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@ruthie1710 yes no symptoms at all, not even sore boobs! When is your official OTD? Because if I correctly understood, you did home pregnancy test? Wow 4 times a day for pessaries??
Omg I don't think I can handle that, 3 times is enough! Glad the brown spotting was only for 1 day, maybe I should watch out as well. My scan is around the 21st too.
@dusky7 thanks, hope your baseline scan went ok!
@Pritamin I did 3 cycles, 2 mild and 1 natural modified (which I regret switching, as I should have stayed with mild, where I had more eggs - with natural you have only 1 egg to play around and it's way too risky for our age and with low reserve).
So I was on short protocol, Benfola 150iu on all 3 cycles for 6/8 days (depending how follicles were growing), Cetrotide for 4/5 days, 1 trigger for the Mild and 2 triggers for the Natural cycle:
Cycle 1: 4 eggs, 3 fertilised, 1 d3 embryo frozen , the others 2 didn't carry on growing at suitable stage
Cycle 2: 8 eggs, 6 fertilised, 1 d3 embryo frozen, the other 5 didn't carry on growing (very disappointing!)
Cycle 3: 1 egg, 1 fertilised, 1 d3 fresh embryo transfer which wasn't successful (BFN).
I never got any blastocysts and the 2 transfers I had were with Day 3 embryos. I had reservations at first but it seems this time the embryo made it to blasto in my belly, not in the lab!
As Queenie123 said on the Low AMH topic: There is quite a lot of evidence around high does stims being detrimental to quality for people with low reserve. Have you tried just 150iu ?? Less is often more, and you may find you get 2-3 really healthy eggs instead of 7 where only 2 are good"
I do also think that maybe a lower dose is better for those with low reserves!
I hope this helps you for the chat with your clinic
@dusky7 thanks, hope your baseline scan went ok!
@Pritamin I did 3 cycles, 2 mild and 1 natural modified (which I regret switching, as I should have stayed with mild, where I had more eggs - with natural you have only 1 egg to play around and it's way too risky for our age and with low reserve).
So I was on short protocol, Benfola 150iu on all 3 cycles for 6/8 days (depending how follicles were growing), Cetrotide for 4/5 days, 1 trigger for the Mild and 2 triggers for the Natural cycle:
Cycle 1: 4 eggs, 3 fertilised, 1 d3 embryo frozen , the others 2 didn't carry on growing at suitable stage
Cycle 2: 8 eggs, 6 fertilised, 1 d3 embryo frozen, the other 5 didn't carry on growing (very disappointing!)
Cycle 3: 1 egg, 1 fertilised, 1 d3 fresh embryo transfer which wasn't successful (BFN).
I never got any blastocysts and the 2 transfers I had were with Day 3 embryos. I had reservations at first but it seems this time the embryo made it to blasto in my belly, not in the lab!

As Queenie123 said on the Low AMH topic: There is quite a lot of evidence around high does stims being detrimental to quality for people with low reserve. Have you tried just 150iu ?? Less is often more, and you may find you get 2-3 really healthy eggs instead of 7 where only 2 are good"
I do also think that maybe a lower dose is better for those with low reserves!
I hope this helps you for the chat with your clinic