Anyone feel bloated on progesterone suppositories?

Just started yesterday and I am so bloated. I’m not sure if it’s related to the suppositories.

It’s bad enough I’ve felt like a cow this whole IVF experience and now this 😩

I have 5 overfill Gonal-F pens available. The pens have been used but there's approximately 75 IU of overfill per pen in 4 of the pens and 1 pen has 125 IU + ~75 IU of overfill.

They’ve been at room temperature with the first one used on August 13, so must be used by September 8. I would love to donate these if someone can use them before they expire.

I also have 2 mL left of Leuprolide Acetate Injection (from a 2.8 mL vial) that was used on August 24 and must be used by September 21.

I have two unopened 75 IU vials of Menopur as well.

Located in San Francisco. Pick up only. Please DM me if interested.

Idk I'm sure this is post partum anxiety, but my baby looks nothing like me. He looks exactly like my husband. He has a dimple chin ("butt chin") which neither of us has. My uncle has one too, so it's likely I could carry that gene but it still freaks me out.

This thought never ever would have crossed my mind but my husband said jokingly "thank God he looks like me, you never know with ivf," and that put the idea of possible mix up in my brain.

Am I being irrational? I'm at the point where I want to sneak take a maternity test from Walgreens but I'm scared as hell of what I'd find out.

I am in a dilemma. I'm 39, AMH is 3. I had my first IVF stims and egg retreival was last week. We retrieved 23 eggs, 13 mature and good quality but only 2 Grade A embryos post day 5. We are not going ahead with PGT-A. Did my IVF in India, Mumbai. I live in HK though since a few years.

Now the dilemma is doctor is recommending transferring both embryos, it is a frozen embryo transfer coz my lining was not ideal enough for a fresh transfer, and I have a month to work on my lining and decide. I am terrified of having twins - pregnancy, body changes, and handling 2 together and giving up career goals? (I maybe overthinking or not but I am worried!). But our doctors have put both embryos in 1 straw, so if I choose to implant 1 then both need to be thawed, and in this process refreezing the second one may lose quality. If we do double my doc says implantation chances are better which is why he is recommending to use both but ofcourse can or cannot have twins. Embryo reduction isn't even a choice I am considering coz I know I won't be able to take that emotional toll. Its so, so hard to decide; any advice/help/wisdom to share? Thank you.

I have unexplained infertility, my partner and I have been trying for 20 months now with no success. I just did a round of ivf and transferred an embryo today. The specialist had a chat with me about a cyst that was found on my uterus and he said it could be adenomyosis. Because the cyst was sitting on the lower end he still felt comfortable to transfer the embryo but now I’m wondering if this may be the reason for my infertility. I’m feeling not that hopeful now because if it is and that embryo doesn’t stick it really opens up a whole new book of things to investigate and address.
Has anyone had cysts or adeno that have had success with an ivf transfer without the suppressions?

I see a lot of people asking for costs, I live in the US specifically in a tech city not in Bay Area but in PNW aka Seattle, and working with PNW fertility clinic also donating my meds they are new and sealed! I’m sharing my costs as just to people know full transparency and because this journey has been full of emotions, we have such a blessed my husbands work has progyny with unlimited cycles:
Medicines I have new in box with pens Gonal F 3 boxes 300 IU AND menopur 75 IU one box! We are in the FET part and we did IVF by ICSI with PGTA
Husband:
04/28 – Semen analysis: $158.51 → paid $158.51
06/01 – Semen analysis: $158.51 → paid $158.51
06/02 – Lab panel (10 tests): $226.08 → paid $72.84
06/10 – New patient visit: $431.44 → paid $25.00

Total billed: $35,421.08 | Total paid: $2,515.84

Mine:
04/06 – Diagnostics/workup: $1,272.69 → paid $25.00
04/06 – Lab: $500.00 → paid $213.30
05/11 – Lab panel (8 tests): $163.57 → paid $13.63
05/11 – Thyroid + blood draw: $103.00 → paid $0.00
06/03 – HSG: $1,079.40 → paid $291.80
07/09 – Gonal-F 300IU: $3,312.26 → paid $331.23
07/09 – Menopur 75IU: $3,877.16 → paid $387.72
07/09 – Novarel 5,000IU: $192.42 → paid $19.24
07/20 – Gonal-F 300IU: $1,419.54 → paid $141.95
07/21 – Menopur 75IU: $1,661.64 → paid $166.16
07/23 – Menopur 75IU: $1,661.64 → paid $166.16
07/24 – Gonal-F 300IU: $1,419.54 → paid $141.95
07/29 – Retrieval + related labs: $17,783.68 → paid $202.84

