IVF Q - ovulation supressant?

cmw&tdm

My IVF cycle was almost a bust because at my ER they discovered that I had already O'd 5 of the 9 eggs we were expecting.  If I do IVF again, I want to make sure this doesn't happen.  Were you on an ovulation suppressant?  What's it called?  Do you take it up until ER?

During stims all I took was gonal f (and some lupron at the beginning)

ETA:  Sorry, just consulted my notes.  My memory is bad, I took 1/2 dose lupron from starting stims to ER. 

LVBlvd

I took Lupron all the way until trigger.  I'm shocked you didn't - I have never heard of stopping Lupron all together.

cmw&tdm

LVBlvd:

I took Lupron all the way until trigger.  I'm shocked you didn't - I have never heard of stopping Lupron all together.

Sorry, I just edited my original post.   Mommy brain I guess ... I took 1/2 dose lupron from starting stims to ER. 

krissyh21

Lupron should have suppressed you to the point where you needed to trigger before releasing eggs It may be a matter of needing a higher dose to make sure you are suppressed enough.

You can also use ganerelix or Cetrotide mid cycle, but usually that protocol is used for poorer responders

LVBlvd

Maybe they just won't cut your Lupron dose in half.  I stayed on 10 units the whole time to prevent this very thing from happening.

hannah&ben

I actually stopped lupron when I started stims... just took the gonal f till I triggered.  There wasn't anything else to keep me from ovulating...

cmw&tdm

LVBlvd:

Maybe they just won't cut your Lupron dose in half.  I stayed on 10 units the whole time to prevent this very thing from happening.

Hmm, I think this is what he will probably have me do.

cmw&tdm

hannah&ben:

I actually stopped lupron when I started stims... just took the gonal f till I triggered.  There wasn't anything else to keep me from ovulating...

Interesting.  I think my response is pretty unusual.  I don't know if you remember, but I was SO upset when I found out this happened.  I thought there was no way it would actually work with only 4 eggs.  I was also shocked ... I had been prepared for about a million other bad things but I'd never heard of this. 

caden

cmw&tdm:

LVBlvd:

I took Lupron all the way until trigger.  I'm shocked you didn't - I have never heard of stopping Lupron all together.

Sorry, I just edited my original post.   Mommy brain I guess ... I took 1/2 dose lupron from starting stims to ER. 

I did that too for my 1st 2 cycles, then switched to ganrelix (sp?) for the 3rd, which was an antagonist protocol.