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Originally Posted by Christeena
Hi Tanter !
GOOD LUCK on your first iVF!! I just did my first one ever and it was quite the experience. Your antral count is AWESOME !!!!! you will be a good responder.
As far as your schedule goes and what to expect,, there are many different protocols and I am still a newbie.. Mine went like this: i did the day 3 tests one month, then they ordered all my meds. Then the following month I went in again for day 3 ultrasound and that night I began my stimming medications. I took stims for 12 days. Some people take other meds actually before they start stimming depending on the protocol. 4 days into stimming i added another shot to stop my ovaries from ovulating. Then inbetween all this stuff you are going into your clinic every other day so they can constantly monitor you via blood tests and ultra sounds. as you go, they determine the date of your egg retreival and then they decide if you will be a 3 day transfer or 5 day transfer to put the embryos back. then its a two week wait (2ww). CRAZY !
every step of the way is fragile. I didn't make it to my transfer on my first time because my embryos were not dividing and had too much fragmentation. (ask your RE about embryo grading when you get to ER/ET step of process)
Hope this helps!! GOOD LUCK!
see you around on these threads..
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Thanks so much for this really helpful post! I really appreciate it.
DH and I are going in for our IVF consult a week from Thursday, where I guess we'll actually give us our protocol. My next cycle will be the 4th week in June, so that's when I'll start the BCPs. I'll keep you updated as to how that goes.
Hopefully some more August IVFers will join this group soon. We need some more CBs on this list!! :-)
I'm so sorry your first cycle had to be canceled. That must have been SUCH a bummer! After taking all that medication and going in for all that testing! Grrrrr! My heart totally goes out to you.
I really hope we're all successful this time! It will be so nice to see a bunch of BFPs at the end of August, beginning of September!