January 2018 IUI

rooonilwaazlib · January 2018

I'm 13dp IUI, expecting AF any day, and going for my beta blood work tomorrow. Cheers to another round of IUI for me in 2018, and hopefully celebrating next NYE with a screaming, mushy baby!

jrm_14 · January 2018

Hi

I have been posting on TTTC board & regualrly on TTGP. Due to hormonal imbalance as a result of adrenal/ovarian insufficiency (presumably related to an autoimmune disorder) and a LPD, I am doing my first IUI this month! Currently, I am WFAF then on to IUI w/ injectables!

RVAmom315 · January 2018

Hi @jrm_14!! Hopefully AF shows soon as you can get going!

AFM I usually post on the IF board on TTGP but thought I'd shoot over here because there's a lot of info.

I am currently waiting for IUI #2 - on day 4 of a 5 day Clomid dose, then Gonal F then trigger and IUI, most likely next Thursday/Friday. First IUI ended in BFN obvs, but was not happy with that RE, so I switched and am doing this with a new RE. Our issue is MFI so I have a feeling IVF is in our future, but wanted to try one more IUI with the new doc.

rooonilwaazlib · January 2018

Welcome @RVAmom315 and @jrm_14! Best of luck to you both in this process!

AFM My beta test was BFN. So onto IUI #2 this month! We didn’t really expect a BFP on the first try. Waiting for AF to visit, then back on the crazy train for round 2 with Clomid, trigger shot, and progesterone.

Happy Hump Day to you all!

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@rooonilwaazlib I'm sorry about the BFN. Hopefully IUI #2 will do the trick - for both of us!

jrm_14 · January 2018

@rooonilwaazlib Sorry for the BFN

Attempting to prepare yourself for a BFN vs actually receiving it can be very different. I hope this second theme works for you!

@RVAmom315 You’re doing the same protocol with a new doctor? Did your RE teach you how to do the injectables or was it a learn as you go? Hopefully you are liking this RE much better!

AF should be here by next Tuesday at the latest!

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@jrm_14 I'm doing the same meds, but different doses with the new RE:
IUI #1: 50mg Clomid days 3-7, 75ui of Gonal F days 8-12, Ovidrel trigger day 13, IUI day 14
IUI #2: 100mg Clomid days 3-7, 150ui of Gonal day 9, Novarel trigger TBD, IUI TBD
The nurse showed me how to mix, inject the meds at the clinic. The first IUI it was a pen (Gonal F), this second IUI is a mix one which the nurse showed me at my appt in November - I hope I remember! So far I like my new RE soooo much better (I'll like him even more if he gets me KU lol)

tinjp78 · January 2018

Hello everyone. I'll have my IUI #1 probably this week so I'll be joining in if you don't mind.

I'm 39 yo and DH is 37. We have been married for 6years and were ttc for 2 years now. I had a 7cm chocolate cyst removed Jan2017 through lap. We started our IVF #1 Aug2017 through an antagonist protocol. 4 embryos were retrieved, 3 were ICSI treated and 1 was just sprayed with DH sperm. Only 1 was fertilized then frozen. On my FET day that one 5d embryo was returned back to me. On Nov2017, beta result was a BFN.

We had our IVF #1 at the hospital where I had my chocolate cyst removed because my dr could speak English (we're residing in Japan) and the hospital has a good reputation and good facilities. But DH thought that we'd better move to a fertility clinic, because there are too many people in the hospital and we spend so much time waiting for our turn during each appt.

At our new clinic, I was tested for low AMH and low testosterone. I started taking DHEA from Dec2017. My cycle was wonky last month, probably due to the meds and hormones I took for my last IVF. When I was nearing ovulation last month, I had an HCG trigger shot and did some BD, but AF came last week and so we met our dr yesterday.

Dr saw an 11 and 12 mm follicles and a couple of probable chocolate cysts. We're monitoring my LH and if it peaks on the 10th, we'd have IUI then.

