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Sorry another question for IVF Ladies...

I am going to be starting the IVF process- initial appt with doc next week. She has shared with me last month (when we decided if this last round of injectibles and IUI didn't work we would move to IVF) that IVF would probably by in Sept. I know you need to take BCPs for sometime. How long did you take them and how long did your process take for you?

SOOO sorry if this has been asked a billion times but I go tomorrow for a check to see if I have left over cysts from this last injectible round (I get them every time) and since I will be given the BCP to shrink the cyst if it will speed up the IVF process.

 Thanks!

Re: Sorry another question for IVF Ladies...

  • I'll be on them for 3 weeks but my RE said they could have had me on them for as little as 2 weeks - it would have just depended on when I got my period vs. when they are scheduling ERs.

    I'll start Lupron 5 days before my last BCP and take that for 10 days, then I have my baseline and shortly thereafter will add in stims.  So from start of BCP to ER, around 5 weeks.

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  • Sorry no help here.  I did not go on BCP but I wanted to wish you luck.
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  • I took them for 3 weeks.
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  • I was initially put on BCP for 3 weeks.  After that, the plan was to have AF and then start stims.  During the time I was on BCP I had a SHG to check out my uterus and the RE discovered that I had uterine polyps.  I had to have surgery to remove them and then had to go on BCP for another 3 weeks.

    I took my last BCP on a Monday and had my montioring appt that day to check for cysts and calm ovaries. I was then able to start stims that following Friday. 

    :edited to add:

    I stimmed for 11 days before triggering.  ER was scheduled for 35 hrs. after trigger.

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  • My RE does not include BCP as part of his protocols normally.  I'm not sure why.  For my first IVF attempt, I started Lupron on CD 21, then waited for AF.  Then I had a baseline appointment to make sure that I was ready to start stims.  I ended up staying on the Lupron and extra week because I had to have an MMR vaccine and that complicated the scheduling.  Without that, it would have been about 10 or 11 days from when I started Lupron to when I started stims.
    TTC #1 since 4/09 w/ MFI
    IVF #1, 7/10: Cancelled due to dominant follicle; IVF #2, 9/10: c/p; FET #1, 11/10: c/p; IVF #3, 4/11: BFN; FET #2, 6/11: BFP! Beta #1 = 118 (11dp2dt), Beta #2 = 1975 (16dp2dt)
    DS born 2/17/12

    TTC #2
    IVF #4, 11/13: BFN; IVF #5, 3/14: BFP! Beta #1 = 59 (11dp2dt), Beta #2 = 406 (15dp2dt)
    EDD 12/19/14

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  • I have had problems with BCPs in the past, so my RE has me on Estrace and will add in Provera to basically do the same thing as BCPs. Anyhow, I have been on Estrace for a little over two weeks now. I will continue the Estrace (the last 10 days of which I will also take Provera) until 8/23. I start lupron on 8/19 and stims start 8/31. So from start of Estrace to ER, will probably take about 8 weeks for me.

    How long you will be on BCPs depends on several things such as when your cycle starts relative to when ER is scheduled and what protocol you will be doing.  Good luck to you!

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    Me= 37 and DH = 41 

    Dx: DOR, Endo, APA+ (really high beta 2 glycoprotein antibody and high everything else tested), heterozygous MTHFR mutation, positive for lupus anticoagulant, high FSH, low AMH and both tubes blocked (per HSG on 3/8/11)

    IVF #1 - long lupron (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 4 retrieved, 3 fertilized; ET 2 blasts and 1 frozen = BFN

    IVF #2 - a version of antagonist with EPP (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, 2 blasts and 1 frozen blast transferred on day 5 = BFN.

    IVF #3 April was postponed to May, May was canceled. June/July was canceled. Had a cyst aspiration and then began IVF #3 in August. ER on 8/22; ET on 8/24 with AH. +HPT on 9/5. Beta #1 (11dpo) = 3; Beta #2 (15dpo) = 29; Beta #3 (17dpo) = 60; Beta #4 (19 dpo) = 118. Heartbeat at 6 weeks 6 days =132.  Lil is here!

    TTC#2:  Trigger + TI = BFN; Clomid + Trigger + IUI = BFN.

    IVF #4:  BCP + MDLF + Lovenox = 7R, 1F = Transferred 1 6-cell embryo on day 3 = BFN

    IVF #5:  MDLF + Lovenox = 4R, 1F = Transferred 1 10-cell compacting embryo on day 3 = BFN

    IVF #6:  (New RE):  Long Antagonist November 2014 (transferred two 8 cell grade 1 embryos and froze one blast) = BFN

    FET#1:  BFN

  • Thank you Ladies! Best of luck to all of you.
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