u/MathIntelligent4453

So - it’s been a long IUI journey already with multiple rounds that weren’t able to go ahead because of ovulating too quickly and missing the window or last month having 7 check ups in a week and a half and ultimately dr deciding to not go ahead because it was all happening too slowly, the joys of PCOS/PMOS symptoms popping up again suddenly after years of managing it fine with regular periods…

Anyway I’m now in the throes of my 5th attempt and they had me take Letrozole to make sure my cycle this time wouldn’t drag on endlessly. It’s worked a treat and I’m getting inseminated on Sunday after booster shot tonight, buttttt bc of the letrozole I had 2 follicles ready to go instead of one. I feel like Goldilocks haha, not enough - too many…

On the one hand it feels extra promising cuz it’s giving me a greater chance to conceive I think, but on the other hand the doctors were very firm on the increased risk of twins and telling me many SMBCs in these instances choose to get one of the follicles punctured in a procedure v similar to IVF egg retrieval.

I literally sat in the waiting room of the hospital for an hour this morning spiralling and trying to decide if I was gonna have the puncture or not, it’s such a mindfuck! I looove the idea of twins theoretically but my god I would positively disintegrate if it actually happened…

I ended up not getting the puncture done because it feels crazy to reduce my chances after 4 failed attempts already and the struggle so far, my friends were all happy when I updated them bc even if the risk of twins is increased it’s still very low really, so they feel this was the better choice.

Anyway - I’m just wondering if anyone else has been in this position?? It must happen quite regularly for people doing a medicated round, no?

Context - this is in Belgium and I do think they’re quite strict on these things here, my hospital would also never place more than 1 embryo during IVF which I’ve deffo seen other hospitals do. They said if it was more than 2 developed follicles they would have skipped this round.

Hi,

I just got the blood results from my 4th insemination round. The third round and this round I used Utrogestan 3 times / day (such fun bleurgh) and for both rounds I got to hear in my results that my HCG levels were slightly elevated but not high enough for a viable pregnancy. Basically, something happened but it didnt stick around...

This happening twice in a row has just made me a bit more anxious that there's something about me that's causing that issue - the reason I'm using Utrogestan is to thicken my uterus lining to give more chance of implantation, but it still doesnt seem to be working.

Just very curious if others have had this and ended up doing something else / were advised to take something else?

Thanks! pretty sad to have another failed round tbh...