hi girls,
Thanks for all the well wishes.
Babywishing, hopefully the girls at this forum can provide you some comfort while being away from ur hb.
Twin stars, take care and monitor yourself. If not well, pls do not hesitate to see the doc.
ML, hey 33% is still a very good chance! I will wait for u to join me next week. Jia you!!!
Alone, I was on 200 units of puregon and I was only on 9 days of puregon in total. I had my first scan after 7 days of puregon. After which, doctor decided to continue only for 2 more days and then inject me with the Pregynyl jab the following day.
I guess my issue was that my follicles/eggs were not of a similar size. It helps if they are of roughly the same size because then you will not waste any. For my case, some follicles scanned on the 7th day are only 7-7.5mm. The bigger ones are already measuring 14-15.5mm. In order not to lose those bigger ones, they only put me on 2 more days of puregon to grow them to about 18-19mm.
By doing so, the smaller follicles probably will not be able to catch up in size and in the end will be discarded. So these are probably among the 7 eggs that didn't make the fertilisation.
Dr Loh mentioned that the ideal size of the egg should be around 18mm and ideally should be lesser than 20mm. I think this varies from dr to dr. My previous gynae - Prof Chen from Glen E, stimulated my follicles till they are about 20 - 23mm each during my SO-IUI cycle.
As for the lining, I hear from Dr Zou that the most ideal lining for implantation is 11-13mm. When I was at my 7th day of scan, my lining was around 9mm only. I was hoping that at my ET day - which is today and 6 days after the scan,it would grow by at least 2mm to reach 11mm. Then it would seem ideal.
As for the jabs, yes, generally if you retrieve 15 eggs or more, you will be put on IM Progesterone. I have heard of some cases where ladies with slightly less than 15 eggs retrieved are also put on IM progesterone. For those will slightly lesser eggs retrieved, they will be put on Pregynyl.
I spoke to the nurse and they mentioned that Pregynyl has a higher chance of inducing OHSS symptoms. So they want to play it safe for those with more eggs retrieved.
Progesterone jabs are taken every day, either on thigh or on butt (but you need to sign conscent form - because there is a tiny weeny possibility that the jab might hit some nerve on your butt that can cause paralysis). For the pregynyl jabs, I think it is once every 3 days if I am not wrong.
Sorry blabber so much. Hope you find this useful. Jiayou and I will wait for you to join me for the 2ww!
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