours - 156 units hcg
    254 hours - 78 units hcg
    288 hours - 39 units hcg
    324 hours - 20 unit hcg
    360 hours - 10 units hcg

    If your hpt's have a sensitivity of say 100 units, then you should be able to test around the 254 hour mark (day 10-11).

    This is based on the highest limit of the half-life, so you could probably test even earlier, but you couldn't be 100% sure of the result.

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Oct 2007
    Caroline Springs
    2,341

    Hi Luisella,

    The crinone won't effect a home pregnancy test, but your trigger shot does (contains synthetic hcg), and so do some of the IVF meds (but not all so just check your meds).

    With the trigger shot, the number of days it will effect a pregnancy test depends on the dose you had to take. I personally took hpt's from a couple of days after embryo transfer so I could watch the positive line on the tests get lighter and lighter, then kept testing and watched the pregnancy line get darker again as I had conceived.

    Here's a picture of my tests. It's hard to tell, but the first two have very faint lines, then it goes away, then the line gets progressively darker again.

    To work out how long it should take to be gone based on your dose you can do a little maths. This is how you do it:

    1. Work out how many units of hcg was in your trigger shot (10,000 is pretty common...)
    2. The hcg has a half life of around 24-36 hours, so every at least 36 hours the hcg level has halved.
    3. Starting from the hour you gave yourself the shot, add 36 hours (just to be on the safe side) and halve the hcg level.
    4. Check how sensitive the hpt's are that you are using and when you calculations of the synthetic hcg level are lower than the sensitivity level of the hpt, then it should come up negative if you are not pregnant. If it comes up positive then it should mean you are pregnant

    For example:
    If you say you took the trigger shot at 0 hours and you had 10,000 units of hcg, then you calculations would look like this...
    0 hours - 10,000 units hcg
    36 hours - 5,000 units hcg
    72 hours - 2,500 units hcg
    108 hours - 1250 units hcg
    144 hours - 625 units hcg
    180 hours - 313 units hcg
    216 hours - 156 units hcg
    254 hours - 78 units hcg
    288 hours - 39 units hcg
    324 hours - 20 unit hcg
    360 hours - 10 units hcg

    If your hpt's have a sensitivity of say 100 units, then you should be able to test around the 254 hour mark (day 10-11).

    This is based on the highest limit of the half-life, so you could probably test even earlier, but you couldn't be 100% sure of the result.

  6. #6
    Registered User

    May 2011
    131

    Thanks for that!! Mylitta
    I think I'll wait I have a feeling af will show soon...... Don't want to be disappointed twice
    ...just going crazy.... Just need to know"........