I went yesterday morning to a branch office to my clinic since I'm outta town for my continuing legal education credits. The u/s showed I have still only 9 follies after three days of stims. One big one on my right, but no additional follies. I was soooo sad and I sat by my phone all day waiting for my ivf nurse back in New Orleans to call me to give me my update. After a sad phone call to my husband, I pouted holding back tears. My nurse finally called and she said everything looks good and to keep taking my 2 vials on menopur and 150u of follistim till Monday and come back for a check in. This is my first IVF and my first cycle with any drugs. I don't know what is normal, but I keep seeig everyone have like 20 eggs while I only have 9 follies. I feel like I may not be responding well and why is my RE telling me I am doing good?! So confused. I just want this to work so I'm trying to stay positive. Ugh!
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Me: 29 DH: 30
IF DX Endo Stage III/IV SA: PERFECT!
7/16/2011 Married handsome hubby!
9/2012 Lap/Hystercopy DX w/ Stage III endo
Bilaterial Uterine Suspension/D&C/HSG
HCG/D&D on R/L ovaries/chromaltubation/Uterine Polyp
10/2012 RE consult. DX move straight to IVF
IVF #1 11/27/2012
IVF #1 Cancelled for Low Response and Converted to IUI #1 --- BFN
IVF #1.2 BCP 12/29 Stims 1/21 w/ New Protocol - Antongonist (225 Menopur, 150 Follistim, & Ganirelix)
ER 2/2/13 11R,9M,8F -- ET 2/7/13 2 Beautiful Perfect Blasts/5 made it Freeze! -- 2/12/12 +HPT -- 2/14/13 Beta #1 71 -- 2/18/2013 Beta #2 521 YAY! Let this be our take home baby!
4/21/13 Massive Hemorrhage from unDX placenta previa. Bed Rest for 7 months.
10/17/13 Gave Birth to our 8lb 2oz baby boy!
8/30/15 Started Meds for FET schedule on 10/13/15
10/13/15 TX two great blasts. Beta scheduled for 10/22/15
Re: Update on cycle
I'm still on my first cycle, so I can't give you a success story, but I can empathize. I only had 11 follicles the day they decided to trigger, and ended up getting 7 eggs which, when I compared them to people in the teens and 20s seemed super low. But you really can't compare - everyone's different, and everyone responds to the medicine differently. At my monitoring appointments and after the ER while I was waiting to hear how many were mature/how many fertilized I just kept telling myself that it only takes one. And even though I'm really pleased with my progress at this point, I keep telling myself that, because even if a bunch arrest in the next day or two, it still only takes one to get a take-home baby.
I don't know if for you IVF is something you'll only be able to do once, but it might also help to consider that everything they learn can help you get more answers for future treatments.
I'm thinking of you, I definitely get what it feels like to seem like you're on the slow end and everyone else is "doing better" than you are, and I hope that you're able to stay positive and that slow and steady wins the race for you. Fingers crossed that you get good news on Monday.
BFP on Cycle #8. Natural M/C at ~8 weeks
IUI #1 and #2 (8/12, 9/12)- 50 mg Clomid + Ovidrel = BFNs
IVF #1 (EPP) 13R/10M/9F, 5DT 1-4AA blast, beta #1-148, beta #2-322, 5 frosties!
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