Menopur is a B***H!

purpleyes1081 · May 2012

Is it just me? Out of all the injections am taking menopur is the worst. It's so dam painful. From inserting it to even more pain when medicine gets injected. Am so over this process. Lupron n gonal f I don't feel a thing. It's morning and am already dreading tonight 's injection. Last night I actually broke down in tears b/c I can't take this anymore.

LuvWIfootball · May 2012

Mine stung a little, but wasn't painful. Do you ice before you give the injections? I found that icing for 5 minutes or so really helped. I never even felt the injections.

delino · May 2012

I had only the tiniest bit of pain with my stims. I mixed my Gonal-F into my Menopur. I don't know if it made a difference, but maybe you can ask if you can do that?

mrskitton · May 2012

I have a dumb question (please forgive me since I have not started my injects yet) but wouldn't the progesterone be more painful since that has to be in the muscle? I personally am more worried for that one!!

April+ · May 2012

YES! It stings so bad that I want to pull it out before the syringe is finished. Last night it was still stinging so bad after I was finished and DH grabbed some food and tried feeding me to get my mind off the pain LOL. It was very sweet but food was the last thing I wanted haha

Ccjones85 · May 2012

I feel ya... The Menapur burned super bad for me. I started icing my stomach and that did seem to help a bit. I hope it gets better for you, GL!

April+ · May 2012

delino:
I had only the tiniest bit of pain with my stims. I mixed my Gonal-F into my Menopur. I don't know if it made a difference, but maybe you can ask if you can do that?

What was your dosage of both? My RE has me taking gonal-f in the morning with Lupron and Menopur at night. I wasn't even given the option of taking them together. I am taking 225 IU of gonal f and 1 vial of menopur. I have noticed everyone has such different protocols during an IVF cycle.

delino · May 2012

April+:

delino:
I had only the tiniest bit of pain with my stims. I mixed my Gonal-F into my Menopur. I don't know if it made a difference, but maybe you can ask if you can do that?

What was your dosage of both? My RE has me taking gonal-f in the morning with Lupron and Menopur at night. I wasn't even given the option of taking them together. I am taking 225 IU of gonal f and 1 vial of menopur. I have noticed everyone has such different protocols during an IVF cycle.

I was on 150 Gonal-F and 1 vial of Menopur. I wasn't on Lupron so that might be the main difference.

AngnShaun · May 2012

Its been fine for me... its more of a PIA to mix it than the injection. But im on Lovenox and that stings no matter how slowly i inject

maggie2324 · May 2012

My Menopur injection was identical to Gonal f. No burning or anything like that. I've heard of women complaining when they are on a high dosage of Menopur, but never with only taking 1 vial (my dose).

winofairy · May 2012

I thought the menopur was the worse by far. It burned going in and it caused me to bruise. The follistim and gonal-f never did this.

purpleyes1081 · May 2012

Am going to try icing tonight. Am only on 1 vial of it but the pain is too much while the other 2 are a piece of cake. Thanks for the icing suggestion.

BzeetyD · May 2012

For Menopur it burned and I agree that it was the most painful (we didn't do PIO) and someone told me a trick of turning on a heating pad, doing the inject and then putting the pad on the spot immediately afterwards. This really helped for me.

AmCheri · May 2012

I'm with you purple. Menopur was pure, unadulterated torture for me. I had so much pain one night, I thought I might vomit.

Next cycle, I complained about Menopur and they switched me to Follistim. Follistim is a breeze. It's just a mini-me sting. Talk to your nurse and see if they will switch your meds. They may not want to change mid cycle, but it can't hurt to ask. Feel better!

lady_chance_99 · May 2012

purpleyes1081:
Am going to try icing tonight. Am only on 1 vial of it but the pain is too much while the other 2 are a piece of cake. Thanks for the icing suggestion.

Make sure you report back with results. I start Menopur tomorrow and you guys have scared the crap out of me and I was already dreading it (BIG time fear of needles. Emphasis on the BIG lol)... Now I kinda just don't want to do it at all!!!!! I'm expecting to have to do five days of menopur then the trigger shot... Now after reading this I think I might be sick. Ick!

GL

purpleyes1081 · May 2012

lady_chance_99:
purpleyes1081:
Am going to try icing tonight. Am only on 1 vial of it but the pain is too much while the other 2 are a piece of cake. Thanks for the icing suggestion.
Make sure you report back with results. I start Menopur tomorrow and you guys have scared the crap out of me and I was already dreading it (BIG time fear of needles. Emphasis on the BIG lol)... Now I kinda just don't want to do it at all!!!!! I'm expecting to have to do five days of menopur then the trigger shot... Now after reading this I think I might be sick. GL

Aww... I will def report back.

lc&jw · May 2012

My first menopur injection stung really badly too. After that, I tried to inject it closer to the mid-line of my stomach, below my belly button rather than off too far to either side. Basically I was aiming for where there was a thicker layer of fat. That seemed to help tremendously and the rest of my menopur injections were tolerable, even after my dosage doubled. I've also learned over time that certain areas of my stomach are more sensitive than others, so I won't even attempt any of the more painful injections in those areas.

