Oestrogen related bumpy womb - advice re fresh or FET please?

[WanderingWonder]

Morning all, hope you’re all as well as can be!

I just had my day 7 scan and my follicles have responded quickly and we are looking at a day 10 or 11 egg collection.

I mentioned I’d had a tiny bit of pink streaked discharge when I wipe for two days and so the doctor looked and my womb and although they said the triple line was visible, they found it to be a bit bumpy.

They said this is only a potential issue for a fresh transfer.

This is our first round of IVF and having (very anxiously!) read more about risks associated with the thawing process, despite having a three round package, we had come to the conclusion that we would try a fresh transfer first (if we’re fortunate enough to have any embryos at all). The news about my womb lining has me questioning is this is now not the wisest choice and perhaps waiting for a break from the oestrogen would be better??

Does anyone have any experience of this? Any advice much appreciated please!

(for context, I am 34 (almost 35) with low AMH and my husband has borderline morphology - the sample will be assessed on the day as we would prefer not to go down the ICSI path if possible and the andrologist we saw, said husband’s sample wouldn’t suggest the need for ICSI).

Thank you in advance! Xxx

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi. Might be best just to let things settle, so you can proceed without worry. Someone will hop on I’m sure with their experience. Good luck. Diane

[WanderingWonder in reply to DianeArnold]

Thank you Diane

[Spaghetti85]

Hello! I had a similar situation, during one of the stims scans they saw my lining was a bit irregular suggesting micropolyps. We were doing PGT-A, so our embryos were to be frozen anyway, but we were advised to do a hysteroscopy and investigate the condition of my womb prior to any transfer. Glad I did, as they found I had chronic endometritis and 2 micropolyps they removed during the hysteroscopy. This extended our timing for the transfer almost 3 months, which was very anxiety inducing at the time, but when we finally got to the date of transfer, I had already weaned out the stims meds, changed my supplements to focus on a possible pregnancy and had my lining as best as it could be. We are pregnant now from that first transfer 🙂

[WanderingWonder in reply to Spaghetti85]

oh my goodness congratulations! I hope your pregnancy is a smooth as possible.

Thank you for the very good advice. We will probably follow suit with the wait, my husband has just become very anxious about freezing - I think he’s done too much reading.

I had a hysteroscopy about 6 months ago (horrible aren’t they!) and all seemed okay but I know it’s an ever changing landscape so will see if the clinic thinks I need another after (fingers crossed) egg retrieval.

Thank you again for your reply and wishing you all the best xxx