I hope this would be the month for all of us

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@tinjp78 Welcome! I’m sorry about the BFN. Can I ask why you’re going from IVF to IUI?

tinjp78 · January 2018

Thanks for welcoming me @RVAmom315 As for your question, DH's sperm analysis' results turned out much better this time than when we started out our IVF. Our new dr thinks that IUI would still work for us. Our first dr though already dismissed that idea and sent us straight to IVF for reasons of my age, possible recurrence of chocolate cysts and my DH's sperm quality at that time.

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@tinjp78 Ah gotcha. GL with the IUI! Mine hopefully will be on the 11th

tinjp78 · January 2018

The 11th is just around the corner @RVAmom315. What medications are you on for your IUI and how are you preparing for it?

jrm_14 · January 2018

@tinjp78 Welcome

. hopefully you & YH are both feeling confident with this plan to do IUI and the new doctor.

@RVAmom315 So close to the 11th!! Any monitoring updates? (Sorry if I missed them elsewhere)

tinjp78 · January 2018

@jrm_14 Thanks

@RVAmom315 ooops, forget my question, I just read what meds you are taking for your IUI... silly me.

jrm_14 · January 2018

@rooonilwaazlib How is your cycle going?

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@tinjp78 Haha no worries! I’m actually doing my IUI with a new doc as well
@jrm_14 No updates yet - I have my monitoring appt on Tuesday so we’ll know more then. I did my Gonal F shot last night and it was terrifying because I was so afraid the plunger would come out of the syringe and I’d lose all the meds

tinjp78 · January 2018

@RVAmom315 I'm cheering you on with those shots. I've heard so many stories about self administering of those shots. I can't imagine if I could do it myself. So far, I don't have that experience yet. During my last IVF and here at my new clinic, I get all my shots from the nurses. But I have the feeling that I'd have to do this someday.

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@tinjp78 Thanks! We will see on Tuesday if I did it right

rooonilwaazlib · January 2018

@jrm_14 I started clomid today (day 5) and Sono showed some little follicles blooming! Going back next mon for repeat Bloodwork. FX for good follies this month!

How are you?

scikap · January 2018

Hi everyone,
I'm new here - just had my first IUI on Sunday, so I'll be joining you all this month.

I've been lurking on boards forever, but thought it might be helpful to start posting now that I've started infertility treatments. Here my story real quick. Husband and I have been ttc for just over a year. We are both 37 and trying for our first child. From charting I had figured out that my LP is really short - like 8-9 days - so finally got checked out by a fertility doc. All the investigative tests confirmed that I O on my own, but LP does seem short. DH's sperm was borderline for motility. Doc said we could likely conceive naturally with time (plus progesterone support for me)... but given our age, we might want to try IUI. So here we are.

I did Puregon shots daily from day 4, injecting myself at home. This was not as scary as I thought it would be. I almost passed out after I did the first one, but I think this was just the adrenaline of pumping myself up to do it. It didn't hurt at all - it's just a bit weird. So, since then I've been fine with them.

Seems like the dose was good because I had two nice follicles, one on each side. On day 13 (Sat), doc said I could trigger that evening and schedule IUI for 36 hours later (Mon morning). However, I got a phone call that afternoon saying that my bloodwork showed I was surging on my own. I was told to trigger immediately (Ovidrel 250), just to back it up I guess, and we did IUI on Sun midday. Sperm looked "fantastic" according to the nurse.

DH had a terrible head cold that day and really wasn't in the mood to give a sample - too bad babe! lol boys.

Everything looks good I think - good follicles and good sperm. My major concern is with the timing. I know it's probably much better if the trigger induces O because the timing is better defined than from LH surge. The good thing (I think) is that I had ovulation pain all day Sunday, and it stopped by the evening. If that's any indication of timing, then I must have O'd within hours of the IUI. I've never experience O pain in my life before. I guess all the injections gave me a super O lol.

The IUI hurt more than I expected! Just cramp-like but quite uncomfortable. I felt sort of sore the rest of the day. Luckily it was a Sunday so I was able to rest a bit.

I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but it does feel good to be "doing" something, after months and months of going it on our own without luck. dpiUI 2 and I'm going crazy.

Thanks for listening.

Fingers crossed for all of us.

