ERA/EMMA/ALICE

[Bump12]

Hello,

I was hoping anyone could answer this please.

I’ve just had ERA/EMMA/ALICE done and waiting for the results. I wanted to know if I do have chronic endometritis and I am treated if that would potentially change my era results ? Also if I have a different protocol for my FET would change change my ERa results? Thank you all in advance .

Also was preparing for a FET but as didn’t get the desired thickness went for the tests. Feel free to DM if you want details of the clinic which got me in within a few days or any questions about the test xx

[McQueeny]

Heya. I can’t answer about chronic endometritis, but as for the FET protocol, I thought the whole point was to mimic what you would do for a FET? Then if the ERA comes back with anything not optimal, you’d change the protocol to respond to that…. So quite often people come back with needing more progesterone (an extra 24hrs, for example), mine came back with needing 12 hours less (so we booked the transfer earlier than standard).

[Bump12 in reply to McQueeny]

Oh sorry I meant if you changed your estrogen protocol ( was on tablets and this time going for patches) will that change the ERA results xx

[McQueeny in reply to Bump12]

Ah I see, sorry, I’m not sure…. 🤔

[Bump12 in reply to McQueeny]

That’s ok Hopefully someone will know the answer

[Hotamalepizzagrl]

As I understand it, the ERA tells you about progesterone and if you’re uterus is receptive to an embryo implanting. It’ll tell you if you need more progesterone or if you’ve had enough progesterone. In the event that you had too much and you’re past the window of an embryo being able to implant they may have you redo the test. Ideally you’d use the same progesterone forms and dosages during the FET cycle as you did prior to the ERA. The estrogen dosage and form shouldn’t effect the ERA results. In addition, the Emma and Alice tests show you about infectious bacteria in the uterus which you may need antibiotics for and about good bacteria which you may want to take probiotics for; neither should effect the ERA results. Hope this helps!

[Bump12 in reply to Hotamalepizzagrl]

That’s is really helpful thank you for the explanation 😌 Is it often that it comes back that you need to redo? Hope that’s not the case xx

[Hotamalepizzagrl]

Not very often. Way more often it comes back as receptive (meaning you had a good amount of progesterone) or pre-receptive meaning you need more progesterone before it can accept an embryo (and then it’ll tell you how many more hours you need).

[Bump12 in reply to Hotamalepizzagrl]

That’s good to know wouldn’t want to get it done again. Thank you and good luck to you xx