The IVF that worked!

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone could post their regimes?.

At the moment we are CD 15/Stim Day 12:

Lucrin- CD 1-4 - 2 units CD 5-9 - 1 unit
Gonal F- CD 3-9 - 225iu
Scan- No Follies

Lucrin- CD 10-13 - 1 unit
Gonal F- CD 10-13 - 225iu
Scan- 5 follies
Bloods- E2 Level 450

Lucrin- CD 14-16 - 1 unit
Gonal F- CD 14-16 - 300iu
Scan- Tues 10/03
Bloods- Tues 10/03

EPU - ? Eggs
Fertilised - ? Embryos
Transferd - ? Embryos
Frozen - ? Embryos

For comparison's sake, my partner is very upset with our progress.

Megan my complete story is in my blog there is a link in my signature. There are lots of us here who have had it work however sucky it is a numbers game :)

I have had EPU with 5 Follies and Less before and made it to transfer

Megan and Kim

Dont despair yet. I have had loads of follies/eggs collected. It really isnt about how many follies or eggs you get, it is about catching that one lucky egg. My last ET with two embryo's I was crying at transfer b/c we had no viable frosties out of 16 eggs !! I wouldn't go down that path again. Quality Vs. Quantity. You want Quality not Quantity.

I know how hard it can be to keep it together, try and net nature take it's course until scan Tommorow.

T/L is right it is a numbers game :hugs:

Thanks so much for your replies girls, we will find out tomorrow if our cycle is going ahead, CD16 Day 13 of stims!!

One of our LT members recently had only a couple of follies at scan and they cancelled her cycle, converted it to an IUI and voila she is now pregnant. Good luck!

Wow, wouldn't that be a wonderful surprise for her! Well thank you ladies for your replies! Am busy now reading TTC Journals and thinking of writing one for Kim and I!

Hi Megan,

I thought I'd just post my story to give you a bit of hope too :)

My first IVF cycle was cancelled as I only got 1 follie - started out on 125IU Puregon, no response so it was upped to 250IU and got the one follie.

My second cycle I started on 300IU at my insistence ;) and had a scan on day 7 of injections (again at my insistence) there were 2 follies :( Dose was upped again to 450IU and next scan there were 3 follies, but the 3rd was a fair way behind the other 2. Anyway the 2 follies finally got there on day 15 of injecting and I triggered that night. At EPU though, we only got one egg :( How devastated was I....and my FS was pretty unhappy too, came and saw me in Recovery and was really apologetic, said they tried really hard to find another egg but couldn't.

Anyway, our lone eggie fertilised :dance: and got to day 3 looking really good, so FS was keen to do the transfer that day rather than risk losing the embie, which we agreed with, so the transfer went ahead on day 3. 12 days later we got a BFP and I'm now almost 19 wks preg.

I know this sounds so trite and I always cringe a little when I see it, but it truly does come down to quality not quantity - it only takes the one. I understand how upset you and Kim must be, I was the same - it stressed me out terribly the waiting and I was literally sick with worry. Not fun at all!

:hug: and heaps of good luck!

Ps make sure you and Kim come to our big meetup in August