FSH 28.

[Eltel81]

Hello everyone, in new to this, so thought I'd introduce myself. My husband and I are about to embark on our first ivf cycle after ttc for 3 years. We were incredibly excited to receive the drug schedule and have the dates in the dairy. However, I then received a call from the clinic nurse to advise that my FSH level was at 28 and if we weren't being funded she would advise us not to continue. This all happened Friday and I'm heart broken. We are going to give it a go, but feel like there is not much hope. My FSH levels have not been high in any other blood test, our last one back in May time. Could this be a blip or does it change that drastically?? Has anyone had a similar experience and been successful? I just need to knows what we are letting ourselves in for x

[Orla9298]

I feel your pain, mine was 22.5 and I was rejected for funding but I managed to get it down. Dhea helps with this, and normally high fsh means low reserve so the dhea is meant to help with that too.

It also fluctuates month to month and mine is now around 10. You can test it privately yourself with a finger prick kit from medichecks for about £30. One patient trick, is the “day 3 fsh” test is normally requested to be done on days 2-5 of the cycle. Go straight away on day 2 as it will be lower than on days 3,4 and 5!

I ended up getting 2 funded rounds but have now paid for 3 private rounds too...xx

[Eltel81 in reply to Orla9298]

Thanks Orla9298.

What's Dhea?

I'm just thinking of its going to be unsuccessful that many times whether I should start applying for adoption at the same time. We want more than one child anyway. But hubby isn't keen. I'm nearly 37 you see, I haven't the time for that many cycles now and we got held up by doctor incompetence and a back issue I've had, so feels like we've run out of time to do the years more of trying.

[Lizzielizzielizzie in reply to Eltel81]

You don’t have the same age restrictions on adoption and most adoption agencies will tell you that you need to have finished trying naturally or ivf six months before you apply to start the adoption approval process. However, what my hubbie and I did was go to an adoption information evening (run by our local authority, it was great and no pressure) to find out more about the process and whether it might be right for us. We figured we could start getting our heads around it. Our round of ivf (at 39 in my case) was successful (I’m 29 weeks pregnant now) so we never pursued it but it was helpful for me and hubbie to properly think about adoption.

[Eltel81 in reply to Lizzielizzielizzie]

Thank you Lizzie, I am only just coming around to the idea of adoption so something like this would be really useful.

Massive congratulations on your pregnancy though, this news is very reassuring too 🍾😁