To date I have been through 5 retrievals and 7 transfers (2 were FETs). All of my IVF cycles were a long-lupron follistim\/menopur protocol. I have a somewhat rare problem in that I make a lot of follicles, a lot of eggs, but most of them are immature for some reason, leaving only a couple each cycle that actually fertilize. My doctors and I have tried different ideas to try to get more of my eggs to mature, with varying degrees of success.<\/p>\n
75iu Menopur. Started on dose of 150iu Follistim, dropped to 125iu, 1 day of coasting. On trigger day E2 was over 5000. Retrieved 24 eggs, 2 mature, 2 fertilized, 2 transferred. Not pregnant.<\/p>\n
What a huge shocker this was – I still remember where I was when I got the call with the fertilization results, and how I cried.<\/p>\n
75iu Menopur. Started on dose of 125iu Follistim, dropped to 100iu. E2 2500 at trigger. Retrieved 13 eggs, 1 mature, 1 fertilized, 1 transferred. Pregnant! (Devin)<\/p>\n
First time we used ICSI – thought that would solve the fertilization problem. Devastated when it didn’t, and was totally shocked when I got pregnant.<\/p>\n
75iu Menopur. Started on dose of 125iu Follistim, dropped to 75iu. E2 6000 at trigger. Retrieved 13 eggs, 1 mature, 1 fertilized, 1 transferred. Not pregnant.<\/p>\n
Exact same dose as IVF #2, very different result. Learned that there is just sometimes no predicting the body’s response.<\/p>\n
225iu Menopur. No Follistim. E2 4700 at trigger. Retrieved 25 eggs, 8 mature, 6 fertilized, 1 transferred, 2 frozen. Not pregnant.<\/p>\n
This was the first time we started experimenting with using Menopur rather than Follistim, as I had read some articles about the extra LH helping egg maturation in cases like mine. The results were astounding! I didn’t get pregnant, but for the first time we had frozen embryos.<\/p>\n
After this we did FET #1<\/a> and FET #2<\/a>, transferring the frozen embryos one at a time. The first FET ended in an ectopic pregnancy. The second didn’t get me pregnant at all.<\/p>\n 225iu Menopur. No Follistim. E2 2400 at trigger. Retrieved 12 eggs, 6 mature, 4 fertilized, 2 transferred, 1 frozen. Pregnant!<\/p>\n Same dosage as last stims cycle, again very different result. My lowest number of eggs to date, which really worried me until I got the fertilization result. 50% mature! That was absolutely astounding! I got pregnant with a healthy pregnancy and have 1 still frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To date I have been through 5 retrievals and 7 transfers (2 were FETs). All of my IVF cycles were a long-lupron follistim\/menopur protocol. I have a somewhat rare problem in that I make a lot of follicles, a lot of eggs, but most of them are immature for some reason, leaving only a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1240\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}IVF #5 – Aug\/Sept 2009<\/a><\/h2>\n