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Secondary IF
kwilbraham
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IVF or IUI? I still don't know!
kwilbraham
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in Secondary IF
Just an update on me. I went to the RE today for blood work & ultrasound. I now have 4 follicles. I only had 2 measurable on Friday and they told me this cycle would probably be converted into an IUI. Well, today, they saw four (largest 20 smallest 14). Now they say I'm on the cusp between IVF and IUI. I go yet again for blood work & ultrasound tomorrow. The suspense is killing me!
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Re: IVF or IUI? I still don't know!
6/20/11 mc @ 5wks
10/19/11 mc @ 17wks- Trisomy 18
IUI #1 4/26/12 BFN
Moving on to IVF in July
37 with DOR...fabulous
ER 7/14/12 6R 5F, ET 7/17 3 embies, beta #1 7/26: 147, beta #2 7/28: 326, beta#3 7/30: 422...ugh, beta#4 7/31: 607...hopeful, beta #5 8/2: 1280, beta #6 8/7: 7184 and u/s shows 1 possibly 2 sacs! 8/14 2 beautiful heartbeats! 9/24 we are TEAM BLUE!!!!!
That's a tough call....personally if it was me I would probably go with iui. I got lucky with my last iui..I did 7 prior and was moving to ivf and my RE called the day before was starting Lupron to tell me my insurance wanted me to do 1 more iui before they would cover it, I was devastated but I had my stims and asked if I could do stims with the cycle since I had never done just stims with iui...I had done clomid with hcg booster. But doing just stims ended up working and I have my beautiful son from it.....I had 4 eggs and was 21 at the time of trigger. Iui does work for some as long as you have the right egg ...what would scare me about doing ivf would only be my eggs not making it to day 3 or day 5. I only say this because my ivf cycle I had 17 eggs and 14 fertilized. I had 3 that made it to day 5 and transferred 1 which sadly ended in a cp... But I had a bad exp with retrieval and got OHSS and was on bed rest from retrivel till transfer. My body was in rough shape....I had a ton of cysts the day of transfer and got a bfp on 7dp5dt and started bleeding an hour later.....I just did FET and transferred the 2 back and got a bfp 4dp5dfet. I wouldn't want to go through the retrivel again if I didn't need to....so for me because of my experiences with both iui and ivf, I'd make the call with 4 nice size eggs and do iui....out of the 14 that fertilized they tossed 8 out on day 2 cause they were abnormal. So I guess that's why I'd be up In the air if I had 4 or 5 to work with....but then again with ivf they fertilize them before they r transferred back so it's a toss up.....
I hope whatever you decide works for you and I wish you all the best of luck...
First Time: DD born 3/2011 after trying for two years, LAP, and two IUIs w/ Femera + Ovidrel
This Time: 4/12 Femera IUI #1 BFN, 5/12 Femera + TI BFN, 6/12 Femera + IUI #2 BFN, 7/12 Femera + IUI #3 BFN, 8/12 Follistim IUI #4 BFN
IVF #1: ER 11/5/12 : 17 eggs retrieved/6 fertilized, ET 11/10/12 : 5dt of 2 embies/0 frosties BFN
IVF #2: ER 1/28/13 : 12 eggs retrieved/9 fertilized, ET 2/2/13 : 5dt of 2 embies/0 frosties BFN
IVF #3: ER 4/15/13 : 13 eggs retrieved/7 fertilized, ET 4/18/13 : 3dt of 3 embies/0 frosties BFN
Laparoscopy 5/24/13 : Stage 2 Endo, Scaring, and Both tubes Blocked but successfully Opened
IVF #4 (Clinical Trial): ER 7/22/13 : 15 eggs/8 fertilized, ET 7/25/13 : 3dt of 3 embies/0 frosties BFN
IVF #5: ER 11/4/13 : 13 eggs/12 fertilized, ET 11/9/13 : 5dt of 2 embies/0 frosties BFP!!! Beta 11/20/13 = 447 1 Beautiful Baby! EDD: July 28, 2014