Need info on protocols

[Lilly12255]

Hi ladies,

I am on my second cycle after a failed one and it’s again only one follicles that is growing. I am wondering whether my doctor is using the right protocol. He did not tell me anything about options of protocols but after googling, I realised that I am on a mini IVF also called mild IVF. I take Clomid for 3 days starting on day 3 of my cycle and a meriofert injection of 150-450mg every other day until egg collection. Could you please tell me about other protocols? What meds are used? From when and what dosages? I read in other posts some ladies had very different results with different protocols, like the short protocol. I am wondering what it is? Thanks a lot

[Ranchu90]

Short protocol is usually used (or better said in my case) to have less follicles but a better quality eggs.

[Lilly12255 in reply to Ranchu90]

Thanks Ranchu. Could you please give me more details on what medication on which dates of the cycle you take for the short protocol?

[Ranchu90 in reply to Lilly12255]

Short was something like this: on day 2 started with Menopur 150, on day 4 Cetrotide and I had stimulation just for 8 days, trigger shot Ovitrelle 250, they collected 7 eggs - 5 mature.

I cannot say that the quality of eggs was better than on long protocol.

[Lilly12255 in reply to Ranchu90]

Thank you Ranchu. Does it mean that you had menopur injections every other day or just 8 days in a row and then no further injection until day 14?

[Ranchu90 in reply to Lilly12255]

I had every day Menopur for 8 days, on 9th day a triggered and 36 hours later I had my egg retrieval.

[Hidden]

I've had two different protocols. Short was: norethisterone to time period and then start menopur on first day of period followed by cetrotide a few days later and buserelin as the trigger before EG. Long was: buserelin from day 21 to down regulate and then start menopur and gonal f on day 7 of subsequent period with ovitrelle as trigger injection.

[Lilly12255 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you very much for sharing the details runuphill. Regarding the short cycle: was it daily menopur injections until trigger? How much was the menopur dose? Regarding the long cycle: you started the menopur only on day 7, so you had less injections than in the short cycle as in the short cycle the injections started on the first day?

[Hidden in reply to Lilly12255]

My dose has changed after scans in both protocols. I started on 225 of Menopur in short protocol. Menopur was taken daily until trigger. The long protocol is more injections. At least 50 in my case. It takes up to 6 weeks whereas the short protocol (not counting norethisterone tablets) took less than 2 weeks.

[Lilly12255 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you Runuphill. So a long protocol covers 2 cycles instead of 1 as I understand? Was the number of egg/quality better in the long cycle?

[Hidden in reply to Lilly12255]

They put your cycle to sleep so I'm not really sure. No idea what long protocol results will be as I'm still taking the drugs now.

[Hidden]

Hi Lilly - just seen your reply to my post. I am short protocol and am on 450 Menopur usually from day three / this is max dose available and due to my age. I did one round of long but it didn’t work whereas short had a much better result and I even made it to blasto round 2 but round 3 some of the follicles responded really quickly so we had less so did a day 3 transfer.

With my long protocol I down regulated with buserelin from day 21 for nearly 2 weeks before I started on the Menopur.

Hope this helps xx