Long-term TTC & Assisted Conception April - May 2010

[dreamrise659]

Hi Lisa,

I am doing my first IVF cycle now (had embryo transfer yesterday so now on the 2ww).
Anyway I was on 225 gonal-F.

I had 12 eggs collected on Monday but only 3 of those fertilized and only 1 was developing properly by the time I had my embryo transfer on Wednesday. They have told me they are going to let the other 2 grow for a few more days and see how they look then but I may end up with no frozen embies (so really have to hope this one takes as I don't want to go through the whole thing again).

I think the dosage of Gonal-F depends on your age and how your body has responded to other hormones in the past. I was also on clomid in the past and only ever ended up with one egg per cycle and obviously seeing the results of my cycle now I think if I had been on less than 225 I may well have ended up with no embryos. By the way I am 36.

What other drugs are you on? I was on synarel nasal spray and am now on cristone vaginal gel (progesterone support).

Best wishes
Lori

Started donor search Dec 06, Started donor insemination Jan 09, Started IVF Feb 10.

[KitKat72]

OK, I've gotten a bit behind so I'm afraid I'm going to miss a lot of things I should say in my persies, but here goes:

Murraycod, holy cow that's a lot of follies, and a lot of big ones. How annoying that your EPU had to be pushed back a day -- I can't believe Repromed isn't equipped to do EPUs on any day when that's most suitable for their customers -- who are, by the way, paying a LOT of money for the privilege. Anyway, good luck for your EPU today! I suspect you're in the recovery room by now, so I hope you are not too uncomfortable when you get home and likely read this. Put your feet up and take it easy!

Good luck to all you doing FETs today (there seemed to be a bunch of you if I remember correctly -- but I can't get back into the earlier part of this thread w/o losing this message so apologies if I've got my dates wrong).

Leabie, hope your TWW is still going well and not driving you too crazy.

Dreamrise, welcome to the TWW. I hope it goes quickly for you! I'm sorry to hear you got so few embies from so many eggs. I feel your pain b/c I got only 2 embies from 6 eggs (using ICSI, no less). Just to give you some hope, originally I had 1 fast-growing embie and 1 slow-growing one, but that second one made it to blast and they were able to freeze it, so you never know about your 2 slowpokes!

LisaB, I think the dosage depends on your age. I'm 38 and my FS had originally decided to start me on 225 of Puregon. When I asked around, I was told that that was on the low side for someone my age. I got my anti-Mullerian hormone test results right before I was going to start the injections, however, and learned that I had lower-than-average fertility, so my FS bumped up my starting dose to 275 to be safe. At my scans I had 7-8 follies, which the FS deemed adequate, so the doc decided not to bump up my dose even higher, and I ended up with 6 eggs, which led to 2 good embies.

Juniper - I'm so happy to hear those jerks didn't get your engagement ring.

Welcome to the new girls I've missed, and hi to everyone else I didn't mention personally today.

AFM, I went in for my BT this morning. Lucky me, after getting there 5 minutes after the lab opened and still having to wait my turn behind the nana brigade who beat me in getting there, I was lucky enough to get a trainee who butchered my left arm mercilessly without getting enough blood. Finally, the "real" tech took over and quickly drew the required blood from my right arm. So now I have two sore, bruised arms! I *knew* I have bad veins, and it was pretty clear to me the girl was just learning, so I wish I had spoken up and asked for the "real" guy to do it all along. I also wish I had followed my own advice and drank a load of water before going in since I know that helps. Now just trying to keep myself occupied until getting the results this afternoon. In the meantime, I've been very naughty and POASed (sorry - I know that's ungrammatical) again both yesterday and early this morning. I got 2 more BFPs. What are the chances of this being a chemical pregnancy when I've had BFPs 3 days in a row?!?

Good luck everyone,
Kitkat72