Cycle starting on my next bleed in April

[Samlou94]

Finally got a call to say will be starting my first cycle in April, my initial consultation and everything was last year can any of you lovely ladies jog my memory in what will happen? From when I start my period to the transfer? All I know is I'm doing short protocol but I forgot the rest of the cycle!

Thanks 😊

[McQueeny]

The clinic will give you the exact details - but generally you are on the stims injections every day, from about day 8 they’ll started scanning you, (there may be a second injection added I think to stop ovulation?) , then when they reckon your follicles are ready you’ll be told when to take your trigger injection. Egg collection happens 36 hours after trigger, after egg collection if all is well you start progesterone pessaries till your transfer either 3 or 5 days after EC x

[JoyfulStar]

Hello there

This website is really good on describing IVF in simple and accessible language. It was written by someone that has been through IVF I believe. theduff.co.uk

The overview is this:

1. Appointment to sign consent forms if you have not done this already

2. Baseline scan to check ovaries, follicles, ensure no cysts etc

3. When your period starts you start taking stimulation injections to recruit as many eggs as possible. The nurses will teach you how to do this

4. You have regular scans and blood tests sometimes to check progress of follicles

5. You will also be asked to start taking additional injections to stop ovulation

6. When your follicles get to a certain size, they book you in for a egg collection

7. You are then told to take a trigger injection about 36 hours before

8. You go in for your egg collection

9. Eggs are mixed with sperm and left to fertilise overnight- sometimes sperm is injected instead

10. Then you are updated on how many fertilised and how your embryos are doing

11. You are called in for transfer either on day 2, 3 or 5- this depends on the clinics and how embryos are doing

12. After transfer, the 2 week wait begins and then you test on the day the clinic tells you. Hopefully it is a BFP! 🙂

Please be aware that clinic may book additional tests and so on... I have had to have 2 Covid tests each cycle.

Good luck with it all and don’t worry your clinic will tell you what you need to do at each stage. You don’t always have to remember the whole thing at once.

[Samlou94 in reply to JoyfulStar]

Thanks so much it was alot to take in at the time and I've been waiting months so was all a blur in my head! Brilliant im so so excited now for this journey