r/Infertility_IUI

So Iam 36F and 38M this is my first medicated IUI cycle my doctor suggested it bcz I have 5*4cm intramural fibroid which is kind of making my uterus slightly elongated and we cant operate as it is intramural and we have to wait for 6-8 months I Have already had an myectomy in feb2025 so she wants to speed up the process before this fibroid grows more so i have taken letrozol 5mg from cd3-7 and today on cd8 2 follicle in left ovary 18mm 14mm and endo lining of 8mm she did not mentioned about right ovary cz may be fibroid make it difficult to see she will give hcg shot on cd10 and then next day or whenever she will do the iui process. Now my query is this i did an hcg test on feb25 and my left tube was blocked and she is giving me trigger shot on cd10 is it not early it should be on 12th or 13th day

Now as for my self Iam a very calculative and overanalysing person this is my downside I overanalyse everything when i asked this question she asked me to stop googling stop questioning and have faith and i know I should have but what can i do

Please can someone has experience in this is everything going right is hcg shot on cd10 normal

I have my second IUI scheduled for tomorrow morning 🤞🏼 but I am worried about the timing..

Due to insurance I didn’t start monitoring yesterday (CD13) and got the following

1 20mm follicle on my right side
5 small(10mm or less) on the left
Lining 11.6
LH: 14.44
Estradiol: 113.2
Progesterone: 0.93

My clinic had me trigger last night between 6 and 8pm, I did it at 7:30pm and they scheduled my IUI for tomorrow 9am. I am worried about ovulating too soon and missing my window, does it seem normal with those numbers to wait until tomorrow to do the IUI?

She called while I was gardening ,her husband( who is also my close friend )was on the phone next to her .

I would like to state that I am VERY happy for her. She definitely deserves this pregnancy . Especially since she ls had a very bad miscarriage in her past, and has also struggled with fertility for a bit (not to the point where she has done ivf or iui but still struggled). If anyone deserves a pregnancy it’s is definitely her.

She told me I was going to be an aunty! If you can imagine ,she was super excited and happy on the other end of the phone. I could just picture them both smiling ear to ear .

I responded with “OMG,no way! , im so happy for you! When did you find out ?!?! Etc.” while my heart was breaking inside because I’ve done one round of ivf and I’m on my 4th iui. With Nothing to show for it

Anyway the convo proceeded with her asking me when I do my blood pregnancy test .
I tell her .
Then She told me ,that my husband told her, that our plan was to do IVF again if this one doesn’t work (which is true )
I just do an uncomfortable laugh and say “yeah that’s the plan! “

She said something like “our babies will be only months apart . “

Ouch

I said “haha yeah they are going to be best friends “

Ouch

I congratulated them again and hung up the phone

Started bawling my eyes out onto the dirt . and I haven’t stopped crying since.

I feel like I’m grieving .

I can’t talk to my husband about it either he’s just hard to talk to when I’m feeling like this and I don’t think he fully understand the intense emotions I am feeling

I’ve tried distracting myself all day

Going on walks with my dog
Riding my bike
Playing video games
TikTok
I’ve had legit like 3 showers
I’ve eaten 2 McDonald burgers a medium fry and a fucking Oreo mcfluffy in 8 minutes.

All while crying

I keep removing myself from my husbands presence just to cry because I just fucking can’t do this anymore .

I keep thinking that God doesn’t think I’ll be a good mother and that’s why I can’t have a baby

I keep daydreaming of a life I can’t have

I feel horrible for feeling this way

Like I’m a bad person for reacting like this because my friend 100% deserves this baby

I’m pushing my husband away when he asks me what’s wrong ( I know he knows what’s wrong he just wants me to talk about it but I can’t talk to him )

I’m starting to lose hope in everything

Everything hurts

On Friday I did an ultrasound and bloodwork. I had a 16mm and 18mm on the Right side and a 15mm and 12mm on the Left. I was told to trigger Sunday night at 8:30 and we would do the IUI on Tuesday 8:30am

I took an ovulation test today and it has shown peak. My clinic is closed until Tuesday morning due to the holiday therefore I have no idea what to do.

Obviously it would be wise to have intercourse but I think Tuesday morning will be too late for the IUI. I’m hoping it won’t be but at this point there isn’t much I can do but hope for the best.

I’m just wondering if I should still use the trigger shot or just let my body continue to do things on its own. I had a feeling this would happen 😣

After getting diagnosed with azoospermia, it feels like every conversation immediately turns into surgery.
Almost like there’s no discussion before it.
Don’t get me wrong, MicroTESE helps some men and I know successful cases exist. But sometimes I wonder why nobody talks more about why sperm production stopped in the first place.
Like…
Is there still partial production?
Are there immature sperm cells still developing?
Is the problem complete failure, or interrupted maturation?
I spent weeks reading forums and honestly it feels like most guys are pushed straight toward “go look for sperm” without much discussion about the biology behind it.
Curious if anyone else here looked into alternatives or restoration-focused treatments before MicroTESE?

I really would like some advice on my IUI 1 day ago.
I took letrozole 7.5mg May 1-5, then may 7th and 8th. I took my trigger shot 2230 on May 13th.
My ultrasound showed 3 mature follicle over 20mm.
I had my IUI at 0930 yesterday morning. Around 2 pm I started spotting. I had a flight and noticed at the airport I was passing small clots when wiping with a moderate amount of red blood. Was not soaking through a pad. I tried to text my Dr as they have no on call and I’ve only seen him once. The NP does all my visits.
He told me to start taking letrozole tomorrow again and call Monday for an ultrasound?!

