IVF Timeline?

LilSip0611 · September 2013

So we had our follow up appointment with my H's urologist yesterday and we are going to move ahead with a TESE surgery to extract sperm and then freeze for my IVF cycle. I am pending my baseline bloodwork, etc. until I get my period but can someone give me an idea of what the monitoring schedule looks like for a typical IVF treatment cycle?

twistsandturnsto2 · September 2013

You may or may not start with BCP and/or Lupron, it's just going to depend on your protocol. I always began with about 2-3 weeks of BCP, Lupron overlapping BCP a few days, then just Lupron for about a week before I went in for a baseline. Some protocols are different and don't require this.

You will start with a baseline u/s and b/w just like any other medicated cycle to make sure you are ready to begin stims. After about 4 days of stims you will return for u/s and b/w and then you will go in about every other and then every day until they think you are ready to trigger. Most ladies stim for about 10 days. Some more, some less. The appointments are usually first thing in the am and don't take long.
About 36 hours after trigger you return for ER. HTH.

Twinkie0612 · September 2013

twistsandturnsto2 said:

You may or may not start with BCP and/or Lupron, it's just going to depend on your protocol. I always began with about 2-3 weeks of BCP, Lupron overlapping BCP a few days, then just Lupron for about a week before I went in for a baseline. Some protocols are different and don't require this. You will start with a baseline u/s and b/w just like any other medicated cycle to make sure you are ready to begin stims. After about 4 days of stims you will return for u/s and b/w and then you will go in about every other and then every day until they think you are ready to trigger. Most ladies stim for about 10 days. Some more, some less. The appointments are usually first thing in the am and don't take long. About 36 hours after trigger you return for ER. HTH.

This is a good explanation. Also the results of your CD 3 blood work will help your doctor determine what protocol will be used. Most women without any indication of DOR or POF, that respond well to stims do well with a Long Lupron (agonist) protocol. It is pretty much like Twists described.

My clinic has you come in for monitoring after 6 days of stims on Long Lupron protocol. I only ended up stimming for 8 days with IVF #1 and only had 2 monitoring appointments (one on the morning of day 7 of stims and one that would have been day 9 of stims, but I ended up triggering that day and not stimming) and the baseline appointment.

LilSip0611 · September 2013

Sorry for the post and run but this is really helpful!

FutureMrsW9 · September 2013

PPs have given you a good idea....but here was my recent timeline just as another point of reference.

8/13 - 8/24 - BCP
8/26 - AF came (but this doesn't have to happen)
8/27 - b/w and u/s for baseline and started stimming w/Follistim and low dose hcg
8/30 - first monitoring appt
9/1 - monitoring
9/3 - monitoring
9/4 - monitoring and trigger of Lupron and HCG at 11:40pm
9/5 - monitoring and second Lupron trigger at 11:40am
9/6 - ER scheduled for 11:40am and received total egg report
9/7 - fert report and bad OHSS started (be careful!!!)
9/8 - check up for OHSS
9/9 - check up for OHSS
9/12 - received 6-day blast frostie report (we're doing FET, no fresh transfer because of OHSS risk)
Now......waiting for AF so I can start my meds for FET hopefully sometime around the weekend of 9/28. Most people who do a fresh cycle will go back for ET on either day 3 or 5, but my clinic seems to be partial to day-6 blasts because of the quality of their labs, but this will vary among clinics and how your own body reacts to stims.

Good luck!!

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