DHEA & COQ10

[Greenleaves1]

Do you stop taking it when you are on meds for FET or after the transfer?

I'm due to have a FET in a few periods time. However I want to start DHEA to prep my eggs if I need another cycle.

Will I need to stop it when I start the Oestrogen patches or just when I have the transfer?

My consultant said it's up to me whether I start it now or wait until I know the result of the FET. However if the FET doesn't work I don't want to be waiting another 3 months to give DHEA time to work to begin a cycle.

[MrsOrangejuice]

I didn't take DHEA so I don't know about that, but with Q10 the official advice is to stop after egg collection. I was on ubiquinol and didn't realise I was meant to stop and carried on throughout my first pregnancy - by the time I realised it was towards the end and I googled (panicked) and found most advice was to have stopped but then there were bits of evidence it could be beneficial in pregnancy as it helped with blood flow and placental function. It seemed to be one of those not confirmed safe ones (which is most things) and not a dangerous one. I wasn't on much - one a day - and my placenta function tests were always great so I just continued. Same with the current pregnancy. Always worth checking with your doctors and doing your research but that's just my personal experience.

[Systema23]

I stopped taking DHEA the day of egg retrieval as I read it could be harmful. I am currently 24 weeks pregnant and take low dose ubiquitol as I ready about it possibly being beneficial during pregnancy along with a host of other supplements to aid baby bone and brain development.

At each stage, before retrieval, before transfer, implantation and post 2WW I tweaked my diet and supplements to suit the situation.

Sending you lots of baby dust xx