I’m sorry this is so long but I’m so confused. I’m not even supposed to have my period for 2 weeks. Has anyone experienced small clots after IUI and the IUI still worked? Or been told to immediately start taking letrozole after an IUI before even getting a period?

I am no longer bleeding this morning. Just very sad and frustrated. This is our first IUI.

Could use a little love and emotional support from people that are also going through it. This journey feels very lonely and my heart is very heavy tonight. IUI was two weeks ago tomorrow. I go in for my beta test in the morning but have been cramping and spotting all day. I know technically I’m not out yet, but I’m not feeling optimistic and I’m absolutely crushed, devastated, heartbroken, all the things. I typically have cramping and spotting before a period so I’m just feeling like this is just that. 😪

CD3-7 : I was on tamoxifen

CD8 CD10 and CD12 : foligna f injections to have my follicles reach maturity

CD14 : Right ovary had 2 follicles measuring 21x19 mm and 16.5x17mm, and left had one 14X13

My LH test was 71 iu/l and E2 was 903pgml (quite high)

On the same day I was given the trigger shot at 8pm.

CD15 : ultrasound at 1 pm revealed right ovary follicles had reached 19.3x21 and 19x20, left ovary follicle was still at 14x13

I had some sharp pain around 7-8 pm on my right side.

CD 16 : My ultrasound at 9am had my both mature follicles ruptured. My IUI was done at 12 noon.

My concern is if my trigger shot was given on CD 14 8pm and IUI was done at 12 noon CD16 which was around 40 hours after trigger despite my lh being quite high even before the trigger shot. I also had one mature follicle that time before the trigger.
I was hoping they did my IUI on CD15 night or CD 16 very early morning, so it was within 36 hours.

Please tell me if I am being paranoid and overthinking, or this makes sense.

9DPO had my IUI on May 4th. Yesterday on 8DPO I was feeling cramps. They felt like period cramps. My breast were also very tender however today 9DPO I don’t feel anything. I’ve been taking progesterone suppositories since May 5th. I don’t know what to think. May 19th I go for blood testing to see if I am actually pregnant. has anyone else gone through this and had any success? just needing some encouragement today.

Hi everyone, today i had an appointment with a new fertility specialist who suggested after all the testing done with my husband we should start with iui. Is there anyone who tried with just letrozol before staring iui or is there no hope. For referenece my amh is 135p/mol, I have pcos and I am not overweight ( lean pcos).

Hi guys I was wondering if anyone had something similar happen? I am cd 8 after taking clomid cd 2-6. I have DOR and my AFC is usually around 8. When I went in for a follicle scan today they didn’t see any dominant follicle at all, they didn’t even measure any follicles ? The weird thing is my lining was already 6.6 mm. I was wondering if anyone had very slow follicle growth like this and had success or was the cycle cancelled ?

LMP - 9th April
28[F]

No periods till today(13th May)

If pregnancy symptoms are absent and pregnancy test is negative is it always confirmed that I am not pregnant at this point.
Should I consider that this cycle I did not conceive.
My periods were regular from almost January till April and this time it has become somewhat irregular. I tried using ovulation trackers but it added more stress to the process so had to stop it.

History -Iam Trying to conceive actively since December.
My thyroid is normal, my complete blood count is normal , no PCOS , I have a subserosal fibroid of 1cm.
Activity- I walk for 1 hour minimum everyday (sometimes more) . My BMI is 26.
My partner is pre-diabetic and rest of the things are normal.

My husband and I are having IUI tomorrow and 5/13 with RMA nj. This is our first round.

Any advice, suggestions or tips!!

Hi all,

This is my first time on reddit and need some advice from you ladies. I am 15 days past trigger shot and 13 days post ovulation. I am still seeing shadows on wondfo and even more pronounced line on the first response strip test. I don’t think it’s getting darker and I feel like if I was pregnant it would be more noticeable by 13DPO. It doesn’t look like I am able to attach any photos to this, maybe because I am new. My clinic has scheduled me for bloodwork in 2 days. This is my first IUI and am looking for any advice or past experiences you can share. Thanks!

Hi All. This was my second IUI. My husband and I have been trying for over 2 years (good cycles together around 20). We finally got our first positive this cycle (second iui), and were over the moon. Sadly, it seems like a chemical pregnancy (still monitoring for ectopic). Wanted to check if any one had a successful IUI after a chemical?
Did you move to IVF instead? How did you cope with a result like this. I’m devastated but also want to think about next steps.

Feeling very down done our first round of medicated IUI and I was feeling very positive as we got good numbers in sperm 50 million after wash. I done everything I could eating healthy, acupuncture, reflexology and limiting stress as much as I could. Done a pregnancy test today 12 days post iui and a big negative. Finding this during really lonely even though my husband is so supportive. I feel like I have unintentionally withdrawn from everyone.

Has anyone had a successful IUI after getting a progesterone result of 9.5 or similar? I got my blood drawn this morning (5 days post IUI) and just looking for some encouragement.

They are putting me on progesterone supplements and this is my second IUI.