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Hi all,
Looks like the message board isn't too busy now but just wanted to give you guys an update on what we've been doing. Our last 2 cycles were pretty awful. The first one yielded 8 eggs and only 2 moderately rated embryos survived. They were implanted and nothing good came of it. The 2nd round was even worse. 3 eggs with 1 mediocre embryo making it to a 5 day transfer (due to OHSS) that was negative.
Our RE took the last one personally, petitioned our shared risk program not to dump us and came up with a new plan. She also found some polyps that showed up when they did one of those advanced ultrasounds (I don't know what it is called). They were not very big but we really have no idea how long they've been there. It's quite possible they were present for our last two cycles.
Anyway, long story short, we did 2 weeks of gonal-f and menopur and started ganorelix when her estrogen started to rise. We used Lupron for the trigger.
They were able to retrieve twenty-eight(28) eggs from my wife! OH MY GOD... we aren't even pregnant yet but we are ecstatic. At day 1, 12 were dividing. At day 2, 20 were dividing! Most likely we'll be doing a day 5 transfer which would be on Thursday.
We were about as low as we could get before this week. I sat in the waiting room during the retrieval with a knot in my stomach expecting poor results again. We're feeling a bit renewed and cautiously optimistic. Whether we are successful this time or not, it seems we may have a soccer team of embryos to work with for future tries!
Wish us luck!
Looks like the message board isn't too busy now but just wanted to give you guys an update on what we've been doing. Our last 2 cycles were pretty awful. The first one yielded 8 eggs and only 2 moderately rated embryos survived. They were implanted and nothing good came of it. The 2nd round was even worse. 3 eggs with 1 mediocre embryo making it to a 5 day transfer (due to OHSS) that was negative.
Our RE took the last one personally, petitioned our shared risk program not to dump us and came up with a new plan. She also found some polyps that showed up when they did one of those advanced ultrasounds (I don't know what it is called). They were not very big but we really have no idea how long they've been there. It's quite possible they were present for our last two cycles.
Anyway, long story short, we did 2 weeks of gonal-f and menopur and started ganorelix when her estrogen started to rise. We used Lupron for the trigger.
They were able to retrieve twenty-eight(28) eggs from my wife! OH MY GOD... we aren't even pregnant yet but we are ecstatic. At day 1, 12 were dividing. At day 2, 20 were dividing! Most likely we'll be doing a day 5 transfer which would be on Thursday.
We were about as low as we could get before this week. I sat in the waiting room during the retrieval with a knot in my stomach expecting poor results again. We're feeling a bit renewed and cautiously optimistic. Whether we are successful this time or not, it seems we may have a soccer team of embryos to work with for future tries!
Wish us luck!
How is she feeling? Must be sore...ugh.
We did a lining check yesterday and it was already at 12 mm, when it's supposed to be at 8 mm by this Friday! So, I got lower doses of estrogen this week...which my husband was really happy about. (Apparently, I'll be nicer?) I'll go back on Friday for another lining check and then get triggered for next Thursday. Saturday starts the progesterone shots...
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