IVF plan in place, any non lupron gals?

katib77 · August 2013

I know I have not been posting much this past month but for those of you who know me from my years of post *even my lurker fans

I thought I'd give a little update. I had my nurses consult/calendar planning yesterday for our IVF. The plan, while a bit fluid, will follow fairly closely as follows...

I will start BCP with next AF and have a baseline then which should be around Aug. 26th. I will be on the BCP for about three weeks and stop Sept. 18th, have another baseline and start stims on Sept 20th in order to be in my RE's "October Group". He does ERs and ETs in October between Oct. 1st through the 11th so I will fall into that group. Since I have always been a fast responder we assume I will have ER sometime in the first few days of October. Hoping for a 5dt but of course it will depend on how the embies do. Beta will be 16 days after ER.

I am not doing Lupron, only BCP. I was told it's because of my hormone levels and Dx. Anyone else not do lupron for IVF? Also, for progesterone we are not doing PIO or Crinone (sp?) only endometrim. Since this is my DX (LPD, along with MFI) I'm a bit surprised we're not going more "balls to the wall" with p4 supps but trying to just put faith in my RE. The nurse referred to it as "the easiest protocol". Mainly because all the shots are sub Q, no IMs. And short suppression with BCP.

I am busy trying to plan my time off work. Since I know how hard it is for me to be on my feet when I do IUIs and have three follies growing I cannot imagine an 8 hour shift on my feet running around with my ovaries the size of grapefruits so I'm asking for light duty four hour shifts the last week of stims and off work for about 10 days starting Sept. 30th. DH wants me to talk to HR more about short term disability since she had said I might be able to be paid after the third day off with that and just take a full three weeks off. I know not many do this but as this is our one and only shot that we will probably ever be able to afford and I am technically PT (I work about 32 hours a week) what does it matter? Anyone else take extended time off? Did you have it covered by FMLA or Short Term Disability?

As always - PAIF and SAIF please feel free to weigh in if you see this as I welcome your stories or feedback.

happygirl1013 · August 2013

Because I'm not in treatment yet because we've been treating other issues before we can start, I have no insights. But I'm super pumped for you to be starting this chapter!!! Good luck and keep me posted. I'll keep you in my prayers:-)

GermanGirl2007 · August 2013

First of all - YAY! I'm glad you have a plan in place!!

In answer to your question, I did BCP with my IVF, but I did Mini IVF, which is obviously a little different. It was just for 2 weeks, and then I started stims on day 3 after stopping BCP. I'm not sure about the progesterone, since I am doing FET, but in looking at my docs, it looks as though PIO is standard protocol. I would ask if they are going to test your levels so that you can add PIO if needed - I think it's good to trust your RE, but I think that you should feel 100% comfortable too.

Anyways, GL to you and I'll be crossing everything that this is what works for you!

monimu13 · August 2013

We did lupron, so I'm not help there. Just wanted to say that I'm glad you have a plan in place, everything crossed for you!

katib77 · August 2013

GermanGirl2007 said:

I would ask if they are going to test your levels so that you can add PIO if needed - I think it's good to trust your RE, but I think that you should feel 100% comfortable too.

Yeah, no worries there...because of my LPD they test my p4 every single treatment cycle and add meds accordingly if it needs to be upped.

I am Marla Singer · August 2013

No advice, just good luck from one of your "stalkers"!

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