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Injectibles with IUI?

SweetiePSweetieP
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Does anyone have experience with this that would be willing to share? If you're not comfy talking here, we could email off-line.  My main questions are about the injections and how do you give them to yourself. And the lame question of the day:  How does your DH handle it?  Does he do it for you or do you just to it yourself?  (I know - lame question).

 

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Re: Injectibles with IUI?

  • firsttogofirsttogo
    I have had a total of 3 IUI injectable cycles. The first one I got DS!! The last two were BFN, but the the most recent was screwed up some. I give myself the injections, and they go in my tummy, or anywhere you can pinch 1 inch of fat. .  not hard for me! DH was supportive, but it would be almost harder for him to give them to me. I just did them. They did not hurt at all! I used Bravelle, and Follistim Pen. You will do great. I just keep reminding myself that it is a pain in the butt, but I will have another baby. my e-mail is m_elizajane@yahoo.com if you have any more questions.
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  • jen5-03jen5-03 member

    I've done 3 rounds of injectibles and IUI - the first 2 rounds were to get DD, the last round was less than 2 weeks ago.

    I used Repronex and did IM shots, so they had to go in my butt. I know that some women can give these types of shots to themselves, but I've always had DH do it.

    It really doesn't hurt much, just a tiny sting. But the needles are so much longer that the subQ shots and even longer than the trigger shot that goes in the butt.... and I just can't do it myself.

    Before the first round, DH and I took a "class" at the REs office - basically we watched a video on how to mix the meds and how to do injections and then the nurse showed DH what to do and drew some circles on my butt to give DH  targets to aim for! I made him practice giving shots on an orange before I let him do it to me, but he always did a great job.

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  • CMM05CMM05 member

    I know I'm a couple days late, but I wanted to respond!

    We got PG with DS on our first round of IUI with injects :)

    I have PCOS and DH has "decreased" morph. We had tried Clomid alone for 3 months with my OB and all were BFN's. We then met with an RE.....I started taking Met (eventually worked up to 1000mg a day....) and I used 37.5iu of Gonal-F.

    I had NO side effects on the gonal-f......it was easy! I think I was on the injects for about 7-8 days. I triggered with Ovidrel with ONE follie and we then did b2b IUI's.

    We will be trying the same protocol for #2 around March/April

    GL!

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