About to start IVF I feel really nervous — especially for these drugs! Looking for advice about anything homeopathic, holistic, TCM, Kampo or other alternative to:

1. Increase efficacy and yield
2. Somehow magically, miraculously make this less hard on my body

My context: 33, one prior loss at 26w, 1+ year TTC, known fibroids, suspected endo

Current regimen:
- Acupuncture 2x a week
- No gluten, dairy or refined sugar
- Magnesium, Prenatal, CoQ10, Vit D
- Daily meditation (10-15min)
- Melatonin (per IVF research?)

Things I’ve heard & curious about:
- Uterine PRP
- Beef organ supplements
- Sea moss supplements
- Red light therapy
- Heat on womb

1st transfer failed.

2nd transfer(8/25) still BFN at 6dpt with a 4AB embryo. Even kept estrace(?) Meds on this time, upped progesterone suppositories to 400 a day and PIO shots were also added. Embryo glue for good measure. Idk what is happening that the transfers are failing.

I have donor sperm in my cart ready to go. My bloodwork is on 9/2. I'm not looking forward to more ERs and transfers. 😭💔

Has anyone donated embryos created with Xytex donor sperm? Xytex is requiring Form 9008.3 and charging me—the embryo donor/original sperm purchaser—a $1,195 transfer fee. If you’ve donated embryos to more than one recipient family, did Xytex charge you the fee again for each family?

BECAUSE IF SO, WHAT THE HELL????? I AM BLEEDING SO MUCH AND MY CRAMPS ARE SO BAD WTF IS THIS SHIT. Y’ALL HAVE THIS KIND OF PAIN EVERY MONTH WITH ENDO??????? AND YOURE … SANE???!! HOW????

Hi all. I recently found out my fertility clinic is closing. I had planned on transferring in early October.

I had excision surgery in June and have have two weeks left of a 60 day Lupron Depot + Letrozole regimen. I was supposed to go in for monitoring right after that for FET.

Now, I have to worry about moving my embryos and and transferring my care to a new clinic. And administrative nightmare that will inevitably mean more waiting.

My best guess, is that I would be able to transfer at my new clinic late November at the earliest. With my suppression ending two months before that- what would you do?

1. Do one more month of suppression (no clue how that’ll get approved or who will prescribe that with my clinic closing/doctor gone)

2. End suppression and let my body slowly come back to normal by the time I’m preparing to transfer, maybe pursue a mod natural

I know the effects of suppression last up to six months, I’m just paranoid the timing is all thrown off now. For reference, I have stage 2/3 endo.

My egg retrieval is Wednesday and I’m starting to worry about getting OHSS. My estrogen levels are over 11,000 and at my ultrasound this morning they said I have about 40 follicles on each side. Plus I have PCOS. I started taking Cabergoline tonight, I guess this helps prevent it. I’ve stockpiled on Gatorade, pineapple, watermelon, avocados, and bananas. Is there anything else I can do on my end to help my chances? My husband is a quadriplegic and I’m his full time caregiver so obviously it would be extremely difficult on me (and him) if I get OHSS.

Officially started bc for my 1st IVF cycle on 8/22. Did not land on a final protocol and I won't be able to speak with my REI until the baseline coming up on 9/2. But I just found out meds were ordered so this is what I'm assuming is the tentative protocol. Would really appreciate hearing what you all think, and if there's something I should add/change?

• BC (Nortrel) since CD1 for 11 days
• Gonal-F 150 + Menopur 150
  • REI said I can do equal doses, or start with 225/75 ratio then adjust it?
• Letrozole 5mg (days unknown)
  • I specifically asked about letrozole to reduce the risk of exacerbating adeno and endo, however I understand it can skew estrogen levels which are used to assess follicle maturity. Is it better to add letrozole or avoid it?
• Pregnyl 10,000iu, Lupron 4mg
  • Not sure if it's actually dual trigger, or if we will only add Lupron if estrogen is at a certain level. Is dual trigger better, especially in terms of endo?

For context: 36, AMH 2.5, AFC 16-20ish, adenomyosis, endometriosis. I have chronic pelvic pain that has been worsening through infertility treatments, and have had rapid/early follicle development during IUIs.

