Trigger injection as downreg hasn't worked

[luthien]

Has anyone had this happen?

Basically both downreg scans and blood tests have shown that my normal cycles are taking over, so ignoring the downreg medication, which is a little frustrating. I've been on downreg for about 5 weeks now. As there's one follicle the specialists have said to take my trigger, wait for a bleed and then we'll start on stims. If there's no bleed after 9 days then contact the clinic.

I've done my trigger. How soon after would I expect a bleed? Will it be heavier, clots etc?

On my first downreg scan:

one follicle 1cm approx, lining at 11mm

Second downreg scan a week later:

one follicle still at 1cm approx, lining over 11mm (possibly 14mm)

[AuroraXen]

I don't have experience of this, I'm afraid, but wanted to say I'm sorry you're having to down-reg so long! 😣 That must be really tough 😢 xx

[Koala365]

On one of my cycles I had down regulation with progynova and my body produced a follicle which had to be triggered. My period came around the normal time and it was just normal, no clots etc and we started stims as normal. This time I took Yasmin (absolutely ghastly pill which made me feel awful) and at my scan a 22mm follicle was spotted (bit of a shock to think my body possibly still ovulates when on the pill) and the solution was that I had to endure an extra 7 days of horrid Yasmin but that caused the follicles to recede and when I was checked again it had disappeared so there was no need to trigger it this time.

[Fruitandflowers]

My first round was the long protocol and I was quite unwell on the downreg - when I got to the first scan they said my body had just 'ignored' the meds, I had follicles and my lining had thickened. They said cancel and then do the short protocol on another round - they just told me to stop all meds and wait for a period, so no trigger. But that was at the start of the first lockdown so all treatment was put on hold. When everything restarted I was put on the short protocol but had a weird response then too and had to stim for 17 days, so apparently my body just doesn't play ball - never been given a reason. It all worked out eventually though.