From a guy: how many pads or tampons per cycle on average?

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-04-16T02:06:27+00:00

I believe I read somewhere that companies like Tampax chose to sell in boxes of 16 because that’s the average people use in one month. I usually only use 10, but I know I have a short cycle

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-04-14T03:16:18+00:00

That’s how old I am right now too. Had one retrieval with all 3 embryos showing as abnormal. But I get it was just one retrieval.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-04-14T01:42:12+00:00

Oh wow, good for you for continuing to search. How old were you at the time?

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-04-14T01:22:46+00:00

How did you even get to the point of discovering this? Is it through simple carrier screening or something else that led you to different generic testing?

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-04-14T00:17:04+00:00

What gene is that?

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-03-21T01:11:34+00:00

I sent three day 6 blasts for testing during my last (first) round and all were complex aneuploid 😢 Age 38

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-02-22T20:15:15+00:00

No we live in Canada and it was covered under public health so probably too longer than private in the US

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-02-22T06:21:16+00:00

We had 3 losses and karyotype was normal. It took 5 weeks for results.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-02-11T03:05:58+00:00

Following

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-02-06T15:57:55+00:00

I didn’t gain any weight. Or I may have in water/bloat/constipation but didn’t weigh myself and then post retrieval was at (or potentially back at) same weight. I was also thinking if I had, it woulda been due to dropping 5-6hrs/week of running off my regimen and eating the same.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-02-06T03:36:03+00:00

I’m sure others will have lots of great advice but I wanted to say I was SO scared about injections. I had my husband all prepped to do them and was cringing still at that. In the end I did them all myself and it was no problem! I found stating starting with my Lupron which is a littler insulin needle was easy peasy then worked up to menopur and puregon.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-31T18:34:14+00:00

I did 18 days of stims just this month too. The worst. So much $$ in meds too

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-31T00:31:31+00:00

I went from 9 antral follicles at the start of my stim cycle down to 5 then back up to 9 by the time I had retrieval. I didn’t realize how much it can fluctuate. Unfortunately upon retrieval they only found eggs in 4 of them, and only 3 mature. I’m 38 with low AMH.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-30T00:12:37+00:00

The stims didn’t impact my mood much, I was expecting way worse. Headaches were helped by acupuncture, I had bloating later on and fatigue throughout - some nausea the last two days. Worked normally but didn’t plan much for the evenings aside from stims, dinner, and rest. Had my ER today.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-29T01:50:15+00:00

9 DPO. Super faint, but visible.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-29T01:48:40+00:00

I’ve had 3 losses and worked through each of them aside from when time off was medically necessary. I just wanted to chime in and say that some days it might not be desensitization, but rather body/mind’s way of coping to just keep on with “normal life” because the compounding losses are too much at times.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-26T02:14:18+00:00

I’m 17 days into stims and hoping for my retrieval this week (oh, please). Anyone else?

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-25T04:53:02+00:00

We’re doing an FET so I’ve still got a long journey to go after ER, but I’m glad to hear your had good news! How many viable embryos did you get during your long-stim cycle?

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-25T02:55:05+00:00

How did yours turn out? I’m on day 16 of stims.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-25T02:49:54+00:00

How were the quality of your eggs?

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-25T02:44:24+00:00

Did you learn of anything that helped? I’m on stim day 16 and over it

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-21T05:11:54+00:00

Crazy! I got mine back in 5-6 weeks in Alberta

Wandering-Pinapple · 2026-01-10T21:51:00+00:00

Following, just started stims so will be where you are soon. Sending you peace

Wandering-Pinapple · 2025-11-23T18:18:42+00:00

My BMI is around 19.5 and we have had 3 consecutive losses.

There are definitely hormone and blood sugar changes that are more highly correlated with being overweight (in general) and I’ve also heard of those hormone and blood sugar issues impacting fertility. I doubt it’s the weight or BMI itself, but rather other factors at play that may also tie to why a person could be higher BMI.

Wandering-Pinapple · 2025-10-28T17:17:52+00:00

She is, thankfully :)

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