IUI - Success and Failure Stories (please share)

jenbren9 · November 2014

Dear All-

I am having my first IUI tomorrow and wanted to hear everyone's feedback... Doctors are mostly positive so I would like to hear real stories. Can everyone share the following:

1) Was IUI successful for you or not?

2) How many IUIs did you do before were successful or tried something else?

3) What fertility drugs were you on?

4) How many follicles did you have going into IUI?

5) What day was your IUI on (cycle day)?

6) What day was your BFP?

7) how many babies?

8) anything else you are willing to share?

Thanks!

emmuffy · November 2014

You won't find success stories here. The women here are mostly trying for #1 and have generally moved onto IVF. Try PAIF/SAIF for success stories. You can generally read about people's experiences (drugs, number of tries, etc) in their signatures. Try lurking and reading some more posts to get a sense of everyone's histories. I would particularly recommend the Trouble Trying to Conceive board, as those women are mostly doing IUIs. GL with your IUI.

Dyork · November 2014

emmuffy said:

You won't find success stories here. The women here are mostly trying for #1 and have generally moved onto IVF. Try PAIF/SAIF for success stories. You can generally read about people's experiences (drugs, number of tries, etc) in their signatures. Try lurking and reading some more posts to get a sense of everyone's histories. I would particularly recommend the Trouble Trying to Conceive board, as those women are mostly doing IUIs. GL with your IUI.

This response is waaaaaaay nicer than what I had in mind. I'm always so surprised to see people do drive by posts without lurking first, or reading the 'READ ME FIRST' post pinned at the top.

I WISH I had luck with IUIs, but even my RE was pretty blunt in saying there was only a 17% chance it would work, and we'd most likely have to move onto IVF. Which is why I'm here now, and now I'm sad.

Hollowvic · November 2014

Haha you're on the wrong board. Most on this board are doing IVF. #6 & 7 are straight up inappropriate questions to post here, why would you ask that on a board for infertility?

emmuffy · November 2014

I try to be nice. The last time I responded to one of these the woman called me rude (and I thought was being relatively nice!).

tptbabe · November 2014

1) Was IUI successful for you or not? - No

2) How many IUIs did you do before were successful or tried something else? - One

3) What fertility drugs were you on? Letrozole, Gonal-F and Orgalutron (and HCG trigger with progesterone suppositories afterwards).

4) How many follicles did you have going into IUI? - Don't remember. My AFC is generally 10-11 each cycle. I had one mature follie at trigger.

5) What day was your IUI on (cycle day)? - CD14

6) What day was your BFP? - N/A

7) how many babies? - N/A

8) anything else you are willing to share? - Your chances of success are not related to anybody elses. Each situation is unique, and you need to listen to your doctor on what your chances are, rather than asking other people. Even then, it can mean absolutely nothing. Our IUI had 200,000 sperm post-wash total, and it was negative (obviously). But I have a friend that did 6 IUIs with post wash counts around a hundred million and still had BFNs, so they moved on to IVF. You're not going to find alot of success stories from IUI here (if any, as probably 95% of the women here are working on their first), so try another board. Finally, read the synopsis at the top of each board to find out what the culture is like so that you don't offend anybody.

jenbren9 · November 2014

I posted this question yesterday and I feel as if I should respond. First of all, I am new to blogging and posting and was looking to other people in a similar situation to share experiences and support (based on recommendation from doc). I am not new to infertility. I DID read the read me first post and just read it again, and there is nothing in the announcement that my post contradicts. There very may well be people who follow this post with success stories and obviously there are people with failure stories (which is why I posted, as I am interested in hearing both). As women with a common issue, we should be here to support each other and not tear each other down. I have been following a similar board on fertility.org and someone asked a very similar question (but the last post was from 2013, hence why I asked it again since newer drugs are now available, etc.) and no one on that site was offended or posted mean responses. Believe me, I do understand the pain and hardship of the situation, but that is not an excuse to be rude to people. But I appreciate the guidance from those who are not.

pblge · November 2014

****PAIF response*****

I did much of the writing for the READ ME FIRST post, so I have a very clear memory that it says the following:

"- If you would like to share or hear success stories, please visit Pregnant after IF or Success after IF."

You came to this board looking for success stories, which you won't find. You MIGHT find some women who miscarried after IUI. You can imagine that they love discussing that. The READ ME FIRST post, however, is vague about whether IUIs are part of this board--at the time of writing we had a few women who were doing IUIs as a break from IVF, so we wanted to be inclusive of them.

Much of the rest of your questions, as PP have said (Hello, gorgeous @tptbabe!!!), are so idiosyncratic that others' responses really won't be helpful. As someone who is tubal factor, I didn't do many IUIs, but the decision about how many to do is based a lot on finances, diagnoses, and whether you have any insurance coverage for either IUI or IVF.

You might try going to the Trouble TTC board and asking SOME of your questions about IUIs, like how many follicles women got on different fertility meds, but they won't have success stories for you either.

Best of luck.

jenbren9 · November 2014

Again, as I did say in my prior post. I am sorry if I offended anyone. That was clearly not my intention. I was not clear from the description in the READ ME FIRST that this was IVF only section - perhaps the title of the page should be more clear. In any event, you can remove my post if you find it so irritating. I was just trying to find information as I took the first step into treatment with an RE after years of trying on my own.

kamartinek · November 2014

I feel the need to respond. First, I am disappointed that we as a group would be so quick to be negative toward someone innocently looking for information. We have all been in jenbren9's shoes as we were starting our journey and needed help and more importantly SUPPORT!

Jenbren9, I have done IUI and the first time took but I miscarried. I was incredibly sad and disappointed. I was in letrezol which worked the first time to help me ovulate but not since.

I wish you luck as you start your journey.

Hollowvic · November 2014

@kamartinek‌ please put a loss mentioned warning in your posts. You obviously don't get it either, there are different boards for pp at different stages of their journey, pp were trying to move her towards a board that would be of better support, if she wants success stories she will not find them here. Actually not all of us have been in her shoes, my issue is severe MFI, I don't even quality for an IUI so think before you post.

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