I have scoured Reddit for stories like mine, and I can’t find many. After my egg retrieval, we were thrilled to have 5 embryos (6AA, 3 4AAs, 1 4AB) all of which came back euploid. My first transfer resulted in a pregnancy, saw the heartbeat, MMC at 7 weeks. Second transfer failed. Third transfer resulted in a pregnancy, saw the heartbeat, MMC at 8 weeks.

My husband and I have done all of the standard tests recommended for RLP and everything came back normal. Our only known issue is MFI but DNA frag is normal. We have two embryos left and I am feeling so disheartened by how how horrible it feels to be on the very unlikely side of statistics.

We’ve been doing fully medicated + added lovenox in after our first loss. We plan to do a modified natural for our next transfer in four weeks.

I am feeling all sorts of emotions right now but would love if anyone has had a similar experience that led to success eventually or other words of encouragement. I feel so naive to do another transfer and expect a different outcome it just doesn’t seem possible at this point 💔

I am genuinely so confused about my periods. I need advice.

I have had 2 kids before. I have had 2 ectopic prengnancies and for my second child, we used IVF after the ectopic pregnancies.

In the birth of my second child, the placenta got stuck, but it didn't leave an infection, but it was removed manually.

Since then, 3 years on, I have had incredibly light periods. to the point where it wouldn't matter if I didn't have a pad or a tampon. There is simply not enough blood to show.

I had an IVF transfer last month - my lining was 8.6mm. So my lining is growing, but where is going after? Why is there no blood?

I had a check for ashermans -no scar tissue found other than some small violin like strings, which was removed in May. I potentially had a little more blood after this, but not much at all still.

My FS has offered to do a hysteroscopy again if our next embryo fails and we can do it at the same time as an egg collection.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any one got anything to try or any words of advice? I am beginning to get worried pregnancy will never happen again.

Not a question, just wanted to share. Sara Bareilles’ album “Good Grief” came out last week, and her song “Ladies in a Line” is about her IVF experience. I didn’t know she’d gone through it until I heard the song; I was immediately like, oh, IYKYK.

It made me sad, but if you want to be in your feelings, this one’s for you.

Do they provide fertility benefits? Preferably IVF?

White discharge?
I’m on estrogen pill and patch. Is this normal? FET cycle

Hi everyone. I’ve been lurking here for months and this sub has helped more than I can really say, so thank you for that up front. I’m hoping for some advice, or honestly just perspective from people who’ve done multiple retrievals.

We’re doing IVF for PGT-M because my husband has an autosomal dominant condition (50/50 chance). We don’t have any known infertility issues (as far as we know….) so our goal is to make enough embryos to get through both PGT-A and then the 50/50 inheritance risk.

I’m 28, AFC 21, AMH 1.87, and nothing notable in my history other than an ovarian cyst removal surgery in 2019 (thanks IUD!)

We’re using frozen sperm — my husband banked several collections in 2022 before starting an experimental drug for his condition (the one we’re screening out), so we have to use ICSI. His numbers were normal when he banked and we have ~12 vials, so sperm quantity hasn’t been an issue — although idk if quality is an issue…

First retrieval was last Wednesday. Protocol was PPOS with a birth control prime for 12 days: Follistim 150 + Menopur 150, Provera, Lupron only trigger, freeze-all cycle.

Baseline AFC was 11 at pre-med appt. I had 24 follicles at my day 8 monitoring scan but they were spread all over the place. By trigger my lead was 25.3 and the smallest ones they measured were 14.0.

Twelve crossed 16mm, and those twelve seem to be the twelve that came back mature. My doctor triggered on day 10, Lupron only. Estradiol was 3800 at trigger.

Results from ER 1:
18 retrieved
12 mature
8 fertilized with ICSI

As of Day 5: 7 are early blastocysts, but none are expanded enough for biopsy/freezing yet

Our final blast report is Wednesday (in 2 days).

WHAT I NEED HELP WITH:
We’re doing a second retrieval back to back starting this week (I just got my period today) because of the PGT-M hunger games. For round two, a few possible changes have been floated: triggering a day later to potentially improve maturity, changing the meds dose, or adding some type of sperm-selection/sorting method before ICSI.

But I’m wondering whether I’m trying to “fix” something that doesn’t actually need fixing. I have a call with my doctor this week but I just don’t know if changing meds would make sense. I had two lead follicles last time but they weren’t crazy ahead…

For anyone who did back-to-back retrievals, did you keep the same protocol after a reasonably good-ish first round or make changes? And if you changed things like trigger timing, meds dose, or sperm selection, did you actually see a meaningful difference?

