Hi Ferrals,
I don't know if stress directly affects or causes high FSH, but I'm sure it doesn't help the situation, but it's so hard not to stress when you have to deal with what you are. You could try doing things like meditation or daily quiet time with deep breathing, yoga etc just to balance out the stress levels. With 3 boys, I'd imagine it's hard to find time. I hope this month is the lucky month for you and you have to cancel your FS appointment.

How is everyone else? I often wonder where everyone is at.

My update: Since failed Cycle #4 which was my last post, I did a back to back and went straight into Cycle #5 with the same FS, but I went back to using my old protocol: Antagonist with 450 Puregon.
Here's how it played out:
CD1: AF Starts
CD2/SD1: Start Puregon 450 Injections
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SD7: 1st Scan 5-6 Antral Follicles, but none recruited or growing
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SD10: 2nd Scan 2 Antral Follicles, but no follicles developing (no movement)
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SD13: 3rd Scan showed no movement AT ALL, thin lining. FS puts me on Progynova
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SD17: 4th Scan showed no movement AT ALL. A BT showed my DHEA level was through the roof at 5600, so I dropped my dose from 75mg/day to 25mg/day.
CD19/SD18: Stopped the FSH Injections. Kept taking progynova. FS said to wait and see if my body would kick back into gear by itself.
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CD 25: 5th Scan (7 days since stopping injections). No movement, but a BT shows an FSH level of 75, Est320. FS advised me completely stop DHEA, Progynova, drop my Prednisone to 1/day and stay on Baby Asprin. He tells be with that level, I'm post-menapausal
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CD 48: Another 3 weeks pass and no AF so I went for a scan and there was 1 x 18mm follicle. FS said to go to EPU but because the chance of success was the same as if we just BD'd, DH & I decided to do that instead.
CD 49: Obvious that I was ovulating, loads of fertile mucus, DH and I got into action.
CD 50: AF starts midday. Thought it was just some spotting, but it was definitely AF (bright red). It lasted 3 days and has then disappeared again.

Today I am on CD 57 if I consider the bleed a mid-cycle bleed of some sort??? or else I'm on CD 8??? But what I can't understand is how I could have had an 18mm follicle (viewed via scan) and then got AF 2 days later??? (The FS I am seeing takes no routine bloods, so aside from scans, I have no other info to go off which might shed light on what my hormones were actually up to).

So here I am, waiting again - for what, I don't know. AF? Ovulation? I have no control over this so I can only go with it and wait and see, no matter how frustrated that makes me. So anyway, that's my update. At the same time we've been exploring known donor, did counselling for it - but not looking too promising for me. Where to from here? I don't know, I really, really don't know.

Dusty, bulieJ, Daisie, Possums, anyos, Sara69 and others who have passed through this thread - would love to know how my fellow High-FSH'ers are getting on. Post an update if you're up to it. Hopefully all are ok.

One things for sure...life definitely doesn't always work out like we thought it might.

xx