E2 dropping during stims?

LnR70707

Anyone ever had their estrogen level drop while stimming?  My E2 went from 55 to 50 between tues and today.  I'm not really concerned, but wondering if I should be.

Dragonfly1226

I've never had. This happen, but I haven't ever done this protocol. I would guess it doesn't matter since you're not trying to grow follies to fertilize and become embies, right?

nawlinsgrl

Are you doing IVF?  If so, I'm pretty sure your E2 should be rising.  To give you a little perspective during my current IVF cycle, mine went from 18 at baseline (1st day of stims) to 51 after 2 nights of stims and up to 185 2 days later. 

During my IVF #1, however, it went from 19 down to 16 after the first 2 days of stims, then was up to 228 4 days later. 

IVF#1 was successful, so, if you just started two days ago, you might be totally fine and be going through what I did last time. 

Dragonfly1226

nawlinsgrl:

Are you doing IVF?  If so, I'm pretty sure your E2 should be rising.  To give you a little perspective during my current IVF cycle, mine went from 18 at baseline (1st day of stims) to 51 after 2 nights of stims and up to 185 2 days later. 

During my IVF #1, however, it went from 19 down to 16 after the first 2 days of stims, then was up to 228 4 days later. 

IVF#1 was successful, so, if you just started two days ago, you might be totally fine and be going through what I did last time. 

She's doing a FET protocol.

LnR70707

Thank ladies, yeah I'm basically doing an IVF protocol for an FET because I responded very poorly to lupron.  I had some residual cysts so they started me on a lower dose of Follistim (only 75) and after 6 days of stims it dropped 50.  The good news (I think) is that even with lower estrogen my lining was 6.2 so I'm hoping it will thicken up nicely as I get to better estrogen levels.  They upped my dose to 100 and I go back in on Saturday.

nawlinsgrl

Dragonfly1226:

nawlinsgrl:

Are you doing IVF?  If so, I'm pretty sure your E2 should be rising.  To give you a little perspective during my current IVF cycle, mine went from 18 at baseline (1st day of stims) to 51 after 2 nights of stims and up to 185 2 days later. 

During my IVF #1, however, it went from 19 down to 16 after the first 2 days of stims, then was up to 228 4 days later. 

IVF#1 was successful, so, if you just started two days ago, you might be totally fine and be going through what I did last time. 

She's doing a FET protocol.

My bad, I missed that in the sig.  No clue how it works for FET.  Hopefully everything goes as it should for you!

Dragonfly1226

L&R70707:

Thank ladies, yeah I'm basically doing an IVF protocol for an FET because I responded very poorly to lupron.  I had some residual cysts so they started me on a lower dose of Follistim (only 75) and after 6 days of stims it dropped 50.  The good news (I think) is that even with lower estrogen my lining was 6.2 so I'm hoping it will thicken up nicely as I get to better estrogen levels.  They upped my dose to 100 and I go back in on Saturday.

My lining was only 6.8 at my last check the Friday before my transfer on Monday. Just sayin. That sounds great to me!