IVF not responding to the drug

Hi Joyce, sorry to hear things haven't gone so well. My first IVF cycle wasn't that great. I used the stim drugs for about 16 days before my follicles reached the required size. H/ever I'm not familiar with the stim drugs that you mention in your post. I was given the max. dosage of Gonal f (450). I ended up with 5 eggs. It might be that you were over suppressed. Sometimes this does happen. On my other 2 IVF cycles, I didn't use any suppression drugs, I started on the stim drugs on day 2 of my cycle. My response was slightly better.

Did you doctor explain why u had such a poor reponse? Did u have any follicles growing during the 10 days? Understand your doctor told you to come back in 3 months but did he explain to you what he would do differently for the next cycle?

Did they test your FSH level before you started the stim drugs?

Joyce,


Did your doc check your FSH before starting the injections? I had a similar experience in March when we wanted to start our IVF treatment. However, when my doc found that my FSH was too high he told us not to try that month.


Did you ask your doc why you had 10 days of meds before he came to the conclusion that you were not responding well?


Havefaith

hi joyce

possibly your dr might want to try you on a combination of menopur and another drug, such as lupron, ganirelix & or cetrotide.


who is your dr? i saw dr ho when i was in my early 30's (fair enough, no spring chicken), but he put me on cetrotide starting right off on cd2. we had male if issues as well.


good luck to you, joyce.