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@scikap Welcome! FX this IUI is it for you - keep us updated!

AFM had my monitoring appt today - right ovary is a rock star - three follies at 17+, 16+ and 14+, left ovary decided to take the month off, all I had was a 10. So doc wants me to cook one more day, then I'll trigger tomorrow night and do my IUI on Friday morning. I'm anxious to see DH's sample numbers, we haven't had his morph checked since June, and I've had him on vitamins since then, so I'm hoping for ANY increase (anything is better than 0!) If it's still 0, I'm not going to waste time, we'll move to IVF w/ ICSI. (if this IUI doesn't work obvs)

@rooonilwaazlib Grow little follies grow!!

scikap · January 2018

Fx for you RVAmom315! Go right ovary!

tinjp78 · January 2018

@scikap Welcome! Congrats on your IUI. How are you feeling now? I hope that you're not as sore as what you experienced last Sunday. Hoping for the best. Keep us updated.

@RVAmom315 Oh! We are IUI buddies. I got my trigger shot yesterday and I'll have my IUI on Friday as well. But I guess I'll go a bit ahead of you due to our time zone here in Japan. I pray that everything would work out well for us

@rooonilwaazlib I'd say the same thing for your follies... grow follies grow!!!

@jrm_14 Has AF arrived already?

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@tinjp78 Good luck with your IUI! Let us know how it goes. I did my trigger shot last night, and it hurts where we injected it and I have a red circle/rash about the size of quarter. Eek!

jrm_14 · January 2018

@rooonilwaazlib @tinjp78 AF arrived late yesterday evening! It was late & the longest cycle I have had in literally years (26 days?

). I started DHEA last cycle, so I think that had a part in it.

@RVAmom315 Ouch! I hope gat your injection site feels better quickly. GL tomorrow!

@tinjp78 Hope your IUI goes smoothly! How was your trigger shot?

@scikap welcome. FX. When is your beta?

I am anxiously awaiting to hear from the RE this morning re: BL U/S & Meds. I called & emailed through the pt portal. I am now in Cd2, so I need to get the scripts for everything for tomorrow. Ugh, so stressful.

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@jrm_14 I hope you hear back from your RE soon so you can get going. I hate how this process is based on the "hurry up and wait" so stressful!

jrm_14 · January 2018

@RVAmom315 I am so nervous I will not hear back from my IUI coordinator in time to arrange meds & tomorrows US. I don’t understand why I didn’t get at least the US script before now.

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@jrm_14 Honestly I would just call and keep on them until they get that to you. Would they just call the script into the pharmacy for the meds (Clomid? Sorry I don't remember!) so you can pick it up/start tomorrow - can you just make an appointment for the CD3 U/S? Where are you located?

scikap · January 2018

tinjp78 I'm feeling great actually - no symptoms at all for better or for worse! I'm using progesterone suppositories for the first time, and I was pleasantly surprised that I'm getting no side effects from those.

jrm_14 beta is Jan 19 (12 dpIUI)!

Time is crawling

RVAmom315 tinjp78 good luck tomorrow!

jrm_14 · January 2018

@RVAmom315 After leaving multiple messages in multiple formats, I heard back this afternoon. The u/s place wouldn’t let me schedule without a script. Then, there was an issue with them doing the AFC. I’m not amused. Baseline U/S is not at REs due to distance. I think we got it straightened out, though. The RE wants to see results before calling in meds (letrozole, gonal f/follistem, ovidrel, prometrium).
8:15am ultrasound tomorrow.

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@jrm_14 Ugh what a pain! But I’m glad you got the U/S scheduled. GL! I hope there are tons of follies!

