Comments on: Next steps

By: mandy

mandy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:04:01 +0000

Though I am not familiar with it, I think CGH sounds good. You will know going in that you have good embies. But even if you have fewer, PGD will be good.

I think for the most part, how long you suppress depends on the schedule. They take your LMP, figure the week for your retrieval and work backward. You could suppress for around 3 weeks+ stim for 7-10 then trigger.

One thing, and you probably already know this…you will have lots of blood draws and ultrasounds and sometimes you may not have choices for the time they need to be done. Hopefully your boss will be flexible with you. Most blood draws can be done early am, but u/s requires the doc. And as far as retrieval, you kind of don’t know the day too far in advance, though you can estimate it when you begin stims. You also might want to see if your doc requires any bedrest after transfer. Mine required 3 days strict, not even up for shower. some docs don’t require any at all. Most and between the two.

ooh, I am excited for you.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:55:26 +0000

I think that the one thing you did not report from Dr Travolta, so maybe he said it, but you didn’t write it, is that not all embryo’s go to the 5 day freezable stage, so that might affect your ability to do cgh.
If you can do CGH, I’d do it in a heartbeat, but I’d also transfer 3 day embryos because people also get pregnant from those little puppies.
I do a ‘natural’ cycle because bcp’s over supress my hormones. I do the lupron flare protocol which is: start lupron on day two of my cycle, add stims on day 5, stim for about 9 or 10 days, trigger, retrieve, wait for embryology lab to call, transfer, poke my boobs, cry, wait for beta–react appropriately.

By: hydrogeek

hydrogeek — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:48:17 +0000

“Can you really put a price on avoiding miscarriage?”

NO. NO YOU CAN NOT.

(And that is coming from someone who apparently has “easy, normal” miscarriages.)

By: Irish Girl

Irish Girl — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:34:52 +0000

Why leave it to chance at this point? I think I would do it, especially if >5 eggs are retrieved. Although, perhaps it is more critical if there are <5. I don’t know … just thinking, knowing what I know now, I would have done way more proactive testing prior to and during our cycle just to avoid where I’m sitting now.

If you’re doing any type of suppression med that can lengthen the cycle. For example, I was on BCPs, then Lupron for 3 weeks of suppression, then I started the stims (I think 10 days of those). Do you have your protocol or calendar yet?

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:35:42 +0000

At this point I would use anything modern medicine had to offer. If you do CGH does that leave you on meds another month? Either way, I would do it.