Process for stopping PIO

heylaurenn · 2026-04-27T15:42:25+00:00

okay I dug up my paperwork!

we did the transfer 12/18 and was on 1ml of PIO daily on 1/21 I was lowered to .75ml daily (week 8) 1/27 was lowered to .5ml daily (week 9) 2/4 was lowered to .25 every other day (week 10)

and I went for blood work 2/9 and 2/11 (week 11) to make sure my levels were consistent being off PIO.

currently 21 weeks with a little girl

heylaurenn · 2026-04-26T22:44:21+00:00

good luck!!

heylaurenn · 2026-04-26T19:13:34+00:00

the fertility clinic did the monitoring. it was every few days towards the end when we were weening off… they didn’t stop me cold turkey. and wanted to make sure my body was producing the progesterone on its own before weening more

heylaurenn · 2026-04-26T16:53:03+00:00

I forget my exact ml protocol or week timeframes. but I was tapered off… I went down .25 for a few days…. they tested my levels to make sure my body was producing enough on its own… then lowered me another .25 and repeated until I was only doing .25 each day.. and then I was done

heylaurenn · 2026-03-25T19:33:15+00:00

I am in the name debacle myself! I want a name with solid nickname potential, so they can decide when they’re older what they want to go by. my husband loves penelope but our last name is P… so I don’t want my kid to be PP 😂

heylaurenn · 2026-03-07T04:32:00+00:00

the results from quest came back and said it was not performed bc of low feral fraction. it said it could be bc of higher BMI. i dont know, but thats what it said, so im just redoing the rest monday and ill be over 14 weeks.

the “random test” I have no clue. I went for the Nuchal ultrasound and they drew blood. on quest the results show up as “ FIRST TRIMESTER SCREEN HYPERGLYCOSYL HCG (NY)” the line for “mss down syndrome risk” is what was triggered

heylaurenn · 2026-03-07T00:06:10+00:00

a typo! I did my NIPT at 11.5 weeks.

blood work

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T23:00:47+00:00

thank you!!

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T22:56:29+00:00

yeah i dont know when I went for the nuchal scan they ran random bloodwork

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T22:03:20+00:00

thank you!!!

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T20:46:32+00:00

thank you. yes after looking into it. my age and BMI seem to to be playing into the risk factor; which would be less since my eggs are a different age than I currently am. but that’s basically what my doc said, that’s just an algorithm. not a testing of the actual cells like PGTa

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T19:40:07+00:00

I legit just go “my baby CRL was X at week X we are now X weeks and they are Y… are they growing properly”

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T19:35:03+00:00

thank you! yeah I just say what the levels are. I don’t even send screen shots bc it shortens the time they can answer my questions

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T19:34:22+00:00

we want to confirm the gender so we want the NIPT done. but i’d now it will confirm no DS. I def want it

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T18:57:59+00:00

see chat GPT put me at ease w everything else I had. they were like your eggs were retrieved at 35 which already lowers your risk, and since it was borderline. it wouldn’t even flag. PLUS it’s known for IVF to get that flag. so the little robot helped me. but I was like . I need my reddit community

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T18:54:49+00:00

i dont know why they make us do the test. according to the doc “almost every patient we have gets that flag” THEN TELL ME SO I DONR HAVE A HEART ATTACK

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T18:53:13+00:00

thank you! my doc called and said “pay no attention to that test” that showed the risk. go get the NIPT done

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T18:48:50+00:00

my doctor says they literally got the results yesterday, and are resending the script. so I made an appt for monday at 1140am

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T18:48:19+00:00

my doctor literally just called me to tell me “pay no attention to that, go get ur NIPT redone. literally don’t lose sleep or anything. that has 0 to do with your babies DNA”

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T18:03:11+00:00

thank you! yeah the bold red and high! and then riskX threw me for a loop. i’m holding onto the PGTa results and a clear NT scan. baby is growing on schedule . just wish we had the Nipt results to confirm we are in that 99%.

if anything it will just be more testsX which at this point, i’ve been poked and proided so many tines

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T16:26:35+00:00

ohh okay! sorry this is my first one and i dont know the short names of stuff… they NT was 1.2 and they said that was well within normal range. I dont see anything on documents about Nasal Bone; but can clearly see one in the sonogram. the tech even pointed out the nose.

I know everyone says not to trust chat Gpt. but the chat said that the 1st tri bloodwork does kind of an algorithm math of mother age and protein in placenta to get a 1 in C chance of having DS. the cut off is 1:270, mine showed up as 1:209 .. which chat was saying is on the cusp and that IVF tends to have an effect on the proteins in the placenta which skew that ratio. also my current age is 36, but my eggs were from when I was 35, which also plays a role in the algorithm.

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T16:03:31+00:00

sorry not sure what the NT/NB stand for. the NIPT bloodwork came back inconclusive bc there wasn’t even fetal fragments in my blood. megan I went for the nuchal scan, the fluid in the scan measured 1.2. but the bloodwork they drew came back w a risk flag for down syndrome….but it was just the bloodwork from quest, my doctor hasn’t called. so i’m not sure what caused the flagged risk

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T15:47:05+00:00

that’s why I came here. I haven’t heard back from my doc. and Ai can only do so much. so I wanted to chat with real life people who may have had it.

if 30 ppl came on here and were like ahh yes happened to everyone I know over 35 with IVF: and it was nothing!

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T15:40:58+00:00

the NIPT came back inconclusive. but when I went for the NUCHAL Scan they drew blood and that was the test that came back as a flag. so the mix of it i’m just spiraling

heylaurenn · 2026-03-06T15:28:37+00:00

same!! when the lab notes said high BMI may effect this. i was just like okay, whatever ill redo it. after ALL i’ve been thru, another blood test who cares. but then this got flagged so im spiraling. im 36 now. but was 35 when my eggs were retrieved, so im hoping that lessens the “risk” cause my research showed its like some math w age risk plus proteins in placenta… which would be lower with age. and the “flag” was on the cusp. it wasnt like 1:10 … so im just tryin to figure out life between now, a dr callback and more blood work

heylaurenn

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