Hi ladies - wondering if anyone would mind sharing their IVF calendar/timeline to use as a general reference? Not looking for any personal info of course, but I want to get a sense of the entire timeline start-to-finish (e.g. BCP for X days, stims for X days, ER on day X, transfer on day Y). My RE nurses are hesitant to give me a general timeline as they want to create one based on my personalized plan, but that doesn't happen until I go for monitoring, which doesn't happen until AF comes. So I'm trying to plan ahead a bit while I wait - keeps me busy
I know everyone's different and has different protocols based on their specific situation but I'm trying to figure out what I can anticipate as far as a total time commitment - and also figure out how much time I should tell work that I need relief from travel!
Thanks in advance!
Re: IVF calendar/timeline?
I had your standard antagonist protocol. BCPs for 3 weeks before stims (which was actually lengthened to 4 weeks for me because I had a cyst and they needed to get my estrogen down first). I started stims 4 days after stopping BCPs. I stimmed for 9 days total, triggered on the 10th day, and had my egg retrieval 2 days later. If we were doing a fresh transfer my transfer would have been 5 days after egg retrieval, but we opted to do a frozen transfer so we could do PGS testing. So after my egg retrieval I just had to wait for AF to come, which took 11 days. I got back on BCPs on the first day of my period for two weeks. Then I started taking Estrace (to prep for frozen transfer) 3 days after stopping BCPs this time. My FET is actually scheduled this Friday, which will be just about 3 weeks after starting the Estrace. The whole process (since I first got on BCPs) has been about 3 months... but I needed an extra week of BCPs in the beginning and also did a frozen transfer. If I had done a fresh transfer, the whole thing would have been less than 2 months.
Me: 34, DH: 38 ~ TTC since 2014
IUI #1-3 (Nov 2015, Feb 2016, May 2016) = BFNs
IVF ER (July 2016) = 7 PGS normal embryos
FET #1 (Sept 2016) = BFP! DD born 5/30/17
FET #2 (April 2019) = BFN
FET #3 (July 2019) = BFP! DS born 3/27/20
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
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FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
Me 35, DH 37
Unexplained infertility and TTC since December 2014
February 2016 - May 2016: 3 IUI's -- all BFN
August 2016: IVF #1 (Lupron, Gonal F and Menopur) -- 12 retrieved, 9 fertilized, 3 frozen and 1 x day 5 hatching blast transferred -- BFN. Sent remaining 3 embryos for PGS testing -- 2 didn't survive thaw, 1 was abnormal.
February 2017: IVF #2 (Gonal F, Menopur, and Ganirelix) -- 12 retrieved, 6 fertilized, 3 sent for PGS testing and all were abnormal
March 2018: IVF #3 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 14 retrieved, 12 fertilized, 4 sent for PGS testing, and 3 were PGS normal
May 2018: FET #1 -- BFN
August 2018: FET #2 -- BFP!!! healthy baby girl born May 2019!!
July 2020: FET #3 -- embyro did not survive thaw
September 2020 - IVF #4 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 1 PGS normal
October 2020 - FET #4 -- BFN
January 2021 - IVF #5 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 2 PGS normal
February 2021 - FET #5 - BFP!!! Due 11/6/2021