I had also heard that with menopur injections you should be careful to make sure that there are no drops of medication on the outside of the needle before you inject, because that supposedly makes it burn worse. Also, you're not injecting cold medication are you? We were told that the menopur does not need to be in the fridge.

Good luck. I hope it gets better from here.

AmCheri · May 2012

lady_chance_99:
purpleyes1081:
Am going to try icing tonight. Am only on 1 vial of it but the pain is too much while the other 2 are a piece of cake. Thanks for the icing suggestion.
Make sure you report back with results. I start Menopur tomorrow and you guys have scared the crap out of me and I was already dreading it (BIG time fear of needles. Emphasis on the BIG lol)... Now I kinda just don't want to do it at all!!!!! I'm expecting to have to do five days of menopur then the trigger shot... Now after reading this I think I might be sick. GL

LC, the majority of women here haven't had much trouble with Menopur. Purpleyes and I are in the lucky minority. Don't worry! As insurance, I'd definitely ice first. It does take the edge off. Also, note that it's not the needle that hurts -- if it hurts at all -- it's the medication.

lady_chance_99 · May 2012

AmCheri:

lady_chance_99:
purpleyes1081:
Am going to try icing tonight. Am only on 1 vial of it but the pain is too much while the other 2 are a piece of cake. Thanks for the icing suggestion.
Make sure you report back with results. I start Menopur tomorrow and you guys have scared the crap out of me and I was already dreading it (BIG time fear of needles. Emphasis on the BIG lol)... Now I kinda just don't want to do it at all!!!!! I'm expecting to have to do five days of menopur then the trigger shot... Now after reading this I think I might be sick. GL

LC, the majority of women here haven't had much trouble with Menopur. Purpleyes and I are in the lucky minority. Don't worry! As insurance, I'd definitely ice first. It does take the edge off. Also, note that it's not the needle that hurts -- if it hurts at all -- it's the medication.

AmCheri~ I am DEFINATELY going to ice it now... I start feeling brave and then I backslide... I am not ashamed to admit that this is part of the reason DH and I decided we would opt out of IVF if it came to that. It wasn't the only determining factor but it sure didn't help... lol

BAKERMOMHDS · May 2012

Oh..Hang tough..I know it sucks. The menopur is awful, once I start taking the Ganirelix as well it'll be *double the pleasure* in the stinging / burning category .

*hugs*

ARS0805 · May 2012

lady_chance_99:
purpleyes1081:
Am going to try icing tonight. Am only on 1 vial of it but the pain is too much while the other 2 are a piece of cake. Thanks for the icing suggestion.
Make sure you report back with results. I start Menopur tomorrow and you guys have scared the crap out of me and I was already dreading it (BIG time fear of needles. Emphasis on the BIG lol)... Now I kinda just don't want to do it at all!!!!! I'm expecting to have to do five days of menopur then the trigger shot... Now after reading this I think I might be sick. GL

Right there with you, LC! I am starting Bravelle on Wednesday!

BabytoV · May 2012

Are you sure you are mixing the Menopur all the way? My nurse said it stings sometimes when the crystals are not all the way dissolved. She told me after I put the saline into the vial to leave it on the table and swirl it around for a minute to make sure it mixes well. You don't want to shake it because that will get air into it and you don't want that either.

Not sure if this will help you out at all but I didn't have any problem with the Menopur. I get a lot of burning with the Lovenox.

I hope it maybe helps Smile

Lauren

BabytoV · May 2012

I was VERY worried about the progesterone. It doesn't feel wonderful but it is definately not as bad as I had though it would be. I will tell you I would not ice or heat before hand. I usually hold the vile of progesterone for a few minutes so it is body temp before it goes it. My husband does a great job of just quickly entering the needle. Once the needle is in they(my DH and whoever is going to do it for you) need to check that there is no blood but then I have found that the slower he pushes the progesterone in the better. After it is removed I wipe with alcohol, put a bandaid on and then use a heating pad and rub the area for about 5 minutes.

In the beginning he was going to low in the butt cheek and it was leaving bumps. The nurse circled where it should go and I was suprised by how high up the circles were. I will tell you it hurts more when it initially goes in but the long term effects are almost non-exsistent when we are in the right area.

Hope this may be helpful to you! Just remember to BREATH!

Lauren

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