XP: Antral Follicle Count question

labbylover03

This is a repost from IF.  I thought some of you successful ladies might have some insight for me. 

I had my lupron start sonogram this morning and I'm so confused.  With my first IVF, I had a total of 27 resting follicles when I started my lupron.  (I responded well to meds and got 18 eggs at retrieval.)  Today I had only 5 resting follicles.  I'm waiting on a call from my nurse to see if my treatment plan will change now and if I will still start lupron today or not (since that is also a suppressant). 

I've been on BCPs but I was last time too and they didn't suppress me that much.  To go from 27 to 5 seems like a huge disappointment.  My most recent FSH at the beginning of August was around 2 and I'm also diagnosed PCOS.  Does 5 resting antral follicles make any sense???  Not to me.  I'm feeling so overwhelmed and upset.  I need to have a lot of eggs since we're doing PGD and 80-90% will test abnormal based on our DX.  I know the sonogram tech said that these 5 could go away and/or lots more come up, but right now I'm feeling so discouraged before we've even gotten started.

Has anyone had such a drastic change in their antral follicle count?  Or has anyone had a low antral follicle count and still gotten a decent amount of eggs? 

Thanks ladies for your feedback or experiences! 

 

nikinikinine

My AFC's for my two IVFs were 14 and 17 respectively. With IVF #1 they got 13 eggs at retrieval, with IVF #2 they got 12 eggs (but all were better quality).

HTH.