anyone over 35 going for fertility treatments this year? IUI, IVF etc

[readyformore]

Interesting, thank you!

My doctor seems to always use the trigger, just to make sure the eggs pop, just when he wants them to...? I am also using clomid with the IUI to generate more than one egg.

I guess I will just assume this first one might not be timed quite right, but I will chart, and use that information for round 2, assuming round 1 is unsuccessful. I am also going on progesterone during the LP just for a little extra help there - my LP is OK, 12 days usually, but I start spotting on CD 10 or 11.

Thank you for your input!

If you are using a trigger, I wouldn't worry too much. I think most people respond in 36 hours, I just know that I don't. But temp and take notes, so you know how your own body responds.

I use progesterone as well. For some women, it lengthens lp, and for other's it doesn't. There's nothing wrong with a 12 day lp at any rate. Progesterone doesn't lengthen my lp at all, but I know that my blood levels are good, so again, I guess it doesn't matter much if AF is delayed or not. Just another variation of normal.

 

[DaisyQ]

Thanks for the reassurance ready! What kind of progesterone do you take? I will be on vaginal suppositories (yay, can't wait - NOT).

 

[readyformore]

I take crinone. It's a vaginal gel. It leads to a really goopy cooter and makes me feel like I'm peeing my pants. Yes, fun stuff.

 

[DaisyQ]

Bleeeeccchhhh.. Ugh. Can't wait! I forget what mine is - it's at home, but I have to put in a suppository twice a day and wear a panty liner. I HATE that stuff. And I guess if we get prego, we have to use it the whole first tri???

 

[readyformore]

Bleeeeccchhhh.. Ugh. Can't wait! I forget what mine is - it's at home, but I have to put in a suppository twice a day and wear a panty liner. I HATE that stuff. And I guess if we get prego, we have to use it the whole first tri???

Yep, and if you don't get pregant, the cycle just repeats itself.
It really does get tedious.

 

[DaisyQ]

Oh boy oh boy! What we have to go through! Just wait - we'll embarrass our future teenagers one day by telling them that we had to endure months of goopy cooters just to bring them into the world!

 

[sarahincanada]

Ive been oozing white and neon blue goop for 6 weeks now! white is from 6 progesterone pills per day and blue from 2 estrogen. but gotta do what we gotta do, Im sure thats nothing to compared to whats ahead

 

[DaisyQ]

Blech! Golly. This really is a huge ordeal! Those stupid teenagers on MTV make it look so easy.

 

[crystal443]

Morning Girls, hope you don't mind but I'm going to copy and paste what I posted in the LTTC thread:

Morning ladies,

Had my scan and he said there looks to be 4-5 good size follies on my left side and my right side has fizzled again He thinks the stim drugs are making them work too hard so they overwork themselves and just fizzle. That being said as he said it only takes 1 or 2 good ones to fertilize and put back so we just have to keep our fingers crossed.

I do think this will be it for stimulated cycles for us, we can choose to do natural IVF with ICSI which will yeild lower egg numbers but the stims overwork everything and we can't get the numbers anyway so natural IVF is far cheaper and much kinder to my body

DH was a bit upset but I do have low reserves and we knew this wasn't going to be a one hit wonder so we can only try with what we get and stay positive. He also said there's a dominant follicle on my left side which has taken over so fingers crossed its a good dominant one but they are good sizes so we'll see what happens. I trigger Sat or Sun and EC will be Mon or Tues..not sure which yet we'll get a call tomorrow

Surprisingly, I'm not upset..I should be a bit worried but I'm not I think I've prepared myself for this taking awhile and I really can't control the outcome so what will be will be

 

[dachsundmom]

 

[Indigo77]

You still have 4-5, though....

FXed....
FXed...
FXed...
FXed...
FXed...

 

[crystal443]

Yep, exactly It'll be fine Indi

 

[dachsundmom]

Of course it will!

 

[crystal443]

Yep, I think the concern is that there's the lead follie and it not allowing the others to mature my effing luck I really won't know until EC what is going on, the FS wasn't concerned at all I'm crapping myself and he was just as calm as could be. I said should we cancel or convert to an IUI? He said no not to worry we need to move forward with IVF So either he's confident or I'm crazy for listening to him

I really think I need to finish out this cycle so we can finally put to rest that stims do not work for me FS said this morning that some women cannot use stims and he said it looks like I am one of them. That's fine as well, its just a matter of figuring out what is going to work best for me. The weird thing is my AMH is not super low..so as he said this morning there really should be more follies there and there were more on the last scan so he thinks it might be the stims. He upped them from 450 to 600 and that's when things started to go south. Regardless, we'll get this figured out

 

[crystal443]

I love that scuba doxie by the way very cute!!

 

[dachsundmom]

If your doc is not worrying, then listen to him. He cares about you and his success rates and if he were that concerned, I am sure he would say something.

When Clomid worked for you, was it a low dose?

 

[dachsundmom]

I am manifesting spring, lol.

 

[Indigo77]

I've read some good things about gentle IVF.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...features/ivf-with-a-gentle-touch-2277983.html

https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/10/medicalresearch.health1

 

[crystal443]

Well I took 25mg of Clomid and got pregnant with DD and DS, the last time I took it they put me on 150mg and it didn't work

Thanks Indi, I'm going to look those threads over..my position is this if I'm just going to be one of those people that only gets 3-5 ( maybe less) follies per IVF cycle with a bunch of stims and we can get between 2-4 with a natural cycle then natural might be the way to go for usThey can still do ICSI and its much gentler on my ovaries I want to finish this cycle out, I do like my FS as he's not against trying things and he uses natural IVF alot since he specializes in difficult IVF

We always have the option of egg donor but I want to give it my best shot with my own first and then I have no problems with using a donor

 

[dachsundmom]

I think the fact that 25mg of CMD worked for you and 150mg did not, speaks volumes...the stimulants just might not be for you. Tbh, you are the first person I have ever heard of having luck with such a low dose of CMD.