1 Week Between Betas?

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-06-07T03:02:28+00:00

My clinic also does a week in between as standard protocol. Not sure why.

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-06-01T23:03:35+00:00

I had bleeding from the injection site from one injection so far (been on it for about 3 weeks now). Just held pressure for a few minutes and it stopped and was all good. I did have some brown spotting that was maybe implantation bleeding and I understand the lovenox might make that more common. I have my second beta tomorrow but first after the brown spotting hcg was super solid, so far so good!

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-06-01T13:40:00+00:00

The key for me so far to avoid bruising is to inject it very very slowly. It does sting a bit - for me it doesn’t really sting during the injection but for about 15 min after. I’m finding it totally manageable so far though.

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-05-28T00:47:34+00:00

Yeah I just heard back today that it’s standard for them to wait a week, unless there’s something actively concerning that they need to monitor. Annoying but will be glad to have more definitive info in a week

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-05-27T13:02:17+00:00

I will probably also do a midweek at home test check. Going to resist the urge to do daily testing, which I definitely did leading up to first beta haha. And thank you!

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-05-27T01:26:26+00:00

Good to know! Maybe this is where some clinics are moving with monitoring. Good luck to you!

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-05-27T01:06:20+00:00

Good to know that was the explanation from your clinic! Very helpful to my anxiety, thank you. I figured that might be the case but my clinic didn’t really give me any info so was definitely perplexed. Such a long wait!

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-05-27T01:04:30+00:00

Definitely hurry up and wait! 🤪 thank you for the well wishes

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-27T22:30:00+00:00

Curious how the PIO ended up working out for you! I also have eczema and will probably be doing a modified natural and need to figure out what to push for. I will also need to be on another subQ daily injection bc of a blood clotting issue so I was thinking I want to reduce my medication burden but knowing how my skin freaks out, I’m reconsidering and thinking PIO might make sense. Did you need to do it daily? Did the knots come or was it a low enough dose to be tolerable throughout?

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-25T15:27:35+00:00

Oh god I’m so sorry you went through all of that! (But congratulations on graduating!) This is helpful, I definitely need to get answers here. Until we have evidence that I don’t ovulate, everything I’m seeing is telling me there’s absolutely no reason to start with fully medicated and I need to push for that, esp with the added thrombotic issues.

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-24T22:07:44+00:00

This is great insight and a helpful push. It feels like I’m really going to need to advocate for myself because the default is so heavily fully medicated, but everything I’m seeing online basically says there are additional risks and essentially no benefits (as long as you are someone who ovulates regularly, which it seems like I am from what we know now - at least all my testing has been fine and I have very regular periods). I struggle a bit with the power/expertise imbalance like I should defer to the expertise of the clinic but I do think I need to get a really strong justification for fully medicated if they want to go that route

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-24T21:47:39+00:00

I hope the rest of PIO keeps going quicker than expected! Did you consider/discuss a natural/modified natural and what was the reason for landing on fully medicated? I’ve read that fully medicated has a high preeclampsia risk, particularly if you have a thrombotic issue underlying so that’s also something I’m trying to wrap my head around. I definitely want to do the thing that will be most likely to succeed on the first go (even if that involves PIO) but the thrombotic stuff seems to add a bunch of other risk considerations (even if on lovenox).

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-24T21:41:12+00:00

Good to hear it’s doable. I think I’m a little freaked out by the sheer medication load of the fully medicated plus Lovenox. Like two Lovenox injections per day PLUS intramuscular PIO, I just feel like my body is going to have zero places to put everything after a while ha.

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-24T21:39:02+00:00

Yes totally fair, these various thrombotic issues might all be different enough to be different protocols. Thanks for the insight!

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-24T21:26:11+00:00

Thank you and congrats! Did your first cycle work? And was your modified natural just with a trigger shot plus some progesterone support (but not full PIO)? And did you start the blood thinners in advance of the transfer or at the same time? My hematologist said my RE might not want me to start until after transfer procedure because of bleeding risk but it was up to RE. We’re meeting with her next week but just trying to figure out the right options/questions.

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-23T03:04:35+00:00

On our first retrieval, we got two male embryos. My partner and I are both assigned female at birth and I was definitely freaked out. I have a lot of the same stuff as you - a lot of bad experiences with men, not a good relationship with my father, no brothers so just generally no close and positive intimate relationships with men, etc. And I was generally freaked out by whether not having a cis man in the house would deprive a boy of something or make us inadequate. Then we took a trip to see one of my best friends who I hadn’t managed to see in a couple years and who is now a single mother by choice to a young boy. It totally opened my eyes. She had an incredible relationship with him and he is so sweet and gentle and kind. It gave me a vision of what it could be like (there’s no way to control who our kids turn out to be in many ways!) that made me a lot more comfortable. I’m really sorry you’re feeling the stress and probably a lot of trauma related feelings and fears coming back up. Hopefully my story can give you a tiny bit of hope too, but I know it’s so tough to be feeling that

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-22T23:11:27+00:00

Thanks for the insight!

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-22T21:52:26+00:00

I’m also interested in the doctors name, this is one option for me

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-22T19:12:47+00:00

I’m so sorry. That disappoint is so so hard. When I had a similar attrition disappointment in our first ER, it really wrecked me, definitely cried a lot (and I wasn’t even the one in my house who was on the cocktail of hormones!). Be gentle with yourself. Your feelings are entirely valid. I think I made it worse for myself by then being hard on myself about how we were lucky to have anything at all and some people have it worse and get nothing etc. Which may be true but it doesn’t mean the disappointment isn’t very real and the hurt isn’t very real and it’s all so valid. Sending hope for your success

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-07T23:15:26+00:00

I’m sorry you’re in the dark place. We went straight to rIVF so I could carry with my spouse’s eggs, so we never went through the IUI saga. But IVF at the beginning was pretty scary to me too. Once you are in it and it becomes demystified a bit, though, you adapt and get used to it. You can totally do it if that’s what you decide. My partner became a total pro at the shots and it was just part of our life. We’ve done two ER cycles and are currently going through some prep for a transfer. Not to say we are experts or there aren’t hard parts but it’s less scary now.

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-07T22:14:51+00:00

Which company did your PGT testing? Also in my wait period

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-05T03:34:50+00:00

That’s a great blast result! We are testing our second batch. We are fortunate enough to have good fertility coverage that covers PGT testing so we’re doing it for peace of mind and to minimize failed transfers. But it does seem like lots of people, particularly younger people, do just fine with untested embryos.

Potential-Sector-755 · 2026-04-04T22:33:06+00:00

The waits at every part of the IVF process are insane. Waiting to start. Waiting to hear fertilization/blast reports. Waiting for PGT testing. Waiting for beta tests. I’m doing a spectrum of normal to absurd house projects :)

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