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

[crystal443]

Yeah it was a pretty low dose of course I was bit younger too

We were all set to start a cycle of natural IVF but when FS saw my AMH results he said a stim cycle would be fine because my levels aren't super low, so I think we should have stuck with Plan A

i read through the articles and it says you can do a cycle of natural IVF every month That would be great actually, so yep I think that's the way we'll be going from now on. Hopefully I won't need to worry about it though

 

[dachsundmom]

Well, let's just manifest that you won't go down that route.

 

[Indigo77]

Manifesting for Crystal....

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[sarahincanada]

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

ahh too bad but lets think positive and these 4-5 could be great eggs and thats all that matters. you can think about the future later and at least you have more info with each cycle I honestly thought that would take me ages to get pregnant with doing single embryo transfer and look whats happened. I know I have the back up frosties but I dont know if they will be any good. You just need one and you are so much further ahead even with the 4-5. we are all manifesting!!

 

[LLbean]

Crystal...one is all it takes

 

[crystal443]

LL- that's exactly what the doctor said one good egg is all it really takes

 

[hockey24]

Crystal - I'm glad your finishing out the cycle with IVF. 4-5 follies is still good and as everyone says - it only takes 1 good one and it might be there this go round!!

Good to know what you've learned through these cycles though and you'll know how to proceed going forward - if that's even needed! This could be the lucky month!!!

So you'll find out tomorrow or the next day when to trigger? I think that is pretty exciting!

Sending lots of baby dust your way!!

 

[sarahincanada]

had some more spotting last night, its so terrifying. this time was more...mainly brown mucus but also was some red....kinda a rusty red but scares the sh*t out of me! was so miserable all night. now theres just a little brown mucus. I know a lot of people spot in first tri but its still terrifying when you see it. this whole thing is such a mind f**k. I wish I could just fall alseep and wake up feb 21st for my scan (if I get that far)

 

[dachsundmom]

 

[hockey24]

Sarah - I'm sorry! That would scare the h*ll out of me too!

My sister-in-law spotted quite a bit and she's now 13 weeks along. Also have another friend who spotted alot - particularly if she did anything strenuous, like running to catch the train. She's now the happy mother of a 2 year old!

 

[DaisyQ]

sarah try to take it easy as much as possible!

 

[sarahincanada]

thanks ladies. its so hard, as much as I know that a lot of people have some sort of spotting you always assume the worst when its yourself. I have a requistion for another beta on monday so I will know on tuesday if something is possibly wrong....better than waiting till the 21st. my book says beany doubles in size this week so just praying theres a lot going on in there and thats the cause of it.

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[dachsundmom]

Sarah, if you call your clinic and explain the situation, will they scan you earlier?

 

[sarahincanada]

Sarah, if you call your clinic and explain the situation, will they scan you earlier?

I did just leave a message with them, hopefully they can either reassure me its normal or bring me in early. I doubt they will bring me in early as probably booked up next week. oh well just have to get through the weekend, then the beta then only a week to go. I just hope it doesnt get worse. please stick beany

 

[dachsundmom]

 

[LLbean]

Sarah I really think everything it perfect in there

 

[Indigo77]

I had spotting/discharge for weeks after the cvs.

It IS scary.

 

[hockey24]

Does anyone know if there is a difference between Follistim and Gonal-F?

My doctor had to switch my medication due to the insurance deciding not to pay for Follistim. I used Follistim for all of my IUI's and know that I had good response. I'd hate to change and then not respond when we are doing IVF.

 

[LLbean]

I did Gonal-F and have heard it is better than Follistim mainly because F stings!!!

 

[sarahincanada]

Does anyone know if there is a difference between Follistim and Gonal-F?

My doctor had to switch my medication due to the insurance deciding not to pay for Follistim. I used Follistim for all of my IUI's and know that I had good response. I'd hate to change and then not respond when we are doing IVF.

I think when it comes to the type of drug its exactly the same, just different brand names. I used Gonal-F, it was great!