has anybody done femera + injects?

Persephone0024

I was wondering if anyone has had a better response with femera + low dose injects  than with femera alone? Is this very common or not really?

stillwaiting12

I am on that protocol right now. According to my RE it's much more effective. Hopefully he's right!

chizzle09

I haven't done them together, but have done each separately and I had much more success with the injects. So if you are doing both I think you're in good hands! Good luck!

itsmevkb

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I hope you don't mind my responding.  My pregnancy is a result of a hybrid cycle using Femara and Follistim.  I'm not a great responder so my RE was using a very high dose of Femara (12.5 per day on cd3-8) and with that I only developed one follicle.  The next cycle I took the same amount of Femara but added in 150 of Follistim on cd8-10.  That cycle I had four follicles, two were mature for certain when I triggered and possibly three.  That cycle resulted in this pregnancy.

I really liked the option of not having to do a fully injectable cycle because those are quite expensive.

Persephone0024

I don't mind at all. In fact, I like success stories b'c they give me hope I am reluctant to do all inject cycles b/c of the cost. I am only planning on doing one or two more cycles before moving on to IVF b/c once our insurance deductible is up, we are done. we simply can't afford to go out of pocket.

manu1

yes it has better response than just femara.  i used it couple of yrs ago.

LaneCA

I did that for 2 cycles (2.5mg Femara + low dose Follistim). I had 4 follies w/ Femara alone....and 5 with Femara + Injects.

GL!!!!?

jessican08

My first 3 IUIs I did just Femara and had 2 follies on my 1st and 3rd IUIs and only 1 follie on my 2nd. This time we did Femara plus Bravelle and although I had 4 follies start to mature, only two made it far enough to be mature so I didn't really see much of a difference (at least not this cycle). Having said that, I only did 3 Bravelle injections (75ius)...I'm not sure if that's the "norm" or if that's being conservative. HTH!

KDC1014

My last IUI, I did Femura and Follistim Injection and had 4 follicles, so I think it gives you a much better response,