Covid prior to ivf

[NemoFish]

I tested positive for covid last Friday, but negative both Saturday and today. I’m due to start stims either tomorrow or Tuesday. I was barely ill- I had a cough for a day and that was it. We think it’s likely my partner had it as well, he was even less symptomatic, just a scratchy throat for 24hrs at the start of the week, but negative tests today.

Considering that neither of us even thought we were ill, let alone came down with any fever or were bed ridden, is it worth telling my clinic? I don’t want to delay my cycle. I’ve just done 4 weeks of testosterone, a course of doxycycline and norethisterone in preparation. All I can seem to find from google is that it’s the severity of covid that affects sperm, not the virus itself.

Neither of us are symptomatic now. No tiredness, no cough, nothing. Has anyone else had this happen so fleetingly right before a cycle?

[B4mb1]

I think if you are happy with the risk and that you both didn’t have a fever or a lot of symptoms I would go ahead. My clinic advise 28 days post covid for fresh or FET cycles. I think the main issue is anaesthesia so if I were you I would count if before you have ER will 28 days have passed? If so, then I would proceed.

I had covid right before FET cycle and I tested negative the morning of my baseline and was willing to go ahead because I would have had 28 days pass before actual transfer. Only to have a cyst that delayed everything anyway. Best of luck!

[NemoFish in reply to B4mb1]

Thanks for your reply. I’ve booked my baseline in for tomorrow anyway, I just don’t feel like either of us were even ill- I’ve had worse hay fever!- so had I not had a couple of lateral flows at the back of the cupboard I wouldn’t have even tested, let alone be questioning my cycle!

[B4mb1 in reply to NemoFish]

Good luck! When I had it if it wasn’t for IVF I wouldn’t even have thought to test because symptoms didn’t really line up. It can be easily missed.

[Ivfuser2023 in reply to NemoFish]

hey, could I ask what the outcome of this was? Did u go ahead with retrieval and if so did u have a positive outcome?

[NemoFish in reply to Ivfuser2023]

I did indeed go ahead with the cycle, it was the worst result I’ve had to date. Fewest eggs, poorest fertilisation and poor quality embryos. I didn’t get pregnant. I’m not sure I would put all that down to covid, more that the clinic I was at was awful. I was on a different stims to normal and it was overall a bad experience. I’ve since left that clinic and I’m now with another down regging for collection #4 x

[Lily_82]

We had a Covid in March a few weeks before starting a fresh cycle, our clinic asked us to delay for a month as their requirement was to be negative for at least 8 weeks before egg collection due to an anasthesia and sperm quality, my partner was asked to re-test before we have started. These rules might have been relaxed since then so I think it’s really up to you if you are comfortable with it.Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

[HedgehogMad]

I wouldn't mention it. If you weren't ill it's unlikely to impact the treatment. Effect on sperm is only if the man has a fever. Good luck! Xx