FET next week but Follicles might have stopped that? Advice needed

[SurrogateFriend]

so I’m having some issues. I’m a surrogate with 1 pregnancy under my belt from a frozen embryo transfer. The first time I used Progynova 2mg 3x a day. Then after the baseline scan, it was prog & cyclogest until the transfer day.

Today I’m starting the process again and I have the same medication cycle as the first time. I started progynova on the 1st of May and I just left my baseline scan. They told me I have 2 10mm follicles on my right ovary and this could stop us having a transfer next week and I simply don’t under how or why?

I track my period religiously and my app had told me that I would always ovulate from the 10th-14th this month. Shouldn’t my clinic have always known this? Why would there being a follicle or two stop a transfer from happening? It’s confusing me.

I have a blood test tomorrow morning to check. They said that will tell them if I have already ovulated. If I have ovulated, will my transfer be 100% cancelled? If yes, how do I avoid this mess happening next time? It was so easy the first time, this time seems so complicated and more difficult.

Any help would be appreciated

[JA-fnuk Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Ask your clinic to explain the situation to you It is nothing to do with anything you have or have not done Mother Nature is occasionally slow to shrink the follicles after ovulation - this is the reason a scan check is always carried out before starting treatment

Take care

Janet-Partner

[Millbanks]

Hi lovely,

In a usual frozen embryo transfer you'd be given something at the start of your cycle to stop ovulation - so Fyremadel injections or Synarel nasel spray - this means that you won't develop a follicle.

I think the reason that they don't want a follicle growing is that that will in itself start to produce hormones, and in a frozen cycle they like to be in control of what hormones are being produced and when - especially progesterone as that has an affect on the timing of the transfer.

I know that some ladies do frozen natural cycles though and use ovulation as the timing point of when the body starts producing progesterone.

I would ask your clinic what the implications of this are - and if they can do it as above instead of how it was planned?

Sorry, it sounds very frustrating

xx

[Katsi]

The idea of medicated FET is to stop ovarian activity and avoid uncontrolled ovulation. if your blood progesterone is less than 1 ng/ml it is normally still possible to do the transfer but you may need to trigger ovulation. I am in the same situation, around 10 cancellations of FET preparations due to ovarian activity and wrong timing. There are solutions like using downregulation medication for inducing temporary menopause, which works for a month, for for me it took 4 month to recover.

I hope it will work for you!