Good news and Bad news

I feel for you. At my egg collection I was told my progesterone was borderline for transfer and I might need a frozen transfer instead. In the end, the consultant decided to go ahead with a transfer and I got a BFN- I know statistically it was unlikely but part of me wonders if we had waited would it have been different. I know it is super frustrating but it may just work out for the best for you xxxx

That’s great news about your embryos and hope a good amount make it to freeze. I know it’s frustrating but I’ll be the devils advocate and say there is a silver lining. My clinic doesn’t even test for E2 or progesterone after collection... I felt uncomfortable and was properly borderline (they aspirated 27 follicles!) and I went through a transfer anyway. And feel like it was a waste. One good embryo ‘lost’ because my body was likely not in the ‘best state’. I’m thankful I had 5 to freeze but still, felt a little careless. And much more Emotionally exhausting.

Hi lovely, we did our first cycle in April and had a freeze all as I over stimulated. I have had a letter saying that we can choose when to begin the fet but they recommend at least 1 period (as well as the withdrawal bleed) so maybe that’s what they mean rather than 2 full cycles? I got my withdrawal bleed 5 days after egg collection, and also had high progesterone so hopefully yours will come and go quickly too xxx

We had 8 fertilised and the wait til day 4 to find out how they were doing was torture... we had 6 lovely blastocysts to freeze on day 5, so with 13 to start with I’d say that’s a great number!!

Good luck xx

Sorry to hear you’re probably going to have to cancel your transfer. I can understand how frustrated you must be after building yourselves up to it. It might not be a bad thing though. There is currently a growing bank of evidence to suggest that frozen cycles may be more successful than fresh ones due to giving the body time to recover. They are even conducting a clinical trial where they are asking patients to do a freeze all cycle to compare results. All you can do is try and recover from egg collection quickly and I’m sure your frozen cycle will be here before you know it.

Yeah I feel for you. I had 15 eggs...14 mature...11 fertilize...they don't really do day 3 transfers here in NZ unless you had less than 5 fertilize. So by day 5 we had 1 middle of the road emblem to transfer...none made it to freeze!! Out of all those. Needless to say I am gutted and don't know what went wrong? Obviously a BFN too so yeah am devastated. I wish you all the best. Oh and in NZ they WILL NOT transfer more than one embie! Even if you want to! So unfair. Anyways best of luck hun xx

Thank goodness they measured your progesterone. I know the waiting is hard but I found the frozen cycle easier on my body - it was a relief really to get the stims out of my system and recover. I felt I was in the best possible place to start my frozen transfer, which was successful (though the fact we had our embryos tested was probably a massive factor in this). You have a good chance of getting blasts to freeze with your numbers. I’m sorry for the disappointment and the waiting you’ve now got to do though.

I’m gutted for you as I know how frustrating this is but FET’s are just as successful and it’s important for your hormones and body to be in the best condition. I was overstimulated and had to wait for the following cycle. I’ve had 7 frozen transfers and bfp’s with 4 - which is more than 50% and I was 42 when I started. Wishing you the best of luck xxx

I had the same thing happen to me. I took a 3 month break and feel my body was in much better condition by then to cope with the transfer. After egg retrival I was so ill there was no way I could have had the transfer 5 days later, plus my progesterone was too high also. I know it's frustrating but you don't want to waste a good quality embryo when conditions aren't the best that they could possibly be. Good luck xx

Hi, I had EC on Tuesday and they won't do ET due to me being overstimulated. So FET for me too. The clinic told me 2 periods for your body to have time to recover, day 1 today, hooray!! But I've got an irregular cycle, said this to the nurse and she said that's ok, don't worry! Sometimes at worst my periods have been 6 months apart. Feeling so annoyed as I like you want this over with! xx

That does sound frustrating but if u over reacted like I did too this may do u some favours. I got a bfn on my fresh transfer n reck as had too much progesterone too though didn’t test. Then I had a natural FET n suited me a lot better n got a bfp. Good luck hopefully be same for u though not outcome I got in end ☺️ best wishes x