What is your least favorite med?

mdluv21

What is your least favorite IF med (shot or pill) and why?

 

 

Ginger71

P4 shots. I hate having a bruised a$$.

Ganilrelix is a close 2nd because of the sheer force you have to use to get that damn needle to penetrate the skin.

stei8086

It's a toss up between Prog. shots and Prog. suppositories! HAte the shots for obvious reasons...soreness, black n blue, long needle. I hate the suppositories because they make such a mess and they make you sore down there. 

mdluv21

Ginger71:

P4 shots. I hate having a bruised a$$.

Ganilrelix is a close 2nd because of the sheer force you have to use to get that damn needle to penetrate the skin.

I think PIO is mine too but man this pill combo I am on right now is sucking a$$.  It is like serious morning sickness with no baby. 

mm29

PIO is the worst.  It is such a mind , it makes you feel like your pregnant, but really it is just a s/e of the med!

Aegis2005

I've been lucky and haven't had too many s/e's.  My least favorite is Medrol, because it gets me up a good six to seven times a night to pee.

Ginger71

mdluv21:

Ginger71:

P4 shots. I hate having a bruised a$$.

Ganilrelix is a close 2nd because of the sheer force you have to use to get that damn needle to penetrate the skin.

I think PIO is mine too but man this pill combo I am on right now is sucking a$$.  It is like serious morning sickness with no baby. 

What pill? Estrogen pill?

mdluv21

Aegis2005:

I've been lucky and haven't had too many s/e's.  My least favorite is Medrol, because it gets me up a good six to seven times a night to pee.

Remind me what medrol is for?  I think that is one I haven't experienced!

mm29

mdluv21:

Aegis2005:

I've been lucky and haven't had too many s/e's.  My least favorite is Medrol, because it gets me up a good six to seven times a night to pee.

Remind me what medrol is for?  I think that is one I haven't experienced!

I believe it is a steroid (solu-medrol).

cookie_queen

Lovenox. I HATE the burning and I bruise so badly.

abvernon

I have to say the inserts. They suck and I have to use so many pantiliners.

Sometimes I feel like I am peeing my pants and I constantly have to go to the bathroom to change. Ugh.

BeeBee08

My least favourite is BCP.  It lasts for so long and makes me feel like I have PMS constantly.  However, I'm "lucky" and don't have to do PIO (they don't do it anymore up here in the Great North).  I normally would say that I hate the supps because they make me BSC but, knock on wood, things have been okay this go-round.

mdluv21

cookie_queen:

Lovenox. I HATE the burning and I bruise so badly.

Oh no!  I start next week - heparin wasn't so bad and it was two shots a day instead one.  Maybe I should just do that again instead of lovenox.

DeputiesWife

birth control.

it makes me absolutely fu*cking NUTS. Very moody. Emotional. Depressed. It is HORRID.  

DeputiesWife

abvernon:

I have to say the inserts. They suck and I have to use so many pantiliners.

Sometimes I feel like I am peeing my pants and I constantly have to go to the bathroom to change. Ugh.

This is a close second.

 

lisaiesha

BCPs. Estrogen is a biitch for me. I can just feel myself gaining weight by the second and my fingers are sausages and my boobs don't fit into my bras and I really have to fight back the waterworks all the time. Last time I cycled, I was "relieved" to start injectables because they were so much easier than the side effects of estrogen.

dancinaggie

PIO, with BCP as a close second.  Now after reading previous responses, I'm scared of Lovenox, too!

njohnson1972

1. Lupron - I feel like crap on it.

2. Doxycycline - tears my stomach up and makes me super nauseated.

3. PIO - but I haven't taken that since IVF #2 (I am on #5 now).  I definitely prefer suppositories over the PIO needles and bruising.

Trippleb

njohnson1972:

1. Lupron - I feel like crap on it.

2. Doxycycline - tears my stomach up and makes me super nauseated.

3. PIO - but I haven't taken that since IVF #2 (I am on #5 now).  I definitely prefer suppositories over the PIO needles and bruising.

This. In this order, but for different reasons.   Lupron dehydrates me and I was in the ER for kidney stones after 3 days of being on it.  Doxy makes my face blow up.  Barely recognised myself in pictures while taking it.  PIO because it hurts.  Been fortunate that I only had to have 2 shots of it with one cycle.

Aegis2005

mm29:

mdluv21:

Aegis2005:

I've been lucky and haven't had too many s/e's.  My least favorite is Medrol, because it gets me up a good six to seven times a night to pee.

Remind me what medrol is for?  I think that is one I haven't experienced!

I believe it is a steroid (solu-medrol).

It is a steroid.  My RE uses it whenever ICSI or AH is used.  Excessive peeing is the only s/e I've had, and luckily I'm only on it a week, but I feel like I spend a ridiculous amount of time in the bathroom during that week

mdluv21

Aegis2005:

mm29:

mdluv21:

Aegis2005:

I've been lucky and haven't had too many s/e's.  My least favorite is Medrol, because it gets me up a good six to seven times a night to pee.

Remind me what medrol is for?  I think that is one I haven't experienced!

I believe it is a steroid (solu-medrol).

It is a steroid.  My RE uses it whenever ICSI or AH is used.  Excessive peeing is the only s/e I've had, and luckily I'm only on it a week, but I feel like I spend a ridiculous amount of time in the bathroom during that week

Got it - I will be on dexamethesone, so a different steriod.  I didn't notice any s/e from it per se but maybe it was just so along I don't remember.  I hate having to pee all the time!

RFBsbride

If memory serves:

Lupron - Ugh, those headaches!

Prog Supps. - Major leakage that will prove to be quite embarrassing if I have the same kind of incidents I had last time now that I'm a working girl!

Jackie2200

Clomid....ugh.  It makes me crazy and feel like I'm on LSD. I get the dangerous visual side effects on it.

I also hate Ganirelix because the needles bounce off my belly.   

 

psychmusetls

lupron is the devil!!!  not only do i feel terrible on it, it psychologically  messes me up!!!  It took me over 3 months after stopping the lupron before i started feeling like myself again.  Also, out of the 3 fresh IVFs I've done, the only one I did with Lupron had funky looking embryos and none of them made it to freeze (despite have 30 retrieved - my other two non-lupron fresh had 4 and 6 make it to freeze).

orange1414

Lupron. It is the devil. I've never felt as all-around bad in my whole life as I did for the weeks I was on it! Hot-flashes, nausea, headaches, mood-swings and insomnia.

naybird

Lupron. Hands down! The constant migraines, and the complete fog and off feeling are awful!! Not to mention forgetting everything, hot flashes, and insomnia.