Emerald Star, I can understand your concern. I was in the position last time of having my follicles grow more quickly than expected and being quite large at trigger. I think you should have at least a couple at the optimum size there. The trigger can actually give the follie growth a bit of a boost so your "almost ready" ones can catch up a bit. It might also make the biggest one a bit dubious, but my old FS was comfortable with anything up to 30mm (although I remain skeptical about that). If it helps, I have a friend on another website who went to EPU with 1 follicle, got 2 eggs and is now due in May... A smaller batch of eggs doesn't mean you can't succeed, it just lowers the odds. And if there's one thing I've learned through all of this - odds mean sweet FA!! It will work or it won't; there's no point worrying about statistics because you never know which group you'll fall into...
Hmmm, does that help or stress you out more? I hope it helps. I think it might be time for me to go to bed...
My point is, I think you'll be fine. GL on Monday!
Emeraldstar Juniper is spot on don't stress the results may be totally different by the time the pick up on Monday and whats to say that the smaller ones aren't going to turn out to be better performing. My FS also told me that in a way its good that you get some that don't mature because if you were trying naturally then it wouldnt have worked either. This was after I questioned her on why only 7 of the 20 she has collected made it. I will that you at least get a few viable ones on Monday
Loops & Mrs K hope everything is going along nicely for you
Juniper good luck with your new DR hope that you cant get back to TTC very soon
AFM well I'm off to get a BT today 36 days without AF is very strange so now I'm starting to worry and I've been ready that some women have gone that far but POAS too early got a BFN but were actually pregnant. Not that I think thats me but I just want to know I'm ok even with all my IVF cycles the longest I've gone is 30 days. See even when we are not cyclying we can still sound crazy!!!!
I am new to this forum although have been lurking. I wish you all the best and fingers crossed for those in the tww and that all goes well for those waiting for follies to grow and egg collection.
AFM: We are thinking of going down the IVF/ICSI route next cycle. I swapped FS due to about $1500 difference for each cycle. My question is, is that with my new FS he wants to do an transfer on day 2 or even day 1. He said it was due to my age -44 and that he believes that our body is better than anything they can do and this will give us the best chance rather than waiting to blastocyst. Has anyone heard of this??
Also the one thing they do differently to my previous FS is that during the injections of Gonal -f you also inject a small dose of HCG every 2nd day - until trigger. Does anyone else do this or heard of this?
Loops - It may all change though and we end up having transfer at the same time hehe I thought a 2 day was weird?
Bj have fun in Byron!!!
Terry - I hope you get some answers soon!!! And you do go crazy with a break too LOL
Jilly - Welcome to BB!! I am having a day 2 transfer this cycle I didn't question it I just go with the flow though and let my FS tell me what to do... I have heard of the HCG being done I was always thought it was to help with the following :
Induce final maturation of the eggs
Cause the resumption of meiosis
Loosen the egg's attachment from the follicle wall
Allow for the timing of the egg retrieval
well thats what I read anyways! I hope all goes well with this cycle for you
And girls the reason for injections of a night time I read off IVF Australia, we normally suggest the evening is a better time to do this, so that when we do blood tests and ultrasounds in the morning, if we need to change the dose then the dose can be changed that same day.
Mind you I am jabbing of a morning still as I was too scared to wait till night incase it meant it put me back a day! I read into things way too much I think lol!!!
Jilly, I speak to a lot of Americans doing IVF and many of them use a drug called Menopur which is a combination of FSH and LH, rather than just straight FSH. I asked my old Dr about it for our last IVF cycle and he said it wasn't available here but we could do low dose HCG during the stimming phase instead. Since LH and HCG are similar in structure (which is why we use HCG for a trigger as a substitute for our natural LH surge) that seemed a logical alternative. We didn't end up doing it though. The reason I asked about it was because I'd read that it can work better for poor responders (which is what I am) than just straight FSH. Your Dr may expect you to be a poor responder due to your age and be taking steps to maximise the chances of your cycle succeeding (which sounds great to me!).
ive been reading up on all your posts very interesting
a little about me and my story so far, started seeing my FS in december 2008 got pregnant in feb 09 and MC in march 09 then tried IUI due to hubby working away and tried it to get the timing right. This didnt work then i had ovarian drilling and tried the IUI again with no luck.
After talking to FS it was decided IVF was my next step and seeing as i had no response to all the IUI meds i would be better using an egg donor - which im very lucky i have a wonderful cousin to help me out.
So now we have started the process and have ultrasound appointments this thursday to see if we can do the egg retreival on the monday.
Im wondering if you know how long you need to wait inbetween IVF cycles if im not lucky first go?
Tammara, GL with your cycle. I hope 1 is all you need. I think Medicare only covers each cycle as long as its more than 30 days between starting the FSH injections (ie Medicare won't cover you if you start the FSH injections for cycle #2 less than 30 days after you started for cycle #1). If you do the long down reg protocol (ie starting synarel or lucrin the cycle before) that won't be a problem because it takes about 2 months anyway... I'm not sure how it would work with the donor eggs though? And that's only for fresh IVF cycles; if you wanted to do a FET the following cycle then I don't think there's a time requirement.
that you at least get a few viable ones on Monday
and that he believes that our body is better than anything they can do and this will give us the best chance rather than waiting to blastocyst. Has anyone heard of this?? 
then tried IUI due to hubby working away and tried it to get the timing right. This didnt work then i had ovarian drilling and tried the IUI again with no luck. 
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