r/IVFLadies

Staring STIMS in June with CNY anyone else starting in June?! Excited and nervous

I feel Az really hates me right now. But I’m also frustrated with them because they expect us to uproot for 2 weeks with no flexibility. Not thinking how that impacts our job, emotions , everything for them to take 5 min to monitor me when I can do that at my local OB clinic.

I saw they recently let San Diego pt fully monitor remote and just come in for their egg retrieval under their blog. Similar to CNY. CNY lets their patients monitor at home with their OB or anywhere up till it’s time to egg retrieve. So I asked them about it. And they’re were like no. It’s just for San Diego and a partnered clinic we have . I said your website says “or your own OB” and “the benefits of sleeping in your own bed at night “ so why would you not want that for all your out of state patients ? I said I’m 2 hr ahead and have a clinic who does monitoring appt for other places.
They replied to me: I just confirmed with management that it is only with the approved San Diego clinic. The "or you own OB/GYN" is an error in the verbiage that they are going to correct. The reason is the providers are making very important decisions about your IVF cycle starting stim day 5 that they cannot rely on just any facility to conduct those ultrasounds. It must be an approved facility.

I asked to speak with the head doctor. And no reply in over 24 hr now. I just followed this doctor recommendation to remove my endo before anymore egg retrieval which seems very appositive of any other doctor recommendation. But I did it. So i wish they’d take that into consideration. I’m a repeat patient. Done other rounds there. And it’s hard to uproot your life for 2 weeks if you’re working patient . And for what ? A 5 min monitoring appointment.. then to sit around all day waiting for them to say if you change your medication or not. I can see doing it once , but this isnt my first round. And it gets old leaving your home for 2 weeks at a time , multiple times. My new job has no flexibility, no coverage. I don’t get why they’re allowing one state to monitor fully but not for others. They clearly can do it. See comment for photo

I had my Egg retrieval on 20th March, I got my periods just after 4 days of it which doctor mentioned is withdrawal bleeding. I usually had regular cycles of 30-32 days. My March cycle had started on 8th March and then after withdrawal bleeding I again had my periods started on 9th April which was according to the usual pattern. But now in May after 36 days I am still waiting for my cycles to start. Has anyone gone through this? Did your doctor prescribe anything? I am 37 years old and waiting for my FET. I have no kids yet so really worried and scared looking at my age and don’t want to wait anymore.

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Well.. my first cycle was just cancelled due to my lining not being thick enough. I was on oral estrogen 2mg 3 times a day for 2 weeks at that point my lining was ~6.5mm. Then they upped me to estrogen 2mg 5 times a day and 2 estrogen patches changed every 3 days for 1 week. Today my lining was only 6.8. So they cancelled.
My doctor has given me the option for my next cycle to either do a natural cycle using letrozole since I don’t have regular cycles on my own OR doing injectable estrogen. My doctor said she was leaning towards lecture Soul just to see if my body would do it naturally, but I really don’t wanna just waste another cycle. I only have one viable embryo. What would you do? Any advice is welcome. (You ladies are so strong because I don’t know how I’ll keep getting through this)