follicles not rupturing?

[ForABabyPanda]

has this happened anyone else?

Since the very first consultation I had with my nhs clinic I mentioned my low progesterone and asked if they were sure I was ovulating. They basically said oh yeah like unless your cycles are 90 days long then you’re ovulating. And sure ivf will force ovulation anyway. I’ve just today had folicle tracking scans done in Dublin that confirm I am not in fact ovulating - I’m producing a mature folicle but it’s not rupturing and it’s hanging about as a cyst. I’m not just blaming just nhs clinic here, I’ve also had a consultation with a private clinic up north and they didn’t suggest checking that out either. But what a waste of the last 5 years if in fact my eggs were being trapped all that time. And yes I got a chance with my fresh and frozen transfers and because the eggs were collected then I got fertilisation, but it seems like that’s the only time in the last 5 years I actually had a chance. In the years leading up to being seen this was occurring. And there was a chance for someone to investigate this once I was seen, in fact I asked for it to be investigated because I knew even if they didn’t that there’s such a thing as an anovulatory cycle, but I was dismissed at every turn. I’m just venting here as now I have a kind of an answer as to what’s being going on, but I’m 5 years older, my eggs are 5 years older, it’s been such a waste of time, and such a waste of my mental health. Has anyone had any success at forced rupturing of a mature folicle? Or anyone else had this issue? Need some hope here.

[Chel91]

Yes I have, it's called LUFS. As far as I'm aware, just because it happens sometimes doesn't necessarily mean it happens every cycle so I would try not to stress too much over it. Was this a natural cycle they were monitoring? It can be caused / increased risk from using clomid, NSAIDs like ibuprofen, having endo or PCOS, estrogen dominance, etc. So I've read. Some people even have LUFS after a trigger shot, but this is quite rare xx

[ForABabyPanda in reply to Chel91]

yes so I have endometriosis and I also use quite a lot of NSAIDS because of migraines. They haven’t tried a trigger shot on me. They do think it’s been happening for more than one month though because of the persistent cysts That have been changing sides. it was a natural cycle. They were monitoring because this is a different type of clinic that tries to heal your natural cycles rather than just jumping to IVF to solve everything. The reason I went to them was I wanted to know why things were happening, and not just jump to solution because I don’t have all the funds or emotional energy to do IVF cycle after IVF cycle. I’m just really surprised it wasn’t picked up before now, but no one even tried to check it before now . Yes I do believe I may have occasionally ovulated. Because this one time I got a day 21 progesterone reading of 33, every other month I’ve got that checked it’s been in the low 20s. And a couple of months recently it was two point5

[Guru1111]

It has happened to me at some point but throughout the following cycles, those follicles that remained disappeared (did they break? were they reabsorbed?). In my case it is due to failure of the LH surge in PCOS.

But with ovitrelle it has never happened to me.

XX

[ForABabyPanda in reply to Guru1111]

Thanks - I am getting Lh surge. And yes the cysts are being reabsorbed in a couple of cycles’ time

[NemoFish]

I almost never ovulated. I’ve had irregular periods my entire adult life, and lots of cysts on scans. No one ever suggested doing anything about it, it was just one of those things. I was never given a reason for it either.