What medication did you take for your FET?

[Pos1tivelybaby]

My clinic is Spain is frustratingly bad at communication. We’re keen to do our FET on Nov before Christmas kicks in and air fares & hotels get ridiculously expensive.

Please could you share what medication you were on pre-FET? I need to calm my mind in knowing that we’re ready to go when they are eventually return my calls and emails. I already have about 27 days worth of Estradiol and progesterone from my last fresh cycle.

Thanks xx

[Tnthketnf]

HI Positivelybaby

it depends what protocol you are on. I had a medicated fet in the past and I was given progynova tablets and cyclogest pessaries. I also had lubion injections. I had prostap injection for downregulation and buserelin spray.

I have been looking into protocolsfor FET recently and I found out that it's not only medicated or natural.

1. HRT protocol. This involves estradiol tablets and/or patches & progesterone pessaries and/or injections. You probably downregulate with buserelin injection and spray.

2. Natural transfer. No meds at all or progesterone pessaries/injections. There are different times you can start progesterone in an Natural FET. 6 days before transfer or on the day of transfer.

3. Natural modified. The same as above only difference is a trigger injection to time ovulation and transfer. And progesterone

4. Stimulated FET. Clomid or letrozole or FSH (the drugs they give you for growing your follicles in a egg retrieval cycle).

there's also the blood thinning injections and aspirin that a lot of clinics prescribe just in case you have Thrombophilia. This can be added in any of the above protocols

And finally the immune suppression protocol which can be steroids, antinflammatory (plaquenil) intralipids and IVIG. Again this is added on the above protocols.

these last two protocols are usually added when you have had previous failures.

[Tnthketnf in reply to Tnthketnf]

All the best with your transfer!

[Pos1tivelybaby in reply to Tnthketnf]

This is so helpful, thank you!! I was only aware of natural and medicated.

This is most likely our last transfer as we’ve used up our budget, so I will ask about the immune suppression protocol. xx

[Solly-44]

hiya,

I start progynova on day 2, have a scan and start cyclogest and lubion if taking around day 8-10, transfer 5 days later x

[Pos1tivelybaby in reply to Solly-44]

Thanks Solly-44, really good to know. On my last cycle, I started taking Estradiol on Day 1, had a scan on Day 10 and progesterone on Day 14, but then it was a fresh transfer using donor eggs xx

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi Pos1tivelybaby. I think "Tnthketnf" has gone through most options. Good luck with whichever you choose. Diane

[Boo718]

hello to think different people might be different. I’ve had 4 fets and they were different everytime. But this last one was progyluton, aspirin, prolutex, clexane, prednisona, xxx

[Pos1tivelybaby]

Thanks Diane xx