Hi ladies,
Hoping to get some advice, I'm in the middle of my first ever IVF cycle at CRGH to try for a sibling for our 3 year old. My AMH last time i checked was around 2 pmol and my fsh 10. I had managed to get my AMH up to 5.4 pmol with supplements and FSH down to 9 before starting the cycle. I turned 39 last month, previously I've fallen pregnant after surgeries to remove endometriosis, the first resulted in my son and the second resulted in a miscarriage in march this year. Despite all this the consultant at CRGH was not positive from the start and basically said out of 3 cycles he's likely to get max of 1-3 eggs. We decided to go ahead anyway and I started on Norethisterone and then Progynova and then Clomid, I then started the actual stimms on day 3 which were 150 fostimon and 75 meriofert every other day. On day 5 I had a scan and they saw 17 follicles which I was ecstatic about as I'd expected to see very few with my AMH. They upped the dosage to 225 meriofert and 225 of fostimon and on day 9 today I went in today to find only 4 of my follicles are growing, 13 of them are still under 6mm. I've heard that that's not good news and now I'm wondering if my cycle will be cancelled? I don't know how I can go from having all those follicles to only 4 of them actually responding. Is it because I'm only stimming every other day? I got a call earlier and they want me to carry on doing every other day same dosage with the egg collection potentially on Monday, depending on how the scans go on Friday and Saturday.
If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it, I'm a total newbie at all of this and finding the whole thing a bit overwhelming.
Hoping to get some advice, I'm in the middle of my first ever IVF cycle at CRGH to try for a sibling for our 3 year old. My AMH last time i checked was around 2 pmol and my fsh 10. I had managed to get my AMH up to 5.4 pmol with supplements and FSH down to 9 before starting the cycle. I turned 39 last month, previously I've fallen pregnant after surgeries to remove endometriosis, the first resulted in my son and the second resulted in a miscarriage in march this year. Despite all this the consultant at CRGH was not positive from the start and basically said out of 3 cycles he's likely to get max of 1-3 eggs. We decided to go ahead anyway and I started on Norethisterone and then Progynova and then Clomid, I then started the actual stimms on day 3 which were 150 fostimon and 75 meriofert every other day. On day 5 I had a scan and they saw 17 follicles which I was ecstatic about as I'd expected to see very few with my AMH. They upped the dosage to 225 meriofert and 225 of fostimon and on day 9 today I went in today to find only 4 of my follicles are growing, 13 of them are still under 6mm. I've heard that that's not good news and now I'm wondering if my cycle will be cancelled? I don't know how I can go from having all those follicles to only 4 of them actually responding. Is it because I'm only stimming every other day? I got a call earlier and they want me to carry on doing every other day same dosage with the egg collection potentially on Monday, depending on how the scans go on Friday and Saturday.
If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it, I'm a total newbie at all of this and finding the whole thing a bit overwhelming.