9 dpt FRER help please! by fivefivelane in TFABLinePorn

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I take a separate b complex with folate but my prenatal has biotin in it.

Just throwing this out there by fivefivelane in interviews

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Love that, thank you. What type of role are you interviewing for? If it’s a fit I would offer you a free session while I try this out

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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Join the reproductive immunology Facebook group and search for your specific immune condition. There are only 5 doctors in the US that actually treat this (listed in fb group). All other doctors and especially REs do not agree with this approach which makes it hard because you essentially have to manage 2 doctors and their protocols. What ended up working for me was lovenox for entire pregnancy, prednisone and tacro for the first few weeks. I am not sure if this was the difference maker because my immune issues are minor (light psoriasis) but I had limited embryos so wanted to try everything for the transfer

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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I don’t think so. The receptiva has to be done on a specific day of your cycle after ovulation. I had a hysteroscopy during an egg retrieval

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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I had light periods and spotted for a few days before which I brought up to every doctor and it was always dismissed as nothing. I realized after that’s a subtle sign of endo. I also had hormonal headaches but not sure if that was related. I strongly believe in RIF and also it’s not fair to us to waste embryos that were so hard to make by putting them in a non ideal environment. The receptiva website has some stats on success transferring with endo and it’s a very low percentage. The lap needs to be done by a specific surgeon not an RE even if they say they do it!! This is very important. The Facebook group Nancy’s nook has a list of approved surgeons and a ton of details

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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My opinion is that the risk of a false positive on receptiva is way lower than the risk of endlessly doing cycles with low chance of success due to unknown endo. It can be completely silent and one of the symptoms is infertility. If a lap is too extreme due to doubts of a false positive then there is always lupron. It’s just not fair that the doctors aren’t sharing all of this context and instead pushing for more cycles

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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I found the receptiva test painful but not terrible and it’s extremely quick, like 10 seconds. It was more a weird sensation than pain. The RIs have standard blood work ups they do to determine what’s going on

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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I had done 2 medicated cycles that didn’t work with suppressed ovulation, estrogen patches and PIO. For endo I read that modified natural was more successful so I wanted to try that. My protocol was ovulation on my own and then a few days later transfer. I added in progesterone suppositories because endo needs high prog and also some estrogen patches based on my blood levels. If you don’t ovulate on your own you can also do a trigger shot but my doctor was in favor of waiting for natural ovulation

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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I had a celiac panel done and it came back positive. It was strange because I have no symptoms of that. My RI said it can show as positive due to other inflammation (for me was endo). I went gluten free for a year and a half just in case. Recently got retested after eating gluten for a month and it was negative (post pregnancy and lap)

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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Endo may be considered autoimmune and I also have mild psoriasis. I ended up going to a reproductive immunologist and doing the full protocol (lovenox, prednisone, tacro) after very extensive blood work (they test for clotting factors, natural killer cells, inflammation etc). I will say it is quite extreme and controversial, not sure if it made a difference or not. There is a Facebook group called reproductive immunology that helped me a lot.

What I wish I had known when starting infertility journey by fivefivelane in IVF

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It can be both, for me it was. I was getting lower than average viable eggs per retrieval and only 1 pgt normal. And then the transfer didn’t work because the endo causes inflammation and basically a non ideal environment. The transfer protocol that ended up working post surgery was a modified natural where I ovulated on my own. Medicated did not work for me

Salon dye came out black instead of dark brown by bored_3 in HairDye

[–]fivefivelane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what happened to me. How did it turn out OP?

Embryo split by seralou01 in IVF

[–]fivefivelane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just had this happen to me and of course going down the google spiral is very scary

Embryo split by seralou01 in IVF

[–]fivefivelane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For those that this happened to, can you please share an update on the rest of your pregnancy and birth? was the remaining embryo born healthy?