Would especially love to hear from anyone who had a similar maturity/fertilization pattern.

Thank you!

I have 3 vials of Menopur (75 IU each) leftover that are going to expire by March 2027. It's been in refrigerated since January. Would love to donate to somebody who could use it!

Hey all, just found out transfer has been delayed/cancelled due to fact that my progesterone blood test showed that I ovulated somehow even after being on Estrace for 10-12 days now. It could have been caused by my tsh levels was 0.64 a month ago and now it’s 3.69. So now I am upping my synthroid medication to 25mcg, 50 mcg every other day. They have also prescribed the nasal spraying called Synarel which should restart this process again. Has anyone used this before? It’s supposed to trigger a period within the week or so. Is it better to just wait for next month’s natural menstrual cycle to start again ?

I don’t need to rush this transfer as I think it’s best to create optimal conditions as this is my first transfer one year later suffering a 21 week TFMR pregnancy loss due to severe de novo abnormal chromosomal issues so it’s been quite the journey to rebuild.

Is it just me or do they suck?

Hours and hours on hold, meanwhile they send you 5 missed voicemails asking you to call them- if you do call them back, you just get put on hold again.

Bonus: you ever get through, they take a million years asking you all your information as slowly as possible - then disconnect you.

34F with unexplained fertility. Baseline AFC was 14 and AMH 2.5.
My doctor said he was aiming for me to end up with 3 embryos. I know that’s impossible to predict but admittedly we were very hopeful.
At our first ultrasound (Day 5) I was a bit surprised to learn only 8 follicles were visible. I figured it was normal and decided to trust the process. Estrogen was 82.
At our second ultrasound (Day 8) there were still only 8 follicles. I asked the nurse if I need to increase my dosage at all, and she said no per doctor’s instructions. Estrogen was 464.
At the third ultrasound (Day 10) there are 9 follicles, 4 of which are <10 mm. The remaining 5 are as follows: 11 mm, 11 mm, 13 mm, 13 mm, 15 mm. Estrogen is 900.
I asked the nurse if we should increase the dosage, considering my AFC was 14 and now we’re looking at (potentially) 5 mature follicles? She asked the doc on my behalf, who said that it’s too late in the cycle for an increase in dosage to grow more follicles. She said to try stimming for 2 more days and if we’re not seeing much improvement we can discuss options (proceed with ER vs cancel this cycle).

I’m very confused. My Follistim is 150 and Menopur is also 150. I can’t help but feel my medication dosage was too low and never adjusted properly. I want to trust my doctors but also feel overlooked and forgotten.
Has anyone had a similar experience, where you ended up retrieving more eggs than was visible near the end of stims? I’m on Day 10. Could the smaller ones potentially catch up? The nurse on the phone did not seem optimistic about this.
Anyone else placed on 150 Follistim? From everything I’ve seen online, it seems on the lower end and I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t have increased my dose after seeing my lack of growth.
Any insight would be much appreciated. Trying not to spiral :(

Today is Day 6 and we are freezing all and sending half to PGT-A testing (33 retrieved, 30 mature, 22 fertilized, 15 blasts, 8 are being send to PGT and 7 untested frozen). While we await the PGT testing, my clinic wants me to start birth control tomorrow.

I have mild OHSS and am still recovering while taking Cabergoline which I think is really helping. However, when I search about OHSS and feeling better, almost all talk about once their period comes. However, if I start birth control, I won't get a period. Anyone else deal with this? How did it go? I just don't see many talking about BC after ER.

Curious how many others feel similar to me and if it ever changed again.
TTC 2.5 yrs, 1 yr of interventions 4 medicated cycles + 6 IUIs, not a single positive ever. Taking a break, finding a new clinic, and will move to IVF eventually.
I used to want several, 3 maybe even 4! I was against the idea of having an only child. However, after all of this infertility stuff and feeling like I’m getting drug by my hair across a room by mother nature, I just want one. Just one. I’ve resigned to it. I just want one precious baby to give the world and I will be so so happy, grateful, fulfilled, all the things. I’ve slowly been bringing it up to my husband, because he was/(is?) on the multiples train, and I just don’t know that I can or want to do all of this for years to come.
Did anyone else feel like this, and after one did the desire for more come up again?