@timjp78 GL today!

tinjp78 · January 2018

Hello! Thanks for wishing me luck, ladies! Our IUI went ok. We were at the clinic early today, our appt was at 9am. Although we brought my DH's sperm sample from home, as we were instructed, the nurse asked my DH to give another one. DH was hesitant at first if he could do it, since it was just an hour and a half ago since he got his sample at home, but anyway he succeeded to get our champion swimmers. We got a little disappointed though when the nurse asked my DH if he had taken 2 doses of the herbs that was prescribed for him because it should be 2 doses instead of his normal 1 dose before an IUI procedure, BUT we didn't receive this instruction the last time we were there... sigh! Anyway, we didn't allow this tiny issue to ruin our day so we just let it pass for today. During my procedure, DH was allowed in the exam room with me to be my interpreter since I'm not so good at Japanese yet and everybody else in that room isn't better in English than DH. Dr seemed to have a hard time seeing my womb, she was saying it was small. The whole procedure took around 10 minutes.

Dr prescribed me some antibiotics to take for 3 days and on 1/14, I should start taking Duphaston (medicine to prevent my chocolate cyst (now 28mm) from getting bigger). If this IUI won't succeed this time, Dr suggest that we try 2 more times, then during the IVF, we'll have several egg retrievals before transfer. And if AF comes next month, I'd have HSG which I really really despise because it was sooo painful the first time. I really do hope that I'd get KU this time. My tww starts now.

tinjp78 · January 2018

@jrm_14 about your question about my trigger shot, it wasn't so painful, it was an intramuscular shot and probably the nurse was just either good at administering them or I already got used to getting shots. I always have them on my upper arm near my shoulders. On the day we had to trigger my ovulation, I got HCG 250iu and now after my IUI, I had 3,500iu.

jrm_14 · January 2018

@tinjp78 Glad That overall your IUI went well this morning! Why were they not able to use his sample from home? Good thing he was able to produce another so quickly!!

I thought triggershots were done IM. However, I watched some YouTube videos of Ovidrel injections in the abdomen, which would make it subq. Anyone have any insight into triggershot injection sites? Clearly, I will do whatever my RE tells me to do

.

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@tinjp78 I’m surprised they’d have YH do another sample so close to the first one - I’d be afraid the number would be bad, but it sounds like they were good! Yay!

AFM My IUI went great! H was able to give a sample (he was worried doing it at the clinic) and he had 38 mil motile and 3% morph post wash! That’s great because his SA back in June was 0 morph. Twice. So it looks like the vitamins are working !

tinjp78 · January 2018

@jrm_14 I've never had a subq trigger shot but I also heard that it can be done that way too, however I'm content with an IM. Also, @RVAmom315 , they wanted DH to provide another sample because Dr wasn't satisfied with the first batch we had brought in. We were able to use them too, through. They added the first and second batches together. Prob, on the first one, lots had died on our way to the clinic. The weather here yesterday was too cold, snowing and minus 2 deg cel. DH SA showed that the second batch he got from the clinic was much better. Plus, dr showed us a video of DH sperms and compared the 1st and 2nd and showed us the combined result. It was interesting. Although dr said she wanted to have faster swimmers next time.

tinjp78 · January 2018

@RVAmom315 Congrats on your IUI too. It was nice that your H had good SA this time. What vitamins is he taking?

RVAmom315 · January 2018

@tinjp78 Thanks! DH is on (daily):

100mg CoQ10
A multi vitamin
2 FertilAid caps
400mg L-Carnitine w 200 mg Alpha Lipoic Acid (1 capsule)

scikap · January 2018

@jrm_14 my ovidrel shot was in the abdomen (it was a preloaded pen that I took home with me, similar to the Puregon FSH shots I also took)

@tinjp78 @RVAmom315 congrats and fingers crossed for you

tinjp78 · January 2018

@scikap Thank you. I'm also crossing my fingers for you and your first beta is just around the corner. How are you doing today?

@RVAmom315 thanks for sharing your H vitamins. My H is on these

Vit D and E
Citrulline
Hotchuekitou (herb)
and tomato juice

tinjp78 · January 2018

How are you doing guys? AFM, last night at 8pm my face itched, turned red and got swollen. This morning it's not itchy anymore but I feel that my cheeks are a bit thicker than usual. DH and I suspect 2 things, it could be the antibiotics I took after IUI or Duphaston, the progesterone meds I'm taking to improve my chance of pregnancy and to treat my endometriosis. Sigh, this is the first time this ever happened to me.

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