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Trigger shot

maggiemay33maggiemay33 member
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Hello All, 

I've been mostly lurking for the past few weeks. Hope you all are doing well.

Despite complications along the way, we are finally at the point where tonight I will have to administer the trigger shot. We have to do it at 2AM, which is... yeah. Any tips, tricks, or advice? I'd be lying if I said it didn't freak me out a little. 
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Re: Trigger shot

  • AandStilltryingAandStilltrying member
    Super easy! No worries. Sarah did hers in her arm. I would pinch it up and away we went. :) she hardly felt it.


    10 medicated IUI's (3 with injectables). 
    IUI #1 (medicated) Jan. 2013-BFP!!!!- Beta's didn't double, MTX shot for possible ectopic.
    8 IUI's between April 13-April 14 = BFN 
    IUI #10 and final before IVF, injectables May 2014- BFP!!!!  TWINS!!!!

    7 week ultrasound showed 2 wonderful heartbeats!
    8 weeks to the ER with vaginal bleeding while on vacations!  Diagnosed SubChorionic Hemorrhage.  Babies are both great.
    9 week ultrasound showed both babies are still great.
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  • maggiemay33maggiemay33 member
    Oh, wow. We have to do the shot, well in the muscle right above her ass essentially. I want whatever you guys did, @AandStilltrying, that sounds way easier! :)
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  • Himee33Himee33 member
    My wife has given me the IM shot above my "ass" and it was fine. I just leaned on our island, spread my legs a tiny bit, closed my eyes and she put it in. Ha! That sounds really dirty :) She was more nervous about it but became a pro because she also had to give me IM progesterone shots daily in the same spot. You can also rub a tiny bit of ice on the spot before and make sure she massages the area after she gives it.

    ME-34  DW-28
    Together since 1-2012
    Married 9-24-2013
    Started TTC with RE January 2014.
    Open donor sperm

    IUI #1 (1-31-14) Clomid + HCG Trigger=BFN
    IUI #2 (2-27-14) Gonal F + HCG trigger=BFN Benched for 2 weeks due to cysts. Placed on BCP
    IUI #3 (4-7-14) Gonal F + HCG trigger=BFN Benched for 3 weeks due to 6 cysts. Placed on BCP

    IVF#1 Lupron 10iu, Menopur 150iu, Gonal F 400iu, HCG trigger
    ER#1 (6-3-14) 9 Eggs, 8 Fertilized, 
    ET#1 (6-8-14) 2 Day 5 Blastocysts transferred
    6-20-14 BFP 12dp5dt Beta 114.9
                          15dp5dt Beta 365
    Low progesterone start PIO/Crinone
    6-23-14 Ultrasound shows no sac. Beta dropped. Chemical.
    IVF#2 Menopur 150iu, Gonal F450iu, Ganirelix, Lupron trigger
    ER#2 8-13-14 7 Eggs, 3 Fertilized and frozen
    FET scheduled for 10-11-14
    FET Canceled due to thin lining

    IVF #2  Fresh Cycle Scheduled for December 2014


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  • maggiemay33maggiemay33 member
    Hey, thanks everybody. Reading these responses (and watching some online videos) has made me feel a little better. (@Himee - This also sounds dirty.)

    @TwoMomsInTX - we will be doing this about the same time. Good luck.
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  • mallory4284mallory4284 member
    It's not as bad as you think!! (Don't know if yours is the smaller needle or the needle they use for the PIO) but if it's the smaller, you shouldn't feel much of anything!! The PIO are what bothered me the most. J had to give me those and she had to ice me up before cause it was uncomfortable going in.... But I gave myself every other shot.... The needles are small enough that it's usually just a small pinch!! Good luck!!
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  • maggiemay33maggiemay33 member
    It was the huge ass needle, but I guess it went okay. Didn't hit a vein, got all of it in... A little surreal though to wake in the middle of the night to shoot up my wife with a 1.5 inch long needle. 
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  • mallory4284mallory4284 member
    Glad to hear it went well! J never liked giving me the shots with the big needles! She dreaded it, bit always ended well! Good luck!!
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