Question: I've been reading all your different accounts of IVF treatment cycles and trying to figure out what's normal. I think the nurse at my clinic has put me on a cycle that's very long on syneral just to suit the doctors operating days. Does anyone know what's the normal wait between Syneral, AF and Puregon. I started syneral om 30th June, AF arrived on 7th/8th July (middle of night). I'm not due to go back til the 16th July to see if I start the puregon - the nurse said that this was to make sure that my hormones were definitely all suppressed but it seems really long compared to what I've read elsewhere.
Jasmin - I was on a down-reg cyle over Christmas last year, and the total cycle length, including the TWW at the end, was about 7 or 8 weeks. I just checked my diary, and it shows that I started the synarel twice daily on 2 January, and took my last dose on 26 January - so over three weeks of sniffing.

I don't think that it had anything to do with FS's schedule, rather it was how long it took for my body to go 'down' and then once you start injecting, the synarel stops you ovulating whilst your ovaries produce lots of follicles (hopefully). I wasn't on puregon, I was on gonal-f injections. I don't know if that would make a difference.

My DH needed the different drugs explained to him, and the way I described them are that if you imagine my ovaries as a tomato plant, the gonal-f injections are the fertiliser and make the 'tomatoes' grow. The synarel is the only thing that stops the 'tomatoes' from falling off the tree before they're ripe and ready. DH is a gardener, so that worked for him. It was also good to explain why taking synarel on time each day was so important - you stop taking it, and the tomatoes fall off the tree.

Hope that helps.
Seph