Period started before IVF pregnancy test date?

[MitL]

My period started on day 10 after embryo transfer 😭 Had this happened to anyone else? Is it common? I'm trying to understand why this happens and why I didn't make it to official test day.

[Pineappletree]

I started to bleed after 10 day embryo transfer but the test showed positive. Unfortunately, the HCG dropped sharply and it confirmed an early pregnancy loss. The embryo didn't want to develop for some reason. However, the clinic told me there were cases that the baby was totally fine while you were bleeding. I can't understand this but this is what I was told. It is hard not to worry. You need to contact your clinic for a HCG blood test or scan to find out what's going on. Hope you all the best.

[MitL in reply to Pineappletree]

Thanks for sharing your experience. I contacted my clinic at 6am yesterday and they were too busy for anyone to speak to me. I ended up calling the out of hours doctor last night and was just told it was bad news and I should wait to do the test on Friday. The bleeding has been so heavy (more than I've ever had with a period) so I can't see how there is any chance.

[Pineappletree in reply to MitL]

Oh so sorry to hear it. Maybe try local A&E and hospital if you bleed heavily or experience pains. If the clinic offers counciling, maybe consider to book one session to help to cope with any outcome (It'd take a long time).

[WillowPark]

Hi MitL, my understanding is that it is relatively common but shouldn't happen. If you are on a medicated cycle you should be taking sufficient progesterone to hold back your period and give embryo a good chance to implant. It may be that they decide to increase your progesterone in subsequent rounds. This happened to me on my first fresh cycle but I started bleeding on day 7. After that I took additional lubion for my frozen cycles and didn't have the same issue again. At day 10 though the embryo should, if implanted, be doing quite alot to keep your period back itself. Hope you have lots of support around you. They will tell you not to stop the drugs until test date though as stranger things have happened than a full period and a successful test x

[MitL in reply to WillowPark]

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm not on a medicated cycle so maybe that's where it all went wrong. Maybe I should have been.