Follicles

[CharlieBrownGirl]

Today I received my results back from the HyCoSy procedure I had on CD10.

The Professor was happy with the results and said levels were to be expected for someone my age and AMH levels (7.8).

What I don't understand and was hoping someone could explain relates to follicles. The summary explains:

'The right ovary measures 27x26x21mm with 3 follicles less than 10mm and a dominant follicle measuring 20mm. The left ovary measures 33x12x18mm with 4 follicles less than 10mm.'

What does this mean? I'm kicking myself I didn't ask during the $100 / 10 minute consultation.

[peanutter]

are the follicles the things that bubble then pop and release the eggie?

the dominant one is the one most likelt to release an egg.

so it's good that you have a few which are giving it a crack, and good that one is taking the lead.

that's based on my best recollections ... maybe someone else can give some more detail??

HTH

[CharlieBrownGirl]

Thanks peanutter.

Anyone got any idea about how many follicles is ideal?

[Elocin]

I've just done some Googling, and from what I've read the follicles are the immature eggs.

The domiant follicle he mentioned, I assume, would be the egg to be released from the right ovary during ovulation.

I have no idea how many are ideal in the lead up to O, but as Peanutter said, it's sounding great that you have a few lined up ready to go and a big one taking the lead

xo

[peanutter]

it was a while ago, but I think I had 5 on one side and 3 on the other, when they did an internal on me?

and there was one that was dominant - like you.

woooooooooooot!! all sounding very exciting, and progress-y ...

for you, CBG! can't wait for you to get some positive news

[toomanyshoes]

I have no idea but just wanted to say yay to everything looking good!

[Mildez]

At the beginning of every cycle you have a number of follicles (from just a few to 20odd) during the cycle the follies compete to be the fattest one which is ultimately the one you will ovulate (some times 2 which results in faternal twins if they both win and become babies) they say the other slow pokes are reabsorbed which means they are gone and wont regrow next month hence why with age your egg reserve lowers as to begin with in your menstral cycle your produce alot more then just one follicle and in 20-30years of mentrating your not going to have near as many as you did to start with. So your results are perfect. Your body is producing a normal amount of follies at the beginning of your cycle and as your cycle progresses you have one clear leading follie which should contain a mature egg when you ovulate. Once one follicle is clearly leading the other follicals that were in the race to begin with stop growing and are then reabsorbed.

In IVF the idea of the drugs you take is to make sure all those follies for the month grow at the same or similar rates so at egg collection you have a number of follies containing mature eggs instead of the just 1 or 2 you would have in an unmedicated or natural cycle.

[CharlieBrownGirl]

Thank you Ladies for taking the jargon out of Dr Google.
Mildez, makes perfect sense. Thank you for your time and reassurance.