Menopur Dose: IUI

[MomaJoni]

Hello

I had my day 5 scan yesterday, my right ovary has produced some healthy looking follicles but not many and nothing on my left ovary. They have put me on 75iu menopur every 2 days, for day 5, 7 and 9. Then my next scan is on day 11. 75iu sounds like a pointless amount? so I am wondering if there is anyone who has had success on this low dose previously?

Not feeling very hopeful.

[Ivfgotadream]

Is this cycle day 5 or day 5 of stims? Are they saying JUST to take the menopur or are you also taking something else like gonal or Bemfola?

I think menopur is the same as luveris and I had 2 cycles where I added in 75ml luveris to give the follicles a bit of a push when there were a few which were a bit slower and it did make them catch up

I was taking 150ml of Bemfola at the time but when the luveris was added i was told to reduce to 75ml Bemfola so overall still taking the same ml of drugs just split over 2 different kinds. But sometimes they add the dose on top of your stimming drug so that you are taking more?

[MomaJoni in reply to Ivfgotadream]

Hey,

Cycle day 5. I'm not sure what 'Stims' is? sorry, I'm such a newbie at all of this. I had Clomiphene from cycle day 2 to cycle day 6. I have to inject 75iu menopur tomorrow and then again on Tuesday. Then I will return to the clinic for a scan on Thursday. I think they give less medicines on IUI than IVF which is likely why I am not on Bemfola or anything.

[Ivfgotadream in reply to MomaJoni]

Ah ok - “stims” is more of an IVF term - when you take drugs to grow lots of follicles at once it’s called stimming or stims

If this is an IUI cycle then I think they are just giving your follicles a low dose of stimming drugs to give them a bit of a nudge to grow - after all in IUI the aim is NOT to get loads of loads of follicles (which is why our stims would be a much higher dose) you just need 1 or 2 of the decent size

[MomaJoni in reply to Ivfgotadream]

Ahhh that makes perfect sense. I understand that over stimulation can lead to the process being abandoned so it makes sense not to give too much. My first try was abandoned due to the COVID-19 outbreak and my follicles were growing but just far too slowly for them to continue safely at the clinic.

[ADC2019]

On my IUI my dose changed a few times as they sussed out how my follicles were reacting. They would measure follicles on scan then change dose based on that x