Those on injects...

Sharon216 · May 2012

Can you give me an idea what a cycle with injectables is like?

Not sure it would be a consideration for us (I'm terrified of multiples) but I'm curious what is involved. How many visits with the RE does it involve, how many days of shots, when do you start, etc.? Also, for those of you paying OOP, how much do the injects typically cost per cycle?

mrsjami · May 2012

I'm about to start 2nd cycle of Follistim. I can't count the visits, there were a lot. I think I had 9 days of shots, starting on day 3. The length depends on how your body responds, so it's different for everyone. I don't pay OOP but I think it's about 3000.

twaterford · May 2012

I had a baseline u/s on day 3 and was shown how to do the shots. I started follistim on day 5 and took for 5 days, day 10 I had b/w and u/s and 2 more days of shots. On day 12 I had b/w and u/s again, then trigger shot that night (which is actually tonight for me). I pay OOP and had to pay the following: u/s $300 each, b/w $250 each time, follistim $250 per vial (I had two and used 75iu per shot), ovidrel trigger $100. Hope that helps! I'm a teacher and my insurance covers nothing. I wish I knew what insurance did because I've been hearing about a lot of people's insurance even covering IVF.

ougrad1 · May 2012

I did injects for 11 or 12 days. I had *almost* enough for another month and I'm thinking the drugs were about 1000.00 give or take some.

Lots of monitoring. I went in close to every day but, my follies were very slow in growing.

For the first four or five months multiples are damn near impossible, especially if you have an older toddler. I seriously have blacked those first months out. After a year multiples are HARD but, now it seems to be falling into place-almost two years into it. ; )

GL!

TripMomma · May 2012

I only did one cycle...and even though I got multiples on Clomid I only got 1 baby on injectables. At my RE's it is between $2K-$5K depending on how much of the drug you go through and how much monitoring they need to do. I was only on 1 amp per day for 11 days, so not that much at all. I had 4 blood work/ultrasound appointments. 1 trigger and 1 IUI. Good luck!

queenbone · May 2012

My injectible cycle cost $2k OOP. I did the lowest dose of follistim for not that many days, triggered with ovidrel and the TI. My diagnosis was unexplained and the first cycle of inj worked for us.

I didn't have any s/e on follistim which was nice because I was an evil, crazy person on clomid. I was never able to administer the shots my self though. I totally thought I could do it, but just could never bring myself to stick the needle in my stomach. Fortunately DH had no problem doing it (and he's the queezy one of us!)

This time my RE is recommending I either do a lower dose of follisitm (50 iu) or try Letrozole. I haven't made up my mind yet. Letrozole would certainly be cheaper.

kiarox2002 · May 2012

I think this inject cyle is going to cost us about $2000? Let's see, $800 or so for the meds, $131 out of pocket for each monitoring appt (will have 4 or 5) and a couple hundred for the actual IUI. Oh and a hundred or so for the trigger shot.

As for the schedule:

CD3: Baseline US. Start daily injections (probably 10 days of injections.)

CD7:Monitoring US and bloodwork.

CD10:Monitoring US. Maybe bloodwork? It's tomorrow.

I'm guessing based on previous cycles that they'll also bring me in on CD13 for another US and to give me the trigger shot and the IUI will be on Thursday or Friday. They might make me come in on CD12 too.

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